Lawyer William Webb Greenfelder has been charged with breaking into a vacant mobile home and stealing electricity. The evidence is rather strong. First there was Greenfelder’s cellphone plugged into an outlet at the home and then there was orange extension chord that ran from the home to just short of Greenfelder’s mobile home.
The police say that the cord had been covered with leaves to conceal it but Greenfelder, 38, denied any role in the break in or the theft.
Greenfelder was suspended by the Florida bar for failing to pay bar fees and was then arrested in a domestic dispute. Police say that Greenfelder hit his wife with a candlestick, punched her, and refused to let her out of their bedroom. When police arrived, she showed them cocaine, pills and guns. However, Greenfelder was able to show that the search was illegal and suppress the evidence.
He has been suspended for only 91 days and told to undergo psychiatric and substance abuse evaluations. Those will have to wait until he is tried on these latest charges.
Source: Tampa Bay
Oak Creek Town Board member Lawrence Jaconetta, 35, was booked into Routt County Jail on Friday morning on suspicion of harassment and menacing, both misdemeanors, for reportedly making threatening phone calls to a South Routt resident….”“or I will be hunting you down, day or night,”…”in response to a letter Short wrote to the editor of the Steamboat Pilot & Today about medical marijuana in Oak Creek”… following message included remarks threatening that Short’s concerns “might be justified in an obituary” better than in the newspaper.”
seeuski (anonymous) says…
I think pot should be legalized and just like any other scrips, regulated.
Alcohol is regulated, you can’t legally moonshine or bootleg.
Eric_J_Bowman (Eric J. Bowman) says…
“Actually, for alcohol you can home brew and no one cares.”
Up to a point, beyond which you’ll need to be licensed as a microbrewery or brewpub, and subjected to local zoning regulations regarding such operations.
http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2011/apr/29/oak-creek-town-board-member-arrested/
Kay.
Persecuting Blacks may not be the only reason for the laws against certain mind altering substances but it is the main one and provides most of the motivation.
When one analyses the cause and effect network behind a “problem” and finds that they would be expected to lead to exactly the effects seen one is entitled to assume that those who made the policies behind the causes intended just such effects.
It is worth reading Michelle Alexander’s book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”. If you do not have access to the book itself you can find many articles prompted by this book at Alan Bean’s Friends of Justice website.
Kay,
That goes for your sockpuppets as well …
http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2011/apr/26/maynard-short-oak-creek-pot-sham/
pkbaldwin (PK Baldwin) says…
If you want ‘hard facts’ as to what the MMJ situation is doing in Oak Creek on Sharp Ave, just look at the one business that provides a service to the community that is 100% legal. It’s shutting it’s doors!!! Why? It’s not just due to the health of one of the co-owners, but a compilation of events such as being encroached upon with MMJ grows, cooking, etc that has permeated the walls within this ‘fully-legal’, ‘tax-producing’ business that benefits the residents of Oak Creek. Even Lance has commented several times about the odor inside the store. So, folks, there’s your ‘hard facts’ as to what MMJ is doing to Oak Creek. But before ya’ll jump my case, let me state here and now. I am FOR MMJ and believe in its medical uses. HOWEVER, this is a controlled substance that is NOT being controlled in a manner which I deem should be enforced. And I hope I never see another pot plant being paraded down the boardwalk in front of the store, at least until after Saturday, April 30th when I shut the doors for good. I would also like to thank all the customers that did support us.
Owner, Mountain Market
Oak Creek
April 27, 2011 at 10:42 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
IoSolUno (anonymous) says…
For your information, MMJ is a “fully legal”, “tax-producing” business that benefits the residents of Oak Creek. Marijuana patients, growers, and business owners have rights, as well, so do us all a favor and quit whinning and close your doors already. I hope to see a forest of marijuana plants “paraded down the sidewalk in front of your CLOSED store.” and nobody cares what you “deem should be enforced” And that, folks, is the true HARD FACTS! Get used to it!
Kay,
I typically stay out of this but … can you please give the thread-hijacking a rest? At least for a day or two? It is getting not only tiresome but very, very obnoxious.
Thank you for your anticipated cooperation …
“In fact, one of the big issues with medical marijuana is that the neighbors are being bothered.”
Kay,
Frankly, this is a silly statement.
Wow. This guy needs more than psychiatric help. He needs to spend some alone time behind bars. I have absolutely no patience for anyone who hits his wife. If guilty, put him in a striped jumpsuit and put him away for a substantial period of time.
Mike
You write “Blowing the whistle on someone you don’t know and who has done nothing to you isn’t a noble act, but in reality a retributive one on your part feeding your own ego.” but in fact not doing so is misprision of felony and DOJ is imprisoning people they catch doing so. Even for marijuana related offenses.
The people that I reported were judges and lawyers. One of the judges ruled that I didn’t have a right to enforcement of the zoning. That was a long time before I found out his girlfriend was involved with cocaine and at that time I didn’t even suspect him of having any knowledge of the drug trade. But he hurt me anyway.
If my neighbor had had a slaughterhouse or a restaurant in the low density residential zone it would have bothered my family also. In fact, one of the big issues with medical marijuana is that the neighbors are being bothered.
O.S. I do understand your point about leaving sleeping dogs lie but that is not so easy sometimes. I got into the problems with the “dragons” because my neighbor was a drug dealer, or ex drug dealer, and he was also the Steamboat Springs city council president. His employee said in court that he had told them I was worried that people associated with him would give my sons drugs. They were then 10 and 14.
The extra buildings he was building really impacted my property. One was 10 feet from the property, on land that was extorted from me and used to be the street. The plan that I heard was that he was going to have a bed and breakfast that catered to people bringing their horses and that they would then ride their horses across the grass in front of my home (which was set back about 40 feet from the pavement). This would have really affected my property. Late night visitors to his place were also constantly turning around in my driveway and that resulted in car lights going into our house and waking up my children, who then had problems at school.
This was not easy to ignore.
I’m going to read Carlyle’s article but even though he has a point about profitable private prisons and racial discrimination, I don’t believe that is the only reason for anti drug laws.
An attorney living in a mobile home? Not uncommon for Florida, which has attorneys battling on TV and direct mail, soliciting to defend traffic tickets as $69 a pop. Too many lawyers, too little business, makes for depressed addicts living by the skin of their teeth.
Kay,
The deal is this. The War on Drugs is a scam and always has been. It has different rules for different people. Blowing the whistle on someone you don’t know and who has done nothing to you isn’t a noble act, but in reality a retributive one on your part feeding your own ego.
Yes if you see, or know about someone victimizing another criminally, it is your ethical duty to come forth. In the instances you mention it wasn’t really any of your business, but you do seem to constantly try to inject yourself into other people’s issues. This is something you should get treatment for, because if you don’t it will only lead to your own further misery.
AY,
“The means but not the ability….there is a great difference…. call it anything you want…from what I have seen from the inside out and the outside in….it is perceived by the person in the addiction or depression as a normal way of life”
Absolutely. While my parents didn’t have the “means”, they did sacrifice quite a bit – in terms of money, counseling and sanity – to help my brother but, he instead chose a life of drugs and crime … last I heard, he was out of jail again, but I suspect he’ll be enjoying the hospitality of the Texas Corrections Department again soon.
“….but it is still fucked up….I know…lol…no make that a big LOL…..”
Ditto 🙂
“Mobile Home for Sale–at $2.5 Million!
correction 2k a month lot rent….
http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2011/04/15/mobile-home-for-sale-at-2-5-million/:
Lmao – well, the first three rules of real estate are:
1. Location;
2. Location; and
3. Location!!
Kay.
The whole point of the laws against certain mind altering drugs is to get poor brown skinned people into profitable private prisons for as long as possible, to strip them of the right to vote and the right to government help with education or housing, it is not meant to inconvenience white people, especially well connected ones.
When one makes laws against normal human behaviour such as using mind altering chemicals this results in so many breaches of the law that the system can only detect and prosecute a small fraction of them. In such cases it is easy to spend all the enforcement budget against the usual suspects whom everyone knows to be wicked and evil, namely despised ethnic minorities and poor people.
See this article by Michelle Alexander.
Kay, I am not a lawyer and never said I was. If you had been paying attention, you would know that I am a forensic scientist who has been at this business about forty years. I know my way around the courthouse and the police/sheriff’s department.
I am telling you that you are a naif in this matter and you are playing with fire. It could get you hurt or killed. You fail to understand the difference between a personal battle and inserting yourself into the affairs of dragons.
Some people simply do not know how to keep their mouths shut, and for whom being discreet is a foreign concept.
“This attorney’s drug clients need to be tracked down and prosecuted, regardless of what public and trust positions they hold. The integrity of our legal and judicial system depends on it.” -Street Wise
I couldn’t agree more, but suspect that it’s just a pipe-dream… I lived in a community where it was reportedly the mayor. Coke and heroin were rumored to be his drugs of choice.
A couple of books:
Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb by Nick Schou
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb
About Gary Webb: (from Wikipedia)
Gary Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was a Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist.
Journalist George Sanchez states that “the CIA’s internal investigation by Inspector General Frederick Hitz vindicated much of Gary’s reporting” and observes that despite the campaign against Webb, “the government eventually admitted to more than Gary had initially reported” over the years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
Yes, and why is it that OS, who says he is a lawyer, thinks it is a private matter when lawyers and judges are using cocaine?
When I was at MIT, in 1974, I lived in a big apartment where one of the other rooms was occupied by a guy who said he made $17 K selling drugs at Yale and was using the funds to finance Boston University law school. I think that a lot of rich students were using cocaine and that they never stopped when they became lawyers and judges and that is one of the reasons for all the corruption that has been revealed in recent years.
Why isn’t this a surprise? Attorneys and drugs? And the guy’s living in a mobile home and stealing electricity??? Not wise to use and deal. In our town it’s rumored the biggest cocaine dealer is a prominent attorney. A former judge was known for his ‘nose candy’. The Sheriff’s a drunk who looks the other way – perhaps because his values are compromised by the very people who support him in office.
Why is it that those entrusted to enforce the laws consider themselves above the law? Those who’ve taken oaths as ‘officers of the court’ play games with the law, bend the law, break the law? The attorney oversight boards need to do a better job of monitoring unethical and badly behaving attorneys.
This attorney’s drug clients need to be tracked down and prosecuted, regardless of what public and trust positions they hold. The integrity of our legal and judicial system depends on it.
Miss Sieverding,
Please tell me what seems to be bothering you. I am sure that you have some anger issues that need to be dealt with in the most expedited manner. You are angry at whom?
Mobile Home for Sale–at $2.5 Million!
correction 2k a month lot rent….
http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2011/04/15/mobile-home-for-sale-at-2-5-million/
See for yourself….
Kay, I hope you have a good hospital plan and a will made if you insist on sticking your nose into other people’s business. You obviously do not even know how to send in a drug tip, so what makes you think you are invulnerable to a kneecapping? I say again, drop it for the sake of your family.
SL,
The means but not the ability….there is a great difference…. call it anything you want…from what I have seen from the inside out and the outside in….it is perceived by the person in the addiction or depression as a normal way of life….but it is still fucked up….I know…lol…no make that a big LOL…..