Thursday, August 21, 2008
The suspect unplugged his house arrest monitor, an agency said.
STAFF REPORT
YOUNGSTOWN — A bond hearing will be scheduled soon for murder suspect Reshaud Biggs, who was arrested without incident by Mahoning Valley Violent Crimes Task Force at a Boardman residence.
Biggs, who was under electronically monitored house arrest, was taken into custody at 5:10 p.m. Tuesday, according to booking records at the Mahoning County Jail, where Biggs is now lodged.
He was apprehended at the location of his house arrest just one hour after a member of the prosecutor’s office staff called the task force to notify it of the bench warrant that had been issued for him Monday.
On Friday, Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court had revoked Biggs’ $100,000 bond at the prosecution’s request and ordered that the bench warrant be issued.
Martin P. Desmond, assistant county prosecutor, asked the judge to revoke Biggs’ bond because a monitoring agency reported Biggs had violated the terms of his house arrest by repeatedly unplugging his monitoring equipment for many hours at a time. Electronically monitored house arrest was a condition of his bond.
Biggs, 22, of East Florida Avenue, is accused in the Dec. 30, 2006, murder of Anthony Perez, 31, of Plazaview Court, who was fatally shot as he detailed a car on Clearmount Drive on the city’s South Side.
Biggs’ lawyer, Lou DeFabio, said Desmond called him Tuesday and told him Biggs needed to turn himself in.
DeFabio said Biggs told him he was prepared to turn himself in on Wednesday, and DeFabio said he had planned to accompany Biggs to court as he did so.