Tenese N. Thompson, 36, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, illegal drug possession and exhibiting fake documents after Thompson attempted to cash a forged check at a PNC Bank.
Thompson was released and FREE TO GO under NJ Bail Reform guidelines after the “Pretrial Risk Assessment” tool determined that they were not a danger to the community or a flight risk and therefore should not be subject to any accountable release – just a “promise” to appear.
Another “validated pretrial risk assessment” Failure.
New Jersey Bail Reform, Risk Assessments, and Pretrial Release Services…
- ZERO Accountability
- ZERO Deterrent
- ZERO Supervision
- ZERO concern for victims
- ZERO Bail…just a “pinky promise” to return
- Bail Reform – Dangerous, Reckless, and a Taxpayer Burden
Check Fraud Suspect Tussles With Tenafly Police Officers
(reported by Jerry DeMarco of Englewood Daily Voice – July 18 2017)
A Bronx woman caught trying to cash a forged check hit one Tenafly police officer in the neck and grabbed another while being arrested, authorities said Tuesday.
Tenese N. Thompson, 36, “became agitated and attempted to walk away” from officers responding to the PNC Bank just before 6 p.m. Monday, Capt. Michael deMoncada said.
Officials at the Highwood Avenue bank had called them, he said, after Thompson tried cashing a $956.87 check that belonged to someone else.
Thompson “refused to comply with directions of officers and flailed her arms in an attempt to avoid being taken into custody,” deMoncada said. “While being placed in handcuffs, [she] struck an officer in the neck and grabbed another officer causing a bruise and scratch.”
Both officers refused medical attention at the scene, he said.
Police believe that Thompson “was driven to the area with several accomplices at the time of her arrest, although it appears they fled in an unknown vehicle before officers could locate them,” deMoncada said.
It turns out she’d been using a bogus New York State driver’s license and credit card in the name of a “Nicole Smith” in an attempt to cash the check, the captain said.
Thompson also was carrying a small amount of Oxycodone without a prescription, he said.
Although she was charged with two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, illegal drug possession and exhibiting fake documents, police had to release Thompson pending a trial under New Jersey’s 2017 Bail Reform & Speedy Trial Act.
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.
https://www.usbailreform.com/nj-judiciary-aclu-claim-bail-reform-success-using-number-releases-incomplete-statistics/