THE USUAL SUSPECT
Freed on no bail for bank robbery, now accused of holding up a SIXTH bank
Gerod Wood berry, arrested for allegedly robbing four banks, was freed with no bail Thursday thanks to new state laws. Not only is he suspected of holding up a fifth bank Friday( as see non The Post’ s Sunday frontpage, below), he’s now accused of ANOTHER attempted robbery yesterday.
A Long Island man is outraged that a driver who allegedly killed his brother in a drunken crash was released without bail — and blames the state’s controversial new reform law.
Jordan Randolph, 40, was arrested at about 4 a.m. Sunday after his 2014 Cadillac rear-ended a 2015 Ford, killing driver Jonathan Flores-Maldonado, 27, Suffolk County police said.
Randolph allegedly tried to flee but was arrested for driving while intoxicated, a felony, before being cut loose without bail Monday.
“The defendant attempted to flee the scene on foot,” the complaint said. “After taking a few steps, the defendant fell to the ground, where he was placed in custody.”
The dead man’s brother, Mateo Mangusto Maldonado, raged on social media. “This drunk driver Jordan Randolph killed my brother and is already free a day later because of this new bail reform,” he wrote.
Randolph has not been charged with Flores-Maldonado’s death.
The bail-reform law took effect Jan. 1 and prevents courts from setting bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies — including the felony DWI Randolph was hit with. He has a dozen prior convictions, including three for DWI, two of them felonies, lawenforcement sources said.
His most recent bust was Jan. 1 in Suffolk for alleged harassment, aggravated unlicensed operation and tampering with a court-ordered ignition interlock device.
That arrest violated Randolph’s parole on a Nassau County case.
A judge let him loose instead of turning him over to Nassau police. But Randolph appeared in a Nassau court Friday.