[Maths-Education] Fwd: RE: FW: Jim Kaput

[Peter Gates]

Colleagues,

some more rather disturbing information regarding Jim kaput.

Peter


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>>> "Wood, Terry L" <twood at purdue.edu> 08/11/05 1:32 pm >>>
You might want to add bits of this follow up article. The irony is very
sad


Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company
                                The Boston Globe


                    August 6, 2005, Saturday THIRD EDITION
SECTION: METRO/REGION; Pg. B1
LENGTH: 774 words
HEADLINE: LACK OF DETENTION QUESTIONED PROBATION ISSUE RAISED IN CAR
DEATH
BYLINE: By Ralph Ranalli, Globe Staff


NEW BEDFORD Two days before he allegedly struck and killed a
UMass-Dartmouth
professor last weekend on a Dartmouth road, convicted drug trafficker
Kenneth P. Demoranville had been arrested on state drug charges here,
offenses that,because he was on probation, could have landed him in
federal custody.

nstead, Demoranville was released on his own recognizance July 29, the
day
after his arrest. A day later, he was driving on Chase Road in his blue
pickup when he hit James Kaput, 63, who had just started his daily jog.
Dartmouth police have not filed charges against him in the accident and
say they are still investigating.

Told yesterday about the circumstances of Demoranville's drug arrest,
Kaput's relatives said they want to know why federal of ficials waited
until Thursday evening, only hours after the Globe began making
inquiries about the case, to take him into custody for violating the
terms of his release from federal prison.

After returning from his father's funeral in Western Massachusetts
yesterday, Kaput's 30-year-old son, Noah, said he was stunned to hear
that the man who killed the renowned mathematician could have been
behind bars instead of behind the wheel.
"He [Demoranville] should not have been out on the street," Noah Kaput
said.
"That just makes this an even more preventable tragedy."

Wearing a black sleeveless T-shirt, Demoranville, 38, appeared briefly
before Magistrate Judge Leo T. Sorokin in US District Court yesterday,
where federal probation officials asked that he be held pending a
hearing Tuesday.
Demoranville, 38, of Dartmouth pleaded guilty in 1999 to attempting to
smuggle a large shipment of marijuana from Arizona to Massachusetts. He
received a reduced sentence after agreeing to cooperate with authorities
in other drug cases. He was released from federal prison in July 2004.

On July 28 of this year, DEA agents and New Bedford police narcotics
officers spotted him on Front Street, a notorious drug area, meeting
with another man for what appeared to be a drug purchase, according to
court documents. When they pulled him over, they found a baggie of crack
cocaine in his shirt pocket.
But federal authorities did not immediately move to detain him for
violating the terms of his release, for reasons they refused to explain
yesterday.
US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan also declined to explain yesterday why
federal officials waited a week
to arrest Demoranville in the violation of terms of his release.

Crews said only that when a person on supervised release is accused of
committing a new crime, "we provide that information to the court for
consideration of a violation proceeding."
Crews referred the Globe to electronic federal court records, which
indicate
that the court was not informed of a new development in Demoranville's
case
until Wednesday. According to Demoranville's lawyer in the state case,
however, federal probation officials knew of the New Bedford arrest
before the crash.
Demoranville was supposed to appear in New Bedford District Court
yesterday on the new drug charge, but his lawyer in that case, Shane A.
Carlson of Fall River, told the court his client could not appear
because he was in federal custody.
After the hearing, Carlson said he had spoken to Demoranville Thursday
and that Demoranville said he reported the drug arrest to his federal
probation officer and submitted to a drug test. Carlson said he was
surprised to hear an hour later that Demoranville had been arrested by
US marshals.
"They waited, unfortunately, for this thing [Kaput's death] to happen,"
Carlson said.
Dartmouth Police Officer Nancy Thibodeau said yesterday that, shortly
after the accident, officials from her department spoke with
Demoranville's probation officer. The probation officials, she said,
were aware of both the New Bedford drug arrest and of Kaput's death.


To his relatives, Kaput's death is particularly painful, because the
25-year
professor was killed just a few hundred feet from where his oldest son,
Jacob, now 31, was hit by a car and paralyzed from the neck down in
1988.


Terry Wood
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