PALM COAST, Fla. – A registered sexual predator is back behind bars less than 12 hours after his release from state prison, after he walked more than six miles to a Palm Coast home where he previously abused multiple children, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said.
Gabriel Pardo, 45, was released from a Florida state correctional facility and dropped off at a bus stop on State Road 100 in Flagler Beach around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday. As a condition of his release, he was fitted with a GPS ankle monitor and required to report to the Florida Department of Corrections Probation and Parole Office in Bunnell by 8 a.m. the following morning.
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According to deputies, Pardo failed to report, and instead, his GPS monitor showed he had walked more than six miles from the bus stop to the home where he committed his prior sex offenses — roughly 10 miles from the probation office. Detectives used his GPS data to locate Pardo walking on Old Kings Road and took him into custody on Friday morning.
“This pervert, convicted rapist, pedophile, and predator, couldn’t even make it one night out of prison before he attempted to contact the victims he assaulted,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “Thanks to his ankle monitor and the fast work of our detectives and parole officers, his first day of freedom ended behind bars.”
Pardo is a registered sexual predator stemming from a 2018 case in which he repeatedly sexually abused two children in his care over several years. In 2019, he pleaded no contest and was found guilty of two counts of sexual battery and one count of sexual battery. He was sentenced to eight years in state prison followed by 15 years of sex offender probation, according to the sheriff’s office.
Pardo was arrested on a violation of probation charge and transported to the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility, where he is being held on no bond.