A convicted meth dealer who ran gambling dens for a drug kingpin cut off her ankle bracelet and went on the lam the day before she was supposed to start her prison sentence, the feds allege.

The crimes were allegedly committed by the teen while he was wearing an electronic ankle monitoring bracelet ... October stuck a gun in the face of a woman in her 60s in her Temple Hills, Maryland ...

Diana Johns says ankle bracelets are a proven failure. She conducted research in England and Wales and says young people in those jurisdictions would go outside wearing shorts so they could boast ...