Judge, we hate to say we told you so … but we did.

In an editorial in March we questioned the court’s decision to reduce bail for a felony suspect that police had just spent a month locating.

The suspect, Jesse Caron, is charged with aggravated trafficking in narcotics and firearms possession, plus he’s a suspect in an unsolved rape.

Now he’s on the run again and, worse, a suspect in a strongarm robbery at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut.

Police spent most of February trying to find him, which included screening a segment about him on the TV show “America’s Most Wanted.”

While he was on the loose, Caron wrote bad checks for half-a-dozen used cars to throw pursuers off his trail. He was finally nabbed while sneaking into a bar in Gray to ask his mom for money. He had an 18-year-old woman with him, and he was toting a .45-caliber handgun.

When they searched his home, police found crack cocaine and an assault rifle which, as we pointed out in March, sounded like a bad combination.

Yet, soon after his arrest, District Court Judge Ralph Tucker reduced Caron’s bail from the requested $40,000 to $10,000 – which is roughly equivalent to what police estimate it cost them to find him.

“Clearly,” we wrote in March, “Caron is a former felon with a likely drug habit and a fondness for high-powered weapons. He’s also a pretty good check-kiter facing some hard prison time. If that’s not the profile of a bail-jumper, we don’t know what is.”

Wednesday, police went looking for Caron again. The 28-year-old Sabattus Street man had been freshly indicted on charges of forgery, violating conditions of release, receiving stolen property and aggravated criminal mischief – all crimes he is alleged to have committed while out on bail.

And, yes, he was nowhere to be found, according to police. Gone, probably with $1,000 in his pocket after floating another bad check.

We doubted in March that Caron would voluntarily show up for trial. So did police.

Now they are back to square one, looking for a man who is likely to be even more desperate and dangerous than he was three months ago.

That’s sad and frustrating for police, Caron’s victims and taxpayers.