Liberal "Soft On Crime" Agenda Allowed Thug's Crime Spree

Liberals in Raleigh like Senator Jeff Jackson who is now running to become Charlotte's voice in Washington voted along with Democrat Governor Roy Cooper to go easy on juvenile criminals.

According to Charlotte's Channel 9 - They uncovered warrants that revealed an 18-year-old is accused of robbing more than two dozen people across Charlotte while wearing an ankle monitor.

But Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said they couldn’t use the ankle monitor to find Kaivon Dashawn Belton’s location because it was being monitored by the North Carolina's Department of Juvenile Justice.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department refused an interview with Channel 9 Tuesday.

However, reporter Dan Matics learned that detectives were trying to work with the juvenile justice system to track his ankle monitor, but the police department said bureaucracy failed.

CMPD said they couldn’t access Belton’s electric monitor due to red tape while the accused criminal was terrorizing Charlotte’s Hispanic community by robbing multiple people at gunpoint.

Kaivon Dashawn Belton DOB 7/14/2004 Photo Courtesy MCSO

Jose Vasquez told Channel 9 on Monday that he was shot during an armed robbery attempt outside his house in late September.

“Then he hit me in the face, and I could no longer react,” Vasquez said. “He pushed me to the front of the house and then the other guy shot me twice.”

Detectives said Kaivon Belton and Cedius Tate, who are now adults, and two others went on a month-long crime spree preying on more than two dozen victims after they left ATMs and check-cashing stores.

Cedius Ahmari Tate DOB 3/11/2004 Photo Courtesy MCSO

Tate was arrested and released on an unsecured (cashless bail) Monday night.

Channel 9 learned from investigators on Tuesday that Belton, who recently turned 18, was on a GPS tracker that was ordered by the juvenile court system, while he committed the crimes.

“It’s a public safety crisis at this point,” said Marcus Philemon, a victim’s advocate with CharMeck Court Watch. “It could have totally been prevented.”

CMPD said it could only place his location from the device at the crimes after he was arrested.

Investigators had to wait on a search warrant because that information is protected within the juvenile justice system.

Philemon has worked with CMPD as a victim’s advocate and blames North Carolina’s decision in 2019 to send all suspects under the age of 18, no matter how violent the crime, to juvenile court.

“It tied the hands of law enforcement,” Philemon said. “It hid information from the public like juvenile record, juvenile activity.”

The system is broken everyone knew Belton was robbing and shooting people but liberal's like Jeff Jackson and Roy Cooper supported justice reforms in the name of George Floyd that prevented Law Enforcement from stopping them. 

Then in a major "Up Yours" to CMPD Officers, liberal appointed Mecklenburg County Magistrate's released Cedius Tate without bail even though he was charged with more than a dozen felonies.