Ankle monitors have been central to violent crime recently in that several offenders have been found to be already on remote surveillance as they commit more offenses.
With in the last week, one suspect in a quadruple French Quarter shooting was wearing his device during that act and, according to officials, had committed 40 violations prior to the shooting.
And the habitual offenders aren't just juveniles, Nicholas Miorana, one of the accused in the shooting is 28. Now the question becomes where exactly are the defects in the criminal court system?
District Attorney Jason Williams says he and his team need judges to pay attention to their objections when violent offenders ask for probation or house arrest.
"Sometimes the cases aren't perfect, not all of them are, but then we urge jail time and get overruled."
D.A. Williams says in the case of Nicholas Miorana records show the Judge, Leon Roche, was informed of the forty violations Miorana committed while on remote monitoring and did not issue any warrants for his capture.
"If there's even one violation, if they show they cannot do right, we need to lock them up."
D.A. Williams says he would like to see more accountability and less chances given.
As with Miorana, the D.A.'s office was overruled in January when they asked that he receive jail time instead of probation for charges that included child endangerment and gun charges.
He would go on to be rearrested on domestic abuse charges in September and placed on house arrest. The remote monitoring system that was part of his house arrest is the one he was wearing when he allegedly took part in the shooting that took the life of 27-year-old Yasmeen Webb and injured three others.
