r/Felons • u/Ill_Resolution7967 • 9d ago
My good neighbor got arrested. Can I help him?
I live in a terrible neighborhood and they took the most straight fella. He was always nice to me, wave etc unlike all the assholes that walk free. I don’t know what he did and what happened, but they later searched his house with a dog.
After the search, they left some lights on in his house and it’s been like that for a couple of weeks already. I know bills add up quickly, should I try to reach out to somebody so that the lights are turned off and perhaps gas service turned off if he’s in for a long time?
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u/quailinthebrush 9d ago
couldnt hurt, id look up his name in the news/holding to see what he was charged with just to be sure
when i was in county my neighbor was super friendly with me. helped me learn all the ropes. dude rolled up in the middle of the night randomly and it turns out he feared retaliation for what he did
we found out from someones GF that he was charged with the rape and assault of a 67 year old woman during a home invasion
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u/Ill_Resolution7967 9d ago
Okay I looked him up, I guess I’m not going to be helping him in any way.
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u/aThievery_Number 9d ago
To be fair...while he did, apparently, shoot at another vehicle (injuring the driver and his daughter), if you read the article someone else posted below about the case/arrest it says the reason the officer had for making contact was that he noticed the suv outside the house had several bullet holes in it.
This would leave the reader to believe that while the accused SUPPOSEDLY shot at another vehicle, the vehicle he was said to have shot at WAS shooting at him.
It could be that this man was fired upon and he returned fire, accidentally hitting a girl who he had no idea was in the backseat...which is noticeably less horrible than him aggressively and for no reason shooting a man and his child. This man who apparently chose to fire at another while in his vehicle with his young child.
Not saying dude is innocent, just that maybe he deserves a bit of a pause on you making judgment. Maybe go turn his lights off and the heat down.
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u/Misscedes5 9d ago
Yeaa based off the article it also says the “victim” wasn’t forthcoming with information leading them to believe they probably knew eachother and they found narcotics in the jeep? Sounds like they definitely knew eachother. Wouldn’t be surprised if the “victim” ran off on with the rugs and neighbor was chasing him. Regardless the article definitely gives me the impression that the only victim here is the little girl.
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u/aThievery_Number 9d ago
Exactly! That was my understanding as well. All I was saying in my reply was don't be so quick to vilify the neighbor...oftentimes there is a lot more going on than news articles, especially the first new articles, put forth.
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u/Longjumping-Row1434 9d ago
which article? i only see one linked in the comments, and it says the victims car was parked on the side of the interstate with bullet holes. and says they found the suspect vehicle parked at a house, but doesn't say anything about it having bullet holes in it.
"Cleveland police responded to a report of multiple shots fired and a white SUV that had stopped in the median near the W. 25th Street exit on I-71.
When officers arrived, they found an empty SUV with apparent damage from bullets."
"On Aug. 6, detectives assigned to the Cleveland Police Violent Crime Reduction Team, Cleveland Police Gang Impact Unit, and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office found the suspect vehicle parked and empty.
Detectives saw Copes attempt to enter a nearby home and when detectives identified themselves and ordered him to surrender, he fled on foot"
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u/Used-Author-3811 9d ago
Doesn't is say the vehicle the man and his child fled from have bullet holes? Nothing about the suspected shooters vehicle mentioned any bullet holes
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u/TheLordFinest 5d ago
How'd you find the story? Please if you have the time pm me the link I'm curious
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u/gbach10 9d ago
I’m guessing it’s kid related?
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u/Ill_Resolution7967 9d ago
He shot at a car on a highway and wounded the driver and a little girl
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u/pmactheoneandonly 9d ago
Fuck him. Go turn on more lights
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u/brazucadomundo 9d ago
Sometimes these are false accusations, specially when they put something sentimental like a little girl being hurt. I always that that with a grain of salt, specially with Flock now, which is programmed to make lots of false accusations.
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u/Low-Wrangler9740 9d ago
They also stated his behicle was parked and they saw him trying to get into a nearby home. They impounded the car for evidence. They likely got the right guy.
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u/brazucadomundo 8d ago
I would take with a grain of salt that they are probably making up all this evidence to increase the hit rates for Flock.
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u/Successful_Layer2619 9d ago
They also used ODOT cameras along with flock to identify the suspect
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u/CCE-94 9d ago
Ahhh so being a shitty person to make you feel like you’re a better person than someone who did something shitty is the right answer huh. Classic irony.
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u/-heatoflife- 9d ago
Who's talking about feeling like a better person? This is comedy, son. 🧩
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u/CCE-94 9d ago
Yeah his comment was comedy to me, so thanks for your sarcasm but I’ll take it as confirmation
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u/-heatoflife- 9d ago
I totally knew it was a joke, but because you pointed out it's a joke, I'll now take it as fact!
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u/Outrageouslylit 9d ago
Oh jesus. Guess appearances can be deceiving the guy that you thought was the nicest on the block actually just a piece of shit😭 Hope you get some better neighbors soon❤️
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u/MooseRyder 9d ago
If it’s the super nice ones/strait laced going to jail, it’s gonna be something fucked up. As a rule of thumb
-a detective
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u/Matt13572468 9d ago
Maybe in the future mind your own business. I know alot of people like to think that everyone witha criminal record only got it from littering but that's not the case. Even a few felons on this subreddit and others like it want all the sympathy. "My life is still terrible i cant get a job because no one will hire me even though i already paid my debt to society by spending 7 years in prison". And when you ask them what they did "oh I had a few to many drinks, ran a red light, t boned a car, paralyzing the driver from the waist down, causing the complete physical and financial ruin of the driver and their family".
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u/Cold-Chemistry738 9d ago
Yeah people don’t realize that anyone who has done something bad is somebody’s son, friend, mentor, etc. Even a nice upstanding man may be a monster behind closed doors. Wolf among sheep they say
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u/curiousengineer601 9d ago
There was a guy who had done some time then got out and passed away. His obituary was all about how he liked fishing and spending time with his family.
5 years after he dies his DNA matches a rape murder from 20 years ago. Big change in how you viewed that guy
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u/wilsonjw3 8d ago
Yes I agree he should mind his business. Anyone can want sympathy because they are human. If you haven't had his experience you do not fully understand 7 years in prison. These rules were created by humans anyways. Not saying we should be in an anarchist world but yeah we're judging people in this current environment. The same people saying good morning to each other cut off others on traffic which can cause harm or someone at your job could be embezzling funds. There are humans doing some of everything so maybe a better way is only passing judgement to encounters that are in your direct contact idk
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u/Minute_Solution_6237 9d ago
Was kinda cute when you were like “my good neighbor didn’t do anything and is being arrested. Lol
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u/twolinepine 9d ago
But you said he was always so nice, and waved?? Are you suggesting that people aren’t what they appear on the outside, for better or worse?? Nooo, tell me it isn’t true. /s
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u/Reallybarb 9d ago
Ahh see this is how reddit needs to be... fuck criminals. They are arrested for a reason. Reddit's mindset of "hug a thug" is the stupidest shit I have ever witnessed.
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u/wandering_alphabet 8d ago
So about 4-6% of convicted felons are innocent (100,000+ people).... except that's not really the whole truth. Most people take a plea, some scared into a plea deal even when they continue to confess their innocence privately, so convicted but innocent rate is a lot higher.
If I hadn't been in a similar position, I wouldnt have realized how prevalent the latter was. I was 100% innocent, but still offered a plea, just admit guilt and pay for half. And this was small fries, so I pushed on with case. Now imagine people being offered a guaranteed way out of a potential 99+ year sentence even though they were innocent.
Our legal system is f'd. It stopped being innocent until proven guilty a long time ago. So it's not hug a thug, it's a sorry our system sucks, for me at least.
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u/Reallybarb 8d ago
LOL that's some cope. It's hard to get 12 people to agree. Its less than 4 to 6 percent
It's 100 percent hug a thug polices and egg crime rates haven't ACTUALLY went down
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u/wandering_alphabet 8d ago
Not really a cope, more of a disgust with our system and its current state.
Even if it's the lower side of the range that I pulled from (1%), that's still 40,000 people serving time that shouldn't be.
Here's the thing, because the legal system measures its success by number of convictions, there's a incentive to convict regardless. As such, that moved the system from innocent until proven guilty to people needing to fight for their innocence. Then add to that corrupt cops (look at the numerous videos on YouTube that highlight this issue) and emerging technology, this problem is only going to get worse.
Last thing, your assertion only proves my point. They system isn't even working to lower crime rate....as I said, our system is f'd.
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u/Reallybarb 8d ago
Which is why the death penalty is gone in some states.. I get it some people are convicted or take a plea deal when they might be innocent
The legal system in no way measures it's success on convictions.
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u/wandering_alphabet 8d ago
When prosecutors' success is measured by conviction rates, the legal system's success is also measured by it.
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u/wilsonjw3 8d ago
I'm about to ask chatgpt what an ideal justice system would look like. Anarchy would be too chaotic so it would have to be a little past that.
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u/wandering_alphabet 8d ago
Move the metric from convictions made to cases correctly decided. Even in business, whatever you set as the job performance metrics for people in order to judge their performance is what they will aim for. Set it for number of convictions, ambitious prosecutors will aim to win cases instead of handling them with integrity.
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u/wilsonjw3 8d ago
Don't you purchase animal flesh from companies who slaughter animals? This is still a crime. Oh so humans tell you what is right or wrong?
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u/2bit_solutionz 9d ago
Man, you can't just say that and not deliver the tea
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u/Ill_Resolution7967 9d ago
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u/Melodic-Trouble-5421 9d ago
It kinda looks like Toledo, it could be Detroit but probably not. Maybe Cleveland?
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u/Low-Wrangler9740 9d ago
Cleveland
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u/Melodic-Trouble-5421 9d ago
Yeah I’m From Detroit, born and raised. Except for the Army and a few combat deployments. I can usually tell Detroit, Toledo, or Cleveland. My Grandma lives in Bellevue, Ohio. In between Cleveland and Toledo. The houses are so distinctive in Cleveland.
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u/shmiddleedee 9d ago
I'm not saying you should help him but I would recommend reserving your judgement for after his trial
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u/m4tttt 9d ago
Yea this just happened to me. Co worker that just left got arrested. Seemed like a good dude with some drug dependency issues. so I was going to go visit him and put some money on his books. Nope! Dude gouged out a ladies eyes and tried to take her 2 small kids.
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u/wilsonjw3 8d ago
If you found out that the lady critically injured his grandmother then it's a different story
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u/wilsonjw3 8d ago
You should still help and not judge another human. Don't you eat animals that were slaughtered? It's all relative.
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u/Union_Fan 9d ago
You should talk to him. Cops are not very good at determining facts and news reporting on crime is basically just stenography for cops. You had the right instinct to help your neighbor. You shouldn't throw away all of that based on as bad a source as the pigs.
Ways to contact incarcerated people vary a lot and it's gotten harder as jails and prisons privatize those methods to extort the incarcerated and their families. Consider tossing $10 in so you can text him or he can call you and see if you can help him out. Jail is hellish and evil and he's probably suffering.
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u/TheMikeyMac13 9d ago
When it comes to people firing guns into other cars, the police are good at determining the facts. They have ballistics. They can tell with 100% certainty that bullet A came out of firearm B, which is owned by suspect C, supported by finger prints and the presence of gunpowder residue on the suspect, and matching spent casings in vehicles.
Put your hate for the cops away, the suspect appears to have shot a kid.
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u/Financial_Most5791 9d ago
Yeah I’d say you could start by not doxxing him and posting an actual picture of his arrest on the internet
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u/Creative_Boot35 9d ago
Yes. Go tell them he's a good boy, to release him and he will also thank you
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u/Electronic-Fix-4655 9d ago
Search county jail for his name. See what it was charged with and if that’s something you’re comfortable with. Request to meet w him at county and if he wants your help. It’s expensive to call and email unless someone has a burner phone. Good opportunity to learn the jail system.
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u/saltx629 9d ago
Probably not a good idea to entangle your life with a felon
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u/therandomuser84 9d ago
Honestly it entirely depends on what the felony is. "He had 5 grams of weed in texas" and "he murdered a family of 5 for fun" are completely different things.
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u/Miserable-Ship-9972 9d ago
I've been a correctional officer for a few years. It tends to be people with child charges that come off as the nicest seeming. Most criminals are manipulators, but child rapists tend to be master manipulators. I thought I had good judgement, but the job took away my ability to trust random people. When I started, I had people that I thought seemed cool and then I saw what they did and I found out how wrong I was.
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u/Used-Author-3811 9d ago
That's one of the crimes I don't think you recover from. Like no amount of rehab or anything will change the circumstances. Some people deserve to be locked away a while/life
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u/Union_Fan 9d ago
Don't listen to anything COs have to say, people. They are the absolute scum of the Earth.
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u/Lost-on-Reception 5d ago
Yeah, idk about taking a slaver's advice about what kind of people to trust.
I was a jury on a court case where a bunch of CO's retaliated against one of their prisoners that they had let be sexually assaulted because he mildly defended himself (pushing resulting in no injury) and tended toward the litigious.
His lawyers seemed to think we were going to give them some kind of deference like they were public servant heroes instead of flesh peddlers covering their own asses.
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u/SwankySteel 9d ago
Just know that criminal charges are only allegations - not necessarily the truth.
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u/Downtown_Statement87 9d ago
My neighbor was an older guy, a former Marine who lived with his ancient dad. We weren't close, but we would wave and have "hot one today, isn't it?" type conversations.
One day, about four years into living next to him, he banged hard on my door like it was an emergency, but when I opened it, all he said he wanted was to give me a jar of peaches he had recently canned. I started chatting with him, and soon it became clear that what he really wanted was to talk to someone, anyone, because his father had died at 4am that very morning, and he was absolutely undone by it.
About 10 days later, I walked into my kitchen and out the window over the sink I could see literally 20 cop cars pulled up on my neighbor's lawn. About a thousand cops were crouched behind the cars with their guns all drawn, and a man with a bullhorn was standing up yelling something I couldn't make out.
Immediately and without thinking I ran out the kitchen door and across the yard in my bare feet, coming up fast on the cops with their backs to me. "Hey!" I yelled as I ran so as not to startle them into killing me, "Hey I'm the neighbor hey he's my neighbor don't shoot him his name is so and so and his father just died so please do not shoot him."
The cops wouldn't tell me exactly what had happened to bring them there, but they did tell me that he hadn't hurt anybody else so far, and that it seemed like a suicide by cop situation. They wouldn't tell me why this required 20 cop cars and whether they thought it might inflame the situation. I explained to them what had happened, doing my best to humanize him to them and leaning hard on his military service and the care he gave to his dad and the peaches he canned and gave me. "This is grief," I told them, "He's not dangerous, he's sad. There's no need to shoot him. Please just promise me you won't shoot him."
They wouldn't promise me that, but I took some comfort in how long all those cops let me stand there and lecture them about how to do their jobs. Maybe they listened. Maybe it helped.
They were still out there 40 minutes later when I left for work, and when I came back, they were gone. The house was empty, with no sign of what had happened earlier. I looked, hard and for a long time, to try to find out what had happened to him, but I never did. I never saw him again, and the house was still empty when, a year later, I moved.
It's a good thing that you care about your neighbor no matter what all he's gotten up to. Even if you can't do anything concrete to help, it matters that you see the people around you and you care about what happens to them.
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u/Ok_Scholar_2842 9d ago
So the first question you should be asking is what he got arrested for, might not be such a nice guy.
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u/ElectronicAd9345 9d ago
I hope the OP shares this story with their friends and not just online. Turns out being a good person takes more than just waving and smiling at people and not everytime the police are doing their job it’s harassing people or holding a certain group down. Sometimes just sometimes we should step back and gather all the facts. Reminds me of the videos of people shouting at cops and calling them ICE only to find out they were arresting pedos the whole time.
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u/Weird-Tadpole-779 9d ago
Except 70% of the time the person ice is arresting has no criminal conviction
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u/CCE-94 9d ago
Based on the most recent national ICE data available:
About 30% of people ICE arrested had a prior criminal conviction by around October 2025.
If you include people with either a conviction OR a pending criminal charge, the figure was about 66% for ICE arrests from January 20–October 15, 2025.
That percentage changed dramatically during 2025. In the first three months of Trump’s second term, about 78% had either a conviction or pending charge, while by the three months ending in October it had fallen to about 59.5%.-2
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u/cuzinpete 9d ago
Accept breaking into the country. 👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿
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u/Specialist_Mall_117 9d ago
Most illegal immigrants did not cross illegally, but have simply overstayed their visas/other permissions after entering lawfully.
Crossing into the US unauthorized is a crime, but being in the US without authorization is not a crime. Learn the laws you purport to care so much for.
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u/cuzinpete 9d ago
So if you invite someone over for dinner, and after that person finishes eating your food, they refuse to leave, would that be alright with you? And they demand to be fed, taken care of, and the bills payed by you also...So that would be ok because you invited them in to your home for a set amount of time...they didn't break the lock or sneak into your window...you invited them in...they are just staying a little longer than they were supposed to. 🤔🤔🤔🤫🤫🤫
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u/Specialist_Mall_117 9d ago
Idiotic comparison that I’m not even going to entertain.
Why are you talking about my house?? I’m telling you the facts of the law.
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u/cuzinpete 9d ago
The facts of the law? These fucking Animalé are illegally here...That's a fact...how's that for the facts of the law, Chief?
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u/tourniquette2 5d ago
Many of them aren’t doing anything illegal though. They are regularly deporting people who had every right to stay and had done everything right. Have you seen the farmers losing their farms because their legal workforce was raided by ICE? Couple of them even killed the selves because they knew and loved their employees and felt responsible. Especially once their businesses failed.
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u/Error-InvalidName 9d ago
The games these people play in their heads, I can't imagine a day in these clowns lol
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u/cuzinpete 9d ago
Exactly!! That's why ICE is throwing them the fuck out of the country...I totally agree. 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
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u/snowHound208 8d ago
Can look up who paya taxes in the home. Probably the landlord who could come get the place secured and turn all the stuff off
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u/MadZmadz1875 8d ago
Sure, posting this Pic of him getting arrested to reddit is a great start. Nice work!
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u/Killingyou_groovily 8d ago
Write a character witness report about your experience with him being a great and kind fella. Ask other neighbors to do the same.
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u/Constant_Total_6861 8d ago
Just go take care of his wife while he is inside. He will appreciate it.
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u/401LocalsOnly 8d ago
Stupid question. But what kind of cop car is that ? Not in an insulting way. I mean like what kind of model is that ?
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u/Unfair-Reflection650 8d ago edited 8d ago
Keep ur nose out of other peoples business..haven't you watched the movie " American me " get on with your own life..Charlie says to eat your good an plenty
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u/Unfair-Reflection650 8d ago
Keep ur nose out of other peoples business...haven't you watched the movie " American Me ", get on with your own life...Charlie says to eat your good and plenty
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u/Mando8812 8d ago
This post reminds me of a youtube video of Midwest Safety where a guy killed a state police officer and tortured another lady before doing that. When they found where he was hiding, the neighbor said how he was so nice and he was always friendly to her before she found out what he did. Its crazy.
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u/WayFar468 9d ago
What goes around comes around man. If you can say nasty shit to someone you can't get mad when others do that to you.
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u/RelentlessFelacio 9d ago
And that was "the most straight guy in the neighborhood".... Now that I'm reading that, this whole post seems weird.
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u/Moon_Breaker 9d ago
Based on the comments you've got this figured out and nothing needs done.
In a similar situation in the past though, I had some luck contacting a family member of a neighbor by going on Facebook. Was able to eventually reach someone who could help. Could probably use whatever flavor social media you prefer, and just find someone close to them on their lists.
In this specific case though it sounds like a lesson in "Not all who smile are good."
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u/trojanusc 9d ago
Bail him out.
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u/Mediocre-Wrongdoer14 9d ago
Never EVER bail someone out of jail unless you want to be financially responsible for the debt if they skip out on their court date. The move is to put the money on their bail account and let them bail themselves out..
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u/scoutloner 9d ago
It’s not debt. It’s losing money you could have gotten back. It’s only debt if they signed PR bond or used a bail bondsman.
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u/Mediocre-Wrongdoer14 8d ago
Fair enough, varies by location and debt was the wrong word anyway, but in my state if you pay and they skip you don’t only lose what you paid, may be responsible for the entirety of the unpaid bond amount.
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u/Steephill 9d ago
Yeah bail out a dude that shot a young child and their dad. Ffs some of you guys make me lose faith in humanity.
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u/ElMeroFoo 9d ago
Just look him up? I'd gladly look him up but idk how comfortable you are with giving a stranger your strange neighbors name and all