Using those numbers, the 10 longest-term county jail residents have cost taxpayers about a combined $384,418.82 from their booking dates through April 10.
“There is absolutely a difference,” Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Maj. Jeremy Roy said of short-, medium- and long-term jail residents. “They become more of a security threat to us, and the reason being is they are in there to watch our movements day in and day out, see everything we do, when we do it, what time we do it.”
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Unlike prisons, which Roy said are more set up for recreation, video visitation and other inmate opportunities, the Montgomery County Jail jail holds mostly people from all corners of the county who are not convicted and some serving shorter sentences.
“Jail is supposed to be a pretrial detention facility, which is this is where they basically stay while everything goes through the court system,” Roy said. “And, unfortunately, it’s everything but that anymore. It is a prison. It is a prison and a mental health care (and drug addiction) facility. It’s everything. It’s all that now.”
Of the top 10 longest-term inmates, four have federal cases, such as Jason Rosales, who was booked in on Valentine’s Day 2017. He had a sentencing hearing delayed April 11 and now has a teleconference scheduled for April 29.
Rosales has the current longest stay of 785 days through April 10.
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The federal inmates were booked in for drug trafficking and/or weapons charges. Of the six that have Montgomery County Common Pleas Court cases, three are facing murder charges. The other three inmates’ charges range from child sex crimes to weapons under disability, domestic violence, illegal nutrition assistance benefits and drug trafficking.
“Anybody that’s here long term, whether It’s a federal inmate or it’s someone who has signed their (speedy trial) time waiver and they’re here for quite a while, the biggest thing is they have nothing else to do in here but either figure out ways to game the system,” said Roy, who did not address specific inmates. “Or they (may) sit there and be on the flip side of it — not knowing what’s happening to them, how long they’re going to be here and that anxiety keeps going up and we start getting the concerns of how do we manage that.”
Other long-term local jail residents not on the list include federal inmates such as convicted terrorism suspect Laith Alebbini, who was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on April 26, 2017, but moved in February 2018 to Shelby County Jail.
The Montgomery County Jail averaged between 805 and 833 inmates from 2014 through 2018. Roy said a recent daily population was 710.
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Below are the 10 Montgomery County Jail residents who have been behind bars the longest through April 10, including how much their stays have cost taxpayers based on the county’s estimated jail bed cost. The number does not include medications or other special needs costs that might be necessary.
JASON S. ROSALES
DOB: Sept. 28, 1973
Booked: Feb. 14, 2017
Stay: 785 days
Approximate taxpayers' cost: $51,837.25
Charges: Conspiracy to and possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine
Court: Federal
Case: Rosales was found guilty by a jury in July 2018 but his sentencing was delayed. He has a teleconference scheduled for April 29.
MYRON D. BAKER
DOB: June 18, 1984
Booked: April 4, 2017
Stay: 736 days
Approximate taxpayers' cost: $48,568.46
Charges: Felon in possession of a weapon, carfentanil and cocaine trafficking
Court: Federal
Case: Baker's trial is scheduled for May 28.
BRANDON M. HOWARD
DOB: July 26, 1983
Booked: April 6, 2017
Stay: 734 days
Approximate taxpayers' cost: $48,435.04
Charges: Unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, corrupting a juvenile with drugs, pandering obscenity involving a minor, attempt to commit pandering obscenity, drug paraphernalia, gross sexual imposition
Court: Common pleas
Case: Howard, who has been booked into area jails more than 60 times, is scheduled for an April 24 sentencing.
KENNETH L. JOHNSON
DOB: April 29, 1994
Booked: Sept. 1, 2017
Stay: 586 days
Approximate taxpayers' cost: $38,561.96
Charges: Trafficking acrylfentanyl, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, felon in possession of a firearm
Court: Federal
Case: Johnson's jury trial is scheduled for June 17.
CAMERON WALKER
DOB: Sept. 10, 1994
Booked: Oct. 17, 2017
Stay: 540 days
Approximate taxpayers' cost: $35,493.30
Charges: Possession with intent to distribute fentanyl
Court: Federal
Case: Walker's sentencing is scheduled for April 24.
LANCE A. IRVIN
DOB: June 7, 1982
Booked: Nov. 14, 2017
Stay: 512 days
Approximate taxpayers' cost: $33,625.42
Charges: Murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence
Court: Common pleas
Case: Irvin was found guilty of murder on April 12. He was accused of killing Jesse Samuel Redavide, 21, who was shot on South Horton Street in Dayton on Nov. 14, 2017.
TRENTON M. WILLIAMS
DOB: Oct. 22, 1990
Booked: Nov. 30, 2017
Stay: 496 days
Approximate taxpayers' cost: $32,558.06
Charges: Aggravated murder, murder, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, felonious assault, having weapons while under disability
Court: Common pleas
Case: Williams is scheduled to go trial July 29. He is accused of killing Taelor Taylor, 28, on North Trenton Street Nov. 28, 2017.
DION E. THALER
DOB: Sept. 29, 1986
Booked: Nov. 30, 2017
Stay: 496 days
Approximate taxpayers' cost: $32,558.06
Charges: Having weapons under disability, vandalism, domestic violence
Court: Common pleas
Case: Thaler had a second trial scheduled for April 16.
TRASHUNE N. YOUNG
DOB: Sept. 28, 1990
Booked: Dec. 5, 2017
Stay: 491 days
Approximate taxpayers' cost: $32,224.51
Charges: He pleaded guilty on Friday to involuntary manslaughter, aggravated robbery and having a weapon while under disability, according to Montgomery County court records. He will be sentenced April 22.
Court: Common pleas
Case: Young is a co-defendant with Trenton Williams. Young's trial is scheduled for April 29 in the killing of Taelor Taylor, 28.
WARREN D. PACK
DOB: Sept. 6, 1981
Booked: Dec. 30, 2017
Stay: 466 days
Approximate taxpayers' cost: $30,556.76
Charges: Illegal use of supplemental nutrition assistance benefits (SNAP), aggravated possession and trafficking of methamphetamine
Court: Common pleas
Cases: Pack has a May 28 trial date for all three of his cases.
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