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A suspect has been arrested for allegedly carjacking one car and attempting to carjack a second vehicle shortly after he’d been released without bail from Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on suspicion of car theft, an Alameda County sheriff’s spokesman said.
The case shows the downside of a new California Judicial Council policy of releasing without bail suspects arrested for misdemeanors and low-level felonies in an effort to reduce overcrowding at jails in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Rocky Music, 32, was arrested by Oakland police at 7:50 a.m. Sunday on suspicion of car theft, according to Alameda County sheriff’s Sgt. Ray Kelly.
Music was taken to Santa Rita to be booked but was released at 7:23 p.m. Sunday. Kelly said Music walked to the Dublin BART station, where he allegedly carjacked a driver and took the vehicle to San Ramon, where he allegedly attempted to carjack another driver.
Music then fled from San Ramon police but was taken into custody after he allegedly kicked a police dog that had managed to track him down, Kelly said.
He is now being held at Santa Rita in lieu of $100,000 bail on suspicion of carjacking and harming a police officer’s dog and a misdemeanor offense of obstructing a police officer.
Kelly said, “You could steal a car every day and be released every day” because car theft isn’t considered a violent felony.
He said Music is being kept in custody for now because carjacking is considered to be a serious felony.
Kelly said that since the new rules were implemented on April 13, he knows of one Alameda County person who has been arrested five times and another person who has been arrested three times.
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Absolutely ridiculous. That policy is a threat to public safety. Criminals don’t care about making court dates. If they aren’t kept in custody or minimally required to post bail, they are not held accountable and will strike again. Look at this example, within minutes of being released, he is back at it again. This will directly affect tri-valley residents as these suspects are released into our community. I’ve been a burglary victim before and it worries me California is getting more lenient with criminals as the years go on.
Wonder what the anti-police posters (B.A. & K.R.) would suggest for this problem?
Perhaps our new Police Chief, who I believe we are already paying for, can/will be allowed to find his way to his new desk sometime soon?
……..but its cruel and unusual punishment to expose him to corona virus in jail.
Anonymous, asking for oversight of a police department, by expert(s), is not anti-police. Anyway, I would like to think we could isolate people who are in jail—those with virus; those without; those requiring hospitalization. Let me also say I am sure it is not that simple, but I don’t think criminals should be released into the general population.
I agree, criminals should not be released into the population.
Car jacking is a violent crime.
The voting majority in California is the democratic party. The leadership that the democratic party majority elected are making these decisions to release the criminals.
That leadership, have their life’s in homes behind walls, barricades and with security and law enforcement back up. The rest of us are force to fend for ourselves.
Hmm, wish there was a way to get the message to our Bureaucrats in local Tri Valley City Halls, Mayors offices and Congress peoples local offices, to get them to stop these unsafe practices of releasing criminals into our tri valley neighborhoods. There is medical care in jail. For all we know these criminals are asymptomatic spreaders released to infect us!
This poor felon is obviously screaming for help that us tax paying citizens haven provided to him, we need to step up and give this felon a chance to get off his crazy merry-go-round so let’s start by releasing him again from jail but this time give him a car for his personal use, full tank of gas and a gas card plus fully insured with the promise that he never car jacks another car. Repeat offender problem solved!
Or lets have the sheriff him drop off at Swalwells office in Castro Valley.