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With bozos like these, the cops'll never be out of business... 
From the News Tribune, WA (http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/5437122p-4909793c.html):
Tacoma, WA - January 7, 2006
Police log: Shots, pot and even prostitutes
KAREN HUCKS; The News Tribune
Published: January 4th, 2006 02:30 AM
An unpaid bill for $20,000 worth of sex acts apparently led to a confrontation Monday that injured a Wollochet Bay-area man and left one of his suspected attackers hospitalized with a gunshot wound.
Pierce County prosecutors Tuesday charged two men with assault and burglary for going to Terry Riggs’ home and beating him because he hadn’t paid his escort service bill, court documents say.
Prosecutors said Riggs, 57, was acting in self-defense when he shot one of his intruders, but likely will face a felony charge today for a marijuana-growing operation sheriff’s deputies say they found in his home.
Deputy prosecutor Phil Sorensen said Shawn Paul Becklund and John Bradford Oleary attacked Riggs at his home in the 2600 block of East Bay Drive Northwest on Monday.
Becklund, 33, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to first-degree burglary, second-degree assault and unlawful possession of a firearm in Superior Court. He is being held in the Pierce County Jail on $40,000 bond. Oleary, 26, is in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to his abdomen.
Riggs told detectives he had been paying a woman for sex for more than a year. He said the woman came to his house on New Year’s Eve and gave him a $22,000 bill for services rendered. He refused to pay and called the woman’s mother.
The woman told Riggs if he didn’t pay, her friend “Smokey” and another man would make him, he said. The woman left, but called Riggs later and warned him never to call her mother again, or “those guys” would get him.
Riggs told deputies that sometime after 8 a.m. Monday, he heard a knock on the door and saw two men in ski masks, one with a handgun. He said he grabbed his own gun and fired a shot after the door was forced open. Riggs said he was pushed to the ground and beaten, court documents say.
“Something is ridiculous about the whole thing,” Sorensen said. “There’s something obviously unusual about the dollar amount that we’re talking about here. It is hard to believe that someone in that line of work would be willing to extend that kind of credit.”
Police found Oleary in a vehicle on Jackson Avenue. He was taken to a local hospital and is expected to recover. A police dog found Becklund, who had run from the car. He told detectives his nickname is Smokey.
Becklund told detectives that he and Oleary spent Sunday night with the woman at a motel in Fife. While they were there, she asked them to go to Riggs’ house and force him to pay her the money he owed her.
Becklund said the woman drove him to Riggs’ home, where they met Oleary, who was armed. The men knocked on the door and Oleary went inside, where he was shot during a struggle with Riggs, Becklund told police.
Prosecutors expect to charge Riggs with a felony for allegedly growing marijuana.
“He’s facing some potentially serious penalties here,” Deputy prosecutor Mark Lindquist said.
Search warrant paperwork says that when a deputy went into Riggs’ house to investigate the assault, he could smell marijuana plants.
Riggs had eight to 10 small, “starter plants” in one area of an 8-by-8-foot room, and eight to 10 medium-sized plants in another area, the affidavit for a warrant says.
From the News Tribune, WA (http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/5437122p-4909793c.html):
Tacoma, WA - January 7, 2006
Police log: Shots, pot and even prostitutes
KAREN HUCKS; The News Tribune
Published: January 4th, 2006 02:30 AM
An unpaid bill for $20,000 worth of sex acts apparently led to a confrontation Monday that injured a Wollochet Bay-area man and left one of his suspected attackers hospitalized with a gunshot wound.
Pierce County prosecutors Tuesday charged two men with assault and burglary for going to Terry Riggs’ home and beating him because he hadn’t paid his escort service bill, court documents say.
Prosecutors said Riggs, 57, was acting in self-defense when he shot one of his intruders, but likely will face a felony charge today for a marijuana-growing operation sheriff’s deputies say they found in his home.
Deputy prosecutor Phil Sorensen said Shawn Paul Becklund and John Bradford Oleary attacked Riggs at his home in the 2600 block of East Bay Drive Northwest on Monday.
Becklund, 33, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to first-degree burglary, second-degree assault and unlawful possession of a firearm in Superior Court. He is being held in the Pierce County Jail on $40,000 bond. Oleary, 26, is in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to his abdomen.
Riggs told detectives he had been paying a woman for sex for more than a year. He said the woman came to his house on New Year’s Eve and gave him a $22,000 bill for services rendered. He refused to pay and called the woman’s mother.
The woman told Riggs if he didn’t pay, her friend “Smokey” and another man would make him, he said. The woman left, but called Riggs later and warned him never to call her mother again, or “those guys” would get him.
Riggs told deputies that sometime after 8 a.m. Monday, he heard a knock on the door and saw two men in ski masks, one with a handgun. He said he grabbed his own gun and fired a shot after the door was forced open. Riggs said he was pushed to the ground and beaten, court documents say.
“Something is ridiculous about the whole thing,” Sorensen said. “There’s something obviously unusual about the dollar amount that we’re talking about here. It is hard to believe that someone in that line of work would be willing to extend that kind of credit.”
Police found Oleary in a vehicle on Jackson Avenue. He was taken to a local hospital and is expected to recover. A police dog found Becklund, who had run from the car. He told detectives his nickname is Smokey.
Becklund told detectives that he and Oleary spent Sunday night with the woman at a motel in Fife. While they were there, she asked them to go to Riggs’ house and force him to pay her the money he owed her.
Becklund said the woman drove him to Riggs’ home, where they met Oleary, who was armed. The men knocked on the door and Oleary went inside, where he was shot during a struggle with Riggs, Becklund told police.
Prosecutors expect to charge Riggs with a felony for allegedly growing marijuana.
“He’s facing some potentially serious penalties here,” Deputy prosecutor Mark Lindquist said.
Search warrant paperwork says that when a deputy went into Riggs’ house to investigate the assault, he could smell marijuana plants.
Riggs had eight to 10 small, “starter plants” in one area of an 8-by-8-foot room, and eight to 10 medium-sized plants in another area, the affidavit for a warrant says.
