Saturday, September 10, 2011

What happens when you try to protect your pets in Texas

TEXAS -- A Liberty County grand jury soon will consider charges against Assistant District Attorney Joe Warren.

According to Special Prosecutor Kelly Siegler, “the case will be presented to the Liberty County grand jury on Sept. 21.”


Warren was arrested in June by the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office on charges of Tampering With a Witness, Terroristic Threats and Deadly Conduct related to an incident that allegedly took place a year earlier. When no local judge would sign the arrest warrant against him, it was taken to and signed by a judge outside the county, Judge Don Burgess.

At the time of the incident, Liberty Police Department cleared Warren of any wrongdoing, but a year later the sheriff’s office’s special crimes unit picked up and pursued the case.

According to the LPD report for Aug. 24, 2010, LPD Officer Brandon Wakefield was called to Warren’s home on Holly St. regarding a dog attack.

The report states that Warren’s Boxer was attacked and killed by his neighbors’ two pit bull dogs that had dug a hole under a fence to gain access to Warren’s backyard.

In her statement to police, the neighbor, Jennifer Regen Strawn, said that Warren threatened to kill her dogs in order to keep his dogs safe.

Jennifer Regen Strawn with two of her pit bulls. Imagine living next
door to a pit bull breeder, whose dogs have already killed your pet.

Despite the charges against him, Warren remains an employee of the Liberty County District Attorney’s Office. Just last week he was in court handling his assigned cases.

After Warren’s arrest, District Attorney Mike Little explained why he was keeping him on staff.

“I am giving him the benefit of the doubt. He is going to remain employed here,” said Little.

[NOTE: From the news stories I've read, I believe Mr Warren was furious that his dog was mauled to death by this idiot's dogs. I believe he probably called this Strawn woman and warned her that if the dogs ever came back onto his property he would shoot them. She then called and whined to her mother and stepfather. The stepfather, all worked up that Mr Warren had the audacity to scream at his stepdaughter, drove over to Mr Warren's house to confront him. When he stormed up to Mr Warren's house, Mr Warren's opened the door with gun in hand and told him to get the 'F' off his property.

And what of the pit bulls??? Well, the dogs were ordered to be destroyed and the owner, rather than do the right thing and allow them to put them down, appealed the decision.

The court actually reversed their decision on one of the dogs. They gave it back to this woman with instructions to move it off her property and told her not let it out of its yard without a leash. Wow! What a concept! I'm sure that wherever this damn dog is living now, that the neighbors feel safe with those restrictions! A leash! Why didn't anyone think of that before? I'm sure Mr Warren's dog would be alive if the owner had simply known not to allow her pit bulls off her property without a leash!

Anyway, below are the links. Read for yourself what the charges are and make up your own mind whether this guy should've been charged. Or not.]

(Your Houston News - Sept 9, 2011)

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