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Judge revokes Benjamin Richardson’s bond after monitoring company testifies to repeated alcohol detections
Summary
A Chetm County judge revoked Benjamin Richardson’s bond after testimony from Nationwide Electronic Monitoring that multiple confirmed alcohol consumption events and tamper alerts appeared on his SCRAM bracelet; Richardson said he drank nonalcoholic beer and raised device‑registration problems.
A judge in Chetm County revoked the bond of Benjamin Richardson after the state presented transdermal‑alcohol monitoring records showing multiple confirmed alcohol detections and tamper events while Richardson was on pretrial release.
Kelly Arnold, a custodian of records for Nationwide Electronic Monitoring, walked the court through the company’s analytic process, saying the device samples the skin every 30 minutes and analysts require a pattern — two zeros, an absorption curve, a peak and an elimination curve followed by two zeros — before calling a confirmed consumption. Arnold testified the device logged repeated multi‑day consumption…
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