A parolee’s claim that he didn’t know that struggling with and fleeing from police could get him arrested fell flat with a Bronx judge, who found the offender’s rationale “mystifying.”

Timmy Wallace was in prison for selling drugs and possessing a firearm in Manhattan when he was paroled on June 7, 2013. Two months later, Wallace was arrested in the Bronx after allegedly selling heroin to an undercover officer.

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