Ankle monitor leads to arrest
Woodland man taken into custody at parole office
Woodland police arrested a local resident on suspicion of burglary early Monday thanks to an ankle monitor he was wearing while on parole.
The initial incident occurred Sunday but wasn’t reported until late Monday night by police, who said that Jeramie Newby, 33, was first taken into custody for drug possession.
“Based on this, a parole hold was authorized by a parole agent,” according to Sgt. Dallas Hyde. He was released from custody at the yolo County Jail around 7 a.m.
But around 8:30 a.m., a teenage girl heard a noise inside her home in the 1700 block of Farnham Avenue. She looked outside her bedroom door and saw a person inside the residence and the rear sliding glass door open by the exterior screen locked.
The girl alerted her father, who in turn, chased the suspect out of the residence.
Hyde reported the family provided officers with a good description of the subject but officers could not locate him at the time.
However, officers assigned to the case called the jail and with their help discovered that Newby matched the clothing description from the burglary case and learned he was on active parole with an ankle monitor.
Officers contacted parole who confirmed his ankle monitor tracked him to Farnham Avenue burglary at the time of the burglary. Police didn’t report whether anything was taken at the Farnham residence.
On Monday morning, Newby was arrested at the parole office on suspicion of burglary, possession of a methamphetamine pipe, possession of a dirk or dagger and a parole hold.
Officers contacted a Yolo County judge who granted a bail enhancement for $250,000, otherwise Newby’s bail would have been $50,000, Hyde added.