A Springfield probationer who cut the GPS tracking bracelet off her ankle late last summer and disappeared for a month and a half before she was recaptured will, as a consequence, spend the next three years in jail without further access to furlough opportunities.
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Amber Harmon, 33, of Springfield, was sentenced this past week to serve three years in jail after she pleaded guilty to escaping, for the fifth time, from her probation last year by cutting a GPS tracking device off her ankle and disappearing for over a month. Photo by Eric Francis
Published April 5, 2016 in the Rutland Herald
Woman gets three years for fifth escape
By ERIC FRANCIS
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Springfield probationer who cut the GPS tracking bracelet off her ankle late last summer and disappeared for a month and a half before she was recaptured will, as a consequence, spend the next three years in jail without further access to furlough opportunities.
Amber Harmon, 33, sighed and rolled her head as she entered guilty pleas this past week to a felony charge of escape and an accompanying misdemeanor count of possession of heroin before she was returned to women’s prison in Chittenden County.
Harmon, who has an extensive series of convictions on her criminal record including eight previous felony convictions for check forgeries, identity thefts, and previous escapes dating back to 2001, had been released on furlough to a relative’s residence on Main Street in Springfield and fitted with the ankle bracelet.
During what was supposed to be a routine check on Aug. 19 a probation officer discovered Harmon was not home. The concerned probation officers then hunted down her GPS device, which indicated it was at the Penguin Mart gas station on Clinton Street, where they eventually discovered that it had been cut in half and stuffed into a wastebasket in the men’s room.
When police finally came across Harmon again in October and arrested her on the outstanding escape warrant, she was searched and officers turned up four bags of heroin, Windsor County Deputy State’s Attorney Rhonda Sheffield explained to the court.
“The Department of Corrections is done,” Sheffield flatly told Judge Theresa DiMauro. “They can’t keep watching somebody that keeps trying to escape. This is her fifth escape and quite frankly, the Department of Corrections can no longer supervise her,” out in the community.
DiMauro agreed and imposed the three-year “to serve” sentence that prevents her from being released in the meantime.
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Eight previous felony convictions with five escapes and Vermont's judiciary grants her release?
ReplyDeleteHope you idiots that continue to vote for the liberals that appoint these judges are pleased. Predators like Amber Harmon prey on the the most vulnerable as they has little fear of consequences. I wont hold my breath expecting an outcry for change from our Montpelier contingency. How about it Emmons and Forguites, does Springfield deserve this or are your liberal buddies in Montpelier more important?
"This is her fifth escape".
ReplyDelete"Harmon, who has an extensive series of convictions on her criminal record including eight previous felony convictions for check forgeries, identity thefts, and previous escapes dating back to 2001, had been released on furlough to a relative’s residence on Main Street in Springfield and fitted with the ankle bracelet."
C'mon Judge DiMauro just give her another chance. Liberals unite and demand FREEDOM for AMBER HAMHEAD.
Can the Vermont Criminal Justice System look anymore idiotic in fighting crime?
Even Karl Marx recognized the existence of what he called the "lumpenproletariat," meaning useless people. I believe this to be the case with many of the people who appear in this blog. Why many on the left can't see this is beyond me. I'm hardly what most would consider a conservative, just a realist who is baffled by the inability of some to acknowledge the obvious.
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