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I just talked to Glenn A. Biehl a few minutes ago. (Thursday, May 23, 2019 about 11:30 a.m.) He accused me of being a narc and said he wasn't doing to talk to me.

I asked him what I did and he refused to tell me.

Glenn said I know.

I wonder what happened?

Is the Safer Arizona gang telling him lies about me?

Is the Marc Victor / Tom Dean gang telling him lies about me?

Glenn is also accusing one of the Jehovah Witnesses of narcing on him.

Glenn says the Jehovah Witnesses put something in his bag when he went to use the restroom in the library.

And then later that night, the cops used that to bust him on on Mill Avenue & 7th Street in Tempe.

Normally I try to avoid religious people, so I really haven't talked to that guy.

I talked to the other Jehovah Witnesses who is the Black guy named Lee.

Lee seems like a pretty good guy, even if he is a religious nut job.

Glenn A. Biehl was arrested last Saturday, May 11, 2019 in downtown Tempe near 7th Street & Mill.

The cops claimed that he was stopped because somebody was making bomb threats to the Muslim Mosque that had the same color pants and shirt as him. I suspect that was a lame excuse to pretend they had "probable cause" to detain or arrest him.

They ran a record check and found out he had warrants for his arrest that were 4 years old for trespassing and a couple of other petty charges.

He spent about a week in the Maricopa County Jail and went to court on Friday, May 17, 2019 and copped a plea.

He was sentenced to time served.

Glenn said he was going to sue them for false arrest and that's why I gave him the legal forms.

I think he said he needed a form to appeal the conviction, and a form to cause them to close the records on the case.

Why does Glenn think I'm a snitch?

Did she tell Glenn the lie that I'm a government snitch?

Maybe it was the lady at the 99 Cent Store who is a cashier from San Bernardino?

I suspect the homeless Black lady told the lady at the 99 Cent store I'm a snitch because she saw me talking to her. The 99 Cent Store lady seemed to like me until she talked to the Black lady who hates me.

Or perhaps one of the Safer Arizona gang came over to the library and told Glenn those lies.

Or maybe Glenn read one of my notes about me bitching about there isn't any evidence that I'm a snitch when I gave him those PDF files yesterday.

You know when I did the bluetooth transfer and sent him 80 files by accident.

Glenn was arrested a little over a week ago (Saturday, May 11, 2019) by the Tempe Police on a 4 year old warrant for the petty crime of trespassing and some other minor related charges. Those charges stemmed from him being homeless and sleeping near the Salt River Indian Reservation.

Glenn says those charges were dropped 4 years ago. He said he didn't know it, but the charges were re-filed and he wasn't ever served with a copy of the charges and failed to appear in court because he didn't know about them.

Glenn said he was going to plead not guilty to the charges, but, if he did that he would have had to spend 20 more days in jail waiting for a trial.

So he copped a plea and plead guilty in exchange for being let out of jail. He was sentenced to the 6 days he spent in the Maricopa County Jail.

I'm not going to write up Glenn's story because it's so long and complicated I will probably screw it up and get it wrong.

Disposition Information

ARS Code Description Crime Date Disposition Code Disposition Date

13-1502A1 (M3) CRIM TRESP 3RD DEG/PROPERTY 10/28/2015 56 Failure to appear on criminal offense; warrant of arrest issued; suspension of operating privilege ordered. 1/11/2016

13-2412A (M2) OBSTRUCTION-REFUSE TRUE NAME 10/28/2015 56 Failure to appear on criminal offense; warrant of arrest issued; suspension of operating privilege ordered. 1/11/2016

13-2508A3 (M1) RESIST ARREST - PASSIVE RESISTANCE 10/28/2015 56 Failure to appear on criminal offense; warrant of arrest issued; suspension of operating privilege ordered. 1/11/2016

13-3904A (M2) VIOLATION OF PROMISE TO APPEAR 12/23/2015 9:00:00 AM

These are the petty crimes Glenn is charged with. I looked them up on the ARS website.

13-1502. Criminal trespass in the third degree; classification

A. A person commits criminal trespass in the third degree by:

1. Knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully on any real property after a reasonable request to leave by a law enforcement officer, the owner or any other person having lawful control over such property, or reasonable notice prohibiting entry.

13-2412. Refusing to provide truthful name when lawfully detained; classification

A. It is unlawful for a person, after being advised that the person’s refusal to answer is unlawful, to fail or refuse to state the person's true full name on request of a peace officer who has lawfully detained the person based on reasonable suspicion that the person has committed, is committing or is about to commit a crime. A person detained under this section shall state the person's true full name, but shall not be compelled to answer any other inquiry of a peace officer.

[I suspect this means he took the 5th and refused to tell the cops his name, or took the 6th and demanded a lawyer before police questioning I do this every time I'm falsely arrested]

13-2508. Resisting arrest; classification; definition

A. A person commits resisting arrest by intentionally preventing or attempting to prevent a person reasonably known to him to be a peace officer, acting under color of such peace officer's official authority, from effecting an arrest by:

3. Engaging in passive resistance.

[I suspect this means he laid down and don't do anything. I think Fonzie West was the guy who got this law passed. Fonzie was the original cop watcher and when he got arrested he used to go limp and make the cops drag him to jail]

13-3904A VIOLATION OF PROMISE TO APPEAR

This law is NOT on the books or listed on the ARS web page. It goes from ARS 13-3903 to ARS 13-3905 and skips over 13-3904

Here is a copy of his photo which I posted on Facebook.

Here is a link to that URL where I posted it.

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It looks like he was arrested on

Saturday May 11, 2019
7:11 pm or 19:11

When I called the phone number of the arresting agency which is (602)876-0333 the recording said it's the Maricopa Sheriff's Office.

I don't know if that's the correct arresting agency or if they accidently put the number of MCSO there. Well, make that accidently intentionally because cops love to make life as hard as possible for the people they arrest, and their family and friends.

I suspect he was arrested in Tempe, Scottsdale, Mesa, or on the Salt River Indian Reservation.

He was arrested for

1) Criminal trespassing 3rd degree

2) Obstruction Obstruction refuse true name

I suspect that is a bunch of big words for he took the 5th and refused to answer their questions, and refused to tell them his name. Which is what I would have done

3) Resting arrest - passive resistance

I think that means, you didn't resist arrest, but just went limp and force them to carry your body to the jail.

Sounds like a violation of the 13th Amendment. But I don't have $100,000 in spare change to get the law declared unconstitutional.

I think Fonzie West, the original copwatcher caused them to pass that law.

Whenever they would arrest Fonzie on bogus charges he would just go limp and make then haul him off.

Fonzie West is a great guy. He is the original copwatcher.

He is always on roller skates, with a video camera. His van has "F*ck the police" painted on every square inch of it.

From what I have heard the cause the police academy gives on how to deal with people that passively resist (which is an oxymoron) is called the Fonzie West course, because Fonzie would always go limp when they arrested him.

When I was in Phoenix Copwatch every once in a while I would see Fonzie. He is a great guy.

Looks like his court case is in the

West Mesa Justice Court 2050 W University Drive Mesa, Az 85201

(480)964-2958

JC2015152845001

I wonder if that is a typo error in the case number. [It's NOT a type. It's correct] Usually court cases start with the year the case started. So I'm wondering if it is really

JC2019..........

It says his court appearance is today, or May 17, 2019 which is today.

The phone number of the West Mesa Justice Court is:

(480)964-2958

I know he told me that he was harassed by the G4S Security rent-a-cops at the Tempe Transit Center several times.

They seem to come up with the claim that anybody that is "homeless" is not allowed at the Tempe Transit Center.

He said one of the rent-a-pigs was yelling at him for taking too long in the restroom at the Tempe Transit Center. I'll have to check the ARS on that and dig up the allowed time to take a dump in a public restroom ... just joking on that.

Sadly a lot of the haters in Safer Arizona, the Arizona Libertarian Party and of course Glenn A. Biehl don't seem to GET this.

in America, anyone accused of a crime is considered “innocent until proven guilty.” That’s the way it should be, at least. When a person is accused of a crime, the burden of proof belongs to the accuser.

Not some nebulous line of

"you are a bad, bad, bad person and know what you did"

Or in the case of Safer Arizona and the Arizona Libertarian Party who both seem to be spreading lies behing my back along the lines of I am a govenrment snitch or a secret govenrment double agent.

Something I have never been told of.

I suspect my lawyer, Libertarian Marc Victor started spreading these lies 20 years ago.

I also suspect that Libertarian publicity hound Ernie Hancock, or Ernest Hancock as he calls himself is the main person who has been spreading these lies around for 20 years.

About 2 or 3 years ago, I think Safer Arizona begin spreading these lies about me.

I don't think Safer Arizona made them up, but I suspect they are just a continuation of the lies I suspect Marc Victor and Ernie Hancock or Ernest Hancock have been spreading about me for 20 years.

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Federal Judge Declares ‘Policing for Profit’ Unconstitutional

By Steven Robert Allen , Director of Public Policy, ACLU of New Mexico

AUGUST 6, 2018 | 5:00 PM

Anybody who has watched at least one episode of Law & Order knows that in America, anyone accused of a crime is considered “innocent until proven guilty.” That’s the way it should be, at least. When a person is accused of a crime, the burden of proof belongs to the accuser.

But what most people don’t realize is that police routinely use a constitutionally dubious form of legal jiu-jitsu called “civil asset forfeiture” to flip this basic principle of fairness on its head. With civil asset forfeiture, police literally accuse your stuff of a crime, and you as the owner have to prove that your stuff is innocent.

Here’s an example: In 2010 Stephen Skinner and his son Jonathan, both African-American, were on a road trip to Las Vegas, Nevada, for a vacation when they were pulled over by New Mexico State Police for going 5 mph over the speed limit. The trooper searched their rental car and found several thousand dollars in cash and coins in their luggage that the two men had set aside for gaming at the casinos. The trooper called Skinner, then in his late 50s, “boy” and released him with a warning that “it’s not over.”

And sure enough, it wasn’t.

As they passed through Albuquerque, police and federal agents pulled them over on a pretext once again, went straight to their luggage, and confiscated their cash with no justification other than the racist assumption that two black men traveling with a big wad of cash must have come by it illegally. Neither Stephen or Jonathan were ever actually accused of a crime, much less convicted. Yet now the cops had their vacation money, and this money grab was perfectly legal.

Most people who have property seized in this manner give it up as lost. The cost of hiring an attorney to argue before a judge that your property is “innocent” or, in other words, was not criminally acquired or used in the commission of a crime, often exceeds the value of the property. This is big business for police departments across the United States, who rely on these seized assets to pad their budgets. The Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, estimates that in 2014 alone the Department of Justice took in $4.5 billion in forfeited assets. The assets taken in annually by local and state police departments are doubtless even higher.

Fortunately, Stephen and Jonathan reached out to the ACLU of New Mexico, and with our help, they fought in court to force the government to return their property. The lawsuit made headlines throughout New Mexico, causing a groundswell of outrage at the fundamental unfairness of the practice.

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In 2015, the ACLU of New Mexico, in collaboration with the Institute for Justice, the Drug Policy Alliance, and the Rio Grande Foundation, helped pass a bill that abolished civil asset forfeiture, requiring police to obtain a criminal conviction in court before they can take a person’s property. The bill also requires that any forfeited assets must go into a state general fund to reduce the profit motive inherent in this law enforcement practice. The bill passed unanimously, and New Mexico now has the strongest protections against civil asset forfeiture in the nation.

But several New Mexico police departments were too addicted to the easy money. The Albuquerque Police Department, among others, refused to fully comply with the new state law claiming that it didn’t apply to their DWI vehicle seizure program. Albuquerque police continued to seize thousands of vehicles pre-conviction and demand thousands of dollars in “fees” to secure their return. If people couldn’t pay the ransom, the department kept the vehicle.

Arlene Harjo, whose son was pulled over for suspected drunken driving, was one of many whose vehicle was taken under the city ordinance. Even though she wasn’t in the car at the time, Albuquerque police seized Harjo’s vehicle and demanded $4,000 dollars for its return. But Harjo refused to comply with the scam. She filed a lawsuit against the department with the help of the Institute for Justice, and, last week, she won. A federal judge handed down a landmark ruling that Albuquerque’s vehicle seizure program violates residents’ constitutional rights by taking their property before they’ve been convicted of a crime.

This is a major moment in the fight against the unjust practice of civil asset forfeiture. Not only will New Mexico law enforcement agencies be forced to comply with our state prohibition against the practice, but this victory establishes an important legal precedent that victims of civil asset forfeiture can use to fight back nationwide.

And indeed, the problem is not just in New Mexico. In 2015, the ACLU sued an Arizona county attorney and county sheriff challenging that state’s civil asset forfeiture laws, which create perverse and unconstitutional incentives for law enforcement to build multimillion-dollar slush funds that they get to control.

More than anything, this ruling out of New Mexico is a powerful reminder that brave individuals can still take a stand against systems of injustice, crack their foundations, and bring them tumbling to the ground.

All it takes is a few people like Stephen Skinner and Arlene Harjo who say, “Enough. Not today. No more.”