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Lawbreaker who bit bitten back |
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December 6, 2017 |
By Mike Weland
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Taking a bite out of crim ... er, a cop, and
trying to lie down instead of climbing into the
back seat of a patrol car last April proved costly
to a 26-year-old
Bonners Ferry man, who was sentenced last week
to serve 30 days of a four-month sentence and
ordered to cough up $450.
Curtis Tucker pled
guilty before Judge Justin Julian to a
misdemeanor charge of simple battery, a
misdemeanor, after initially being charged with
"Assault or Battery Upon Certain Personnel," the
official Idaho title for attempting violence on
the person of a peace officer, which is a
felony, after he turned up April 26 at an Apple
Alley home in Bonners Ferry known to be a place to smoke dope.
According to court documents, instead of coming
along peacefully, as required as a condition of
his probation for a February, 2017, conviction for
making harassing phone calls, which also
required that he refrain from going in or around
places where dope was known to be smoked, due to a 2015 conviction for possession of a
controlled substance, Tucker chose to
bite the arm of Bonners Ferry Police officer
Travis Stolley.
When a second BFPD officer, Willie Cowell,
later offered to help Tucker into the patrol vehicle for a leisurely ride to
jail, Tucker decided he didn't want to
make the trip and instead pushed
Cowell, and then fell heroically to the ground and lay
there.
Needless to say, he went to jail anyway, and
that brave act of defiance earned him an
additional charge of resisting
arrest.
On the battery charge, he was sentenced to 180 days in jail,
with 150 days
suspended, ordered to undergo a drug treatment program,
fined $232.50 and
$217.50 costs and placed on 364 days probation.
He also pled guilty to resisting arrest, for which he
was sentenced to another 30 days in jail, suspended,
a $200 fine and 364
days probation.
A third charge, "Frequenting Place where a
Controlled Substance Used, Manufactured,
Cultivated, Held, Delivered, Given," Idaho's
official verbiage for being caught in a place
known as one in which to smoke dope, was mercifully
dismissed by the prosecution. |
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