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Fourth in a series of investigative
reports by Christine Louise Beems, editor emeritus gozarks.com,
chronicling the process of interdiction, adjudication and dijudication
as it exists in our drug-war-torn society today.
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TAPED
CONFESSION
"He admitted to me that he sold
pot to Mr. Kelley..."
Confession
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Confession
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Around 3pm on March 26, Michael C.
Kelley, 62 of Shirley, answered his front door to find Van Buren County
Sheriff’s Investigator Randy Murray, five deputies and one State Police
Trooper with search warrant in hand. Allegedly, a ‘concerned citizen’
tipped-off law enforcement that Kelley was fostering an odious marijuana
operation. [see:
Gozarks, April 2007]
Kelley sighed and let them in. Officers
seized six young plants and a child’s wading pool with cloned cuttings,
citing same as marijuana. Kelley was arrested for manufacturing.
Also confiscated was about an ounce of highly compressed ‘commercial’
pot that Kelley says came from the ‘concerned citizen’ whose indictment
was ‘probable cause’ for the warrant. Thus Kelley’s attorney, Kent
Tester, claims that Kelley’s interdiction was a perpetrated set-up.
To legally demonstrate this, Tester subpoenaed the suspect informant,
one Daniel Watts, 29 of Shirley, to testify at Kelley’s pre-trial
hearing and prove that Kelley’s case must by law be kicked on ‘fruit of
the poisoned tree’ 4th Amendment grounds.
"This whole thing was orchestrated by the jilted boyfriend of my
landlady’s daughter," Kelley asserted, referencing Shalom Weiss, 18,
also of Shirley.
"She called it quits with Watts on March 22,"
Christine
Beems, 58, Kelley’s landlady and mother of Weiss, explained. "And
Watts immediately put her on notice that if she refused to move in with
him he would make her life hell. Within 72 hours of his ultimatum, he
showed up at Mr. Kelley’s house and the next day Mr. Kelley went to
jail."
"A couple of days before Mr. Kelley was arrested Daniel Watts told me
that if I wouldn’t be with him he’d make my life miserable by getting
the cops involved," Weiss elaborated. "He said that he already had a
search warrant in process, but was giving me ‘one last chance’. He said
that if I agreed to move in with him he could stop it."
Weiss said she was dumbstruck, having no idea what Watts thinking or
that he was planning vindictive action against the tenant who rents the
house managed by Beems but legally owned by Weiss and three siblings.
"I thought he was going to send the cops to where we live and couldn’t
imagine why. I knew we had done nothing wrong," Weiss said.
"In total shock" and wanting to get to the truth of the matter after
Kelley’s arrest, Weiss covertly taped several telephone conversations
with Watts.
"He admitted to me that he sold pot to Mr. Kelley and that he used
family ties with local law enforcement to manipulate the raid on Mr.
Kelley’s residence, all to get back at me," Weiss said.
On April 12, a No Contact Order, initiated by the Fairfield Bay Police
after Watts repeatedly showed up at the young woman’s workplace
threatening to ‘burn her house down with her whole family in it’ and
stalking her and her younger sister (a minor), was issued against Watts
on behalf of Weiss by the VBC DPA’s office on charges of terroristic
threatening and harassment,
"It is clear to me from my personal knowledge of this man and in
listening to the tapes that Watts wanted to make the point that he has
an ‘in’ with local law enforcement," said Beems. "He wanted to drive it
home that Shalom wasn’t going to do anything that displeased him, at
least not without someone suffering some pain. Over and over on the
tapes he demands that she marry him and insists that she will ‘owe him
forever’. He is obviously a very sick person and yet it seems that he is
‘trusted and protected’ by those who are charged with enforcing the
law," Beems alleged.
Beems’ assertion stems from the filing of a Motion to Quash Defendant’s
Subpoena by Stephen Hawks, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney of the 20th
Judicial District. If granted by the court, the motion would bar
Kelley’s attorney from questioning the alleged informant on the witness
stand.
"The State of Arkansas neither admits nor denies the possibility of the
individual’s involvement in the above-styled case," stipulates Hawks,
further pleading that the State of Arkansas is, according to various
rules of criminal procedure and evidence "not required" to divulge the
identity of a "confidential informant."
Tester, responding, calls on the court to enforce his subpoena of Watts
because the witness "has material information regarding the Affidavit
for Search Warrant" and further alleging that "the State is in
possession of exculpatory evidence in the form of tape recorded
telephone conversations recently delivered to them."
Tester also asserts that Watts had "motive to fabricate evidence and
set-up the Defendant" and that "clearly his testimony and knowledge in
this case are relevant."
"This dangerous creep is a manipulative liar," Kelley, who works as a
dishwasher in Fairfield Bay and has amassed debt of nearly $15,000 for
bond and attorney fees to date, summarized. "He was on a vendetta to
hurt this girl because she refused to be extorted for sex. He brags that
he has no problem lying to a judge and he makes it clear that he and
others plotted this revenge. If he gets away with convicting me on this
pack of lies he will continue to terrorize innocent young girls and do
whatever else he pleases with impunity."
Kelley’s case is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing before Circuit Judge
Mike Maggio in October. Watts, who entered a plea of ‘not guilty’ to the
charges levied in the No Contact Order, stands trial in District Court
on August 13. ~~~
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