ASHEVILLE — Authorities charged two with robbing a man at gunpoint Thursday.
William Cody Clark, 17, and Joshua Glenn Banks, 20, both of Brickyard Road in Asheville, were each charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon. According to arrest warrants, Clark and Banks stole $12 cash and a wallet from a man.
Banks also was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, simple possession of oxycontin and simple marijuana possession. His bond was set at $11,500.
Clark was released under $5,000 unsecured bond.
Ok folks let’s take a sober look at what just happened..A drug addict robs some poor mope with a gun so he can buy some drugs…The Judge lets him out…
Now what do you think Mr. Clark is going to do once his hidden stash of Oxy’s run out..?
That’s right!! he’s going to rob somebody else, only this time he’s going to kill his victim so he doesn’t leave a witness ...
The guys obviously dangerous and out of his mind for drugs (addiction to oxycontin is one of the worst addictions known to mankind..)
I have often made the point we should assign a shrink to do a serious psychological assessment of these bozos and give an appropriate sentence..Crazy I tell ya just Crazy..
Lawyers and Judges are not trained health care professionals and they do not have the skills or training to do the job..
Here’s a list of other arrests made the same day of the above mentioned robbers ..Any body see anything unusual?
Other Buncombe County arrests
- Angela Marie Neumann, 23, of Solitude RDG, Swannanoa, charged with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, forgery. Her bond was set at $50,000.
- David Lee Metcalf, 45, of Tipton Hill Road, Leicester, charged with felony possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, simple possession of oxycodone, and simple possession of alproxolam. His bond was set at $1,000.
- Omar Obed Acosta, 37, of Oakbrook Drive, Asheville, charged with felony cocaine possession. His bond was set at $1,000.
- Michael Lee Ross Ward, 21, of New Leicester Highway, Asheville, charged with sell or deliver cocaine, sell or deliver marijuana, possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine and trafficking in opium or heroin. His bond was set at $4,000.
- Candaus Vernard Richardson, 37, of Hanover Street, Asheville, charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver crack cocaine and possession of crack cocaine. His bond was set at $2,000.
- Derrick Lamar Pearson, 21, of Underwood Road, Fletcher, charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, selling cocaine and second-degree trespassing.
Pearson also was arrested for failure to appear on charges of assault on a government official, second-degree trespassing, assault with a deadly weapon, breaking and entering, cocaine possession, habitual felon, driving while license revoked and resisting public officers.
This guy robbed a guy with an AXE? and he’s having lunch next to you at Mafels…What the f&**?
ASHEVILLE — Authorities Wednesday arrested a Canton man charged with armed robbery involving an axe.
Aaron Justin Atwood, 30, of Vision Road, stole two 12-inch Italian statues worth $800 while threatening use of an axe, according to the arrest warrant. Atwood was charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon. He was released under $10,000 unsecured bond.
Noun 1. unsecured bond - the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future
debenture, debenture bond
bond certificate, bond - a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal
secured bond - a bond that is back by collateral
I guess there’s not enough prison beds…maybe that’s why NC has such a high crime rate..higher than Los Angeles..(google it)
Parole out of control (in North Carolina)
Creative Loafing - Charlotte ^ | March 31, 2009 | Tara Servatius
Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:45:02 PM by MitchellC
They are the worst of the worst: killers whose brutality still has the power to shock even decades after their crimes. They were sentenced to life in prison or once sat on death row. Some killed cops. Others tortured and slaughtered children. Some are spree killers who racked up multiple body counts.
These are monsters and should never see the outside of a prison again—the ones you worry might escape in a natural disaster. Yet they’ve been shuffled out the door in a “conga line” for years now, thanks to the efforts of the lunatic fringe North Carolina Parole Commission.
The three members of the commission are appointed by the governor. The majority of the commission—two members—must agree to deny or approve parole for all eligible offenders, a hell of a lot of power concentrated in the hands of just three people. As I’ve reported before, the commission isn’t required to parole anyone, but it has a long history of near unfathomable sympathy toward the most vicious of the state’s killers.
Then, four years ago, the North Carolina state senate came up with a brilliant idea. It would push the parole commission to shove them out the door faster.
A state senate amendment passed in 2005 requires the prison system to enroll a minimum of 20 percent of parole eligible inmates in the Mutual Agreement Parole Program, a pre-release program.
It’s the state legislature’s way of pressuring the parole commission to let even more prisoners out, former Durham prosecutor Eric Evenson explained to Raleigh’s WRAL this week. And it is working.
Since 2005, the average number of those with first-degree murder convictions who were paroled more than tripled from 5.7 to 21. By 2007, the number increased to 27.
The problem is that different sentencing guidelines apply to those who committed their crimes before 1994. Today, if you are sentenced to life in prison, you serve it with no possibility of parole. But before 1994, when sentencing rules were reformed, it wasn’t unusual for criminals to serve just 20 percent of their sentences.
From the examples you cited, it seems actual illegal drugs are less offensive than legal drugs obtained illegally. What’s up with that? If judges are not particularly offended by pot and coke, why is our Congress?
Ya know when somebodies robbing somebody with a gun to buy drugs….aren’t they screaming hey!!
lock me up right away..I’m a dangerous person..I’ve lost my mind I can’t control myself…
The question of what drugs to legalize ect..is another thread…
What kills me ..is the guy you’re eating a burrito next to at Mamacitas..might have robbed a guy with an AXE the day before..am I the only one that finds this unusual?
Not only are Women getting off light for crimes..now they’re making men obsolete..
Women vs. Men
Michelle Hass in conversation with Scott Szakonyi
“OK folks, Loki and I have been chatting, and we’re ready to raise a ruckus that might go on for months.”
Chiniginish and I relish the challenge with Coyote looking over Our shoulders and chuckling
“Here’s the question: Are women superior to men, and if so, why?
I THINK that women are superior to men in the modern world because evolution is lagging society. Most of the evolution of the human race (about 60 million yrs) took place in hunter/gatherer tribes, where aggressive behavior on the part of the male hunters was a survival trait, and relating/caring behavior was a survival trait for females. Now, in the 20 thousand or so years since we have become agrarian, the need for male hunter aggressiveness has gone the way of the Dodo, while the need for relating/caring behavior has become primary. Where does this leave us?
“Well, as I see it, women are almost ideally suited to the overcrowded, communication intensive environment that we call modern society. Men, on the other hand, are like people with no arms playing handball. It’s not that we’re bad folk, it’s just that we were designed by evolution for an environment that hasn’t existed for 20 THOUSAND YEARS, which is a real drop in the bucket in terms of evolution. Evolution isn’t going to be giving us any help for at least a few million years; maybe never since we are constantly screwing up the gene pool with our wars that leave the genetically defective to breed and send the genetically preferable off to evolutionary dead ends. So all we men can do is try to better ourselves and ask for patience on the part of women, who must feel like the entire male sex has completely missed the boat. “
Well, you’ve got a nice point, but it assumes something that I believe ‘taint necessarily so. Is male aggressiveness part of nature or nurture?
The jury seems to be coming back from a long period of deliberation, and it looks like the verdict is NURTURE.
Judges are starting to think they’re psycho-therapists..why don’t we just hire real therapists who are trained and skilled?
Judges write creative sentences
By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
The defendant before Judge Larry Standley in Harris County, Texas, criminal court in January had slapped his wife on New Year’s Eve. The defense and the prosecutor had agreed on a punishment. Standley was about to sign off on it when, on impulse, he tacked on another condition: yoga class.
Then came the uproar. CNN wanted an interview. Newspapers worldwide wrote about the yoga judge. Hate mail arrived from a North Carolina man who accused him of promoting Buddhism.
Standley stands by his sentence. He says he hopes the combination of traditional punishment and a mind- and body-stretching yoga class will help the man control his behavior. And, he says, it certainly can’t hurt.
At a time when many of the nation’s judges feel hamstrung by proscribed sentencing guidelines, some judges still take advantage of the leeway they have. Though a number of judges are just reacting to the guidelines, others are imposing odd sentences out of frustration with repeat offenders or as a way to avoid sending small-time criminals to overcrowded jails. Others do it simply because they can. Creative sentences, which vary from wacky to touchy-feely to downright mean, are tacked on to jail time, community service and probation. Many are controversial.
Among examples:
• People convicted of domestic violence or fighting by Municipal Judge Frances Gallegos in Santa Fe are often sentenced to a twice-a-week, New Age anger-management class held in the courthouse lobby. In the lobby, transformed with candles, mirrors and aromatherapy, offenders experience tai chi, meditation, acupuncture and Eastern philosophy as a means of controlling rage. Gallegos calls her methods “therapeutic jurisprudence” and says she turned to the novel approach when she became dismayed by the number of repeat offenders returning to her courtroom.
• Municipal Judge David Hostetler of Coshocton, Ohio, this month ordered a man to jog for an hour every other day around the block where the jail is located. The man had run away from police after a traffic accident. Hostetler routinely turns to alternative punishments to keep offenders out of an overcrowded local jail. He received worldwide attention in 2001 when he ordered two men to dress in women’s clothing and walk down Main Street as a sentence for throwing beer bottles at a car and taunting a woman. The Ohio Legislature has enacted a law that allows judges to choose alternative punishments if they are related to the crime.
i say we overhaul the correctional system to do,... umm,. .. correcting. locking people up does not transform their behavior. we need to offer better help to those who suffer from these problems.
I agree with Chops. Yes - kinda like CASA but for adults. I’m thankful to never have been in the correctional system. Maybe they do offer that. I don’t know.
I am very leery of the “therapeutic” aspect of law enforcement. Laws are written by lawmakers, who themselves usually are not mental health=care professionals. In fact the only lawmaker I know of who has a background in mental health is Carl Mumpower, and if you want him in charge of your laws…well, you need to stop wanting that.
We have a number of bad laws on the books. Everyone laughs at the old bad laws we no longer have, and people gnash their teeth as the new ones that get enacted. If you have a therapeutic model of law enforcement, you run the risk of any crime eventually being labeled evidence of a commitable disorder. That would probably mean you would be locked up until the system decided you were cured, not when you sentence was over. Do you want people being “cured” of smoking pot? Of running a red light in the middle of nowhere? Of driving when the highway patrol/psychotherapist guy needs to fufilll a quota? Do you want people to be “cured” of protesting the government in a way the government doesn’t happen to like this week?
Homosexuality used to be a crime. It also used to be a mental disorder. Now its legal. Now homosexuals are sane. That’s great. Before its legalization and normalization, hundreds of thousands of men and women in this country were beaten, terrorized, locked up, shamed and condemned, and tortured by the State, whether in the Big House or the Nut House. Let’s try to avoid doing that again, shall we?
