Not long after my last post regarding cancer deciding to adopt one of my kidneys I went to visit my children in Oregon. I was so happy to see them and spend a week with them. I hate being so far away…
Anyhow, this isn’t about how much I miss my kids!
Less than 12-hours after arriving home from Oregon I found myself arrested for a DUI warrant from 2009 in Joshua Tree, CA.
Now, while it is true I had a DUI one time in my life, I also went to court and paid a $1700 fine in cash in one lump sum. In addition, I attended a class in the new county I had moved to (Orange, CA); a class mind you, that the OC courts told me to go to after they read the order from the JT judge. After I attended that class way back when, the instructor advised me it was the wrong class altogether! What? Seriously? Yes…
So…
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I took a long ass drive through the CA desert and returned to JT where I reported this in an affidavit to the court. The judge was not available nor in session. They documented my info and said if there was something more I needed to do I would hear from them.
I never heard from them.
Fast forward 1-year later — a few weeks after my mom died, I found myself in a precarious living situation and sought help through San Bernardino County — the county in which I had had my DUI the year before. As a requirement to receive any help I had to have a clean record free of any warrants…they ran me and the case worker returned good to go and they helped me go home to my kids in Oregon.
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Fast forward again by a little more than 3-years and I returned to CA to get my lost birth certificate all straightened out so I could get a current state mandated ID.
All this leads me back to where I started;, about 12-hours after arriving fresh from Oregon I find myself in handcuffs carted away to the county jail which is a massive detention center about an hour or so away from where I live.
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Crazy.
Me…
…In jail…
…for more than 2-weeks.
Can ya believe it?
Me either!
Wait ’til ya hear my jail house blues stories…stay tuned! 😉
~ CS
Cheri, I can’t imagine the cold, cruel, government that treats its citizens in this manner and yet cowers before the mere shadow of others. Shame.
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Seriously bad sh*t is going on there.
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🙂
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shit 2009 ow,,, an innocent also ,,,jeezzzzzz…..well i shall stay outa california … 🙂 lol jeez…….
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prolly a good thing to stay outta CA :p
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Oh my gosh! I am stunned. Seriously! Is everything going to be OK now?!
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I don’t know…
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