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NYC criminal thanks Democrats after his 139th arrest, release: ‘Bail reform, it’s lit!’
NYC criminal thanks Democrats after his 139th arrest, release: 'Bail reform, it’s lit!'
Posted by Pat Droney | Feb 17, 2020 | Featured, Investigations, Law and Legal, Must Reads, News, Patrol
NEW YORK CITY- We believe that we have found the “poster child” for the abject stupidity of the new bail reform laws in New York.
Charles Barry has been arrested six times since January 1.
Each time, he has been released without having to post bail under the new bail reform law, which basically damn near says you have to kill someone before there is even a chance of you having to post bail.
No kidding.
Barry, 56, has been arrested a total of 139 times. The most recent arrests have had him realize hundreds of dollars stolen from unsuspecting commuters on the New York subway system. Since his alleged offenses were “non-violent” he was released on a signature, according to the New York Daily News.
On Saturday, Barry walked out of criminal court in Manhattan on Saturday after his arraignment for a Thursday arrest. While he did spend 36 hours in police custody, Barry knew that he was going to be out on the streets in a matter of days.
Among Barry’s crimes included charges that he took cash from people who were tying to use MetroCard machines.
“I’m famous! I take $200, $300 a day of your money, cracker! You can’t stop me!” Barry yelled to a Daily News reporter while being led out of the NYPD Transit District 1 headquarters in the Columbus Circle station.
“Bail reform, it’s lit!” Barry said. “It’s the Democrats! The Democrats know me and the Republicans fear me. You can’t touch me! I can’t be stopped!”
Awesome. Criminals are now mocking the system…Andrew Cuomo and the Democrats in Albany must be so proud of themselves. Because it isn’t just the system that’s being mocked, Barry is mocking them as well…their abject stupidity.
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After being taken from Columbus Circle, Barry was taken to Manhattan Central Booking, where he was held for about 24 hours in the courthouse holding area.
Barry loves him some Democrats in Albany. He was still thrilled about the decision by Democrats to turn the criminal justice system in New York into a revolving door that is the envy of those at most luxury hotels in the city.
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“It’s a great thing. It’s a beautiful thing,” he said. “They punk’ed people out for bullshit crimes.”
Barry has served six different terms in state prison.
The latest arrest on Thursday ironically came mere hours after his face appeared on a Daily News page that outlined the MetroCard machine thefts.
Barry was the subject of two arrest warrants that had been issued for him for missed court appearances.
One such case is from a Jan. 19 incident where he allegedly stole $50 out of a woman’s hand inside a subway station at W. 42nd St. and Sixth Ave. near Bryant Park, where he was issued a desk appearance ticket—think same as a traffic or parking ticket.
The second warrant was related to an incident back in December.
Barry was spotted jumping a turnstile at Penn Station, and officers started to follow hm. They briefly lost sight of him before they spotted and arrested him.
Out of Barry’s 139 career arrests, he has six felonies, 87 misdemeanors and 21 times he failed to appear in court.
Since the revolving door law took effect, Barry has been released three times on supervised release, whereby he did not have to post bail. He was convicted of bending a MetroCard in such a way so that he could get on the subway for free. He was sentenced to time served.
Law enforcement authorities note that under the former bail laws, Barry would more than likely have been held on bail, thus increasing the number of days he would have spent in custody.
A high-ranking official in the New York City Police Department said that due to the new bail reform law, offenders such as Barry are continually let go and then repeat the same crimes. Judges cannot order them to be held in jail before trial under the new law. Sometimes, he said, what begins as a non-violent crime often turns violent if a robbery goes awry.
“At least before, he’d be remanded and be behind bars for a couple of days. He wouldn’t be able to victimize people,” Assistant Chief Gerald Dieckmann, the No. 2 officer in the NYPD’s Transit Bureau told the New York Daily News.
“When someone doesn’t pay them or give them money, it’ll turn into a robbery, a slashing, an assault.”
The Legal Aid Society said that the New York Police Department is using a “few” cases to stoke fears after six weeks that bail and other reforms are a failure.
It also said that despite what police say, “pre-trial incarceration actually erodes public safety and perpetuates recidivism.” It is not known if they said this with a straight face, and they did not provide any statistics to back up the ridiculous assertion.
“Mr. Barry’s case underscores the need for economic stability and meaningful social services, not a need to roll back bail reform,” the society said in a statement.
“Locking up Mr. Barry on unaffordable bail or worse, remanding without bail, ultimately does nothing to protect the public and fails entirely to address his actual needs.”
Liberals.
And don’t forget about this guy – 47-year-old José “Catano” Jorge of the Bronx.
He’s facing nearly 100 years behind bars, but in November was released on bail reform in anticipation of the law taking effect on January 1.
Police say Jorge is a high level drug dealer. As he walked out of Manhattan Supreme Court without spending a penny in bail, he screamed to the waiting crowds in Spanish:
“Cuomo for president!”
Up until then, he’s been held without bail while facing up to 96 years on charges of selling a controlled substance and conspiracy.
But now, for the duration of his trial, he can now walk free.
He’s one of almost 900 inmates who was released in late 2019. The stated mission is to help courts avoid a logjam when bail reform formally kicked in on January 1.
Police say Jorge peddled the drugs tied to the fatal overdose of a 28-year-old man. It happened at a York Avenue diner on the Upper East Side in January 2018.
Police set up a sting, and that’s where he was busted. The move was made after police said they linked him to fentanyl-laced heroin found at the scene.
According to authorities, they set up a wiretap and had an undercover agent buy drugs from Jorge.
The prosecutor in the case had begged the judge to keep Jorge behind bars based on the amount of evidence against the defendant and the severity of the charges.
“His sales are recorded on video. The conversations the defendant had during those sales are chilling,” Assistant District Attorney Nancy Frigo wrote to Judge Abraham Clott.
That’s according to a report in The Post.
“He described in detail how he likes to mix fentanyl into the heroin. Laughed off an accusation of causing someone’s death, and explained that overdoses are actually good for business because then everyone wants what he is selling.”
Three other co-defendants also walked free – in spite of the fact that they previously were considered worthy of remand.
His co-defendant, Jose Feliciano, was also released, pending sentencing after taking a plea deal. If he had refused the plea deal, he too would have walked free under the new bail-reform terms.
A woman joined Feliciano as he left court. She gave the finger to a Post reporter and said:
“Outside, I beat bitches up like you.”
Nearly 900 incarcerated people in New York City celebrated Christmas early courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a plan to quietly free them before the state’s bail-reform law went into effect.
A spokesperson for Cuomo said:
“Fearmongering aside, we understand there are concerns about implementing these landmark reforms and we believe it must be done appropriately and effectively.”