Six-month jail term for tampering with monitoring bracelet

Thu, Mar 3rd 2011, 03:11 AM

Officials will know exactly where Antonio Smith is for the next six months. Yesterday, Deputy Chief Magistrate Carolita Bethell sentenced Smith, 47, to six months in prison for cutting through the strap of an electronic monitoring bracelet placed on him.
He will spend an additional four months in prison if he fails to pay a $231 fine covering the value of the damage caused to the ankle bracelet.
Smith remained at large for three days after he cut off the GPS?monitoring device placed on him as he awaited trial on a house-breaking charge.
He removed the bracelet on February 23 after an ICS operator informed him that he was in a restricted area, the court heard.
After the first call, Smith said he was g ...

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