help..i need it bad!!!

[agoins27]

My family has had a feud going on with another family. It all started with a little girl getting mad because my sister was talking to some guy. It was very petty high school drama until recently a few occurrences have happened that I need some legal advice on. Recently the other family ( a 15 year old minor and a 30 something year old woman) followed my 15 year old sister and her boyfriend home from school and were screaming profanities, flipping birds, and threatening to follow them all the way home but the went down another road to throw them off and the woman pulls up beside them and started yelling at them and then sped off. Now being as protective as I am I let them know that they were to never follow my sister home again because, again, she is fifteen and this woman is 30 something. The little girl replied and made a few threats, and then her sister called and threatened me. Then a few days later I began getting crank phone calls (from the little girl), and little did I know that about 30 minutes before this the little girls older sister went to my sisters boyfriends work and slashed 2 of his tires. We dont have it on video, but we do have a witness who saw them go that way, and possibly a tape that shows they walked that way. We have printed off all of the conversations and threats they made and I called the cops the night they pranked called me so we have a report against them. would this count as probable cause? Is there any action we can take? OH and where we live slitting his tires is illegal! It destruction of property.

 

[army judge]

If you've reported this matter to the police, let it go!

Stop responding to these provocations.


Ignore them.


Do not respond to them in any manner.


If another "incident" occurs, report it to the police.

This isn't all that serious.


But, it will be, if you don't stop it immediately.

As you indicated, this is high school nonsense.

Stay out of it.

Let the police address it or not.

You've involved the police, now just let it go.

My family has had a feud going on with another family. It all started with a little girl getting mad because my sister was talking to some guy. It was very petty high school drama until recently a few occurrences have happened that I need some legal advice on. Recently the other family ( a 15 year old minor and a 30 something year old woman) followed my 15 year old sister and her boyfriend home from school and were screaming profanities, flipping birds, and threatening to follow them all the way home but the went down another road to throw them off and the woman pulls up beside them and started yelling at them and then sped off. Now being as protective as I am I let them know that they were to never follow my sister home again because, again, she is fifteen and this woman is 30 something. The little girl replied and made a few threats, and then her sister called and threatened me. Then a few days later I began getting crank phone calls (from the little girl), and little did I know that about 30 minutes before this the little girls older sister went to my sisters boyfriends work and slashed 2 of his tires. We dont have it on video, but we do have a witness who saw them go that way, and possibly a tape that shows they walked that way. We have printed off all of the conversations and threats they made and I called the cops the night they pranked called me so we have a report against them. would this count as probable cause? Is there any action we can take?

 

[agoins27]

So we are just supposed to let them get away with slitting some very expensive tires? We are not the first people they have done this to either. Im sorry but he saved up for months for those tires, and I dont think i can just "let it go"

 

[CdwJava]

So we are just supposed to let them get away with slitting some very expensive tires? We are not the first people they have done this to either. Im sorry but he saved up for months for those tires, and I dont think i can just "let it go"

Is there a witness to the slitting of the tires, or just that the other girls was walking somewhere in the area? By itself, that would not be probable cause sufficient to make an arrest. If there is a case to be made, I assume they will try to make it. But if they have no witnesses putting her in the lot near the car, and the girl does not confess or brag about it, there may be nothing that can be done just now.

As AJ commented, you have reported it to the police - let it go. Continuing to stew over it will only lead to more problems or cause you to take actions that could get you or yours in trouble.

 

[agoins27]

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There are witnesses saying they saw her near the car, and video that shows her walking in the direction. That is not the only thing I have for probable cause...i have emails, and a voicemail of her threatening me too. We have compiled data from months of them harassing us.

 

[CdwJava]

There are witnesses saying they saw her near the car, and video that shows her walking in the direction. That is not the only thing I have for probable cause...i have emails, and a voicemail of her threatening me too. We have compiled data from months of them harassing us.

How close is "near" or "walking in the direction?" If a few feet, maybe ... if a few blocks, no. Did any of those recorded threats say they were going to slash his tired?

As I said, you have reported it to the police, let them take it. If an arrest can be made, they will. But, very often what they (and you) KNOW to be true cannot be proven as such.