Blackmailing me from jail

[mrcheerful]

i know there are books out there you are Guilty, but from what shes said i take it this guy is a hard core jail bird and has done this before. i know a few like this guy, they do petty crimes and get arrested alot. then when they get out they start looking for a mouse to support them so when they get busted again they have someone outside to make things easier on them. i'm sure if she did a back ground check she'd find others that he played. somebody thats in the system for the first time wouldn't know how to go about getting a mouse to support them, or even thinks about stuff like that, they spend the first two years getting over the shock of being locked up. seen inmates doing that with female gaurds until they found out that when caught they get a CSC charge thrown on them and the gaurd gets fired. but then again i'm only going on what i learned from my experinces.

 

[cricket65]

Maybe I should change my name from cricket to mouse because that is exactly what is going on. I'm just worried that turning him in would make it worse for me & my family when he gets out. See, he's supposed to spend 6 more months in the county jail and then he's headed to prison. He's got absolutely no one at all to support him. He will go completely ballistic when I use his letter against him. But, I have to do something because he's ruining me financailly and emotionally. Can someone tell me what might happen to him if I go to the jail authorities with this? Would I have to maintain restraining orders against him for the rest of my life? I'm getting very worried!
Thanks so much, you guys, for helping me finally get to talk to someone about this. I've been doing this on my own with only my own counsel for 6 months.
Cricket
aka "mouse"

 

[mrcheerful]

like i said don't worry about the what if's, right now deal with the situation, the longer you delay the more your going to pay. deal with the known, your being blackmailed and the only way to get out of it is by turning him in. whatever happens after that, who knows, but there are things you can do to right now that might lesson the wreckege. tell your mate, take a PPO out on him and turn him in. if you do that if the laws are anything like they are in michigan, if you can prove he's a threat to your life they will contact you every time he goes up for parole and if he does parole they let you know that too. 9 times out of 10 once these type of people know you can't be pushed around anymore they find a new victim to take your place, very few will follow through on their threats, if anything happens to you, the police will be looking his way. thats why if your going to threaten anyone never do it in frount of witnesses or in writing. my gf escaped from her ex after he put her 12 year old son through a wall, he had always told her that if she left he'd hunt her down and kill her and the boy. well here it is 2 years later and he's called once trying to hit her up for $500. but we haven't heard anything from him since then. what i'm saying is talk is cheap and drunks do a lot of talking. thats what my experinces have shown me, he's risking even more time in the pen and believe me after a year or two of drinking spud juice he won't be willing to risk being sent back.

 

[cricket65]

take a PPO out on him and turn him in.

What is a PPO? Will anyone even take this seriously? Because he isn't threatening my life, he's just going to expose my lack of moral character.

 

[mrcheerful]

personal protection order, regaurdles of what his threats are its always better to be safe and make it as hard as possible for him to get in touch with you again.if he comes within so many feet near you or your property he can be arrested.

 

[cricket65]

Okay, I called and talked to the Sargent over the inmates in his pod. I told him everything. He said there was nothing they could really do.
They can't take any of his property (like my letter) away from him. He's allowed to have up to 10 letters in his cell. Additionally, they can't control who he sends letters out to. The only thing he suggested was to tell people that they might be getting a letter that incriminates me and my character. He told me to call him back if there were any other threats or harassments.
So I guess I just do nothing and take whatever comes my way. I don't feel an urgency to file a restraining order on him because he will be incarcerated for another 17 months and I don't know of anything else I can do.