Felon arrested by CHP in S. Tahoe
A Nevada County woman was arrested Nov. 4 on several felony charges.
The incident started at 2:55am Tuesday when two California Highway Patrol officers spotted a vehicle on Lake Tahoe Boulevard near Third Street in South Lake Tahoe that matched the description of a stolen vehicle from earlier in the shift.
Officers made a U-turn to overtake the vehicle, but the driver made an abrupt turn onto southbound Third Street. Officers said she made several turns in an attempt to evade them. Then the suspect stopped suddenly in the Matterhorn Hotel parking lot.
The driver, Sarah Elizabeth Downey, was on felony probation out of Nevada County. Officers searched the vehicle and said they found a loaded handgun and drug paraphernalia in the passenger compartment. She was arrested and booked into the local jail.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
Sarah will look particularly fetching in an orange jumpsuit and an iron ankle bracelet.
With the passage of the biggest fraud in history, Prop. 47, that decriminalizes thefts as minor offences, she might not even stay in jail for an hour. People should prepare for hordes of thieves everywhere.
Justice, you’re right. This is part of what’s already happening:
http://www.sacsheriff.com/media/Release.aspx?id=1230
And this:http://eastcountytoday.net/brentwood-poa-on-prop-47-are-the-police-that-out-of-touch-with-their-communities/
Whoever wrote, and obfuscated the facts about, this initiative was either stupid or nefarious.
It seems the intent of Prop.47 was to outright count on people who only read the fake title of the bill which was the opposite of what the bill did which should be illegal as it is fraud. Every DA and Sheriff across the state warned what this did and the bill has an immediate release for thousands written in. This “Get out of jail free” bill that makes thefts and drug crimes minor offences will cause a huge increase in crime and anything left outside will be gone, there is also the huge burden on the welfare system. It must be some new liberal voter recruitment drive, there is no other explanation. Between criminals and illegals it is hard to say who their base has the most of, luckily the rest of the country rejected their party and wants them out and stopped and bills like this are a great example of why.
Wow! Another troll of a human on probation breaking the law. Shocking! Yes, get ready for hundreds of these sub humans to infest our towns thanks to idiots who voted for this proposition.
You folks are funny. You view providing health care and education as socialism, and feel incarceration, at a HUGE cost to taxpayers and society as a whole, as the answer to all our nation’s problems.
Pretzel logic.
Level: Read my links and see if you still think it’s funny.
I agree, victimless crimes should not be crimes. But that initiative intermingled victimless crimes (getting high) with property crimes (theft). They are SO not comparable. They didn’t belong together in the same bill.
So now, if somebody steals your $900 television, they get a ticket, they don’t get arrested. Same with your old car, your inexpensive gun, whatever.
It was a bad bill, and heavily misrepresented to the voters.
Every dim-wit who voted for this should be required to have a sign in their yards directing the newly released inmates to their place. The state should issue price scanners to newly released thieves so they know what to steal and merchants can prepare for them.
The reality is gun thefts will be minor offences now, cite and release stuff for many and that alone will increase serious crime and homicides and gang violence.
Leave it to Kalifornia and the PC machine to pass legislation like this. The theft of a persons property that they worked hard to buy the things they want in life only to be stolen by a POS who now faces a lesser penalty is absurd. Initial incarceration may not be the answer due to taxpayer costs but restitution, increased fines, and more community service definitely need to be imposed and enforced. Theft of certain items (i.e. firearms) need to be exempt from this BS law. A very high percentage of theft is due to people needing to feed their drug and alcohol addictions which in turn leads to larger crimes (DV, sexual assaults, ADW’s and the list goes on). Maybe this will lead to a little more vigilante and street justice behavior by responsible upstanding citizens who are fed up with a broken justice system. Kalifornia has been going in the wrong direction in many ways for a while now and this is just another step down the rabbit hole.
The problem with just incarcerating everyone you deem undesirable for the rest of their lives is that it doesn’t call into question the inequality and the blatant hypocrisy of our culture-for example: Rich criminals suffer from affluenza, poor criminals are ‘bad seeds’. State and Federal prisons have become a ‘school for learning more crime skills’. For profit prisons create a pipeline for incarceration that targets children and youth up into and through adulthood while the owners bill the government millions. There has got to be a different way of defining the problem AND approaching the solutions. Suggesting or enacting ‘vigilante justice’ doesn’t solve the problems we face.
I think when Level wrote the word “funny’ he meant either “ridiculous” or ‘so full of __it you’ve gotten used to the stench’. Level, please correct me if I’m wrong.
The criminals that will be allowed to roam our neighborhoods can be assured to have the likes of injustice, dog, kit carson, et all…as their allies because GODFORBID we would have LAWS that protect the victims and their property. That is socialism and supported by liberal obama lovers and we all know what loosers that crop of humanity is (sarcasim intended).
The blog trolls are so confused, they want their cake and eat it too. Well choke on it…
If some urchent breaks into my house to steal or endanger it better be ready to be dispatched over a misdemeanor.
uh….what’s an urchent?
inJustice sure does know a lot about what it’s like to be a dim-wit…and judging by his increasingly ramped up rants doesn’t know squat about reality…except that it is a novel concept.
URCHIN…..thanks for the spell check.
go: Last time I checked the criminals don’t follow the laws. So what’s your point?
SLTEXPAT: I totally agree.
You are welcome.
GF, your rage is making you say ridiculous things. You’d better look up the definition of ‘socialism’. Your statement makes no sense.