When do you have to talk to the police?
Long story shortened,
Last night (8:30pm) neighbor kid (14) comes over to our house and asks if I can come over and watch them, the police were taking his mother down town. WHAT? I go over and they already have her in the back of the car. They ask if I can watch the kids till dad gets home. I ask what it is about. They came over to talk to the 14 year old about a fire that started in a field last weekend. (Boy tells me there were pounding on the door saying they had better open up) Mother goes to door and police ask if she X and how old she is. She says she is not telling them. They ask again, she persists. They arrest her for obstruction of justice. Not sure if she was out of the house or what. She starts to get light headed and sits on her car in drive way, they yank her up and cuff her.
Let me say they have had some bad incidences with the police:
Once a few years ago, the police pulled this son into an office at school and grilled him without parents, about a stolen bike. Kept after him till Mom shows (to pick him up as normal, she did not know he was with the police) up and takes kid home as they were not charging him. (Cop was really po’ed and tried to stop her) But it really scared the kid. Nothing came of it.
Last year kid gets jumped by kid twice his size and beaten up, he is on the ground getting pummeled and grabs a compass from the ground and swipes at his attacker, scratches his stomach. Then the fight gets broken up. Witnesses side with neighbor kid account of the event. Dad talks to the cops asks if they are going to charge the son, never answer him for 3 weeks, finally charge and sever him conveniently during his expulsion hearing in front of the panel. Expelled. Charged with using a deadly weapon (year probation). Kid he scratched did not get anything, was expelled later for fighting and lying in a different incident. The kid that was scratched did not file the charges.
Father sees teen agers on path behind house asking other kids walking by if they want to buy pot. The also are harassing other littler kids. He has to get going to work, sees two cop cars side by side not to far from house and stops to tell them about the kids. The don’t care about the kids but want his ID and run his name. Comes up clear after 15 min and then they tell him they will take care of it and he leaves as they stay there talking.
Daughter is hit and almost killed in a pedestrian / car accident (she is paralyzed now) This was a year ago November. Still no police report. She was hit by the passenger side of the car in a cross walk with street lights. Car going 35 in a 45. Other cars saw the girls run across, but first indications from police are that it was the girls fault.
I add these to give context as to why she was reluctant to talk to the police.
Now the question:
If there is an investigation going on (some one had to say this kid light the fire for them to come to the house), do you have to talk to the police and provide information about yourself. Name, address, age ect.? Sorry this is so long.
I did not think she could be arrested for this.
Long story shortened,
Last night (8:30pm) neighbor kid (14) comes over to our house and asks if I can come over and watch them, the police were taking his mother down town. WHAT? I go over and they already have her in the back of the car. They ask if I can watch the kids till dad gets home. I ask what it is about. They came over to talk to the 14 year old about a fire that started in a field last weekend. (Boy tells me there were pounding on the door saying they had better open up) Mother goes to door and police ask if she X and how old she is. She says she is not telling them. They ask again, she persists. They arrest her for obstruction of justice. Not sure if she was out of the house or what. She starts to get light headed and sits on her car in drive way, they yank her up and cuff her.
Let me say they have had some bad incidences with the police:
Once a few years ago, the police pulled this son into an office at school and grilled him without parents, about a stolen bike. Kept after him till Mom shows (to pick him up as normal, she did not know he was with the police) up and takes kid home as they were not charging him. (Cop was really po’ed and tried to stop her) But it really scared the kid. Nothing came of it.
Last year kid gets jumped by kid twice his size and beaten up, he is on the ground getting pummeled and grabs a compass from the ground and swipes at his attacker, scratches his stomach. Then the fight gets broken up. Witnesses side with neighbor kid account of the event. Dad talks to the cops asks if they are going to charge the son, never answer him for 3 weeks, finally charge and sever him conveniently during his expulsion hearing in front of the panel. Expelled. Charged with using a deadly weapon (year probation). Kid he scratched did not get anything, was expelled later for fighting and lying in a different incident. The kid that was scratched did not file the charges.
Father sees teen agers on path behind house asking other kids walking by if they want to buy pot. The also are harassing other littler kids. He has to get going to work, sees two cop cars side by side not to far from house and stops to tell them about the kids. The don’t care about the kids but want his ID and run his name. Comes up clear after 15 min and then they tell him they will take care of it and he leaves as they stay there talking.
Daughter is hit and almost killed in a pedestrian / car accident (she is paralyzed now) This was a year ago November. Still no police report. She was hit by the passenger side of the car in a cross walk with street lights. Car going 35 in a 45. Other cars saw the girls run across, but first indications from police are that it was the girls fault.
I add these to give context as to why she was reluctant to talk to the police.
Now the question:
If there is an investigation going on (some one had to say this kid light the fire for them to come to the house), do you have to talk to the police and provide information about yourself. Name, address, age ect.? Sorry this is so long.
I did not think she could be arrested for this.
Apparently, it's possible to do that here.
