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Prefect

Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Pennsylvania


After being accused of throwing a beer bottle at their house, we showed up the following morning with the alternator belt of the accused car and showed it was not possible. After talking to the police and the homeowner, the homeowner admitted that his wife only saw a car speed off and assumed it was the said car.

Now lets get into the said car. This car is a 93 eagle talon, so i am going to call it the talon. My brother who drives to school every morning passes these people and their kids while they wait for the bus. After they had tried to run out infront of the car and stop my brother, all the while yelling at him. This is a famous task they do, not to just me but my friends. Always claiming everyone is going too fast. Regardless of what i say what speed they were going no one can prove that anyways, but i am going to say in full honesty and confidence it was 15mph while the limit is 25.

After this has gone on for a while, words were exchanged between them. He always drives the talon, except for those occasions where he takes my mothers jeep, and apparently they had written down the plate for the talon.

Now that you know this, lets get back to the beer bottle.

2 nights ago, apparently someone had "thrown" a bottle at their house. They called the cops and gave em that plate number. Then as my mother was driving by in our jeep, the person identified the jeep while the police were there and pulled over my mom. Explained the situation and the cop told my mother they had the plate number (dont want to give out numbers) and then she called me and my brother. This made my chuckle a little because the car was out of commission for almost a whole day while we waited on the alternator belt.
Me and my brother went down and confronted them about the issue and the fellow, went on about what happens in the morning times, instead of the bottle thing. We brought the chewed belt, we had to pick up from up the street. We have numerous witnesses to the belt breaking when it did and the car being done for until it was replaced.
We discussed this with the cop and all was well. The homeowner, which identified himself as Denny, said that what actually happened was his wife who was sleeping, then corrected himself and said actually wasnt sleeping, heard a noise looked out and saw a car speed off.

We then find out today, 2 days later, that harrassment charges have been filed. And the officer told us the lady said that she saw edwin (my other brother and the accused) speeding off in the black talon.

Edwin was in jail a few years back for burning down a bridge. And hes afraid thisll put him back in jail until its all sorted.

We went down and talked to the original officer we met with, and he told us the charges are for harrassment not the bottle incident. But when my brother had talked to the cop earlier he said it was about the bottle.

My questions now are, what charges can we file against them, since the report was obviously false and she lied to the officers. Plus, she harrassed the hell out of them first and instigated the whole thing. And we have numerous witnesses to this also.

What can we do and can my brother go back to jail while this is being sorted?
 


JETX

Senior Member
Prefect said:
what charges can we file against them, since the report was obviously false and she lied to the officers.
You can't file anything against them. They have the right to report what they believe to be the facts to the police. The police then can investigate and take whatever action is deemed appropriate.

What can we do and can my brother go back to jail while this is being sorted?
Do whatever the court or police tell you to do.

Depending on the results of any criminal proceeding, then you might, or might not, have sufficient grounds for pursuing a civil action against them to recover your damages.
 

Motherto6

Member
They can not put your brother back in jail unless he is found guilty of a crime. If he has already paid the penalty for the bridge burning and is not on probation, then he has no need to fear going to jail for this. He has served the punishment for the other incident and can't be held accountable for it a second time.
 

JETX

Senior Member
Motherto6 said:
They can not put your brother back in jail unless he is found guilty of a crime. If he has already paid the penalty for the bridge burning and is not on probation, then he has no need to fear going to jail for this.
And of course, if he is still on probation for the prior conviction (as implied in the OP's post), that is not true.
 

Motherto6

Member
Correct, which is why I stated "and is not on probation". If he's on probation then they will throw his rear end back in jail where he belongs. Thanks for the clarification JETX.
 

Prefect

Junior Member
Well he is on probation.


Why can we not file anything? They BLATANTLY lied in two statements, to the police, on which their charges against us are based upon. This just doesnt make sense to me.

So in the case of someone trying to press charges against him, he would have to wait in jail until they declared he harrassed/didnt harrass someone? Thanks for all the responses on such a timely manner. :)

EDIT - Found out its for Harrassment and disorderly conduct, both summary charges.
 
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