ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KRQE) – A repeat offender linked to up to 80 subway break-ins has been arrested again. This time he is accused of breaking into cars with his ankle monitor. The prosecutor wants to keep him behind bars.
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“To be honest, nobody was surprised here. Nobody here was in any way shocked that we picked them up again, ”said Raul Torrez, District Attorney for Bernalillo.
The accused serial burglar Jesse Mascareno-Haidle gets into trouble again. The 19-year-old is accused of breaking into cars at Rio Grande High School earlier this week. When the police confronted him, they said he had run.
According to court records, he was wearing an ankle monitor at the time. “If this is the highest form of oversight, why didn’t we get an immediate alert if he violated a zone he should be in or a deadline to meet,” said Raul Torrez, District Attorney by Bernalillo.
Mascareno-Haidle has been charged with three home break-ins but has confessed to more than 20 and is believed to have been linked to around 80 home break-ins in Albuquerque over the past year.
In some cases the homeowners slept in the house. “They broke into our house in the middle of the night while we were sleeping – they passed my mother’s door,” said Heather Ferguson in April, whose apartment was broken into.
An attempt was made to the state Supreme Court, but the state Supreme Court decided to release Mascareno-Haidle from prison. The judges said prosecutors did not come up with a convincing case to keep him detained. Torrez says he wants more answers on what pre-trial services are if a criminal is released before trial.
“What does that really mean? If he’s in non-student high school, breaks into cars in the middle of the day, where else has he been? What else was he doing? “Said Torrez.
He also asks what it finally takes to keep repeat offenders behind bars. “We are in a situation in which, unfortunately, he is not the only defendant whom we have to detain several times,” said Torrez.
Torrez asked the pre-investigation services for all of Mascareno-Haidle’s GPS data to see where he was. His pre-trial detention hearing is scheduled for Monday, but Torrez wants it to be postponed until he looks at these records.
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