Situation #3
November 29th, 2004- A month and one half after incident #2 (getting hit by a truck) Robert is arrested! Yes, I said that correctly. Twice a madman with a doolie pick-up truck hit Robert and he gets arrested for assault with a deadly weapon (a stick) on a probable cause warrant. I was dumbfounded. A stick is a deadly weapon but a doolie 1-ton pick-up truck isn't???? Let me review these facts!!! First, Roger told us he would hurt us if we turned his boy into the sheriff for stealing. Second, Roger tries to carry out those threats and he hits Robert with a truck TWICE. Third, Robert gets arrested for an assault. OK, so I’m crazy, but something seems a little backwards in this situation. Roger has bragged before that he has the protection of the law; even Sam had told us that powerful people that we didn’t want to cross protected Roger. But, we had assumed that the entire matter was dropped because no one was arrested on Oct 13th and Arnold told us there were no charges pending on anyone. We thought it was a closed matter. The charges they arrested Robert for were: 1) aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (the stick); and, 2) criminal mischief $50 to $500 ($50 for the broken truck window); and 3) misdemeanor possession of an illegal substance (marijuana) under 2oz. The day after his arrest, I posted his bail.
November 30th, 2004 – I speak at length to Arnold and his Lieutenant about why they arrested Robert. Arnold assured me that “just because you are arrested doesn’t make you guilty”. The Lieutenant and Arnold said the Salter family claimed that Robert charged their vehicle, jumped a barbed-wire fence, and proceeded to bust in the driver’s side window, and hit Roger with the stick. Mrs. King claimed the damage done to the truck was over $5000. Mrs. King presented to Arnold an estimate that she did in her husband’s shop for every single scratch on this old doolie work truck. Arnold and his Lieutenant told me that there was no way they were going to believe that estimate and said that it was just Mrs. King trying to bilk me for that old truck and they wouldn’t allow that to happen. King can't bilk me that's not right, but they arrest Robert anyway?? What a screwed up line of logic. We can only speculate that due to the case being handled by Arnold, he gave in to the demands of the Salter family, their attorney, and the Kings and gave them the verdict they wanted and insisted on by arresting Robert. Robert was never indicted for the assault arrest and there was never a grand jury. The misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief for $50.00 was never presented to a grand jury or judge. All those arrests have been dropped.
Incident #4
The truly interesting part of my November 30th conversation at PCSO Headquarters is how the Lieutenant really wanted to get a good bust on the Salter family and stop their speed operation. He knew them well for their nefarious activity, yet he claimed he never got a good reason to arrest them. He advised me to write the Salters a letter telling them to stay off my property or be arrested for criminal mischief. When they didn’t stay off my property, as they surely wouldn’t, the sheriff could then arrest the Salters for criminal mischief at least. The lieutenant wrote much of the language of the letter I sent to the Salters via certified mail return receipt requested on December 8, 2004. On December 9th the Salters signed for this letter. It only took the Salters three little measly days to commit their first criminal trespass on my property. On December 12th, George and Farris King (Roger’s boss) were on our property at 930 to harass, intimidate, and accost a gentleman renting a mobile home from us. Do I really have to tell you that the PCSO did nothing they said they would do, or is that becoming extremely obvious already? Ah, yes, we really have to tell it. The duplicity of the PCSO and their actions (or inactions) is a central theme. It is part of the “MO” used to violate your civil rights and get you out of the way so the illegal activities can continue. Here is the letter the sheriff lieutenant wrote with me to send to the Salters.

Robert & Bette O’Steen
800 Brazos Rock Road
Millsap, TX 76066

December 8, 2004

Roger & Theresa Salter
860 Brazos Rock Road
Millsap, TX 76066

Dear Sir:

This letter is to notify you that you and your entire family and business associates are forbidden to step onto any property that we own. Any further violation of this order will result in criminal trespass charges being filed against you and the actual offender. You and your entire family includes, but is not limited to include you, Roger, and your wife, Theresa, and any and all children and grandchildren including Tiffany Deann, Matthew, Jacob, Tracey, your mother or mother-in-law and any others whose names we are unaware of at this time. We will also not allow any of your business associates with Tire Busters or any other business, legal or illegal, onto our properties or the same criminal trespass charges will apply to them as well because we will consider them acting on your behalf and with your consent.

Our properties includes the four lots (numbers 7 through 10) known collectively as 930 Brazos Rock Road and the acre lot known as 800 Brazos Rock Road and property that is located in Hurst, Texas.
Sincerely,
Bette K. O’Steen
cc: Parker County Sheriff
Sent via certified mail return receipt requested

End of 2004 - Meanwhile we still have the thefts done by Grant and Nodal back in June that are unresolved. Grant and his cousin, Nodal are caught by the Canadian Police trying to cross the border at International Falls, Minnesota. The Police inventory of property matches the list of stolen property that we turned into the Parker County Sheriff. My conversations with Chief Morgan (who stood us up in October) let me know that nothing will ever be done about the thefts. We have them caught red-handed with the stolen property and the Sheriff will do nothing about it. Morgan defended Oglesby by saying that he was at least two years behind on all of his burglary cases and he was the only burglary investigator for the county. Do the math here. That means the statute of limitations for an arrest on the burgalry runs out before the PCSO begins to investigate a case. The PCSO even gave Oglesby an award for being such a good officer. Seriously! He can’t solve a case before the statue runs out, but he is the kind of officer who gets awards. Hey, you are only a virgin until the first time they burst your bubble. It was here that I lost the naivety of the person who still believed in the Police.

The year 2005 will continue to test my faith in the police in ways I never could have imagined.