DECATUR, Ga.—A judge has revoked a $150,000 bond for a former DeKalb County sheriff’s deputy who escaped house arrest over the weekend after tampering with his ankle bracelet.
Seven months ago 49-year-old Derrick Yancey was indicted for the June shooting deaths of his 44-year-old wife Linda and 20-year-old Marcial Cax Puluc, a day laborer.
Superior Court Judge Linda Warren Hunter noted that Yancey got almost a 12-hour head start before the sheriff’s office was notified that his ankle bracelet had been tampered with on Saturday.
Testimony Monday showed that although the private monitoring firm BI Inc. of Colorado received an alert on the bracelet at 5:41 a.m. Saturday, the sheriff’s office was not notified for 10 hours.
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Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
