(N.M.) DA speaks out after suspect on GPS ankle monitor goes on crime spree
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Bernalillo County District Attorney Raúl Torrez is speaking out on a case that ended with the suspect involved in a pursuit with law enforcement. Jacob Montoya was on an ankle monitor, and
investigators weren't notified his ankle monitor had died until months later.
Montoya has a lengthy criminal history. Back in June, Albuquerque police say they found him in a stolen car with a shotgun and meth. There was also a warrant out for Montoya's arrest. “It's just a classic example of the types of people that we see committing a number of crimes so we asked for his detention that motion was denied,” said Bernalillo County District Attorney Raúl Torrez.
A judge ordered Montoya to wear a GPS ankle monitor. Torrez says Montoya didn't show up for a hearing, and then the monitor's battery died.
“We didn't receive a noncompliance report until many months later and it was then that we realized that Jacob Montoya went on this crime spree,” said Torrez. The state wasn't alerted until almost four months after the GPS monitor stopped working. “There was seemingly no real supervision, there was no real coordination with law enforcement,” Torrez said.
But by then, it was too late. Montoya is accused of robbing a Sonic in Sandoval County at gun-point in November, and a Starbucks in Santa Fe County nearly two weeks later. After that robbery, Montoya led law enforcement on a pursuit that ended in Torrance County after Montoya allegedly shot at Santa Fe County Deputies and crashed. It begs the question -- if prosecutors' motion to hold Montoya in jail had been approved, would this have been prevented?
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