DA: Albany defendant on the run after ‘affixing’ ankle monitor to dog

ALBANY — Authorities are searching for a man who skipped a court appearance earlier this week and disappeared after leaving his court-ordered GPS ankle monitor attached to a dog, the Albany County District Attorney’s Office said Friday.

Lamont Holmes had been due in front of Albany County Court Judge William T. Little on Tuesday for a hearing ahead of his Jan. 27 sentencing on weapons charges.

When Holmes, who lives in Albany, did not appear, the Albany County Probation Department notified Little that Holmes had cut off his ankle monitor and “affixed it to a dog” in Rensselaer County, the district attorney’s office said…

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