Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Race Goes From Unseemly… To Something Else

police_600pxBearing Drift reported yesterday about a rather unseemly relationship between the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office and a local used car dealership that resulted in $300,000 going directly to the same dealer — 17 times.

Here’s where it takes a turn for the weird.

In what we are to believe is a totally unrelated and completely divorced instance, it would appear that back in June 2015, Spotsylvania sheriff candidate Bill Gill was driving around the city of Fredericksburg…

I was pulled over on Cowan Boulevard and given two summonses by a City of Fredericksburg police officer. The summonses were for an expired registration and fictitious registration. A couple of months earlier, my registration came in the mail and the wrong stickers accidentally were placed on the wrong vehicle. It was an honest mistake and one that anybody could make. (My Volkswagen vehicle had my Ford Bronco stickers on the license plate.)

The first time I went to court, on July 24th, after hearing my explanation, the Judge ‘nolle prossed’ my tickets, which means the judge dropped the charges against me. I was given no fines or penalties and my attorney, my wife and I left the courthouse, believing the issue was over.

On August 21st, I was contacted by a high ranking City of Fredericksburg Police Officer and told that he needed to meet me to serve two summonses for the prior traffic offenses that had been ‘nolle prossed’ against me on July 24th. This is where the plot thickens.

How does the plot thicken, one might ask?

It would appear as if the Fredericksburg Commonwealth’s Attorney received a “complaint” from “a citizen” that Gill received special treatment because he was an officer of the law.

Of course, the local CA doesn’t exactly process traffic tickets on a day-to-day basis.  No worries — and nevermind that for most citizens, mix-ups such as these are simply handled precisely the way they were handled for Gill.  We can get this to a judge and clear it up in no time.

Except Gill can’t do that.

The CA then directed the officer to re-establish the charges. Of interest here is that of 10 or so cases that were dismissed or ‘nolle prossed’ that day by the judge, mine was the only one that the CA brought back to court. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

After I was served the summonses, I was given a new court date of August 21st.

Except the Commonwealth’s Attorney never showed up.  New court date… October 6th… when this time someone unexpected showed up:

A very interesting fact here is that on the August 21st court date, someone thought to send a court reporter to record the proceedings when my case was called.

When the court reporter was asked what case she was there for by my attorney, she gave him a business card and told him she was from the firm of Dicio & Biggs out of Fairfax, Virginia. Not coincidentally, Dicio and Biggs is the attorney of record in Spotsylvania Circuit Court for Major Carter Wells of the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office.

harris_600pxThe same Major Carter Wells that had a hand in the non-competitive bidding we reported on the other day.

This case, it would appear, goes before a judge for a third time tomorrow.

Folks, this is just… well, it’s unseemly, weird, odd, unprofessional… bush league politicking.  Heck — makes me a bit afraid to even wander into Spotsylvania and Fredericksburg if this is the sort of nonsense that happens when you want to run for public office.

We will see if a court reporter shows up tomorrow for The Case Of The Mismatched Registration Stickers (TM).  Until then, Spotsylvania sheriff candidate Bill Gill seems to be the target of some rather odd pressure tactics.

By odd, we mean unethical.

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