West Wendover, NV Council Approves Marijuana Sales

I think Wells is the closest for hookers. Never been.

These are the folks with the license in Wendover. https://www.deeprootsharvest.com/   They also have a store in Mesquite by the SW border of Utah.

In Utah, never admit to EVER using herb.

IF they take your blood, and there's even a trace of anything in you, it's a full-blown DUI. Could've been a week ago, no matter.

Had a state trooper trick people into that. She set a record for DUI's in one year. The one-time Trooper of the Year was later fired for lying about reasons for stops.

"Plate light was out", except the dash cam video showed otherwise. Other reasons, too. 

And yes, Colorado plates could be problematic.

Also, don't fall for signs saying "roadblock ahead". They're doing that to get the cars that turn around. 

The Mesquite dispensary has been open quite a while and I haven't heard anything about "ratcheting" things up. Thought there was the obligatory "we're gonna watch more closley" story in the paper after the Wendover announcement, but our Highway Patrol is so short-staffed.

Carefully Mark, carefully.

But Salt Lake police and the highway patrol are understaffed, and I'm not a big partier. Home is fine, and I'm not a bar guy.

Beaver County? Double down for a clean record? This SL Tribune article from September of 2016 might interest you, and you might want to get an accounting of where your money went. They went to two county attorneys and the state attorney and the investigation finally landed at the FBI. The sheriff is the son of the outspoken former-legislator Mike Noel, who's in some ethical hot water now with regard to the reduction of the Bear's Ears Nat'l Monument next to his property. And where the Bears Ears is in San Juan County, their law enforcement officers have been under scrutiny as well. They had a woman call in on a domestic violence call against one of their deputies and the chief and the dispatcher laughed. Sent someone out the next morning. Welcome to rural Utah. Cue the "Deliverance" theme music.

Beaver County's sheriff, who has been under investigation for more than two years for an episode at a homicide scene, will not face criminal charges.

Sandra Barker, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Salt Lake City, said Friday that the investigation of Cameron Noel has been closed with no charges filed. She referred further comment to the U.S. Department of Justice. Media staff there declined to comment.

Neither Noel nor his attorney, Peter Stirba, returned messages seeking comment Friday.

The FBI investigation was the last and most serious inquiry Noel faced in a matter that pitted him against two of his former deputies. A lawsuit by one of those deputies, Cody Allen, was dismissed this week.

On May 14, 2014, Dorothy Louise Searcy, then 44, stabbed and killed her husband, 45-year-old Reginald Searcy, at a motel in Beaver. Dorothy Searcy's son, Timothy Wilson, was in the next room during the stabbing and was handcuffed while deputies and a state trooper sorted out what happened.

A summary of the episode from Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) says that as Wilson was being led away, he yelled at another deputy to get his mother's medication. Noel told Wilson to "shut up" and get in the car.

That's when Wilson, according to a deputy's report, yelled at Noel, "F—- you, you fat motherf——-."

Noel took Wilson from the deputy and attempted to put Wilson in the front passenger seat of a patrol car. Noel told POST investigators that Wilson was resisting and not complying, the summary says.

"Sheriff Noel claims while he was attempting to fasten the seat belt on [Wilson], Noel was pushing [Wilson] with his left forearm across [Wilson's] face and [Wilson] was resisting," the summary says.

Noel told the investigators that Wilson tried to head-butt him and that Wilson bit him on the arm.

"Sheriff Noel then put both of his hands on [Wilson's] neck and pushed him back into the seat," the summary says.

Allen wrote in his report: "I observed the sheriff's arms tense up and him squeeze as hard as he could."

The episode ended when a deputy on the driver side of the car latched the seat belt.

POST determined in 2014 that there wasn't enough evidence that Noel choked the man, and it declined to pursue administrative action.

A criminal investigation of Noel, meanwhile, passed through the Millard County Attorney's Office, the Utah Attorney General's Office, and the Davis County Attorney's Office before the FBI took over.

Allen told The Salt Lake Tribune in January 2015 that FBI agents asked him about what happened at the homicide scene and about Noel's use of county vehicles and any business interests the sheriff has in Beaver County.

Allen was fired in late 2014 over allegations he was drunk at a Halloween party and threatened someone. He contended the firing was retaliation for reporting what Noel did at the homicide scene. He sued Noel and Beaver County last year in federal court.

This week, a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit. Both sides requested the case be dismissed, which suggests a settlement was reached. A Tribune records request for the settlement amount is pending.

Wilson also filed a federal lawsuit against Noel for what he asserted were civil rights abuses. Wilson is representing himself. A court docket shows there have been no filings in the case since March 2015.

Noel is the son of Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab.

Link to domestic violence story if you're interested.   https://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=43096836

Javs, we were talking recently (see above) about San Juan and Beaver County law enforcement. Seems now they've been honored.

Saw this story this morning in the SL Tribune and about gagged. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/12/06/two-utah-sheriffs/ 

Two of the Utah Sheriffs’ Association’s top annual awards went to law enforcers investigated for violent behavior

The Utah Sheriffs’ Association has given two of its top annual awards to sheriffs who were investigated, but never convicted, for violent behavior while on the job.

The association, which is made up of members from all 29 of the state’s counties, named San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge as its “Lawman of the Year” and Beaver County Sheriff Cameron Noel as one of its two “Sheriffs of the Year” at its 23rd annual Law Enforcement and Corrections Training Conference and Awards Banquet in September.

The awards were announced in the association’s newsletter, which went out last week.

Dave Newlin, an organizer with Utah Against Police Brutality, called the awards “a slap in the face” for those who organize against police brutality in Utah.

“To go out of your way to specifically find two people who have been investigated for the sort of misconduct that we fight against every single day is… I mean, it’s hard to say it’s anything other than purposeful,” said Newlin, a former Salt Lake Tribune employee. “There’s no other police officer you could have possibly found who you thought did a good job?”

Eldredge last year was charged with third-degree felony witness retaliation and misdemeanor reckless endangerment for an incident where he was accused of “dry-firing” a gun at a deputy in 2015. Noel was under investigation for more than two years for allegations that he had choked a potential witness following a May 2014 homicide.

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Utah never fails to embarrass itself when it can.

Housing prisoners is big business for rural jails. Had a friend near Zion Park get caught up in the Washington County legal system. The stories.

Yep, it's the landscape that keeps us here. Close-by excellent skiing and the magnificent canyon country for hiking, camping, and river running.

Just don't read the paper for 45 days while the legislature is in session. But it's like a car wreck - you can't not look - and you MIGHT be able to make a difference somewhere if you do.