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FreakinDJ

(17,644 posts)
Tue Jan 5, 2016, 06:32 AM Jan 2016

Farmer charged with pointing pistol at U.S. agent accepts plea deal

Farmer charged with pointing pistol at U.S. agent accepts plea deal

Four years after an armed confrontation with a federal agent, a prominent Linden-area farmer agreed to plead guilty Monday in a deal that allows him to escape prison time.

Andrew Watkins, 49, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of assault of a federal officer and will have to pay a fine of $10,000 to $25,000 and remain on federal probation for four years under the deal, which still faces approval by U.S. Magistrate Judge Edmund F. Brennan. Watkins also is prohibited from carrying a firearm outside his home while on probation, under terms of the agreement hammered out with federal prosecutors.

The plea deal allows Watkins to resolve the case without going to trial on a felony count that could have netted him up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

“The entire case arose out of a really confused, early-morning mix-up, and this kind of a resolution of this case, I think, is appropriate,” Watkins’ attorney, William Portanova, said after a brief hearing in federal court in downtown Sacramento.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article53018900.html#storylink=cpy
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Farmer charged with pointing pistol at U.S. agent accepts plea deal (Original Post) FreakinDJ Jan 2016 OP
I am not sure which he should be more thankful for, that federal agents show more restraint CBGLuthier Jan 2016 #1
Okay, now they can prosecute the Bundy group as well... Human101948 Jan 2016 #2
So any idiot with a fake badge could get you to drop your gun? Not..... Logical Jan 2016 #3

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
1. I am not sure which he should be more thankful for, that federal agents show more restraint
Tue Jan 5, 2016, 06:41 AM
Jan 2016

than cops, or that his skin is too fucking white to get shot on sight.

 

Logical

(22,457 posts)
3. So any idiot with a fake badge could get you to drop your gun? Not.....
Tue Jan 5, 2016, 09:19 AM
Jan 2016

Sure i see the issue. Maybe the feds talk to the home owner first.

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