Man gets arrested three times in one day due to being released on bail reform law

cbs6albany.com ^ | February 18, 2020

[lowbridge]

Three arrests in one day, spread across seven hours and just two blocks!

Those are the dizzying numbers from just one suspect that has the troy police union calling for changes to bail reform laws.

That suspect is Scott Nolan.

The new laws are allowing suspects like Nolan to be released with an appearance ticket instead of being taken into custody.

The Troy Police Union believes this is putting an unnecessary burden on their officers by having to repeatedly catch this man. They also say the new laws diminish the power of arrest.

The states new bail laws tangled up Troy Police in a game loop of catch and release. They arrested Scott Nolan three times in seven hours yesterday.

Around 9am they arrested him and charged him for shoplifting. He was released with an appearance ticket.

Hours later, they say he assaulted a man just before 2:30pm. He was arrested and released again.

Then just before 4:30pm they say he hit another person with a brick. Police charged him with second degree attempted assault and third degree criminal possession of a weapon, which kept him in custody.

"They just basically become a reactive instead of a proactive police department," says Nicholas Laviano, the President of Troy's Police Union.

Laviano says the department knows Nolan well. This isn't his first déjà vu with the department.

Back in January police charged him with criminal mischief and released him. They say they caught him committing the same crime hours later.

Laviano says his criminal history is 50 pages long, and that has to be printed out every time he's arrested. He says that process uses uses up time and taxpayer money.

[Carriage Hill]

SPJNK.

[Metrobank]

Since he can’t be rehabilitated, take him up in a C130 and drop him out in the ocean. Poof...no more problems and the sharks get a tasty meal.

[Osage Orange]

Her should be put down...like a dog.