Ankle monitor

I'm left scratching my head after reading this Miami Herald story.

While under house arrest, Emmanuel Cadillon broke off his ankle monitor and left it inside his Little River home -- and detectives later used it to help link him to a January killing.

The detail was disclosed Monday in an arrest warrant released for the Haitian gang member known on the street as Mono.

He was captured last week after a 14-hour standoff inside a Miramar home. Cadillon is believed to be involved in a rash of Haitian-American street gang shootings.

He was arrested for possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. He has not been charged with any of the recent homicides.

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Miami-Dade homicide detectives had already been investigating Cadillon, 25, for his alleged role in the Jan. 3 shooting death of Devin St. Pierre.

A day after St. Pierre was shot dead, police searched Cadillon's Little River home, which was less than a mile from where his son would be killed months later.

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Using the bracelet's serial number, detectives traced the device to Cadillon, who had been placed on monitored release in May 2005 as he faced trial for an attempted murder charge.

Cadillon, according to the Miami-Dade corrections, absconded from the monitoring program on Nov. 22. An alert to officers was issued the next day -- but several days later, the charge was dropped because the attempted murder victim had changed his story.

''He was no longer an inmate after that happened,'' said Chandra Gavin of the corrections community affairs department.

Anyone else think its strange that Cadillon was out on an ankle monitor after committing a violent felony? What good are these devices if it takes a day or more for police to respond to someone taking it off?

What do you think?

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