Swat team up the road from me

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A standoff about 5 miles up the road from me in rural Maine, These things dont happen very often around here so seeing 25 state cop trucks and swat and negotiator trucks is kind of interesting . Whats more interesting is I had a run in with this guy about 3 years ago.

3 years ago i was driving home with my wife on a sunday afternoon when i came across a minivan stopped in the middle of the road and 2 people apparently in an altercation outside the vehicle. (Backroad alomst no traffic)

When I got close I saw a man getting into the minivan and a woman running away from the van down the middle of road with ripped up clothes so my instinct kicked in and I pulled up next to her and yelled GET IN!

I drove away with the woman and the van whipped around following me. The woman in back seat was crying and frantic and wreaked of alcohol. She then proceeded to tell me her boyfriend who was following had recently got out of prison, met her then started dating.

I called my buddy who is a local sheriff for advice and he said call 911 because he wasnt on duty and was too far away to help.

The convict stopped following me so i drove home to drop off wife (who was freaking out) and to grab a pistol from my truck.

I didnt want to be home in case this guy came looking so I headed to the closest town store where there would be bystanders and to meet the cops. She got into the cop car and cop took a statement and that was last I heard of anything.

This morning a woman reported being held captive by texting 911 and they tracked the text to this guys house and now there is a standoff happening. The woman is apparently safe.

https://www.newscentermaine.com/art...field/97-92811220-f4e1-4595-b764-3a4ad5ec68a2
 
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Shame, it sounds like she didn't learn from the incident 3 years ago. Maybe she will learn from this one, because if she keeps going back you will be reading about her in the obit.
 

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Not sure if its the same girl or not since they didnt release a name on the victim which they probably wont. Hes on the run now, manhunt underway think I might go hunting tonight, cant have these scumbags running around my area.
 

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Shame, it sounds like she didn't learn from the incident 3 years ago. Maybe she will learn from this one, because if she keeps going back you will be reading about her in the obit.
A number of years ago, renters moved in next door. One night soon after, we were awakened by screams of a woman shouting for help and "call 911". Police took him away, she departed by ambulance.

When she returned, she hailed SWMBO as her hero for calling the cops. A couple of weeks after than, we realized there was a second person, male, living with her again. But we'd only catch glimpses, at night, by the glow of a cigarette or star light. During the day the curtains were always drawn.

One morning I got a call from a sergeant that I know: stay inside, cops will be approaching across my property to execute a warrant. Soon they were escorting him away in cuffs and she was screaming at them and getting physical. I was amazed they didn't cuff and haul her off too. In retrospect, I wish they had.

He'd jumped bail, violated the terms of his release by returning to her and failing to report to his probation officer. She took him in and tried to hide his presence. The cops aren't stupid, they figured out where he was. Probably tracked his cell phone or online presence (he was a day trader, always on the net). This time, he didn't get bail.

But she blamed my wife (who wasn't even home at the time of the raid) for informing the cops and thereafter tried to make her life miserable: screaming at her, setting up speakers on the deck pointed at our place and cranking the volume to max, throwing things at her, mysterious paint damage to her car in the middle of the night, etc. etc...

Some people are just unstable and incapable of rational thought. She was eventually evicted for not paying the rent, thank the Lord.
 

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The domestics are called "K-files" here. Often women have a hard time leaving abusive relationships and will even initiate the violation of the bail conditions that are supposed to keep the abuser away from her. Transition societies do a phenomenal job to help women make a clean break. There' a special kind of hell for men who abuse women and children.
 

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you could see this on the next episode of "north woods law"..


yes thats a real show from up your way & its real popular.
 

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The domestics are called "K-files" here. Often women have a hard time leaving abusive relationships and will even initiate the violation of the bail conditions that are supposed to keep the abuser away from her. Transition societies do a phenomenal job to help women make a clean break. There' a special kind of hell for men who abuse women and children.
My nephew is an Asst DA in one of our more populated counties and in his early career was assigned the domestic abuse child abuse cases. It's just not men that abuse but he says the husbands/boyfriends beat up by women would astound you and a large amount of these go unreported. The gay/lesbian crowd pretty violent also. He called me one day so happy, he said he had been promoted up to murders . He says they are not near as depressing.
If I ever abused my wife of 52 years, I would wake up dead.
 

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A number of years ago, renters moved in next door. One night soon after, we were awakened by screams of a woman shouting for help and "call 911". Police took him away, she departed by ambulance.

When she returned, she hailed SWMBO as her hero for calling the cops. A couple of weeks after than, we realized there was a second person, male, living with her again. But we'd only catch glimpses, at night, by the glow of a cigarette or star light. During the day the curtains were always drawn.

One morning I got a call from a sergeant that I know: stay inside, cops will be approaching across my property to execute a warrant. Soon they were escorting him away in cuffs and she was screaming at them and getting physical. I was amazed they didn't cuff and haul her off too. In retrospect, I wish they had.

He'd jumped bail, violated the terms of his release by returning to her and failing to report to his probation officer. She took him in and tried to hide his presence. The cops aren't stupid, they figured out where he was. Probably tracked his cell phone or online presence (he was a day trader, always on the net). This time, he didn't get bail.

But she blamed my wife (who wasn't even home at the time of the raid) for informing the cops and thereafter tried to make her life miserable: screaming at her, setting up speakers on the deck pointed at our place and cranking the volume to max, throwing things at her, mysterious paint damage to her car in the middle of the night, etc. etc...

Some people are just unstable and incapable of rational thought. She was eventually evicted for not paying the rent, thank the Lord.
Would never be an issue for me, I own the rentals on both sides.
 

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Domestics are the worst. I have done ride alongs with various agencies (about a dozen) and they always were the most dreaded by the cops I rode with.
My personal experience:
About 30 yrs ago I was driving and saw a car off the side of the road. A woman with torn clothes & a bloody mouth was running away, being chased by a guy. By the time I got stopped, he had her by the throat and was shaking her like a rag doll.
My first instinct was to apply a brain-clearing 230 grain enema, but figured I'd go to prison. When he wouldn't let her go as I instructed, I punched him hard (really hard) in the kidney and he dropped like a stone. The woman had the car keys in her hand and tossed them far into the desert. She said he was kidnapping her and was trying to kill her. I took his wallet and started to drive her to a police station about 2 miles away, all the while this woman was thanking me and saying she owed me her life. About a quarter mile down the road, she asked me to stop, because she was going to be sick. I stopped, she grabbed his wallet and ran back to him, hugging and kissing him. Last I saw, they were out in the weeds looking for the car keys. I went on to the police station and gave them a full report, descriptions, license number, etc.
Didn't hear anything more about it.
Till a couple weeks later.
Then I saw a news report of this same guy killing his common-law wife, same one I tried to help.
For a while I was bothered by the incident- if I would have removed this POS from society, the woman would still be alive, but then I might have gone to prison, and the woman would have probably moved on to a different a$$hole and got killed anyway.
In the end, it doesn't bother me a bit. She made her choice.
Now, if this had happened in BILL'S WORLD...
 

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They caught the scumbag this morning, neighbors saw him in the woods and called cops.

Guy had several prior domestic assaults and had been in State pen for just that. 36 years old and lived with Mommy. Now I have to pay to house him in the pen again.
 

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Thanks guys for making me feel better about my quiet and sometimes boring existence.;)
 

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Quiet and boring is good. That means you are not on anybody's radar.
 

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Had a similar experience when Eric Frien was running around the woods at our old house. He's the jack wad that shot two PSP troopers outside the barracks in the Poconos of PA, killing one of them. The manhunt went for almost 2 months.

Our place was very near where they finally caught him.

Wife came home one day to find six PSP cruisers in my driveway with me on the front deck talking to them. I think she thought for a moment that it was me that did the shooting. Anyway, they were looking for intel on any hideouts on the property (we belonged to a 400 acre private community).

There were many days when we would see PSP/US Marshals, etc patrolling our grounds with dogs and bearcat vehicles. Many nights the choppers flew overhead (quite low) and were completely blacked out. That was a bit unnerving.

One night I got a frantic call from my wife while I was out of state on business. She was worried about Frien being nearby since the night search choppers kept flying overhead...and doing circles around the house.

That's when she told me that she observed this phenomenon while she was in the hot tub relaxing (always in her birthday suit). I got a good chuckle from that. I had to explain to her that the choppers had all sorts of night vision stuff...they were checking her out instead of looking for Frien! :eek::D

That whole Eric Frien episode was a very interesting time for sure.
 
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When I moved to where I used to live, it was country. 800 acres to the south directly across the barbed wire fence, 410 acres directly to the east of a pair of empty lots, the neighborhood on the north (all 4 houses) and then to the north of them, a gravel road and then a BIG cattle farm. Spent many afternoons at the farm as well as hunting the land behind the house.

Then the doctor who owned all that property (800 some acres) behind the house....who said he'd never sell it...sold it. Month later, they've got roads going in and houses starting to go up. There are about 700 houses out there, small, all packed tight to one another with NO yard to speak of. The farmer died and the family subdivided the property and sold all the lots. They made millions. That tract has about 2000 houses now, same as the other one to the south, smaller houses with no yard. So the "country" feel was totally gone.

Once it was all established, the swat team was out there daily. Sometimes a couple times a day. Drug related most of the time.

And I'm happy to say that I no longer live there. Unfortunately my mom & dad do, and they hate it. What once was quiet living is now an inner city slum with a few nicer places stuck in the middle (my old neighborhood), which are inhabited by older folks. The rest of that entire area is a dump full of rent houses that commonly house 2 or 3 families each, sometimes more. One place directly behind mom's house, 1200 square foot house, there are at least 15 people living there, and one of them is a state trooper.