Posted on 07/13/2022 3:39:14 PM PDT by lowbridge
An ex-con who vanished after being released without bail on gun charges by a soft-on-crime judge was captured by federal agents in Puerto Rico, a source said Wednesday.
Frankie Centeno, who allegedly ignored an order to get fitted with an ankle bracelet following his release, was nabbed on the Caribbean island on Tuesday night, the source said.
It’s unclear when he’ll be brought back to New York to face prosecution for allegedly being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Centeno, who has four gun-possession convictions that date to 2003, was arrested early March 27 inside a Bronx restaurant and accused of having a loaded, .45 caliber pistol stuck in his waistband.
At his arraignment, the Bronx District Attorney’s Office asked that bail be set at $100,000 cash or $300,000 bond due to Centeno’s history of violating probation and parole, a spokesperson said that the time.
But Bronx Criminal Court Judge Valentina Morales denied the request and instead set Centeno free on the condition that he report to the city Sheriff’s Office so officials could strap an electronic monitoring device around his ankle.
Centeno never showed up, outraging law enforcement officials familiar with his case.
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Where did they find him?
I just came from that island and there are places you can go where you will NEVER be found. Get a taxi up in those goat trail roads. You can buy a couple of pigs and chickens and live your whole life without meeting another soul that would care who you are.
Has his only crime has been gun possession?
What did he do in Peurto Rico to get busted?
Did he use the guns to commit a crime or is this an Ewwww Yuck thing?
If he was prosecuted for merely owning a gun I wish he’d gotten away.
You think a hood like that wants to live in peace with couple of pigs and goats?
Spoiler: he doesn’t.
Soft on crime is one of my least favorite epithets.
If society is not being hypocritical and actually wants ther
e to be no vigilante justice to balance the scales of the universe, then have a system of fair justice equally available to all.
We don’t.
Notice the charges for illegal gun possession. It’s obvious they do not want to arrest criminals who illegally possess weapons. They just want to take the guns away from law-abiding citizens so that they will be defenseless against both the criminals and the government officials (one and the same, I know).
If he owned Or possessed a gun with a silencer, he was guilty of an illegal possession on its face, and prior gun charges should have put him in Rikers automatically ally.
Commie judge should be disbarred for “dereliction of duty” and “malfeasance of office”.
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