Posted on 06/22/2007 11:58:57 AM PDT by Abathar
PHOENIX -- Four people have been arrested in connection with kidnapping, assaulting and using a branding iron to burn the word "snitch" on a Mesa woman's face, police said.
Investigators said they believe the crime was done in retaliation for reporting one of the men and woman to Child Protective Services in February 2006, which ultimately led to CPS taking away their children.
"If CPS removes a child from the house, there must be some very serious allegations," said Sgt. Chuck Trapani of the Mesa Police Department. "So the children removed, they're in CPS custody, and now they're blaming this person for what they did wrong. "
Police said they arrested James H. Standridge, 34, Jackie L. Getz, 26, and Kibbol A. Avila, 33, on suspicion of kidnapping, aggravated assault and unlawful imprisonment.
Preston L. Valdez, 21, was charged with one count each of aggravated assault and unlawful imprisonment with a no-bond status.
All of the suspects live in the Mesa area.
Police said the victim, a 38-year-old woman, called the Mesa Police Department on June 13 to report the crime.
Officers said an intensive five-day investigation determined that the group worked together to ensure that the woman would be at a certain apartment in Mesa.
When the woman entered the apartment, the group assaulted and held her against her will, detectives said.
The suspects shaved off a portion of the victim's hair and, using a branding iron, burned the word "snitch" on her face, then blindfolded her, officers said.
Her body was also burned with a propane torch, investigators said.
The woman was then placed in a vehicle and driven to a neighborhood where she was released, detectives said.
A witness noticed the woman stumbling down the street and called police, according to investigators.
A second witness stopped the victim and waited with her near the road until police and paramedics arrived. The woman was transported to a local hospital where she was treated and later released.
Investigators executed a search warrant at the apartment where the crime took place and found evidence of the crime. They were able to track down and arrest all four suspects.
Bond for Standridge and Getz was set at $270,000. Avila's bond was set at $80,000.
Man, I just don’t know about this one. I had a neighbor lose her two kids just because she spanked them and another neighbor who had never had children and didn’t believe in spanking reported her for child abuse. A lot of those CPS people are zealots and she lost her kids, and she was NOT an abusive parent. I wouldnt’ have blamed her if she had done something like this to her neighbor. So until I know more facts, I’m withholding judgement.
Time to just suspend Posse Comatatus and send the in the Marines.... take back the neighborhoods from these domestic terrorists and stop playing footsie with them.
okay, they were meth heads. Thats all I need to know.
“Stop snitching” = enabling criminal behavior.
The stupid have been brainwashed by the criminal element into believing “snitching” is bad. It’s not.
I say STOP “stop snitching”. Put criminals where they belong.
(this is a public service announcement for DU lurkers...Freepers obviously are aware of this)
‘snitches get stitches’...present day Brooklyn
gosh, they all sound like dirtbags! Meth pipes in easy reach of the children? Ugh!
In February 2006, the woman had told police that she saw Standridge on top of Getz with his hands around her neck. He also admitted that he had kicked down a door. Standridge was arrested then on suspicion of assault, criminal damage and possession of drug paraphernalia while officers arrested Getz on a warrant.
Police described the apartment as filthy and cluttered with meth pipes within easy reach of the child and piles of clothes, trash and rotting food everywhere. The conditions prompted police to notify CPS.
Getz defended Standridge, saying he often lost his temper since their baby in common had died in September 2004.
Getz told police she was three months pregnant at the time of the 2006 incident. She also has an 8-year-old child who is in the custody of an aunt, court documents show.
The child’s father was murdered in November 1997 and her family accused her of having contact with the killer while police were looking for him.
That last sentence just boggles my mind, and my mind doesn't boggle easily any more.
I think that last sentence in report is what gets me...So, this female two leg was “in contact” with the person who murdered the father of her child???? That to me suggests she’s not only a meth head, she’s probably an accessory to murder!
Well said.
I agree. But it goes beyond the criminal element and comes, as usual, from the liberals. I have a ravingly liberal neighbor whose son goes to a college that is on the honor system. No one is supposed to cheat, and if someone does, anyone who notices it is supposed to report that person for violating the code.
I think this is a reasonable thing, and makes it clear that the code (the law) is above personal likes and dislikes. Anybody who entered that school theoretically accepted the code at the beginning.
But my neighbor proudly told me that his son had told hime he would not report anyone, because it would be "betraying" his friends. This is the typical liberal thing where the peer group is all important, and ideals - such as truth and truthfulness - are to be avoided at all costs.
Of course, if all of society ran this way, we'd be in a nihilistic jungle run by gangs of buddies, because there'd be no rules, no ideals, no justice, nothing except blind allegiance to a peer group. Sort of like the Cosa Nostra, in other words.
>>>they might be seen as heroes in prison
Milton, ‘Paradise Lost’:
When Lucifer was banished from Heaven, he said, “It is better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
We know who James Standridge, Jackie Getz, Kibbol Avila, and Preston Valdez serve.
Don't be so sure, Convicts don't usually take to kindly to people who are child abusers.
If the woman was standing beside her car on the edge of the road, most men today would offer her a ride to town. The few smart ones would write down the license plate #, car make, color, year, her description and call the LEO’s for assistance.
Remember: Life in the US of A has changed for the worse in the past 20 years!
> (Again, if were not Christian, I would entertain ambitions like this)
Clearly you do, despite being Christian, otherwise you would not have posted this sick fantasy. You never read of Christ or any of his apostles saying things like this.
You never read of Jesus saying things like: “if I weren’t Jesus I’d nail that Pontius Pilate to a cross, see how he likes it! And Judas — if I weren’t the Loving Shepherd I’d personally hang him, and then roast him in Hell for good measure...”
We don’t read about Jesus saying things like that because He didn’t and wouldn’t. He is the example all Christians should follow.
In your case, professing to be Christian both before and after entertaining these “dastardly and unmentionable” thoughts in your post is surely a sin.
> I have a ravingly liberal neighbor whose son goes to a college that is on the honor system. No one is supposed to cheat, and if someone does, anyone who notices it is supposed to report that person for violating the code.
There is something rather appealing about those fabled American military acadamies whose cadets are exhorted that they must not “Lie, Cheat or Steal, or tolerate those who do.” It puts the onus for enforcement of this code back where it belongs — to the students — and hammers home a reasonably good (if abbreviated) practical synopsis of the Ten Commandments.
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