[meteorite-list] [IMCA List] 'Meteorite man,' wife arrested

From: Raremeteorites <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:58:16 -0800
Message-ID: <5F8053F61D3C4D4495B41979F6A3B2A5_at_HPDESKTOP>

It is cool. This militia member, legal expert, self-proclaimed judge and
executioner has cost a lot decent meteorite people a great deal in the way
of legal fees and grief, not to mention fear for their lives.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roman Jirasek via IMCA" <imca at mail.imca.co>
To: "Roman Jirasek" <rj at meteoritelabels.com>; "Ken Newton"
<ken.imca at gmail.com>
Cc: <imca at mail.imca.co>
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [IMCA List] 'Meteorite man,' wife arrested


> Retract - it's actually not cool but sad, sorry.
>
> Roman
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> From: "Roman Jirasek via IMCA" <imca at mail.imca.co>
> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 5:58 PM
> To: "Ken Newton" <ken.imca at gmail.com>
> Cc: <imca at mail.imca.co>
> Subject: Re: [IMCA List] 'Meteorite man,' wife arrested
>
>> Cool. LOL
>>
>> Roman Jirasek
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>> From: "Ken Newton via IMCA" <imca at mail.imca.co>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 5:29 PM
>> To: <imca at mail.imca.co>
>> Subject: [IMCA List] 'Meteorite man,' wife arrested
>>
>>> *Montrose Daily Press ? By Katharhynn Heidelberg Daily Press Senior
>>> Writer *
>>>
>>> *Nov. 13, 2015*
>>>
>>> 'Meteorite man,' wife arrested
>>>
>>> *Steve Curry, the Montrose man convicted in 2012 of theft relating to
>>> the
>>> sale of a purported meteorite, will begin serving a yearlong jail
>>> sentence,
>>> after deputies arrested him at his home Tuesday.*
>>>
>>> *Also arrested at the Dave Wood Road residence was Curry?s wife, Sandra
>>> Tyler, who allegedly hit a deputy, Montrose County Sheriff Rick Dunlap
>>> said.*
>>>
>>> *Tyler posted bail before her initial court appearance and is to return
>>> to
>>> court Dec. 7. A call made to her listed phone number rang unanswered
>>> Thursday.*
>>>
>>> *Dunlap?s office was prompted to act on Curry?s outstanding failure to
>>> appear warrant from Mesa County because of a letter Curry allegedly sent
>>> to
>>> the Montrose County Treasurer?s office, the sheriff said.*
>>>
>>> *?The county treasurer received a letter from Mr. Curry that we
>>> considered
>>> threatening. We decided that we had to take measure to remedy the
>>> problem,?
>>> Dunlap said.*
>>>
>>> *The MCSO executed a plan in order to take Curry into custody safely,
>>> Dunlap said, declining to elaborate. *
>>>
>>> *Curry was contacted outside of his home and arrested without incident
>>> on
>>> the Mesa County warrant for failure to appear, and, per Dunlap, on a
>>> Montrose County warrant for allegedly violating a protection order that
>>> barred him from contacting certain county employees.*
>>>
>>> *Tyler arrived home and ?tried to insert herself into the middle of the
>>> arrest,? Dunlap alleged.*
>>>
>>> *Sgt. Mathew Taramarcaz saw Tyler get out of a car; he told her to walk
>>> toward him and away from the Special Response Team that was arresting
>>> Curry, according to Tyler?s arrest affidavit.*
>>>
>>> *?That?s my husband and I am going to him,? Tyler said, per the
>>> affidavit.
>>> She then ?walked at a fast pace toward the team,? Taramarcaz alleged in
>>> the
>>> document. He told her to stop and she allegedly said she wouldn?t, while
>>> also trying to walk around Lt. Ben Halsey.*
>>>
>>> *Taramarcaz attempted to grab Tyler at about the same time that Halsey
>>> also
>>> tried to take hold of her. Tyler jerked way from Halsey, striking
>>> Taramarcaz?s forearm with her left hand, causing pain, the affidavit
>>> alleges.*
>>>
>>> *She allegedly continued attempting to pull away from the officers, who
>>> reported they made several attempts to calm her.*
>>>
>>> *The affidavit alleges she continued to resist and, when told she was
>>> under
>>> arrest, ?stated something to the effect of, ?I did not hit you that
>>> hard.??*
>>>
>>> *Tyler then allegedly refused to get into a patrol truck, until Sgt.
>>> Keith
>>> Sanders began escorting her to it.*
>>>
>>> *She was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault, interference,
>>> resisting arrest and accessory to a crime. Dunlap said Tyler knew that
>>> Curry was wanted and had tried to prevent his arrest.*
>>>
>>> *Formal charges have not been filed and again, Tyler is free on bond.*
>>>
>>> *Dunlap did not specify what the Curry?s alleged threat to the treasurer
>>> had been. The remarks that were construed as threatening referred to a
>>> foreclosure, Dunlap said.*
>>>
>>> *Curry, known in town as the ?Meteorite Man,? previously told the Daily
>>> Press he had discovered terrestrial meteorites. *
>>>
>>> *In 2011, he sold as a meteorite a piece of iron to a Grand Junction
>>> business and was subsequently convicted of misdemeanor theft and fraud;
>>> he
>>> vowed to appeal and maintained his innocence. In a 2013 document, he
>>> called
>>> his sentencing in Mesa County ?illegal by all constitutional measures,
>>> procedures, standards and statutes.?*
>>>
>>> *Curry in 2013 also tried to generate interest in establishing a ?common
>>> law? grand jury in Montrose County.*
>>>
>>> *Common law juries have no power; legal experts say they don?t exist
>>> today,
>>> but Curry disagreed. *
>>>
>>> *Grand juries in Colorado are subject to statute.*
>>>
>>> *Curry failed to appear for sentencing, per Dunlap?s information.*
>>>
>>> *He is to serve a year in jail in Mesa County on the case there, Dunlap
>>> said.*
>>>
>>> *The Grand Junction Police Department could not be reached for comment
>>> late
>>> Thursday afternoon.*
>>>
>>> *Authorities have known Curry?s whereabouts for some time since the
>>> failure
>>> to appear warrant was issued; Dunlap said they acted with caution to
>>> ensure
>>> the safety of all involved.*
>>>
>>> *?We tried to prevent a confrontation at the house, because of previous
>>> correspondence from him, plus the fact that we knew there was a least
>>> one
>>> firearm in the house,? Dunlap said.*
>>>
>>> *?We wanted to do it at the time when it was less likely that anyone,
>>> including him, would be hurt. ? Nobody got hurt, and that?s what we were
>>> after all along.?*
>>>
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Received on Sat 14 Nov 2015 06:58:16 PM PST