'Failure In The System': Manhunt Subject Released From Jail Recently On $1,000 Bond

We’re taking a deeper look into Kameron Jenkins’ lengthy criminal history, after law enforcement officers across the state say Jenkins should have never been released from prison.

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Jenkins has been in and out of Department of Corrections custody since at least 2012, documents show. 

Jenkins was released from his most recent prison sentence in March of this year, after serving about 6 years of an up-to 10-year sentence.

What is sparking outrage is the fact that Jenkins was released on a $1,000 bond in August, out of Oklahoma County. 

“Because of the volume of cases, sometimes there's some hiccups in the system, and there was a great one in this case,” said News 9 Legal Analyst Irven Box.

Jenkins was most recently arrested in Oklahoma County on prostitution charges. While they were just municipal and misdemeanor charges, Box says a judge or DA should have taken into account Jenkins’ violent criminal history, and his failure to show up at multiple court appearances.

“He beat the system, and now it's caused the consequences we saw,” said Box. “Somehow there was a failure somewhere in the system, somebody dropped the ball.”

Box says that Jenkins should have never had a bond set that low with his lengthy criminal history.

We can only access records for Jenkins charges after he turned 18. But we know he was arrested in 2012 for shooting at an Oklahoma City Police officer, when he was just 14.

Since then, Jenkins has been arrested at least five more times between Cleveland and Oklahoma counties.

The first public filing shows Jenkins was arrested in November 2015 for aggravated assault and battery with a deadly weapon. That incident was in Oklahoma County.

Just a few months later, Jenkins was arrested in Cleveland County for assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Court documents allege Jenkins struck somebody in the face with a gun at a Moore home causing the victim to have facial surgery due to a broken and shattered jaw and a fractured skull. 

Then Jenkins was arrested for a 2017 incident for felony possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana. That incident was also in Cleveland County.

He was sentenced to up to 10 years in DOC, for a concurrent sentence of the above charges. Jenkins was released in March of this year.

Then, in May of this year, Jenkins was arrested after a prostitution bust in Oklahoma City. He is facing charges for prostitution and illegal use of a computer.

According to court documents, Jenkins “Told prostitutes what to wear, what name to use, how to engage with customers, locations to work and how to set up accounts on commercial sex internet sites.”

“All of the charges that I've seen are all violent maiming, assaults, crimes of that nature, and so I think any DA that had seen this would have wanted a high bond and the judge would have wanted a high bond,” said Box.

Court records show the bond was originally set at $250,000 for prostitution charges against Jenkins, but somewhere down the line Jenkins was released on a $1,000 bond.

“I don't know what happened. It looks to me like someone has either been misled, dropped the ball,” said Box.

Chief Wade Gourley took to social media, saying, “This is not the first time Jenkins shot at an officer and he should have still been in prison.”

“This just shows a failure in the criminal justice system. This guy should have been behind bars,” said Cleveland County Sheriff Chris Amason.

Sheriff Amason was outraged after looking at Jenkins' violent history. Amason called Jenkins a “career criminal” saying he seemingly fell through the cracks.

“He's a scourge on our society, and today has proven that point. I am going to do everything I can to make sure he spends the rest of his life in jail,” said Amason.

We have reached out to the DA in both Cleveland and Oklahoma Counties, who have declined to comment at this time. I also left messages with both judges who were assigned to Jenkins' case to clarify why his bond was set so low.