Despite objections from the prosecutor, accused heroin dealer who sold fentanyl-laced heroin (which resulted in the death of a 26-year-old Burlington County woman) has now been released by a judge under the NJ Bail Reform Act. Cindy Chavez The reality is that bail reform ends up weakening accountability in the criminal justice system and it’s… Read more »
New Mexico woman was arrested back in April in connection with an awful case of animal cruelty. Despite the objection from the prosecutor during a detention hearing, she was FREE TO GO under New Mexico Bail. Cindy Chavez Protecting our community and holding criminals accountable for their crimes is becoming increasingly difficult under bail reform…. Read more »
Authorities found hundreds of file images of child pornography during the arrest of an IT worker who is now released and back home under NJ Bail Reform Act. Unfortunately, we will continue to see the release of these criminal offenders without accountability or bail with New Jersey’s current bail reform policies. Cindy Chavez Santa Clara… Read more »
New Jersey’s Arnold Foundation “Pretrial Risk Assessment” tool fails once again as a New York couple who were arrested with heroin, illegal prescription pills, hypodermic needles, and $530,000 in suspected drug proceeds were released just hours later under NJ bail reform. Cindy Chavez Drug trafficking in Santa Clara County is already a big enough problem… Read more »
Accused drug dealer in NJ, who’s home was a mere few hundred feet from a local middle school, was arrested with possession of marijuana, more than a quarter-pound of cocaine, 25 pounds of THC gummies, various anabolic steroids, and other drugs. After being sent to Bergen County Jail, he was released just in time for… Read more »
Despite overwhelming evidence of drug dealing activity on her cell phone, Alisha Gonzalez, 38 was arrested then later released under NJ bail reform. When driving under the influence and drug dealing aren’t enough to keep criminals off the streets then we know we have a problem. Santa Clara County doesn’t have to suffer the same… Read more »
San Francisco Sheriff Vicki Hennessy says “defendants charged with crimes as serious as kidnapping and rape were among the 791 people out of jail on pretrial release on an average day in the first three months of 2018 — 284 more a day on average than in the first quarter of 2017. And those numbers… Read more »
Cindy Chavez Santa Clara County bail reform will inevitably bring more risk for local law enforcement who have to deal with repeat criminals being released under failed pretrial risk assessment programs. We are already seeing this dangerous pattern evolve in NJ where a criminal can physically assault and threaten local law enforcement and later be… Read more »
A Virginia man who was arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in North Jersey 2 years ago has now been released on nothing more than a “pinky promise” under NJ Bail Reform. Unfortunately Santa Clara County and local officials Cindy Chavez are on track to adopt the same pre trial release… Read more »
Yet another example of tax payers money being wasted on re-offending criminals who are released with little more than a slap on the wrist. Barely 45 minutes after being released from custody for shoplifting a bottle of vodka from a store in NJ, Irme Gazso swiped another bottle of rum from a different store, said… Read more »