Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Surrender!

A suspect in the CCJ home invasion last week turned himself in yesterday. WLBT reported:

Jackson police say the suspect wanted in a home invasion in Jackson last week turned himself in Tuesday night.

Vincent Smith is one of two suspects in the home invasion Wednesday in the 400 block of Saint Andrews Drive at the Jackson Country Club.

Good detective work by JPD. WLBT has the rest of the details of the arrest in its story. However, there is one little set of disturbing facts reported and its not even a case of revolving door justice. More like catch and release:

This isn't Vincent Smith's first brush with the law. He has been charged with more than a dozen crimes in at least two different jurisdictions in the past four months.

Vincent Smith is the man who authorities say used a scooter during house burglaries earlier this year.

Back in March, Jackson Police Assistant Chief Lee Vance told us 22-year-old Smith "is an example of a guy that we've been problems with for awhile. Right now, he's charged with six counts of house burglary in the Precinct 4 area."

However, looking at their current records, JPD says Smith was arrested for three counts of house burglary and two counts of possession of stolen property in March.

Vance says that's not unusual. Sometimes the charges change after a closer look at the evidence. Smith's bond for those offenses was $15,000 for the two house burglaries and $2,500 for stolen property. He was also arrested for felony possession of MDMA, or ecstasy, and felony possession of marijuana at that time.

Then, in August, Smith was arrested again for felony possession of marijuana, possession of narcotics and misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance. He was granted $26,000 bond for those charges.

Why was Smith let go again? According to the Hinds County District Attorney's office, the felony possession of marijuana charge carries a maximum of only three years in prison. Because of that, his bond could not be revoked despite the prior charges in March.

Smith is now accused in a home invasion Wednesday on St. Andrews Drive in Jackson.

We talked to Hinds County District Attorney Robert Smith about repeat offenders getting back out on the street. In his research on Vincent Smith, he found a series of drug and weapons charges out of Madison County from July, two of which met the requirement to revoke bond. He says it's something the justice system runs into from time to time. Article

Nice. Very nice.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

CONGRATULATIONS JPD!. I'm going to post this butt-kissing praise of JPD 18 times in this thread so it'll look like a bunch of people are proud of our jobs program of a police department and that they deserve praise for doing what they're paid to do.

For those of you who don't want to lick to boots of the Kush military and put lipstick on a pig, well, racism.



Anonymous said...

Wow, Rankin Chancery must have raised somebody's child support yesterday. Or WalMarts wouldn't renew his hunting license, ect...

Anonymous said...

I think JPD does deserve acccolades. Looks like this chief is the real deal, something that has been missing for quite a while.

Anonymous said...

Time to go back to the Old Testament and start chopping off fingers, hands, etc...Or better yet, let's see what the Quran would say to do to these thugs...I haven't read the Quran, but my guess would be the same punishment. Society doesn't need these losers.

Anonymous said...

Where's the Chief? Time to trot him out. He deserves and needs face-time with the media, unlike the starched shirt appointed by Johnson who rode a desk and pissed off all the department the past four years.

It's as if the mayor 'don't like the POleece'.

Anonymous said...

What a relief that these two have been apprehended. Now, all eyes on the justice system to see if they will do some serious time.

Anonymous said...

9:49
Maybe the Chief doesn't like being "trotted out" like some prize bull. Maybe he prefers to quietly do what needs doing. If the mayor didn't like the police he wouldn't have appointed a capable man, jackass.

Anonymous said...

Great job JPD. Glad to see it.... I feel like we are also seeing more patrols too. Definitely more speed traps. Even saw someone handing out parking tickets downtown.

Anonymous said...

@2:11. I'm no jackass but you seem to be in a fog. Jackson PD needs credibility. One part of building it is visibility. Not just seeing blue and whites on the interstate system under bridges. The last chief was virtually invisible. Nobody needs to be 'trotted out'. He needs to trot his own ass out and take charge and earn credibility for himself and the department. Residents of all of Mississippi, and especially the Metro, should know his name and recognize his face.

Hinds Co. S.O. and Madison S.O. both gained a degree of confidence and credibility because of McMillan and Trowbridge being willing to go on television often and address the public.

It was Lumumba's own lips that the words "I don't like the POleece" were spoken.

Anonymous said...

"We talked to Hinds County District Attorney Robert Smith about repeat offenders getting back out on the street. In his research on Vincent Smith, he found a series of drug and weapons charges out of Madison County from July, two of which met the requirement to revoke bond. He says it's something the justice system runs into from time to time"

Perhaps I'm just honestly dumb. When someone goes before a judge, who is responsible for pulling a list of any other charges to make sure the judge has this information? Is it the judge? the judge's assistant? the police? the district attorney?

Anonymous said...

Society doesn't need these losers. One bullet solves this problem.


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