Valencia County struggles with revolving jail door

AUTHORITIES IN VALENCIA COUNTY SAY THEY'RE DEALING WITH A REVOLVING DOOR OF CRIMINALS. IN MANY...  More »

AUTHORITIES IN VALENCIA COUNTY SAY THEY'RE DEALING WITH A REVOLVING DOOR OF CRIMINALS. IN MANY CASES, THEY KEEP ARRESTING THE SAME CROOKS FOR THE SAME CRIMES. A DISTRICT JUDGE BELIEVES HE CAN PUT A STOP TO THAT. JEFF MAHER IS LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM TO EXPLAIN WHAT THAT IS. JEFF? YOU CAN BLAME IT ON PLEA BARGAINS, BONDS, A JAIL THAT'S FILLING UP, OR THE ENTIRE JUSTICE SYSTEM. EITHER WAY, AUTHORITIES IN VALENCIA COUNTY ARE FACED WITH A BIG PROBLEM AND SAY EVEN SOME OF THE VIOLENT CRIMINALS ARE BEING PUT BACK ON THE STREETS. 'we have had situations where we arrest the same person, two, maybe even three times'TOBY JARAMILLO IS A SUSPECT WELL- KNOWN TO THE VALENCIA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE. LAST MONTH, AFTER A HIGH SPEED CHASE, AND A SEARCH THAT LASTED FOR DAYS, DEPUTIES TRACKED HIM DOWN AND LOCKED HIM UP FOR HAVING A METH LAB INSIDE HIS HOUSE. HE'S ALSO ACCUSED OF GETTING INTO A SHOOTOUT WITH ANOTHER MAN. JARAMILLO WAS GIVEN A NO-BOND WARRANT, WHICH MEANS HE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO GET OUT OF JAIL. 'he was not supposed to get out? 'that is correct''he got out? Yes. for reasons we don't know? I don't know' FOUR DAYS LATER -- DEPUTIES ARRESTED JARAMILLO FOR NOT SHOWING UP TO COURT. THEN THERE'S BRIAN GABALDON. LAST WEEK, DEPUTIES SAY HE LED THEM ON A HIGH-SPEED CHASE, CRASHED INTO A FENCE, AND TRIED TO PUNCH A DEPUTY IN THE FACE. HE WAS ARRESTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING. HE ALSO HAD TWO NO-BOND WARRANTS OUT OF BERNALILLO COUNTY. 'for some of these people it appears to be a revolving door, and it's kind of frustrating for us because we continue to see this people over and over again'DISTRICT JUDGE JOHN POPE IS TRYING TO START A PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS AUTHORITIES TO CLOSELY MONITOR PEOPLE SUSPECTED OF DRUG AND PROPERTY CRIMES AFTER THEY BOND OUT. 'because I feel if you can supervise people who are on release and we know they're violating the conditions of release, those are the people who are most apt to commit crimes and we can lock them up'JUDGE POPE IS STILL TRYING TO SET UP THE POST- ARRAIGNMENT SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM. BERNALILLO AND MCKINLEY COUNTY HAVE PROGRAMS LIKE THAT IN PLACE. LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM JEFF MAHER. EYEWITNESS NEWS FOUR. TONIGHT THE  « Less