Ex-con fails to show up for ankle bracelet after being freed without bail in gun case

A soft-on-crime judge cut loose an ex-con charged with packing heat inside a Bronx restaurant on the condition that he get fitted with an ankle bracelet — which he promptly ignored and is now loose on the streets, The Post has learned.

Bronx Criminal Court Judge Valentina Morales overruled a prosecution request to set bail for Frankie Centeno, 39, at $100,000 cash or $300,000 bond after he was busted around 4:30 a.m. Sunday, a spokesperson for Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said Tuesday.

Instead, Morales — a former public defender and nonprofit executive — ordered during Centeno’s arraignment Monday that he be subjected to electronic monitoring, despite

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