have on december twenty sixth stabbing in town and that particular case right now is probably get to my officers tied up for more than sixty hours in it and now that sixty hours doing the investigation they probably got twenty five to thirty hours just doing in the paperwork since the initial arrest of the suspect the day following the incident on december twenty sixth basically officer martell and officer naidu have been stuck in here doing on a computer doing paperwork and i'd like to show you that most people you know they see t v and everything is done in at forty eight minutes this rate here on this one case this one stabbing or child hold up is just a sampling of the amount of paperwork that is entailed in handling this kind of case and this isn't the entire case rehear this is the supplemental stuff on the initial case which is probably about this that that is an inch and a half two inches is when we arrested the suspect for the stabbing and locked him up in jail this particular suspect is already got one conviction for attempted homicide had gotten sentenced to ten to twenty years served eighteen months and was back out in the street he's also got two prior convictions for assault robbery which are felonies right now the case has been reviewed twice bail hearings by the judge happened to be the same judge that sentenced him to the eighteen months to serve because a young body given a second chance and bail on this person has been denied twice now since that initial investigation cers martel and nato have now charged for additional people with everything from obstruction of justice to witness tampering they've tried to basically get people to change their stories to cover the guys tracks we've applied for and received five different search warrants which is just part of what's in here the search warrants in those cases were for basically their cell phones we wanted their cell phones and the information that was contained in them search warrants were granted we find they've seized all the phone and those were shipped down to the state police crime lab for their computer and phone tech analysis to get into the systems and  track conversations that were taking place before and after the fact and any incriminating evidence which there was actually quite a bit because of some of the statements on the phones which led to these additional charges and other people  where we found that you know they were attempting to bribe witnesses and concoct cover stories and alibis for where the suspect was at the time of the incident which we know was here in town but this is a tremendous burden on not only small police departments like ours is by bus full time but just you know you take a look at this stack of paperwork and this is not the entire case every law enforcement agent goes through this and has got to the point now that we spend so much time doing paperwork people wonder what we're doing sitting sometimes in a cruiser not taking any kind of proactive action  maybe a traffic violation or something like that but i'm just sitting in the in the computer and there are in the crews around their computer trying to get some of the smaller reports out just because it's paperwork has become tremendous and that we have to do everything we do has a piece of paper more attached to it but like i said this rate here this is not the whole case you can probably have no two inches on this just this one case i mean granted it's a complicated case but you know that's that's a tremendous amount of paperwork and time involved by the officers to complete all of this so anyhow hopefully this gentleman will remain in jail to those trial so far has been  bail twice and i would say within the next anywhere from eight to eighteen months it should go to trial unless they plea bargain it down the thing is he's his primary sentence for his other conviction for attempted murder was ten to twenty years and if they violate in mind that the judge is already found probable cause he could be sentenced to serve that twenty years and then whatever happens on top of this you know it's another young life wasted and you know he's on he's in his early twenty's and he right now is looking that he might not get out those forty's or fifty's luckily he didn't kill the guy this was you know done with a knife  traffic work's been a little down obviously you can see it for what reasons we have issued since last time we talked ninety five traffic tickets and fifty nine warnings and handle one hundred eleven cases total one of the things that's come up is in the last since we last talked we've we've had fifteen accidents almost every one of these accidents has been weather related and we because it's weather related it's speed related people are still not slowing down they still think that their four wheel drive or all wheel drive vehicle when it's snowing out or it's icy out they can still do the speed limit and then up off the road or in the trees or through somebody's yard or wherever and we end up getting there and doing an accident investigation most of the time now would winter related conditions you know we determine why the accident happened were more apt and not to write you a traffic ticket for speed too fast for conditions even though a speed limit maybe forty or forty five or fifty or sixty five on the interstate doesn't mean you can go that speed and that's a two hundred twenty dollar ticket two points minimum and because it's an accident they can assess two additional points and people that get ten points on their license and two year period they lose their license for a minimum of ten days and then they keep building up fifteen points is thirty days twenty points is ninety days we've also had actually fifteen total arrest would twenty charges and that's everything from domestic assault to disorderly conduct that the property and things of that nature i'm just going to briefly go through because i have to look at this through the can't remember everything and myself and two other officers who were shift change happened to go there and we couldn't determine initially why he was unresponsive he was out like a light he was barely breathing he was a response of to one of my officers give him a sternum rub for probably two minutes to the point that one rescue got there and that was one of those days where we got that six or eight inches of snow so it was horrendous traveling had to transport him code three what we determined later that we think he was drinking it baka baka doesn't have that order to it that's why we couldn't detect it initially we thought maybe it was drugs but when they did the b a c test the blood alcohol content a few hours later an emergency room he was still a point two zero nine which is point zero eight for an adult is the legal limit of intoxication so fifteen year olds don't have that kind of tolerance he could have died from alcohol poisoning i'm sure they pumped this stomach gave him the charcoal stuff and stuff like that so we don't know where he got the alcohol but come right from the house we also back on december eighteenth we got a call the medical assistant and we still have heroin in this county we still have heroin in this town and it's every age class we had a guy called there unresponsive seventy four year old female and overdosed on heroin she had to be transporte by rescue to the emergency room at the now university of vermont medical center so it's not you know everybody thinks well as the teenagers and young adults it's not it's every  generation i think said this was a seventy four year old woman that overdosed on heroin we did have one arrest for back on the same night december eighteenth for domestic assault and that male happened to assault his wife to the point d on top of what we've already submitted to the lab one of the things we did have is sergeant jay can so it was with us for oh for almost what about five years this year has left us and he has taken a position as as his brother joshua used to be a patrol man here and went to williston they've both been accepted as deputy sheriffs in the clay county florida sheriff's department and just acting and got an email from the weather is much nicer there than it is here but they've already been certified down there they they went through a waiver academy and they're just and they're what they call nephew no phrase which is field training officers but he says things are a lot different down there the paperwork is actually for the most part a lot simpler in florida than it is here and he should know because he was here with us long enough we had to assist my state police we had to go to huntington because of domestic assault and people often say well how come our cruisers in huntington or why is it in jericho why is it in a well austin or or someplace that for that matter one of the things is we have a mutual assistance agreement in this county would all law enforcement it's no different than when people see i will stampede a cruiser here assisting us because most of the time which is one of us on and shift and want  call come to what we consider a hot call you know something that could be dangerous like a domestic assault or any kind of assault or assault robbery they're pretty much they monitor us on the radio we don't even ask they c particular case there wasn't a trooper nearby so my officer responded and the gentleman who actually was taken into custody by a sergeant from the revise they police and here again alcohol that gentleman was a point three two five b a c blood alcohol content he was first taken to the emergency room to be screened and then he was taken the jail after that because most people out there would never get to a three to five they would pass out before that generally clinically most people will die of a blood alcohol content somewhere point four zero point four five or five  most medical professionals believe that's when most people will die from alcohol poisoning so this is pretty that's that's a lot of drinking that's not a six pack or twelve pack or probably even a case that's that's a lot of drinking  person got in a accident with a vehicle and his shotgun then thirty thirty rifle were still in the truck at the time of the accident by the time the scene was cleared up the guns were gone  after about well probably a six week investigation officer martell was able to track down the two guns sold to a gun dealer and then identify the suspect it was since been charged that's one of the cases that we had with the guns have been recovered they're being held by the gun dealer right now until the state's attorney decides what they want this person that that we've charged in court he has made convicted is a convicted felon is not supposed to be under the brady law the federal law in possession ever any type of firearm and we can show now that he wasn't possessor of possession of those two firearms and sold them and then since that we're tracking them down again to charge him with another crime of actually this person to go to jail just this department alone in the last eighteen months is probably between his criminal acts and his motor vehicle  arrested him i got to say ten to twelve times in the last eighteen months everything from criminal driving while license suspended petty larceny to possession and sale of stolen property and you know eventually we're hoping that the courts will catch up to him and in they'll take him off our streets for a while so we don't have to keep dealing with him so that's basically ben the the the last few weeks is we've spent a whole heck of a lot of time on this this stabbing that we had all by the way the suspect is going to survive luckily it went through the back it was about a six inch knife and he was treated we had him transported to the hospital he was treated and released the next day so we kind of hope that the judge so far has been good and seen the fact that this person is a danger to the community not just here but everywhere and they're going to hold him without bail at least for the forseeable future which we don't have a whole lot to report outside of that one of the things that we're trying to do is upgrade our video cameras in our cars it's about three of them are eleven years old the life expectancy in a video camera cars three to five years and the board met tuesday night and i have to sheet right now they're looking at trying to purchase the new ones for us and we'll just take a bank note on it but you're talking home thirty thousand dollars they don't give away they range anywhere from four thousand over six thousand dollars apiece we're also going to try to tie in with the new in carbon e o cameras that we go to the body or in this is this actually is a flashlight or a light because of my age now and the crew doesn't have good lights that's hard to read things in the car at night and like licenses and things of that nature and registration certificate so but it would be something not much bigger than this and be probably a little shorter and a little wider but we're looking to go to video cameras on the person or the ones in the cars are great everybody expects those everybody knows that well probably seventy five percent of the cruisers in this state have a video camera in there in the car so they know it's there what they might not know is you know they're pushing for the body worn the federal government's pushing form and the president has basically said that he may try to get legislation through that the federal government would help pay for fifty percent of it but the reality is having done this job for thirty eight years video cameras ninety nine percent of the time will vindicate the officer's actions and  doesn't and that's where the disciplinary action will take place the internal stuff that most people don't see because internal investigations are not open to the public don't come under the for the most part they don't come out of the public records act because their personnel issues just like any corporation may have or any business governments the same way you know when you take an action against an employee  personally think this is the way to go you know sometimes it may come back in and highness but for the most part you know law enforcement out there trying to do the right thing we all make mistakes sometimes it's decisions have to be made in a matter of seconds and what we do on occasion and then you know the people after that take weeks months and sometimes years to say well the officer did something right or the officer did something wrong you never know which way it's going to go sometimes it's just part of what we do in this line of work so if anybody's got any comments or questions you can call me here for three four two one five six if we're not here you can leave a message on the phone otherwise if you call that number no we picks up so the five one three number twenty one fifty three  those sometimes people send me things in for you know reminders that they want to properly watch because they're going to be gone for a week or two weeks or a month or in some cases six to nine months because they're out of the country so we do offer that otherwise just give us a call we don't have someone here twenty four seven to man the front desk or mistreated assistant is part time averages about twenty hours a week so we do leave a message we do have a little problem right where phone system we're trying to get wakefield telecom to upgrade it so we can get every officer and an individual voice box you know so when you call because right now we can't and they're trying to upgrade the system but then again there is a if you have any questions feel free to give me a call or so i mean email until we meet again i'll see you know three or four weeks