12/02/07 - Port Chester Police Officer Walter Alcivar says he informed the Westchester DA Fred Green about the California warrant on the sex offender

Video: Jose M. Broudwiack, the Unregistered Sex Offender who was working at

el Palacio de Los Mariscos in Port Chester.


A Week Ago Port Chester Roundup Was The Only Media Outlet Asking The Big Question......

11/27/07 - Communication Breakdown - There was a detainer warrant. Should Port Chester police have arrested the sex offender and put him in jail?

The Hopelessly Biased Rag Known As The Westmore News Failed To Ask The Question.

Lazy Liz Sadler, Port Chester Reporter For The Journal News Failed To Ask The Question.

But Shawn Cohen, the North Salem reporter for the Journal News did ask questions about why the Port Chester Police Department did not arrest and hold a sex offender on a detainer warrant.

Now There Has Been An Investigation.

And Here Are Some Of The Answers

Missed chances at deporting North Salem sex offender

Source: The Journal News / Lohud.com, NY

By: SHAWN COHEN

A convicted sex offender remains on the run after various law enforcement agencies failed to act on a felony arrest warrant ...

..."At the time we were called regarding the bail application, we were not aware that there was any kind of a warrant," said Lucian Chalfen, spokesman for the Westchester District Attorney's Office.

A Port Chester police officer, however, said he informed a county prosecutor about the California warrant. A state police investigator, meanwhile, said he told the District Attorney's Office about the federal detainer, issued so Broudwiack could be held for deportation proceedings....

...when Port Chester police stopped him in September for a faulty brake light, his criminal history did surface.

Officer Walter Alcivar ran a computer check and learned that Broudwiack's driving privileges had been revoked twice. He also found out about the California warrant, which revealed the sex-crime conviction.

Alcivar said he called police in California to check on the case and was told that they weren't willing to extradite him. The warrant, in fact, notes "no extradition outside California."

The Sheriff's Department claimed it never got the call, though it wishes it had.

"If we had known the guy was in custody," spokesman Steve Whitmore said, "the Sheriff's Department would have gone back to the district attorney and asked them to amend the warrant so we could have retrieved him."

Regardless, the Port Chester officer followed up by researching New York's sex-abuse registry. He found out that Broudwiack had never registered as a sex offender in New York, though he was required to do that.

Alcivar said he called the Westchester District Attorney's Office and asked Assistant District Attorney Fred Green whether he could arrest Broudwiack on the misdemeanor offense of failing to register. Alcivar said he also mentioned the California warrant.

state police in Somers because they have jurisdiction in North Salem, where Broudwiack was living at the time.

So Port Chester charged him with aggravated unlicensed operation, a misdemeanor. He posted $200 bail and left.....

Would some one please call and call (914) 939-6864 and tell Jananne Abel, at the Westmore Snooze and tell her about the sex offender that was working at in Port Chester.

Obviously the Westmore Snooze Knows Nothing About The Communication Break Down That Prevented A Sex Offender From Being Arrestted And Detained In Port Chester.

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11/27/07 - Communication Breakdown - There was a detainer warrant. Shoud Port Chester police have arrestted the sex offender and put him in jail?

Jose M. Broudwiack posted the $10,000 bail as set by North Salem Town Justice John J. Johnston Jr. on Oct. 31 and has been free ever since.
Judge Johnston has declined to comment on the bail, and Mackin, the other town justice, handled last night's docket.

HEADLINE:

Arrest warrant issued for sex offender who fails to appear in ... - White Plains Journal News

QUOTE:

"The people have reliable information that the defendant has fled the jurisdiction"

STORY:

NORTH SALEM - Town Justice Ralph Mackin issued an arrest warrant last night for a convicted sex offender and illegal immigrant who failed to appear in court for arraignment on a misdemeanor charge of failing to register as a sex offender.

Mackin also revoked $10,000 bail for Jose M. Broudwiack, 48, whose last known address was on Sugar Hill Road in the Purdys section of town.

...That information came after Broudwiack was arrested in Port Chester, where he was accused of driving with a suspended license. He failed to appear in Port Chester court Nov. 9 on that misdemeanor charge .....

...State police investigators at the Somers barracks determined that Broudwiack, who also goes by the surname Broudwiack-Lartiga, was convicted in California in 1999 of a sex crime against a child younger than 14. He was in the country illegally at the time. He served time in a California jail and was made to register as a sex offender before being deported to his native Peru in 2003....

...Federal authorities had issued a detainer warrant for Broudwiack after his Oct. 31 arrest by state police in connection with failing to register.

The warrant meant that once Broudwiack was in a holding facility, such as a county jail, he would be held on the warrant, even if he managed to make bail.

But the warrant could never be enforced because Broudwiack never made it to jail....

....Sometime after that, he re-entered the country illegally again and wound up living in Purdys and working at el Palacio de Los Mariscos restaurant on Main Street in Port Chester, authorities said....

UPDATE:

Purdys residents outraged over sex offender who skipped bail

The Journal News

NORTH SALEM - Neighbors of an unregistered sex offender who missed his court appearance are outraged no one stopped him before he apparently skipped town.

Jose M. Broudwiack, 48, who failed to appear in court Monday for arraignment on a misdemeanor charge of failing to register as a sex offender, so far has not been found and is believed to have left the area, authorities said. He posted the $10,000 bail set by Town Justice John J. Johnston Jr. on Oct. 31 and has been free ever since. Johnston has declined to comment on the bail.

"Judge Johnston had the power to stop this man, and he dropped the ball," resident Clare Gasparri said last night. "Because he dropped the ball, that man fled the jurisdiction. He will hurt another child, and that will be on Johnston when that happens."

Broudwiack, whose last known address was 2 Sugar Hill Road in the Purdys section of town, was arrested Oct. 31 by state police after they learned he had been living in Purdys for about two years without registering. That information came after Broudwiack was arrested in Port Chester, where he was accused of driving with a suspended license. He failed to appear in Port Chester court Nov. 9 on that misdemeanor charge.....

....."(Johnston's) decision really degraded the efforts of the local and state police," said Dough Dligulil, a resident on Sugar Hill Road.
Dligulil said he was one of the people who went door to door alerting neighbors that Broudwiack was a sex offender and living in their neighborhood.

When asked what he thought of his efforts in light of this latest turn in the case, Dligulil said, "It makes you feel like a ... total schmo. ... I can't believe how many hours I spent on the computer researching this guy. I just had spinal surgery and there I was, limping around door to door to tell people. But what I feel bad about now is that this guy is somewhere, setting up in a new community, maybe next door to some 1-year-old girl, and the family of that little girl has no idea that he's a sex offender ........

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