Posted on 04/03/2024 3:14:51 AM PDT by george76
CHICAGO — A Chicago man on parole for residential burglary and on electronic monitoring for three more residential burglaries he allegedly committed while on that parole is back in custody, accused of burglarizing yet another home while wearing his ankle monitor.
Let’s start at the beginning, though: May 2019. That’s when prosecutors charged Kevin Purdis with burglarizing a Lincoln Park home while he was on electronic monitoring for allegedly using credit cards that were taken during burglaries. He sat in jail until a judge agreed to let him out due to concerns about the dangers of the COVID pandemic.
Four months later, he was arrested again after police said they found $4,000 worth of looting proceeds in his car on the Near North Side. He put all those cases to rest in October 2021: Judge Diana Kenworthy sentenced him to two years for one ID theft case. Prosecutors dropped others. Records show he received six years for the Lincoln Park burglary and one year for stealing the looted merchandise. He was released in April 2022.
Last March, still on parole, he was arrested in the 200 block of West Division after Chicago police officers recognized him as a man who had just burglarized a home in North Center. Patrol officers stopped Purdis and found collector coins, jewelry, a Nintendo Switch, an iPad, and a PlayStation 5 taken earlier in the day from a home in the 1900 block of West Patterson, officials said.
Using surveillance video, detectives also linked Purdis to an August 12, 2022, burglary in the 3200 block of North Damen and another in the 900 block of West Cornelia on January 23, prosecutors alleged.
Despite his background, the Illinois Department of Corrections decided not to revoke his parole, and he went home on an ankle monitor.
GPS readings from that ankle monitor are now being used as evidence against Purdis. Prosecutors say he burglarized a Ravenswood woman’s home on March 12 while wearing the device.
Surveillance videos showed him near the woman’s home in the 2100 block of West Argyle, prosecutors say. Chicago cops also found a video of him trying to use the victim’s credit card at a Target store and pawning her collectible coins at a pawn shop immediately after the break-in, according to court filings.
Judge Maryam Ahmad granted the state’s detention petition, reasoning that he’s a safety risk because “he continues to unlawfully enter homes.”
Putting his life back together.
Just getting back on his feet...
So, I got an idea... Maybe put an ankle monitor on the other ankle, right Chicago?
Can you describe the suspect?
Didn’t the state of Lincoln just do a whole slew of changes to make their Justice system more acccccepting, and divvvverse, and narrrrrowing the definition of murderrr, eliminating cash bailll.
All to eliminate the heavy systemic raccccism.
(Safe T) act.
Governor who signed it:
This just bags the question, is our legal system broken or does the legal system want the robberies to justify their existence? Remember, governments are not results oriented, unfortunately………
Bullet to the head and future crimes have been eliminated.
I have more faith and trust in the guys selling 'designer' wallets and handbags on the street in Manhattan than I do in our legal system.
Clown world! Unfortunately, it is less of a Bozo clown and more of a John Wayne Gacy clown.
Illinois Department of Corrections decided not to revoke his parole, and he went home on an ankle monitor.
The citizens’ well-being is rarely the first concern of government agencies.
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