Comments on: Man Gets Five Years For Burglarizing Vehicles At Molino Park Elementary, Other Locations

By: Denise

Denise — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 16:56:21 +0000

I don’t need to say anything. Agree with “whatthecheckman” .

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 19:58:41 +0000

He stole guns among other items. He didn’t steal the guns for self defense (not that it would be a valid reason), but to make money. That means those guns were destined for the armed robbers, drug dealers, and murderers of our community. This guy would have been secondarily responsible for trauma, suffering, or death of who knows how many people. Guns belong in the hands of responsible people, not those who would trade or sell them for drugs. This isn’t youthful indiscretion, this is an adult who has made a series of choices to break the law and not care about anyone else.

5 years is too little.

By: molino jim

molino jim — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:51:51 +0000

@ Sam–look at his arrest history — ref. stolen GUNS. Public Defender or not his history helped to get him 5 years.

By: Bman

Bman — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:41:29 +0000

Looking at his arrest record, time for doing some time. Possibly the one who robbed a number of cars in our neighborhood. I live not far from where he was arrested. Five years may not be enough to change his behavior

By: molino jim

molino jim — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:39:38 +0000

Just a good–sweet–nice person? Pull up his arrest history and you may rethink your comments.He has received a lot of “breaks” and none have worked. Off to hard time and then nothing to look forward to. Breaking into cars where your kid goes to school and where you are known , not a winner.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:51:48 +0000

@ whattheheckman:

Wow, from what you say, this is all the more tragic. What a waste, & loss of potential!

I’ve gotta watch what I say carefully here, bcuz the person modding the comments will not publish MY comment if they don’t like what I say, no matter if it is objectionable or not, kinda like old Russia or Nazi Germany.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:16:11 +0000

Five years is way too long for a non-violent crime. He can’t make the money he needs to pay all this back from a jail cell. A good lawyer would’ve gotten him 1 – 2 years.

By: whattheheckman

whattheheckman — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 05:29:50 +0000

I worked with Brett. Was he a good kid? Yes… to some degree. I’m by no means excusing his actions. However, I can tell you he got wrapped up in the wrong mindset. He truly had potential and don’t think I didn’t personally try to encourage him to use the skills he had in our trade to further his life. I will say this.. We were both on jobs making $30+ an hour. That’s why his choices are inexcusable. That said, maybe he can come out on top of this situation as he should if he takes this wake up call and learns from it. It is sad that he’s going down the road for stupid decisions. The victims, however, deserve justice. I see many people on here jump on the bandwagon when in fact they don’t know all the facts. In summation, this is a good kid who made the wrong choices. Is he a knucklehead? Believe it. Just pray that he ain’t you’re kid. Pray that he finds help and repays his debt to society. Pray that the victims of his crime can find forgiveness. Pray that we as a society can prevent the next young man or woman from going down this path. Now, I’m no saint. Furthermore, please don’t get on here and throw stones in a glass house because I guarantee you our youth need our help more than ever. Some of them are in your families as well as mine.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 04:11:25 +0000

That’s as bad as the one parent that wrote the bad check at the school carnival a couple years ago

By: Terrance Wright Sr

Terrance Wright Sr — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 03:22:22 +0000

Only five years come on now. That’s barely any time to think about what he did