Jeremiah

BACKGROUND

In 2003, Jeremiah was convicted of bank fraud and use of a counterfeit device. He provided false information to the Bank of Hawaii and induced the bank to provide him with a credit card vendor machine, which he used to submit numer- ous unauthorized credit card transactions. He was sentenced to twenty-five months of incarceration, five years of super- vised release and required to pay restitution of $64,000.

In the summer of 2005, Jeremiah was released from prison and began making restitution payments. He soon failed to make payments, although for a number of months he made at least partial payments of the amounts due.

Jeremiah’s probation officer requested that the court issue a “no bail warrant” for Jeremiah’s arrest. The request was sworn and a statement of facts explaining Jeremiah’s conduct was attached to the request. Jeremiah was arrested by a dep- uty marshal.

The district court conducted a hearing and determined that Jeremiah had violated supervised release. He was imprisoned for three months, and sentenced to fifty-seven months of supervised release. He also received new conditions of super- vised release. These conditions include submitting to drug tests…