Arrested
This is in response to what David Berman has initially reported on his blog article this morning about Tim Stebbins and I being arrested by the Henderson Police Department yesterday.
The SCA board and its attorney apparently have deceived Henderson Police Department Sgt Jeffery Farley and Chief Chambers into not only failing to find the truth in our well-documented request for an investigation, there appears to us there may have been political influence used to cause a complaint of suspected false police report against us honorable citizens. HPD is likely to learn all of the truth in the future and find it impossible to support its allegations against Tim and I. If HPD discovers it has been lied to and used by certain individuals, there might be severe, reverse consequences.
Tim and I were required by statute to report our concerns about apparent board criminal law violations, and HPD was required to investigate. We had been previously advised by other law enforcement officials that we were doing our civic duty to ask HPD to look into what appeared to us to be an important law violation. If HPD could not confirm our reported concerns, all it was obligated to do was dismiss the report as having insufficient evidence. But, by charging Tim and I of willfully filing a false police report, there appears to have been some retaliation instigated by certain board members with high-level influence in Henderson politics.
For example, after the HPD failed to substantiate our reported concerns, they had us arrested and processed through the jail for what is supposedly a “minor misdemeanor” allegation. But, instead of a traffic-ticket-like process, the HPD forced us to go through their “perp-walk” used for hardened criminals involved with murder, rape, drug-dealing and other very serious of crimes.
We were stripped down, forced to post a cash bond, fingerprinted, tightly handcuffed our hands behind our backs to benches in the jail, and forced to wait in such humiliating and degrading circumstances with hardened criminals for many hours. Meanwhile, HPD processed many serious criminal violations ahead of us–while we were forced to watch and wait. We suspect our basic citizen rights were violated with this obvious over-reaction to our simple request for an investigation.
Unfortunately for those who have strongly opposed public exposure of internal SCA disputes, your SCA board has initiated the worst possible course of action. Now, instead of internally resolving the matter of promptly returning the many millions of accumulated surplus assessments back to the community (as required by laws/rules), Tim and I are being forced to publicly defend our actions of daring to question the board’s apparent law violations.
And, once again, the board’s law firm stands to reap windfall profits while defending the board against the consequences of following the law firm’s poor advice.
You can be certain we will defend our honor and ethics to the best of our abilities, and for as long as it takes.
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