In early April, the California Judicial Council created a new policy setting the deposit at zero for most misdemeanors and low-level crimes to keep the prison population lower during the coronavirus crisis.

As a result, according to Glendora Police, they were unable to keep a car theft suspect in custody and ended up arresting him three times within 12 hours for separate thefts, the latter resulting in a prosecution. by car.

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The first arrest came on Wednesday morning, after officers responded at 8:28 a.m. to a report of a man attempting to break into vehicles on South Grand Avenue. By the time the police arrived at the scene, the man was said to have been driving in a stolen vehicle. Police arrested the suspect and said he also stole property and drugs with him.

The suspect has been identified as Dijon Landrum, 24, from Monterey Park.

Glendora Police arrested Landrum, but said they were unable to keep him behind bars due to the state’s bail policy. Landrum received a citation and released.

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Just an hour after his release, police received a call about a man walking through a neighborhood near Bennett and Pennsylvania, carrying a box and walking through front yards. He allegedly picked up items from the yards and put them in the box as he walked around the neighborhood.

Officers showed up and found Landrum in the neighborhood with stolen items in his possession. Again he received a citation and released.

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Later that night at 8:49 p.m., police were called to report a vehicle that had been stolen from a parking lot on the 1300 block of South Grand Avenue. With the help of the Sheriff’s Department and the CHP, authorities located the vehicle heading west on Highway 10 in La Puente.

They chased the driver and eventually caught him in Pasadena and arrested Landrum again, for possession of a stolen vehicle and for evading officers. Once again he received a citation and released.

The zero deposit policy was created as California prisons and prisons grapple with coronavirus outbreaks among the prison population.

In places like the Terminal Island Federal facility in San Pedro, there have been at least five inmate deaths and hundreds of cases among inmates and staff.

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