On September
8, 2010, at approximately 4:10 p.m., I arrived at the Sacramento International
Airport to pick up my wife, Joyce, who was returning from a one-day business
trip to the Los Angeles area.
I parked my
vehicle at the curb at Terminal-A in front of the Southwest Airlines ticket
area. A parking monitor, which is about two clicks below a meter maid, approached me on the sidewalk and ordered me to move
the car. I did so, but I also realized
that I was in the wrong place to meet my wife; she would be exiting at the
baggage claim area of Terminal A.
I moved my
vehicle from the ticket area to the baggage claim area and waited. At approximately 4:15 p.m., the sissy parking
monitor again approached me and again ordered me to move my car. I informed the monitor that my wife was
coming down the escalator now and would be out to the car in seconds. The
monitor told me “take it around,
you can’t wait here.” Now because of my wife’s proximity to the car, I informed
the monitor that she was right behind him and I needed to wait. At this point
the monitor threatened to "write me a fucking ticket" if I did not move, and I responded with “well, she’s right there, so you’ll
have to give me a ticket.”
At this
point the monitor went to the curb by my vehicle, speaking into his hand-held
radio. My wife got into the car and I began to leave when I discovered that the
monitor had moved to the front of my vehicle. I brushed by him as I left. Looking into the rear-view mirror, I could see that he was in no way injured, but
appeared to be extremely angry, so I continued on to Terminal-B where I
intended to contact the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department Airport
Detail and advise them of the confrontation with the monitor.
I stopped at
the curb of Terminal-B, where a marked Sacramento County Sheriff’s patrol unit
was parked. As I did, two Sacramento County deputies, one male and one female,
approached me on bicycles (That's right... bicycles and shorts are so butch on cops, right?). I began to
tell them about the incident with the parking "person" at Terminal-A.
The male
deputy began asking me questions regarding the incident and asked for my
identification. I surrendered my
California driver’s license to the deputy. The deputy moved approximately ten feet away
and called on his hand-held radio.
My driver’s
license is confidential due to my previous employment as a peace officer with
the California Department of Corrections, and the deputy received that
information from his dispatch. The
deputy then returned to me and asked if I had peace officer credentials. I informed him that I did not. I did give him my business card as the
Director of Police Services with the Law Enforcement and Public Safety
Authority (LEPSA), a public benefit corporation that I had formed several
months previous. The discussion then moved to the incident with the monitor,
where I offered my statement.
After
several minutes of questions regarding the incident with the monitor, the
deputy informed me other airport deputies were investigating the incident at
Terminal-A, so the discussion returned to LEPSA. The deputy asked me about
LEPSA’s status as a public agency and my status as its director. The deputy asked if I had peace officer
credentials, whereupon I informed him that LEPSA was just formed and the
credentials are not active yet. I further informed the deputy that LEPSA had
legislation pending and that LEPSA filed with the Corporate Filing Unit of the
California Secretary of State as a public benefit corporation, and LEPSA is listed on the
Roster of Public agencies in the Special Filings Unit. I informed the deputy that I did not have
those documents with me, but I could forward them to him if he wished.
After the
deputy’s continued pressing for more information on LEPSA’s credentials, I
decided to appease him and returned to my vehicle where my briefcase was
located. I produced from my briefcase
one of several samples of the credentials that I had been working on,
indicating again that they were still a work-in-progress. The deputy and his
partner inspected the credentials and returned them to me.
Now it has to be noted that at no time
did I assert or identify myself as a peace officer. I told the deputy several times that LEPSA
agents would be peace
officers when LEPSA is funded and working in the field. The deputy stepped away for a discussion with his
sergeant.
Approximately
five minutes later the deputy returned and informed me that the decision was
made to issue me a traffic citation for violation of California Vehicle Code
Section 23104, reckless driving with injury, and allow me to leave. I signed the citation, and my wife and I left
the airport for home.
Some weeks
later I appeared in traffic court regarding the citation. The deputy district
attorney reviewed the case and determined that no evidence existed to support
the charge of reckless driving with injury, so the citation was reduced
to speeding (I did leave at about thirty (30) miles-per-hour), I paid the associated fine, and that case was resolved.
On November
10, 2010, at approximately 3:45 p.m., I answered a knock at my residence door. As I opened the door, the sissy-short's-wearing deputy from the
airport informed me that I was under arrest for impersonating a peace officer
and illegal use of the state seal. They handcuffed me and "paraded" me down the block for all my neighbors to see.
Topping that, the Sheriff's little pimp-information officer decided it would be cool to plaster this case all over the media. He got on television and announced in a news conference that I, a dastardly miscreant who "made-up his own police agency so he could play cop," had been arrested and was in the county jail, and put my booking photo on all the local news reports and the Sacramento Bee. Now it should be noted that NONE of those news services even attempted to contact me and get my side of the story. I guess if the Sheriff's department says it its the truth and they didn't NEED to contact me.
I retained
an attorney to defend me, who used to be a depth district attorney with Sac County. He reviewed the facts of the case and knew immediately that this was a crock of shit. Through the
course of discussions about the facts of my case, the assigned deputy district
attorney of record and my attorney agreed that the charges of impersonating a
peace officer, a misdemeanor in California, would be dismissed (Of course; because they knew they didn't have case there). As a pragmatic matter, and to avoid the
expense of litigation, I agreed to resolve the case for the improper copying of
the State Seal on my business cards displayed
to the initial investigating deputy. (Unbeknownst to me, it is illegal to copy the
Seal of the State of California, even when the intention is to create a legal
agency approved by the State of California Secretary of State). The remaining violation was charged as a
misdemeanor and I plead "No Contest," was sentenced to community service
and placed on informal probation, which terminated once I completed the
community service.
Since
that time, the Court has dismissed the case and a finding of Not Guilty has
been entered.
However, the
matter of the “overzealous” Sacramento County Sheriff’s Deputy (I use that term loosely, because he's really just a 4-F non-serving limp-dick asshole) investigating
the incident with more fervor and initiative than the Sheriff and his deputies
put into investigating most armed robbery’s, isn’t over.
I have been
denied work, fired from a job that I had when this started because the deputy
violated the penal code by illegally advising my employer of the incident with
the intent of having me dismissed, and this deputy, who from all the people I
spoke to at the Sheriff’s office is assigned to the Airport as punishment for
being a total fuckup anyway, will now get away with all this bullshit because
the deputies at Sac County seem to be untouchable.
I’ll have
more on my next blog, but this should do it for the time being. Be careful when dealing with the Sacramento
County Sheriff’s department; they truly believe they’re above the law.
