Submitted by Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor
This might be a face only a Deputy Prosecutor could love. Reportedly so much that Spokane County Deputy Prosecutor Marriya Wright is now facing charges of Rendering Criminal Assistance in the First Degree and having a curious incident where she is alleged to have passed to a jail inmate a picture of herself posing in a bikini.
Convicted felon Matthew Baumrucker described in a letter to KREM News as a “Cinderella Story” of a relationship between a couple from the opposite side of the tracks and the law.
During the time when Matthew was a fugitive from justice, having an outstanding arrest warrant, Spokane Police Detectives allege that Marriya and Matthew exchanged over 1,200 text messages after they pinged his cell phone in an attempt to locate and apprehend him on an arrest warrant for drug possession and for investigation in an assault case.
An unsealed document revealed that during the time that Matthew was wanted, witnesses stated he contacted Marriya asking for help in avoiding arrest. KREM reported security video showed two, who investigators believe is Marriya and Matthew in her red SUV during the time he was wanted by authorities. Records showed she gave Matthew and one of his friends a ride to a trailer in the Spokane Valley during the time he was on the run. Witnesses told detectives they heard Marriya tell Matthew to “take care of his warrants,” but they say Marriya never made an attempt to turn him over to police according to court documents.
Once authorities located and arrested Matthew, Marriya seemed to not be able to resist staying in touch.
Jail staff became suspicious when Marriya visited Matthew ten times within a month. It was highly unusual for a Deputy Prosecutor to visit an inmate this many times. She listed the reason for the visit as “Professional” and staff provided her access to an attorney-client cell where documents could be passed between them.
The tryst culminated with a corrections officer allegedly witnessing Marriya provide Matthew with a photograph of her in a bikini. A search warrant located the photograph.
Marriya is on administrative leave. Her duties with the prosecutor’s office formerly included prosecution of property crimes not public representation of criminal defendants. Reportedly the FBI is also investigating the incident.
This Cinderella story obviously will not have a happy ending.
By Darren Smith
Sources:
KREM News
KHQ – Photo Credit
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Marriya could try this as a defense plan. It might work. I’ll give it a 50/50 shot.
There was a sign in the bathroom at the airport here in New Orleans and it said “pork em if ya gottem”. What do you Earthlings mean by such a statement? Does it have to do with sex and the single girl? Folks back on Remulak need to know.
Oh, I see: “Marriya Wright is now facing charges of Rendering Criminal Assistance in the First Degree … Records showed she gave Matthew and one of his friends a ride to a trailer in the Spokane Valley during the time he was on the run.”
I overlooked that Wright may have knowingly aided her boyfriend in evading the law.
Fix: …
andas Ken and Free NYC Pics point out.I’ll add that, yes, being in love does make people lose their bearing. It’s wonderful, but also risky.
Does this mean she has blown the chance to meet the guy with the devil horns and 666 tatted on his forehead? She should have saved herself a while longer!
carol8 – I think it has been a long time since she had something to save. 😉
Samantha Lowrey,
The obvious legal issue is not law-breaking per se, but professional conduct and ethics, and Ken and Free NYC Pics point out. That’s an employment and state bar issue.
I don’t believe she had an affirmative duty, even as a prosecutor and law enforcement official with knowledge of her boyfriend’s outstanding warrants, to report him, but I could be wrong about that. I don’t see in the OP whether the warrants were issued in her jurisdiction.
If she misrepresented her role and their relationship in the prison visits, that seems the likeliest statutory offense.
I guess the maxim is correct and the heart truly does what what the heart wants.
@rightofcenter
Thank you! OK, here is the last Irish Poem on this topic so I can get this demon off my back:
Whack Jobs???
An Irish Poem by Squeeky Fromm
There once was a criminal meanie
With few options in jail for his “weenie.”
Sooo, a prosecutrix
Hooked him up with some pix
Of herself in a skimpy bikini!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
The fact the this post inspired Squeeky so eloquently was worth it alone.
Thanks for the laughs!
Love conquers all.
@traveling limey
@ modern miner
Thank you!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeaky. Awesome.
Karen, I think it’s often daddy issues. And great link. The Onion is a treasure.
Well, the alleged “affair”/emotional attachment is an ethical issue, but they’re charging affirmative assistance, ostensibly the text messages she sent somehow assisted him in his flight from justice? What facts exist that back up that allegation.
@KarenS
I love that link! I swear I have had that same conversatation with some of my friends.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Awesome, Sqeeky! I love those limericks both!
@KarenS
Thank you! There is one more screaming to get out, but I took a cold shower and had a Bloody Mary, sooo I am temporarily in control.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
The Onion explains this phenomenon beautifully:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/dates-flaws-coming-at-woman-faster-than-she-can-ra,36629/?utm_source=The+Onion&utm_campaign=df3ede81e2-The_Onion_Weekly_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6a8b5ad20e-df3ede81e2-16910085
Squeeky – that was awesome. 🙂
Why do women do this?
We are instinctively attracted to a man who can defend us and our offspring from all threats, who can handle anything and keep his cool. The guy who can build us a 2 story house with a gazebo if we’re stranded in the wilderness, fight grizzly bears, and intellectually solve a crisis. That’s evolutionary pressure to find the best mate. (And YES, I know we women are fully capable of taking care of ourselves.)
But sometimes that gets misinterpreted to “the baddest guy in the room” who is, coincidentally, also bad to women. These guys are wrecking balls in women’s lives, and yet women cling to them.