charlie sherrill
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These are three of the calls I've had in the last two days. There have been a lot more since I retired on January 18.
Call number one: Last night Maria called. She said she had some questions she wanted me to answer. She told me she was down the road from her 26 year old daughter's house waiting for a friend of her daughter's to bring her daughter's son to her. I asked why was she down the road, why not go pick the kid up. Maria then went into a long rant about how her daughter had one kid out of wedlock and shortly after that got pregnant again by a soldier who was getting deployed to Afghanistan. The daughter married the soldier who was deployed shortly after the wedding. While he was gone she found out he had another girl pregnant at the same time. The two mommies have been comparing notes while "Double Daddy" was gone and the relationship between Maria's daughter and baby daddy has soured. Back to why Maria was waiting down the road. "Double Daddy" showed up with a brand new unpregnant girlfriend and wanted to take his new three month old son with him and the new GF. Maria was afraid he'd snatch the kid so she went to pick him up and take him to her house. Her question to me was: "What can I do if he comes to my house and tries to break down my door and get his son?" Anybody confused yet? I basically told her not to take him to her house, take him somewhere Double Daddy doesn't know about, take two aspirin, and call a lawyer first thing in the morning.
Call number two: Robin called and said she was getting evicted and somebody had kicked in the back door of the trailer she was moving from and wanted to know what she could do to keep from paying for the door. Robin's stepfather is a childhood friend of mine. Robin is a big girl with lot's of tattoos and no job. I don't know how she could rent anything. About 15 years ago she came up pregnant with twin boys and about the time they were born the baby daddy went to jail. They never married. Not long after the twins were born her mother and stepfather got custody of them and have been raising them ever since. I told Robin she should start by getting a police report about the door and that maybe her landlord wouldn't charge her for the door. Not likely though because if she'd been paying her rent she would not be getting evicted. I told her to call the SO and have an officer meet her at the trailer and take a report so she'd have something to show the landlord. "I don't have a way to get there." I asked her if she had a car and she said she ran it into a power pole and didn't have insurance to get it fixed. "How are you moving out?" I asked. She said a friend was helping her and I envisioned another creature in a pickup like the last time I saw her several years ago. I told her to get the friend to take her back over there long enough to get the report done. "Uh, OK."
Call number three: A couple of days ago Deputy Chris called and wanted to know if I knew where "Jimmy" was. I know who Jimmy is and I told Chris I could probably locate him and asked why they were looking for him. Chris was not happy. He told me a lot of disgusting things Jimmy had done to his seven year old daughter and said he was trying to serve warrants on him for rape of a minor child. Chris said he had been to Jimmy's house and he wasn't there. He wanted to get to him before his neighbors told him officers had been there fearing he might take off. Jimmy is a wannabee. He works night watchman jobs, which is not a bad thing, but his uniform looks like Adolph Hitler on a SWAT team. He drives a white Tahoe with push bumpers, screen prisoner cage, red lights, and antennas everywhere. He's got all the latest gadgets he can legally own. I told Chris not to talk about him on the SO radio because Jimmy has a scanner that he never turns off. As far as I know he's not certified by any law enforcement agency. I called my friend Leland because I knew Leland knew his employer. Leland gave me the needed info and a couple of hours later Jimmy was picked from the warehouse he was guarding. Jimmy's kids were sent to foster care because his wife showed no inclination to protect them. Jimmy is in jail waiting on a bond hearing. After his arrest two more complaints about him and children were received and are being investigated. I could get deeper into this but I won't. I will say the investigator working this one has her hands full.
The phone quit ringing a couple of hours ago and I will now go back into retirement. The freezer is full of fish my granddaughters and I caught, the tomatoes are almost ripe and I have to retie them daily, the grass is cut but the mower broke down on the way back to the shed, I have other veggies to put up, and I still have a packed range box that I need to do something with. If somebody needs some help I'll still take time to listen though.
Call number one: Last night Maria called. She said she had some questions she wanted me to answer. She told me she was down the road from her 26 year old daughter's house waiting for a friend of her daughter's to bring her daughter's son to her. I asked why was she down the road, why not go pick the kid up. Maria then went into a long rant about how her daughter had one kid out of wedlock and shortly after that got pregnant again by a soldier who was getting deployed to Afghanistan. The daughter married the soldier who was deployed shortly after the wedding. While he was gone she found out he had another girl pregnant at the same time. The two mommies have been comparing notes while "Double Daddy" was gone and the relationship between Maria's daughter and baby daddy has soured. Back to why Maria was waiting down the road. "Double Daddy" showed up with a brand new unpregnant girlfriend and wanted to take his new three month old son with him and the new GF. Maria was afraid he'd snatch the kid so she went to pick him up and take him to her house. Her question to me was: "What can I do if he comes to my house and tries to break down my door and get his son?" Anybody confused yet? I basically told her not to take him to her house, take him somewhere Double Daddy doesn't know about, take two aspirin, and call a lawyer first thing in the morning.
Call number two: Robin called and said she was getting evicted and somebody had kicked in the back door of the trailer she was moving from and wanted to know what she could do to keep from paying for the door. Robin's stepfather is a childhood friend of mine. Robin is a big girl with lot's of tattoos and no job. I don't know how she could rent anything. About 15 years ago she came up pregnant with twin boys and about the time they were born the baby daddy went to jail. They never married. Not long after the twins were born her mother and stepfather got custody of them and have been raising them ever since. I told Robin she should start by getting a police report about the door and that maybe her landlord wouldn't charge her for the door. Not likely though because if she'd been paying her rent she would not be getting evicted. I told her to call the SO and have an officer meet her at the trailer and take a report so she'd have something to show the landlord. "I don't have a way to get there." I asked her if she had a car and she said she ran it into a power pole and didn't have insurance to get it fixed. "How are you moving out?" I asked. She said a friend was helping her and I envisioned another creature in a pickup like the last time I saw her several years ago. I told her to get the friend to take her back over there long enough to get the report done. "Uh, OK."
Call number three: A couple of days ago Deputy Chris called and wanted to know if I knew where "Jimmy" was. I know who Jimmy is and I told Chris I could probably locate him and asked why they were looking for him. Chris was not happy. He told me a lot of disgusting things Jimmy had done to his seven year old daughter and said he was trying to serve warrants on him for rape of a minor child. Chris said he had been to Jimmy's house and he wasn't there. He wanted to get to him before his neighbors told him officers had been there fearing he might take off. Jimmy is a wannabee. He works night watchman jobs, which is not a bad thing, but his uniform looks like Adolph Hitler on a SWAT team. He drives a white Tahoe with push bumpers, screen prisoner cage, red lights, and antennas everywhere. He's got all the latest gadgets he can legally own. I told Chris not to talk about him on the SO radio because Jimmy has a scanner that he never turns off. As far as I know he's not certified by any law enforcement agency. I called my friend Leland because I knew Leland knew his employer. Leland gave me the needed info and a couple of hours later Jimmy was picked from the warehouse he was guarding. Jimmy's kids were sent to foster care because his wife showed no inclination to protect them. Jimmy is in jail waiting on a bond hearing. After his arrest two more complaints about him and children were received and are being investigated. I could get deeper into this but I won't. I will say the investigator working this one has her hands full.
The phone quit ringing a couple of hours ago and I will now go back into retirement. The freezer is full of fish my granddaughters and I caught, the tomatoes are almost ripe and I have to retie them daily, the grass is cut but the mower broke down on the way back to the shed, I have other veggies to put up, and I still have a packed range box that I need to do something with. If somebody needs some help I'll still take time to listen though.
