I am so ticked!!!

[MichiganWoods]

Wow, that is a long list of scary things.

Question. Have you considered going to the local news station with your story to ask for help, since the PD is being incompetent in regards to this matter?

 

[klf73]

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actually, that is what I am going to do. The PD is just as frustrated as us, it's the DA's office that is the problem.....

 

[Duncan]

I recommend pepper spray! Carry it with you at all times. I personally would be wearing my sidearm while on my property if I had a neighbor like this.

 

[MichiganWoods]

Yikes. DA might be harder to nail than PD. At least the PD is on your side.


Pardon the rambling for a moment, but maybe this story can give you an insight into some steps you can possibly run through on your end over there. I once had to take on a case worker from a government agency. This was during the period in my life where I had no choice but to accept food stamps and medicaid. I was pregnant with my first child, and had to move back in with my parents. The state had promised my child medical coverage for the first year of her life. Six months roll by and I received an envelope with tons of paperwork and forms that they requested I fill out. I called my case worker and asked her to please call me back, as I needed help filling it all in. She didn't call, and didn't call. A week or two passed and the deadline was coming up. I called and left her another voice mail (she didn't answer her phone) and asked that she please call me back, as I would miss the deadline for the paperwork if she didn't return my call. Not 5 minutes later she called back and actually started chewing me out on the phone. The conversation from her started off like this: "Well it's YOUR FAULT." She told me the deadline for the paperwork was the following day early in the AM. I was shocked and didn't know what to say so I told her I would do the best I could on my own and turn it a little later in the day (1 day early). I did so. A week later I got my paperwork back in the mail and she attached a letter saying I had missed the deadline. She switched it to just after the phone call so that my paperwork was going to be revoked due to lateness no matter what. I was livid. They yanked her health insurance. So I decided to write a Michigan Senator. In my letter I explained what went on in great detail, and attached a really good photo of my daughter to it. The impact line was something along the lines of, "This is the child whose health insurance is being denied due to the vindictiveness of my case worker." The Senator took swift action. In the end, I received several apologies, including one from the manager of the head office in Lansing, got her benefits reinstated and was assigned a new case worker. In fact, her entire office was even shut down for a week to go under evaluation to see if anyone else was being mistreated as we were. The only tidbit of information I didn't find out was whether or not she got to keep her job. All I wanted was what was promised though, and we got it, so I was satisfied.

In your case, I would find some of the best pictures of your kids, and your family as a whole. Make sure your eyes are visible, and hopefully bright and shining. Pictures speak a thousand words. Present these pictures to the DA (and the news), and let them know that the news stations have copies of these to run with the story of your murder. That is, unless, the DA decides to take action against the man who has been repeatedly threatening your family. In fact, I would be charging him with three counts of attempted murder based solely upon the incident involving your two sons and your husband. And then if we step back and review the previous incidents, the fact that he was walking around your house looking in the windows with a flash light should have at least warranted a charge of trespassing with intent to break and enter. You don't just stalk around someone's house at night with a flashlight looking in the windows unless you've got intent to enter. The DA there sounds lazy. They are supposed to be serving the public, which they are obviously not doing.

As a precaution, you guys need to start carrying cameras on you at all times so that you can photograph the nut when he's near you. If you've got a video mode on the camera, all the better. You can catch him ranting and saying things to you. The more evidence you have to show the court, the less room the DA will have to let things like this slide. It's unfortunate that they are making it this hard for you though.

Good luck, and I am so sorry you have to go through this.

ETA: You might want to consider finding a really good Pro Bono lawyer.

 

[klf73]

when this first started and he wanted the dog back he called the state police and told them we were heads of a dog fighting ring

We had another beagle and a rescue basset mix, yeah, dog fighting ring my a$$.
They had to come interview us and the breeder we returned the dog to just to make sure the dog was ok. We could hear the inspector next door telling him he was NOT going to tell him where the dog was. He checked on the dog and the dog was fine. He used(abused) the system to try to locate the dog.
He also called child services but because of the law that protects callers they couldn't *officially* tell us he called or do anything to him for doing it. He again used the system to harrass us. We showed the worker the file we had and she unofficially told us he called...

 

[MichiganWoods]

Sounds like some neighbors we used to have. There was a law that stated cars parked on the street had to be moved every 48 hours or would be subject to a parking ticket. I was recouperating after my daughter was born and didn't get out there to move my car for a week. They called and reported my car (not a rusted out piece of junk either), and I got a ticket. So I made sure to go move my car every day -- even if it meant just rolling the car back a few feet, or forward a few feet. They kept calling the PD on us despite me following the rules. The police officer finally came to speak with us one day about our cars. The neighbors had called on my uncle's car, who was staying with us at that time while he located a new apartment. They told the PD that it had been sitting there for several days unmoved... but he had just returned from his work place. Where they happen to have a punch clock. He said he would happily go get the card to show that he and his vehicle were absent for several hours that day. I took the opportunity to ask the police officer if it happened to be the neighbors directly across from us. She couldn't tell us on the record, but she nodded that it was. I asked her if she would be so kind as to deliver a message to the neighbors for us; that we would be filing harassment charges against them if they didn't stop calling the PD on us when we are doing nothing wrong. She did so, and that was the last we heard of those neighbors.

Our neighbors were just plain mean. Your neighbor sounds like he really is out of his mind.