Police Arrest Sex Offender Wearing GPS Tracking Device

Good News from Southern Califonia: Police in Santa Ana arested a convicted sex offender after the GPS tracking device he was wearing proved he was hanging out at elementary schools and a doll museum. :thumbsup: While there are those here (we all know who) who will say making convicted sex offenders wear GPS tracking devices is a violation of their rights and an example of big brother trying to control our lives, the rest of us with common sense will see that this is proof it works.


Police Make First Arrest Using GPS SANTA ANA - A paroled sex offender tracked to a grade school parking lot, doll shop and amusement park through electronic monitoring became the first person arrested under an Orange County pilot program, officials said today.

Robert Dobucki was taken into custody Tuesday for allegedly violating terms of his parole to stay out of areas where children frequent, according to Roderick Q. Hickman of the Parole Operations Division of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The program that uses electronic ankle bracelets to track paroled sex offenders was introduced in Orange County last month and this was the first arrest in connection with the program, Hickman said.

"Our primary concern is to protect public safety," Hickman said. "These parolees know that any minute of any day their movement is being monitored by agents and police investigators."

More than 40 people deemed sexual violent predators were outfitted with the global positioning system devices, which allow parole agents to monitor their movements in real time, Hickman said.

The GPS history log for Dobucki showed that he had been on the parking area of a grade school in Orange, a doll shop and to "Adventure City," a small amusement park for children.

Upon his arrest, Dobucki was booked into the Anaheim Jail, Hickman said. Jeff Fagot, regional parole administrator, said the amazing thing is "how specific this technology is."

"The parole agent was able to determine an exact location and duration of Mr. Dobucki's whereabouts, which allowed us to make an arrest before a crime had occurred,"

Sex offenders and child rapist have no rights as far as Im concerned.

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Originally Posted by Fengzi

While there are those here (we all know who) who will say making convicted sex offenders wear GPS tracking devices is a violation of their rights and an example of big brother trying to control our lives, the rest of us with common sense will see that this is proof it works.

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Yup, they'll protect the rights of the guilty untill it happens to one of their children! :mad:

Well im happy :clap: they nabbed a sex offender, glad another 1 is off the streets. I just dont like the fact that they can trace and locate people now days, now if we had a loving govt and with good intention to its people then that be another story. But im all for keeping tabs on sex offender and rapist and what not, but will our govt stop at that, how about a person who was arrested for pot or taxs fraud and the only way he can get shorten time is to be injected with a tracking chip in him. You just never know.