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CROWN POINT â The owner of a company retained by the Lake County commissioners to provide electronic monitoring of criminal defendants claims the sheriff is trying to destroy his business by repeatedly criticizing the company for not providing police with timely notification over escaped defendants.
Herbert Smith, of ICU Monitoring, said Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez is not a party to his contract with commissioners and has never met with him to discuss his protocol and procedures.
But the sheriff has repeatedly held up multiple escapes by defendants under the watch of Smith s firm as evidence the county needs to sever ties with the company.
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The politically connected Merrillville firm is contracted to monitor county detainees who are on at-home detention, typically before trial.
There have been several inmate escapes under this firmâs watch, Most notably that of Jarod D. Johnson, of Gary.
As has been reported in The Times, Johnson was a detainee charged with attempted murder.
ICU lost contact with Johnson s ankle bracelet at 7:16 a.m. April 12, 2019, but did not file an escape report with the Sheriff s Department until 4:41 p.m. that day, according to Martinez. At 6:22 p.m., ICU employees contacted the Sheriff s Department and said the escape report on Johnson was withdrawn.
Country-club-hillsIllinoisUnited-statesScottsboroAlabamaLake-countyMatthew-fechOscar-martinezDan-cardenCarlm-smithWilliam-gallowayJohn-lukeCROWN POINT â In a rebuke of the Lake County Commissioners over the recent renewal of an electronic monitoring contract, Sheriff Oscar Martinez referenced three escapes that he says happened under the watch of the company that was awarded the contract.
In each of the instances, which occurred between April 2019 and September 2019, Martinez said the escaped offenders who were on court-supervised release committed serious crimes. The discord between the sheriff s office and the monitoring company has been longstanding.
In May 2019, Martinez barred the monitor ankle bracelet company, ICU Monitoring Inc., and its employees from entering Lake County Jail after two escapes in which the detainees were on court-supervised release and wearing GPS ankle bracelets monitored by the Merrillville-based company.
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