Author Topic: Any Tx parole officers? (Read 633 times)

Jackal1 · « **on:** August 18, 2006, 10:45:07 AM »

....or anyone who works with the parole board?
I`m wanting to know exactly what it takes for a parole officer in Texas to enforce and act on a violation of parole by their parolee.
There is a parolee in the area who is giving the community a lot of crap. (out on parole for murder)
Numerous breakins and thefts to his account. He has also been caught in posession of a firearm within the last three weeks.
The parole officer slapped him on the wrist with a verbal for the firearm and told him to contain the carrying of the firearm to his property only. ???????
A parolee? I thought it would be a direct violation , and a serious one, for a person out on parole for murder to be caught with a firearm.

Maverick · « **Reply #1 on:** August 18, 2006, 12:26:26 PM »

Jackal, why don't you call the local newspaper and ask for their investigative reporter. They ought to jump on that to dump on the local authorities.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 18, 2006, 01:38:55 PM »

Hehe! About as investigative as the local paper`s reporters get is "Who ate the doughnuts?"

We`re getting two different stories. One from the female parole officer and one from the S.D.
The parole officer at first, when contacted about this cat carryin a gun around, slinking through the shadows and streets in the wee hours of the morning, told the guy that contacted her to call the S.D., that was nothing she could do about it. When asked what exactly was her role as a parole officer in a situation such as this, she got a little spooked and said she would talk to him about it. He admited to having and carrying the weapon. That`s when she gave him the "confine the weapon to your property" speech. Makes no sense to me.
With a litle more pressure the parole officer has stated that it will take her some time to be able to have him taken in on a parole violation...weeks. That does not make much sense to any of us either.
He has recently threatened to kill his wife. She is in hiding at the moment. She has also stated that he has made the remark that he is going to kill every neighbor around, one by one. She has informed the S.D. that he was doing the breakins/theft, etc. The S.D. drives by about once a day and gives him the eyeball. That`s about it. They are telling her that they are trying to make a case against him. What the H does it take to make a case? If this doesn`t fit the bill, I don`t know what would.
The death threats would normaly be blown off as BS in most instances, but..... they guy is a bipolar schitzo. He is also strung out to the max.
The last little episode such as this had to be taken care of behind the scenes, so to speak, due to any, any effort by the S.D.
Folks are a tad on edge around here right now as can be expected.
Another little recent detail is he refused to report for parole and the parole officer had to get the S.D. to accompany her to his residence this past Monday. He was in a knife fight a few days before. She knows about that also. Still he is roaming around all the wee hours of the morning.

I`m not much in tune with the powers of Tx parole officers, but I would assume the ball has been and is still being dropped here by the parole officer and the S.D. Thought maybe there might be a parole officer in our midst that could shed some light on this.
In the meantime, their are three or four of us who are keeping an eye on the area during the wee hours. We`re sort of used to this. We have had to do it before due to lack of anything resembling law enforcement in the county.

DJ111 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 18, 2006, 03:44:45 PM »

Shoot him.

ron white

Pooh21 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 18, 2006, 03:57:05 PM »

have to agree.

Shoot him in his head.

SIK1 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 18, 2006, 04:13:19 PM »

You might try contacting the P.O's supervisor and make them aware of the situation. I don't know what the law is in TX, but I'm pretty sure that it is illegal for a fellon to have a firearm, on his property or not. Sounds like the P.O. is affraid if this guy and if that is the case she needs to find another line of work. The fact that he made threats against his wife and neighbors is reason enough to revoke his parole. and in CA the P.O. can take the bad guy into custody on the spot. The said bad guy spends his time in county lock up until the paperwork is done to send him back to the pen.

My 2 cents

Jackal1 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 18, 2006, 05:17:14 PM »

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Originally posted by SIK1
Sounds like the P.O. is affraid if this guy and if that is the case she needs to find another line of work.

My thoughts exactly.
On the initial contact she even asked the guy what he thought about the chances of retaliation were. He told her if she was afraid of him that he would go with her.

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whack him over the head with your dildo. Oh wait, you can't. Dildoes are banned in TX. Shoot him instead!

Get back under your rock Beetle.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 18, 2006, 05:35:03 PM »

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Originally posted by eureka101
Awww, come on Jack!

Beetle, as you know, I`m not against a little back and forth gee gawing.

I`m just seriously trying to get some info here from someone who might be in the know.

Maverick · « **Reply #8 on:** August 18, 2006, 06:20:04 PM »

beetle figures skuzzy is on his weekend now so he scuttles out from under his rock for a while.

Jackal,

I'd still be calling the paper and asking them about the PO not doing the job. Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon should be a violation, at least it is in Arizona. That's plenty to get an arrest and conviction if they find one in his presence or residence. If you wrote the information down and sent it in to them they might get curious and start asking embarrasing questions of the PO and the SD.

Vudak · « **Reply #9 on:** August 18, 2006, 07:25:29 PM »

Jackal,

It's the whole gravity theory. The PO has a boss. The SD has its bosses. You need to contact such people. Do it over the phone and write them CERTIFIED letters. Nothing scares people (well, 'sides bullets) more then a certified letter. It basically means you have initiated a paper trail in which you can PROVE they've received the letter (they, or their agent, has to sign for it). And, if you seriously believe ill good will come from this man, and you write that down in the letter, if the guy does go psycho... Well lookie lookie at who just lost their jobs.

People tend to like their jobs

Anyway, I think they're about $4.64 or so for a one ounce letter

I understand you might be thinking to yourself "I'm talking about a dangerous situation and this fairy advises me to write a letter" but as I understood your post, you're looking to take care of this without lethal force of your own. This is a good way to do it.

Also, keep calling. Take names. Full names. Badge numbers, etc. Write down the dates and times you called along with this information. If someone doesn't seem cooperative, even if they're just saying there's nothing they can do, ask to speak to their supervisor.

And, in the meanwhile, load up your gun and prepare to defend yourself and others, I suppose. Hopefully the certified's will scare people who'd like to retain or possibly advance in their job, but in the meanwhile.... "Do what you've got to do."

Hope everything works out for your town.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 19, 2006, 12:25:24 PM »

I appreciate the replies gents.
The problem is, and I can certainly understand, is those who have enver experienced this county`s little operation law enforcementwise, is you will get nowhere with them. You rock a boat and you will come under the gun yourself, no matter who you are. That`s just the way it is and has been for a long time.
The sherrif lost his bonding recently and states that "at this late date I don`t think I will be able to acquire bonding." Also seems a pretty substantial amount of money is missing from a county account, etc, etc, etc. It goes on and on. As I said in another thread, I call it Mafia with a badge. It`s ridiculous and seems it is wrapped up from top to bottom and noone has been able to get inside.
At one time I tryed to retain an out of county attorney for a guy I knew that was clearly being had. I contacted five different law firms, explained the situation the best I could. Initialy, one by one, they all agreed to take the case and said it was a pretty clear, cut and dried situation...........till they started taking info and it got to the question of what county. Then , one by one, they all said no way.
One lawyer out of Houston who had agreed to take the case explained it pretty well. He said there was the world. The world had different countries. The U.S. has states inside of the country. The states have different counties....then there is our county, which he said was a whole different world. He said it would be a total waste of time and money to even attempt to do anything with it.

As a little update, our fair parolee rolled in this morning just past 8:00 A.M., hooked up to another guys I/O, 24 ft. boat and trailer and away he went.
County says there is nothing they can do about it because of the domestic dispute situation. I`m certainly no law whizz by any stretch of the imagination, but property belonging to someone else has nothing to do with any domestic situation......period.

SIK1 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 19, 2006, 08:00:13 PM »

Might be time to give the states attorney general a call, maybe the TX Rangers. ( do they still call them that? ) If you can get enough people to complain to the state attorney general they will have to investigate. Contact a news paper from the nearest large city make an anonomous(sp) tip see if you can get people looking at the situation. They may just send this loser back to the pen to get out from under the microscope.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #12 on:** August 19, 2006, 08:15:17 PM »

Up here if youhave a felony and get caught with a firearm its instant back to jail and then some ... no slap on the paw.

culero · « **Reply #13 on:** August 19, 2006, 08:38:38 PM »

SIK1 got it right, contact a Ranger. Seriously.

culero (been here before, it was the only thing that worked)

rpm · « **Reply #14 on:** August 19, 2006, 11:51:23 PM »

Jackal, what part of Texas are you in?