{"id":27545,"date":"2012-12-27T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T00:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=27545"},"modified":"2012-12-31T20:12:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T04:12:19","slug":"leaps-helps-catch-absconded-sex-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/12\/27\/leaps-helps-catch-absconded-sex-offender\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAPS helps catch absconded sex offender"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) was launched on Friday, August 24.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LANCASTER \u2013 The City of Lancaster\u2019s Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) has been putting in serious work during the past week, according to city officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Lancaster residents enjoyed their holiday festivities with family and friends, the City\u2019s innovative crime-fighting tool assisted Sheriff Deputies and State Parole Authorities in apprehending criminals,\u201d reads a city news release issued Thursday.<\/p>\n

On December 22, just days before Christmas, a registered sex offender monitored via GPS was determined missing because he failed to report to his parole officer.\u00a0 The parolee claimed to be sleeping in the desert, when Valley temperatures reached into the teens, making that scenario unlikely.<\/p>\n

An alert went out on Saturday morning (Dec. 22), informing the California Parole Division that the monitored parolee had in fact been out all night, requiring the launch of an investigation.<\/p>\n

California State Adult Parole Operations Supervisor Larry Dorsey drove out to the five-acre search area and determined it to be inaccessible via ground unit.\u00a0 Dorsey then called the Lancaster Sheriff\u2019s Station to enlist the aid of the Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System in order to get a broad scope view of the parolee\u2019s reported whereabouts.<\/p>\n

With aerial eyes covering the five-acre expanse, the State of California Parole Division and Lancaster Sheriff Deputies were able to maximize law enforcement resources in alternate areas and, ultimately, apprehend the registered sex offender in another location.<\/p>\n

Dorsey said the parolee\u2019s name is Eugene Kato<\/strong>. Kato, 50, was arrested around 9:15 a.m. Monday for violating his parole and booked at the Lancaster Station without bail.<\/p>\n

\u201cLaw enforcement officers were able to locate this paroled registered sex offender in a short period of time due to the assistance of LEAPS,\u201d Dorsey said in a city news release. \u201cWith this tool being able to scour the desert from above, personnel was redirected to other possible locations, maximizing our resources, and leading to the swift retrieval of this parole violator.\u00a0LEAPS is a great resource to have in such situations.\u201d<\/p>\n

LEAPS was also used on Dec. 21 to track a burglary suspect running from the scene of a crime called in as a burglary-in-progress.\u00a0Deputies followed the sight-on-criminal directions provided by the LEAPS dispatch crew, and subsequently identified a residence into which the suspect ran and hid.<\/p>\n

After containing and evacuating the residence, deputies searching the premises and arrested the harbored suspect as he emerged from a bedroom.\u00a0 The suspect later confessed to the attempted burglary.<\/p>\n

\u201cLEAPS accomplishments as a law enforcement tool continue to expand, proving its worth with every successful effort,\u201d said Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris in a city news release.\u00a0 \u201cThese two recent apprehensions show just how valuable LEAPS is in serving and protecting our city and its residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Information via press release from the city of Lancaster.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Related articles:<\/p>\n

LEAPS helps catch burglary suspect<\/a><\/p>\n

LEAPS helps deputies find suicidal man<\/a><\/p>\n

Progress report on \u201cEye in the Sky\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

LEAPS aids capture of double murder suspect<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Eye in the Sky\u2019 takes off<\/a><\/p>\n

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LANCASTER \u2013 The City of Lancaster\u2019s Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) has been putting in serious work during the past week, according to city officials. \u201cWhile Lancaster residents enjoyed their holiday festivities with family and friends, the City\u2019s innovative crime-fighting tool assisted Sheriff Deputies and State Parole Authorities in apprehending criminals,\u201d reads a city […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}