Avi Kartin, 27, who was indicted in 2015 for trafficking child pornography and skipped out on court and fled to Thailand for 4 years was arrested Wednesday at Newark Airport. Kartin was released by court order the next day – FREE TO GO – under NJ Bail Reform.
Another “validated pretrial risk assessment” Failure.
New Jersey Bail Reform, Risk Assessments, and Pretrial Services…
- ZERO Accountability
- ZERO Deterrent
- ZERO Supervision
- ZERO Bail…just a “pinky promise” to return
- Dangerous, Reckless, and a Taxpayer Burden
Judge Frees Englewood Promoter In Child Porn Case After Long Thailand Stay
(report by Jerry DeMarco of the Daily Voice – May 19 2017)
A former promoter from Englewood caught trafficking in child pornography skipped the country to Thailand for four years, was arrested when he got off a plane at Newark Airport from Bangkok on Wednesday – then was released by a judge in Hackensack, authorities said Thursday.
A grand jury in Hackensack indicted Avi Kartin on child endangerment charges in 2015 after Cyber Crimes Unit detectives found that he’d been collecting the images two years earlier, , Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said.
Grewal said Kartin – who formerly sold cars for Mercedes-Benz and Porsche dealers before becoming a worldwide entertainment promoter — was in Thailand, where he’d taken a job selling services and products to real estate developers.
In October 2015, a judge in Hackensack issued an arrest warrant for Kartin — who, records show, hooked up with a discount travel agency last year.
On Wednesday, Kartin, 27, flew into Newark Airport, where authorities took him into custody for failing to attend a scheduled arraignment on the child porn indictment.
A short time later, Superior Court Judge Margaret M. Foti released him without bail, under the 2017 New Jersey bail reform law, pending a June 26 court date.
You’ve been LIED to New Jersey…NJ Bail Reform is RECKLESS, DANGEROUS, and YOU are PAYING for it.
Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.