Last week, we spoke to Scioto County judges to ask why parolees are arrested again and again but not sent back to jail, and judges told us that in most cases, their hands, as well as those of local law enforcement, are tied. They simply cannot put them back in prison due to state regulations.
Well, thanks to that catch-and-release mentality, career criminals with long arrest records terrorized Scioto County during the week.
Aaron Armstrong – a 30-year-old man with over 20 arrests had a 3-hour standoff with PPD after breaking into a Dorman Drive. Home. Police arrested him twice already this year alone but released the homeless man back onto the Street.
Tony Leslie was arrested for the 24th time on charges of failure to appear and probation violation. His record includes OVE, theft, and B&E Charges.
Ronald Will was arrested for the 26th time, this time for probation violation and violating court orders. His other arrests include falsification and theft.
Otis Daughtrey scored his 10th arrest after he was caught living in a stranger’s basement. He has previous arrests for probation violation, theft, and domestic violence.
Joseph Cales was killed in a domestic incident in New Boston. Cales had a long arrest history, including domestic violence, felonious assault, aggravated menacing, and multiple parole and probation violations.
Parolee Eric Carr, who’d been paroled on domestic violence, assault, weapons, and vandalism charges led police on a chase before crashing. Carr took the time to document his car chase, arrest, and hospital visit on social media. Carr’s previous arrest record includes several weapons charges, discharging a weapon into a home or school, multiple charges of domestic violence, drug trafficking, and numerous probation violations.
Parolees William Swords and Devin Chandler were arrested at the Riverview campground after a witness said they saw them exchanging a gun.
The state released Swords on parole just a month ago, and he’d already violated, and Ohio listed him as a wanted man who was possibly armed and dangerous.
Police charged Chandler with improperly handling firearms in a vehicle, drug possession, having weapons under a disability, drug paraphernalia, and possessing drug abuse instruments. Chandler was released on parole from a Kentucky prison at the end of August. He was doing time for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, public intoxication, and unauthorized transaction with a minor.
Read our conversations with the Judges.