HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2010

Case Number 00000001

I remember working New Years Eve several times as a DWI Task Force Officer. On that night the goal was always the same, get the lowest case number possible. I remember on year well, I just broke up with my girlfriend at the time (another cop) and I had pulled over a DWI just in time. I cuffed and stuffed him and waited two minutes before I asked for a case number.

The midnight time check came over the air and all hell broke loose on the air. I was first I got the first case number of the year 7 zeros and a 1 then the last two digits for the year and a letter for a check.

The dispatcher had me call him on the phone, This was the time of the big cell phones and the pay by the minute. It was 4 cents per minute because it was off peak. He said that I sounded so broken hearted and sad over the radio. I really wasn't but I went along with it because SHE was working that night.

My holiday season had more break ups then that one. I did have friends that stood by me. My task force buddies were there for me for everything. oh, the case number wasn't the only "contest" we had, I won the name theme contest also for Christmas. I arrested a Shepard on Christmas Eve with a BAC of 0.18 and a Jesus on Christmas night with a BAC of 0.23, it don't get no better then that!

Internet Police

I have gone cyber in pursuit of criminals. I have obtained some alias accounts on several social network sites and I found my suspects within ten minutes. I also got hit on in that time. It would be so easy to make a prostitution case but I have to focus on my objective.

These younger crooks are all over the Internet. They brag about what they do and post pictures of themselves and their friends. well I have said all along that we need to use every resource to catch crooks and the Internet is just a tool. The command staff and IT was hesitant in allowing the use of the computer for this type of investigation. IT said we would be surfing the net and messing around on it. Well after I used my own computer and showed them the results, we now have the blessings of the command staff.

Cyber is a good way to keep tabs on suspects without having to have long stake outs. I hope I can build a case on these gangstas because they need to be back in prison. So now not only will I be chasing crooks in the streets I am taking the fight to cyber space. I will let you know how well I do in space...............

Tie Post 22

Detective Ninja wore this tie on Christmas Eve day.

Have Yourself a Merry BLUE Christmas!

I hope everyone had a wonderful and Merry Christmas. I was off today and the next few, unless I get a call for and extra job on the bike. I know some people who decorated in blue lights, I have done so in the past. Blue lights are a way to show that you support the police and you remember the fallen.

I do that everyday so I decided to put up the multi-color lights and I did. Christmas is for the kids. I really don't need anything for Christmas, I have plenty. I enjoyed watching my son open all of his presents. Yes, he is spoiled. The joy and smile on his face is worth it. Detective Ninja and I were discussing this. He goes out and buys the fun gifts for his kids while the wife buys the practical gifts, He told me it is not about if they were good, or earned it. It is about Christmas and making them happy. I agree, that is what it is about, KIDS.

I am just glad it is all over with, time to relax and think about the new year. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

A Christmas Present

I missed a Christmas Dinner Friday night. It was going to be the first time that my old high school class were to get together. I had something that I had to get done. I had to file a Felony Assault warrant. I missed the dinner because some crook wanted to assault a female. The good thing was he used a card prior to the assault that I was able to trace back to him. I then got his photo in a line up and the female picked him out immediately.

I had to get the warrant filed Friday because I knew where he was going to be over the weekend and the warrant had to be in the system for patrol. I processed the warrant Friday and the district attorney's office was busy. I had to go get the warrant signed by the judge on duty and she was holding arraignment court. I had to sit through the court docket prior to meeting with the judge.

This entire process took time, a long time, longer then I wanted it to take because as time as the warrant was filed and my supplemental report and wanted bulletin was done, I had missed the dinner. The dinner was at a steak house. I was looking forward to the steak and meeting classmates that I haven't seen for over twenty years. So I did not eat steak that night, I ate hamburger.

I received a call this afternoon. The patrol officer said the guy was now in custody. The complainant shows up a little later and was able to positively id the arrested suspect as the same one that assaulted her by spitting in her face then striking her in the face.

I told her when I met her for the photo line-up that I hoped to have in in jail by Christmas. I told the patrol officer to tell the female Merry Christmas!

Tie Post 21 - Christmas Tree

Here I am next to my office Christmas tree and wearing a tie that was a gift from a family from the great State of Montana. I forgive her comment about not all things in TEXAS is bigger. I think she was just frozen from the -20 degree weather that they were having.

I decorated a rosemary plant with some tiny LED lights and it makes the perfect tree for the office. The smell is wonderful also! I did wear the tie the entire day and even when to the office luncheon. I can't get into a holiday spirit when they charged $15 dollars per plate.

We made the best of it by sitting at a table full of the Records Division ladies. Detective Ninja and I enjoyed the company of the ladies and it made the luncheon past faster. We then went and filed a to be warrant on a person who robbed a lady in her 60's at gun point. The crook better hide good cause the Ghostrider and Ninja are coming, along with a couple of our friends.

I would like to thank http://pluharsrant.blogspot.com/ and http://cohagenchronicles.blogspot.com/ for the wonderful ties and friendship that they have shown me.

Coca-Cola Bears and Santa

Christmas Time is Near

I really don't care for the holiday season. I seldom get in the holiday mood. I guess a lot of that has to do with serving several years on the DWI Task Force. Holidays were a big time for us, it was like shooting fish in a barrel. I arrested a Shepard on Christmas Eve and Jesus on Christmas night. Nothing like arresting theme names on the holidays.

I also seen fatal accidents and homicides during the holiday season. So, starting at my birthday in November and going to New Years Day, I just assume fast forward and skip the entire season.

Well two years ago, I finally felt good and in the spirit. I was dispatched to a robbery report call with my rookie. A grandma who was walking to a school to pick up her grand kids was robbed. The punks took her purse with that month's rent and the rest of her money that she had for the month.

My rookie took the report and we transported the grand mother and her three grand kids to their rent house. She was taking care of the kids, while her daughter and husband were gone. I think one was in jail and the other was just plain gone. Anyway, I had to "break in" the house to get them inside.

I asked if I could use the restroom, while I was there. I didn't need to go, I just wanted an excuse to snoop. The house was pretty bare. She was renting out a room in the house for her and the kids. The landlords lived in the other room.

I went back to the station and to the "Blue Santa" coordinator and opened up my wallet and plopped down cash and told her we had to add one more family to the list. I paid for those kids to have a Christmas. My rookie who was a single mother with two kids of her own also donated some money.

A couple of nights later we made the rounds handing out the gifts and food to the chosen families. My family was last. It was getting late when we pulled up and we got all the kids out of bed. Santa came in and gave them presents and a bag of food. Their smiles were priceless. We did not tell grand mother or anyone else that we were coming that night or that they have been chosen to receive a visit.

I got my picture taken with the kids, my rookie, Santa and Grand Mother next to a Christmas tree. That night I experienced Christmas. I experienced the joy of giving without expecting anything in return. I wanted to cry, seeing the joy in the kids faces and the relief off grand mothers face. I felt close to my rookie for what we did, she will never know how much respect I have for her. Giving what she could when she herself was struggling to make it with her two kids.

That night I felt Christmas, I felt the joy of the season and I felt peace. I will always Cherish that night and that picture that captured that moment in time.

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