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| Paroled gang members no longer tracked by GPS |
| By redding.com - Ryan Sabalow |
| Published: 06/03/2011 |
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A program that put movement-tracking ankle bracelets on paroled, high-risk gang members has been discontinued because of state budget cuts. And local law enforcement officials say the loss of the program, though it monitored just two north state gang members, takes away a valuable tool. Friday, they say, was a perfect example of why such a program is needed. On Friday afternoon, members of the Shasta County Anti-Gang Enforcement team headed to a house on Camino Drive across the street from Enterprise High School in Redding. The team was at the home to check on Vong Vue, a 35-year-old parolee who SAGE agents say is a documented member of an Asian prison gang. When they knocked on the door, Vue, whose GPS-tracking bracelet was removed around a week earlier, wasn't home. "Here we have a gang member with high violence potential, and we have no idea where he is right now," said SAGE team member Rex Berry, an investigator from the Redding Police Department. "Unfortunately, that's the way things are right now." Read More. |
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