The Kentucky Parole Board has conducted a file review on Ronald Exantus and announced they revoked his Mandatory Reentry Supervision, ordering that he remain in prison.
Exantus was charged in the 2015 death of 6-year-old Logan Tipton and stabbing his father and two sisters at their Woodford County home. In 2018, a jury convicted him of assault but found him not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Kentucky law required the Department of Corrections to release Exantus on Mandatory Reentry Supervision (KRS 439.3406) on Oct. 1, despite the Kentucky Parole Board recommending he stay incarcerated every time it was given the opportunity.
The Parole Board did not release Exantus on parole. On four separate occasions, starting in 2019, every time it had the opportunity, the Parole Board recommended Exantus stay in prison. A copy of those previous decisions can be found here.
After the Mandatory Reentry Supervision required his release from psison in Kentucky, Exantus then traveled to Coral Springs, Florida where he would reside as per the Interstate Compact Agreement.
According to the Parole Board, Exantus met with Florida Probation & Parole agents and signed conditions of supervision including the Florida Department of Corrections-Instructions to Offenders, document DC3- 246, which requires convicted felons to register as such with the local sheriff’s office within 48 hours.
Subsequently, it was discovered that Exantus did not register as a convicted felon within the appropriate timeframe. The failure to register resulted in the violation of Kentucky’s conditions of supervision #8 which states, “I shall not violate any law or ordinance of this state, any other state, or the United States,” and he was returned to Kentucky.
As a result, the Parole Board stated, “Having found by a preponderance of the evidence that the offender violated the conditions of supervision by committing the violations listed above, and having determined Per KRS 439.3106(1) that the offender’s failure to comply with the conditions of supervision constitutes a significant risk to prior victims or the community at large and the offender cannot be appropriately managed in the community, supervision is revoked.”
The Department of Corrections’ Kentucky Online Offender Lookup entry for Exantus states that his earliest possible release date for good behavior is August 6, 2026, while the maximum would be Nov. 24, 2035.
