Monday, December 21, 2009

Taxpayers Still Paying for Pretrial Release at Orange County, Fl. Jail

Chief Judge Belvin Perry, Jr. revoked "administrative" pretrial release on November 5, 2009, which allowed jail staff to make release decisions without defendants seeing a Judge. However, defendants are still being released into the program by alarming amounts, except this time the Initial Appearance Judges are making that decision. These are not always defendants with no criminal and/or driving offense histories either and more and more defendants charged with domestic violence are being released on your tax dollars with little to no supervision. Such release is not a mechanism that will allow domestic violence survivors to feel safe. Domestic violence is the only crime that increased in Florida this year compared to all other crimes. Domestic violence can happen to any one despite their economic or social status as we have seen all too clearly. So why are so many domestic violence perpetrators being released through a taxpayer-funded system where no one is making sure they are abiding by the court's orders?

Below is a snapshot of names of defendants released by the Judge's order into the pretrial release program during mid-November through early December, as well as the crime(s) they are accused of committing:

  • Kevin Foley - battery/domestic violence
  • Daniel Standingbear - battery/domestic violence; petit theft
  • Christopher Kahn - battery (2 counts)
  • Jorge Irizarry - battery on law enforcement officer; trespass; disorderly conduct
  • Antoneo Hampton - battery
  • Paul Driscoll - battery
  • Denzell Alston - battery
  • Joel Santiago - aggravated battery on a pregnant person
  • Jean Lorius - battery/domestic violence; tampering with witness to hinder communication
  • Michael Stephens - battery
  • Vincent Fiallos - battery/domestic violence; resisting law enforcement officer without violence
  • Charles Wilson - battery on a person 65 years >
  • Freedy Gonzalez - battery/domestic violence
  • Felipe Piva - battery
  • JD Adkins - battery/domestic violence
  • McKenzie Brockington - battery/domestic violence
  • Anil William - battery
  • Felix Fuentes-Morales - battery/domestic violence
  • Kate Huggins - battery
  • Vannia Castillo - battery
  • Randall Mendez - battery; tampering with witness to hinder communication
  • Loretta Thompson - battery
  • Dwayne Jones - battery/domestic violence
  • Luis Machado - battery/domestic violence
  • Pamela Hoover - batterydomestic violence
  • Ghazy Alkhubaizi - battery
  • Karan Applewhite - battery/domestic violence
  • Maurice Herrere - battery/domestic violence
  • Yeleine Ladino - aggravated battery
  • Kiara Rivera - battery/domestic violence
  • Raymond Susino - battery/domestic violence
  • Jenah Schlater - battery/domestic violence
  • Juan Garcia-Rivera - driving with license suspended/revoked with knowledge
  • Wesley Powell - burglary of a conveyance (2 counts)
  • Austin Rivera - burglary of a conveyance (2 counts)
  • Jorge Lopez - petit theft; possession of alcohol by person under 21
  • Julio Martinez - driving with license suspended/revoked with knowledge; driving with no valid driver's license; attaching tag not assigned; unlawful tag alteration; expired driver's license > 4 months; no registration
  • Ernest Murphy - driving with license suspended/revoked with knowledge
  • Shecolby Sims - possession of cannabis <20
  • John Rabuogi - driving with license suspended/revoked with knowledge
  • Mashell Webster - possession of cannabis <20
  • Andre King-Holland - possession of cannabis <20
  • Orlando Rosado - resisting law enforcement officer without violence
  • Tahmere Mitchell - resisting law enforcement officer without violence
  • Frederick Simmons - urinating/defecating in public
  • Chervis Bell - possession of cannabis <20
  • Daniel Evans - possession of cannabis <20
  • Fernando Avila - DUI
  • Quentella Shelton - driving with license suspended/revoked with knowledge; providing false ID to law enforcement
  • Wilmer Morales - driving with no valid driver's license
  • Brian Payne - resisting law enforcement officer without violence; disorderly conduct
  • Kathleen Biernat - petit theft
  • Deja Lawrence - petit theft
  • Shemetrice Tarver - petit theft
  • Philipos Teka - DUI
  • Hector Rivera - uttering forged check
  • Benjamin MacKay - DUI
  • Joseph Baslie - disorderly conduct
  • Darleen McCullough - possession of cocaine; introducing contraband into county facility
  • Luc Mazard - driving with no valid driver's license; no registration
  • Shelisse Morales - grand theft 3rd degree
  • Paul Cano - DUI; possession of cannabis <20
  • Juanita Rudd - disorderly conduct
  • Nocholas Szust - DUI
  • Chad Sullivan - criminal mischief
  • Kelsey Dunbar - DUI
  • Edward Loach - possession of cocaine; destruction of evidence
  • Narada Williams - DUI
  • Annmarie Elswick - intentional threat to do harm
  • Michael Connors - obstruction by false information; resisting law enforcement officer without violence
  • Rafael Guzman - possession of cocaine; unauthorized use/possession of driver's license
  • Felix Perez-silvestre - DUI
  • Jose Alvarado - driving with license suspended/revoked with knowledge
  • Rodlet Andre - driving with license suspended/revoked with knowledge
  • Komal Singh - trespass after warning
  • Melissa White - resisting law enforcement officer without violence
  • Antonio Domicianogomes - failure to leave property when ordered by owner

The release mechanism for many defendants is not being posted in the Clerk's database, so we will keep monitoring to see when and/or why such releases are taking so long to be posted. We will also continue to post the release on recognizance for defendants through the pretrial release program. A request to the jail to obtain the criteria for this type of release was made on December 10, 2009 and as of now, we still have not received it.

The jail's population capacity as of today is 84.3 percent of its overall capacity so continued release of defendants into the pretrial release program and who are NOT charged with a first-time, non-violent offense or truly indigent defendants, is unnecessary since the jail is definitely not over population.

Tell your elected officials to use your tax dollars wisely!

4 comments:

  1. The Clerk is undergoing what has become a "painful" system conversion - hence the problem with getting a lot of info that we're accustomed to having within a reasonable timeframe. It will most likely be several weeks, if not a few months, before all is resolved.

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  2. I like how my sisters name is on here and she wasn't even fucking charged. No one cares what ppl do anymore

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  3. My daughters name according to her boyfriend was removed from online or public . Why is it on here????

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  4. The jail is required to publish a registry of all defendants released through its program and the registry contained your daughter's name even if it was no longer visible online.

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