Quote Originally Posted by OneGuy67 View Post
Wow! I've been a little busy this weekend and unable to get back to this thread and I've been tarred and feathered by some here. I've been accused of being the DA involved in this case and apparently, an idiot. Thanks people! I appreciate it. I'll endeavor to review these strings next time while I'm on my National Guard drill weekend, so I'll know when people are calling me names and accusing me of being something that I am not.

I am relatively new to this site and have an interest in guns, which is why I am on this site. The politics aside, it is a great site for people to gather that share an interest in firearms.

That being said, I really don't appreciate the attacks on me. I am capable of reading and I have read the damn arrest affidavit regarding Mr. Wallace and no where on there does Mr. Wallace tell the cops investigating that he went outside and was nearly run over, which is why he allegedly shot. In fact, it appears he stood on his porch and fired a couple of shots at them as they were fleeing. If that is the case, he needs to be charged. The affidavit is a down and dirty version of events and I would love to read the entire case report on it and to see what information was obtained in a subsequent interview with Mr. Wallace or if he wrote out a statement.

Additionally, I am a cop and have done a number of these types of investigations in my nearly 20 years a cop and some of them (investigations) take time. Some of them, as it appears in this case, took a back seat to other, more serious investigations than a simple theft of a trailer. A trailer valued at $2,000 is a felony, but just a simple felony theft. That's it. If these two mopes were involved in an auto theft ring as alleged, then those charges are more serious and have far more serious penalties than a simple felony theft of an item valued at $2,000. It appears that when the detectives in the auto theft task force didn't have anything good on these guys, the warrants prepared by Wheat Ridge PD for their arrest on the simple theft were signed and they were scooped up.

As to the agricultural trespass conviction, I can' speak to that. I don't know why it was used or the circumstances that brought it about. To blanket say it was because the suspect was illegal and the DA didn't want him deported is pretty generic and inflamatory, which is what some want. To fan the flames. How many others have been offered a ag trespass plea bargain that weren't illegal? Was that a norm plea bargain offer for specific felony charges, no matter the gender, ethnicity or immigration status of the suspect? I don't know and I'm betting you don't either.

For me, I would prefer to deport all illegals that were contacted by law enforcement. I've run into a lot of them over the years, especially while on patrol and conducting traffic enforcement. An inability to understand English, not having a driver's license issued in Colorado, providing a matricular consular ID or a mexican driver's license (most were fraudulent and poorly at that), the vehicle belongs to "someone else" and the insurance card was good for only 30 days in order to get the plates were general clues to me that the person may not be a born or naturalized citizen of the US. The feds wouldn't come get them, so that left me with writing a ticket and impounding the vehicle if I could prove the insurance was fraudulent. Now, most do not realize that Kansas and Washington states have gone to issuing driver's licenses and I saw a number of those during these contacts. Not hard to turn in your Kansas DL and get a Colorado DL.

So, there it is. Feel free to vilify me some more.

Thanks for your insight on how this happens. And thank you for your dedication and service to the community.