<p>How many times did you elect Dave Reichert sheriff before you sent him on to Congress?</p>
<p>Dave Reichert didn’t make the laws as sheriff; so what does that have to do with anything?</p>
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<p>Probably got a bit lazy after a while - bummer for him</p>
<p>they wouldn’t seize your house in [Seattle](<a href=“http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=25507”>http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=25507</a> ), [San Francisco](<a href=“http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1449”>http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1449</a>), or [Missoula](<a href=“New West”>New West)
not for your own use</p>
<p>But clear evidence that you are a mid size meth dealer?
Different story.</p>
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in 2005- June
*A search of the Nissan incident to that arrest uncovered various </p>
<p>controlled substances, including methamphetamine and oxycodone pills, as well </p>
<p>as drug paraphernalia, $21,406 in cash, and a notebook containing a list of </p>
<p>names and corresponding sums of money ( '04 Nissan registered to parents)*</p>
<p>In 2005- July
*On July 3, 2005, a police officer pulled Thomas over while he was driving </p>
<p>a friend’s vehicle, and arrested him for driving with a suspended license. A </p>
<p>subsequent search of the vehicle pursuant to a search warrant uncovered a </p>
<p>large quantity of controlled substances including methamphetamine, cocaine, </p>
<p>and oxycodone pills. The search also uncovered drug paraphernalia, $5,266 in </p>
<p>cash, a drug ledger, and a licensing renewal notice for the Nissan which bore </p>
<p>the handwritten notation, “For Tom.”*
mom posted bail</p>
<p>In 2005- August
*a police officer observed Thomas again unconscious </p>
<p>in the driver’s seat of the Nissan. The vehicle was parked in a convenience </p>
<p>store parking lot with the engine running. The police officer roused Thomas and
The police officer </p>
<p>conducted a search of Thomas and the vehicle incident to that arrest, which </p>
<p>uncovered a large quantity of controlled substances, including a baggie </p>
<p>containing 77 oxycodone pills and a 110-gram brick of cocaine. The search also </p>
<p>uncovered $6,600 in cash and a large quantity of various personal items </p>
<p>belonging to Thomas, which filled between five and eight large trash bags.</p>
<p>Thomas’s brother drove by the scene of the arrest while it was underway, and </p>
<p>subsequently notified Alan of the unfolding events. Alan then proceeded to the </p>
<p>scene where police officers informed him that Thomas was being placed under </p>
<p>arrest and showed him the items uncovered during the search of the Nissan.*</p>
<p>Mom posted bail again :o</p>
<p>** In 2005- Sept**
*On September 9, 2005, a police officer observed Thomas unconscious in </p>
<p>the driver’s seat of a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle, registered to Stephne, while the </p>
<p>vehicle was parked in a convenience store parking lot. After rousing Thomas, </p>
<p>the police officer ran a check on Thomas’s name and learned of the existence of </p>
<p>an outstanding warrant for his arrest.*</p>
<p>I really didn’t have the stomach to read any further- Im surprised they don’t force him into detox</p>
<p>It really is the lkind of situation wherein you would have to have seen it all unfold to know what the real truth is- the dates are pretty close together and what parent would want to see their kid as a druggie. This guy was 24 and did not live there, but had their car?? Or maybe not? </p>
<p>I wonder why it took so long for him to be charged in the June arrest, if they took the car in Sept (based on a Sept arrest?) why wasn’t he already in jail? Is there a program in WA to put a new offender into rehab instead of jail at all?</p>
<p>It does sound like the parents could ahve done “more” at least by confiscating the car, assuming they could find him, but if the first they knew about it was July and the car was taken in Sept, that is about 8 weeks to learn of a problem, try to figure out how serious it is (remember with HIPAA and privacy, they may not have had the right to know details) and deal with it and as well as dealing with there own emotions, and still be working or living there lives.</p>
<p>Eight weeks is not long to find an EFFECTIVE way to deal with him- rehab? jail? Who pays? Get the car back? How?</p>
<p>I don’t know how it all works, enabling is no good, but knowing about the seeming randomness of things which happen in court (OJ? Lindsey Lohan? Britt? Paris?) vs common sense, I do not know how long it would take to actually deal with the fallout of a child getting arrested in ones own car??</p>
<p>what I don’t understand is, he was unemployed, had a juvenile conviction for drug dealing- and his parents allowed him to live with them & apparently didn’t feel that changing their voice mail password to deny Thomas access to their messages was a priority.</p>
<p>I would have never bailed him out.</p>
<p>I think it is difficult to judge parents like these. I’m not sure if any of us can know what we would actually do if we had a child in a complete tailspin. You’re talking about people who are really in a war zone.</p>
<p>Actually I do- my husband is a recovering alcoholic and when I had two young children I finally kicked him out even though during the years when he was gone he barely saw the kids and we couldn’t contact him because he was living with his parents ( so no rent) .
He went through AA and anger management therapy and came back a couple years later.</p>
<p>And this was the father of my kids- high need kids not adult kids who were unemployed.</p>
<p>If they are that messed up get them in therapy, but don’t make it easy for them to live life the way they always have if you disagree with it.</p>
<p>IMO- this man is begging for someone to push him into help-
I would say passing out in public
and being arrested 4 times in as many months for drugs is an indication that he can’t get himself help</p>
<p>“Dave Reichert didn’t make the laws as sheriff; so what does that have to do with anything?”</p>
<p>“If you think that’s right, I encourage you to run for office and mention your support for this policy in your campaign. I would enjoy watching the results.”</p>
<p>He ran for office multiple times, and heavily supported the policy (and funded his office with the proceeds.)</p>
<p>I’m amazed that the police never got a warrant to search the house. The parents should consider themselves lucky.</p>
<p>Yeah, EK, maybe you bail out your kid the first time, in shock, and figuring you can help improve the process, but the same summer, another arrest, they’d be learning their lesson in jail, were it me. From what I have seen on TV 
it seems like bail money is simply lost, so it’s not like they would ahve thought he would pay them back, so they are probably out a few thousand in bail money in addition to the cars. If my kid were using my car and was arrested, my car would be removed from their possession, unless something changed in their life very quickly.</p>
<p>I think they get bail money back when the person goes to court- isn’t it just to guarantee their appearance?
However- if you have to put up say something as collateral, you pay the bail bondsman a %?
so that you lose but the rest you get back.</p>
<p>According to the expert, Judge Judy, when you pay a bail bondsman 10% of the bail amount, you lose that 10% amount forever, that is the cost of using the bail guy and not putting up the entire amount. I guess if you put up the entire amount yourself, then that comes back?? I always wondered why people were suing for bail money- okay, I admit it, when I hit later night trash TV, that is what I stop on ;)</p>
<p>The parents of this noodnick have paid bail $$ - several times $$ - supported him as he is unemployed $$ - and now have lost their vehicles $$ due to this ‘kids’ idiocracy - whew - parents need an intervention…</p>