Plea deals don’t help our police
Let me get this right. According to the Sept. 16 newspaper article, and me, our police department does a fantastic job at taking another presumed criminal off the streets, someone who allegedly is distributing meth to anyone he can, including our children, and then pleads no contest last week to illegal storage of ammunition, and then prosecutors dropped two counts of first-degree meth trafficking, a Class A felony of 20 years in prison, and now the key witness disappears. How does a key witness and co-defendant get off of an island? Swim?
The people of Mountain View should be asking questions of our lawmakers. Do they want this individual back in their community with what the police allegedly found there — 7.75 pounds of crystal meth, paraphernalia, an unregistered handgun, two unregistered rifles and $5,700 in cash? Aren’t these crimes?
Now this alleged drug trafficker is in a position of having his no contest plea dismissed by a judge, which hopefully the judge doesn’t do.
What in the world is wrong with the people in power? How do they go to sleep at night? Don’t they have a conscious?
Speaking of those in power — thanks for paying $80,000 to the young man who chose to be homeless and changing the laws, too, so more young people will choose to be homeless and beg for money.
Wake up, all of you who have the power to change things for the better and stop this craziness.
Support our men out there on the streets risking their lives catching bad guys.
J. Duncan
Kailua-Kona