Don’t tell me these cops didn’t expect a wanted man to have some tricks up his sleeve!

Maybe they did, but they didn´t expect this to happen though

If the radiation prevents technology working within the Forbidden Zone that doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't ways to bypass it or otherwise work around it, and a resourceful and skilful individual like Geoffrey Malone might well have found such a way. After all it would be that much harder for the law to pursue him in there and maybe where he's been all this time before he made his reappearance.

In any case always best to consider that a desperate man will try anything and a wily criminal will always have some tricks you won't expect and we've already seen how dangerous Mallone can be.

misstakes can become lethal in this world