Category: vigilantism

3-12-2014 Idaho: TWIN FALLS – A man convicted of felony aggravated battery for beating a 69-year-old man was sentenced Monday in Twin Falls County District Court. Bradley Houser, 35, was sentenced to the state’s retained jurisdiction program. He will attend the Correctional Alternative Placement Program through the Idaho Department of Correction. After the program, a judge can either put Houser on probation or send him to prison for an underlying sentence of three to 15 years. Houser was also ordered to reimburse the county public defender’s office for $500 and was ordered to pay victim’s restitution of $1,257.44. Police said…

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Why are they withdrawing the charge of misusing the registry? OK, the perpetrator admits to the police he got the FSOs name from the registry, but then, in court, the police say they have no knowledge of that fact! How about getting the right officer on the stand, the one who admitted what he heard in the police station. No wonder they have so few of this type of registry misuse convictions. Something smells here. 12-7-2010 Virginia: HOPEWELL A Hopewell man testified yesterday that he feared for his life when four men in an SUV chased him on his mo-ped,…

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9-3-16 Ohio: UPDATE @ 9:15 p.m. (Sept. 2): Members of the Sugarcreek Twp. Fire Department are are using fire hoses to clean chalk-written messages off the sidewalk, driveway and the street in front of the Brock Turner residence in Sugarcreek Twp. The words that were scrawled included “rapist” and the following: “Its [sic] your job to hold your son/self responsible so he/you don’t hurt my daughters.” The dozen or so protesters have left the neighborhood. Only reporters, police officers and firefighters remain in the neighborhood. UPDATE @ 8:10 p.m. (Sept. 2): A group of protesters has gathered in front of…

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8-29-16 Texas: A registered sex offender in Rising Star is in the hospital in intensive care after he was severely beaten by an angry father. According to Rising Star Police, Dustin Abrams beat Larry Smith Friday night on the 100 block of South Bruce. Police say Abrams was angry at Smith after he found out about allegations that Smith sexually assaulted Abram’s child. Rising Star Police say there were two witnesses to the alleged sexual assault by Smith. Abrams is charged with Aggravated Assault Causing Serious Bodily Injury. He has bonded out of jail on a $15,000 bond. The Texas…

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2-25-15 Wisconsin: Dane County authorities arrested a town of Cottage Grove man they say set fire to a house Sunday night in a vigilante effort to keep a sex offender from moving in there. Russell A. Speigle, 50, was arrested on a tentative charge of arson for the fire, which destroyed a home at 4721 Gaston Circle in the town of Cottage Grove, Sheriff Dave Mahoney said Tuesday. Investigators are now trying to determine if Speigle was responsible for another fire that damaged the same house in December, Mahoney said. They are also looking for some pieces of evidence that…

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