Archive for July 2009
Wanted Fugitive – Christopher Lee Bartella
July 19, 2009 | 
Author 7/16/10
Here is an update on the status of Mr. Bartella. He has been located in Austin, Tx. He is working as a security guard at a condominium complex and is reported to be living with his wife and children. A concerned citizen notified me of his location. Unfortunately, Texas and Colorado laws prohibit compelling him to return to Colorado to answer to the traffic charges. They are not viewed as a serious enough matter. However, the warrant remains in the computer and his photo will remain on this site until he returns to resolve the matter.
I had my doubts about the story that his wife gave me about him leaving her and the children. Apparently, those doubts were well founded.
Chris, come back before the end of August and I’ll remove the photo. Contact me to make arrangements.
Christopher Lee Bartella, DOB 4/6/1972 is wanted for failure to appear on a traffic charge in Jefferson County, Colorado. He is described as 6′4″, 175 lbs with Brown Hair and Green Eyes. He lived at 4870 Otis St, Wheat Ridge, Co until May of 2009. His wife reports that he left her and the children without telling her where he was going. He has family in the State of Washington and may be there. He was associated with Mannatech, a multi-level marketing organization selling nutritional supplements. It has a poor reputation and is believed to be a scam.
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Wanted – Mathias James Larson
Update 11/4/09
Mathias James Larson was captured and returned to the custody of the Douglas County Sheriff.
Mathias James Larson, DOB 8/5/1989, is wanted in Douglas County, Colorado for failure to appear regarding a violation of a restraining order. He is described as 6’1″ 160 lbs with Brown Hair and Blue Eyes. He is believed to be living in Aurora, CO.
Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n Roll
Today’s Stupid Criminal Story originates from San Antonio, Texas as reporter in the San Antonio Express-News. The story is quoted below, but here is the summary. Our heros, a male and female were in a car that was parked in an area that raised the suspicions of some neighbors. The police were alerted and contacted the subjects. They found the subjects engaged in having sex, which called for closer investigation. The police then found that the car was loaded with enough materials to start a meth lab.
Here is the story:
“The car was rocking, so someone called police.
When officers arrived Thursday night, they discovered a man and woman having sex inside the parked car that authorities said was loaded with enough equipment and chemicals to start a methamphetamine lab.
“The car seemed suspicious to residents,” Deputy Ino Badillo of the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said.
The 1991 blue Oldsmobile 88 had been parked in front of a house in the 6800 block of Buckley Drive for about two hours, Badillo said. The homeowners thought it strange that an Oldsmobile they did not recognize was parked out front with two strangers inside, so they called police at 10:48 p.m., he said.
When deputies arrived, they noticed the couple intimately engaged.
“They were having a lovers’ tryst, so that’s what brought attention to the vehicle,” he said.
He said deputies soon realized the car was full of chemicals and instruments used to manufacture crystal methamphetamine.
Timothy Overly, 26, and Candace Prewitt, 25, were arrested and charged with public lewdness and the manufacture of a controlled substance. Records show Overly lives about a block from where the car was parked.
He and Prewitt were being held Friday in the Bexar County Jail on $30,000 bond each on the drug charge and $800 on the lewdness charge.
County court records show Overly has been in trouble before because of drugs. He is awaiting trial on a March 23 arrest on a possession of a controlled substance charge. He also was convicted in 2003 on a similar charge.”
Tags: United Breaks Guitars!
Today’s post has nothing to do with bail bonds, rather it involves something I have a passion about – guitars.
In the Spring of 2008, singer Dave Carroll was traveling on tour with his band, Sons of Maxwell. They saw one of his guitars being thrown by the United Airlines baggage handlers and later discovered that a $3500 guitar had been severely damaged. For nine months, United declined to compensate Dave for the damage. Finally, Dave promised to write and produce three songs about his experience. Here is the first of those three.