James Brian Saville, 18 (in '99) was not a trenchcoater, but his case may have something to tell us about what happened at Columbine.
www.janabommersbach.com/pm-fea-feb05.htm
Back in October of 1997 Saville was arrested for vandalizing Maryvale High School in Phoenix, Arizona, after causing more $10,000 in damage. He and a cohort turned on the gas valves in the science labs and lit Bunsen burners in an adjacent room in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down the school.
Saville pleaded guilty to attempted arson of an unoccupied structure in April 1998. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and was released on July 8, 1999 from the Arizona State Prison-Perryville. The very next day he was arrested in a sting operation for building a bomb and attepting to plant it in the vehicle of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America. Saville spent another four years, from ages 18 to 22, in jail awaiting his constitutional right to a speedy trail.
To make a long story short, the jury acquitted him, agreeing that the sheriff's office had entrapped him, apparently in a publicity stunt for the notoriously publicity-hungry Joe Arpaio,* via a jailhouse snitch and an undercover sheriff's officer. Saville is currently involved in a civil suit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office(MCSO).
There were a couple of things that were relevant about this case:
It involved an attempt to get a impressionable, vulnerable juvenile to commit a criminal act--building a bomb for the purpose of killing someone--by law-enforcement officers, and it happened around the same time as Columbine.
Something to keep in mind when contemplating questions of motive.
*Recently back in the news for organizing a citizen's "Posse" to round up illegal aliens in the Arizona desert.
------------------------
"....they knew that ...all the police knew that they were doing bombs,....pipe bombs......There's a police officer that knew that they were doing it....but he didn't.....(stop them?)"
--Jennifer Harmon(6550)
www.janabommersbach.com/pm-fea-feb05.htm
Back in October of 1997 Saville was arrested for vandalizing Maryvale High School in Phoenix, Arizona, after causing more $10,000 in damage. He and a cohort turned on the gas valves in the science labs and lit Bunsen burners in an adjacent room in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down the school.
Saville pleaded guilty to attempted arson of an unoccupied structure in April 1998. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and was released on July 8, 1999 from the Arizona State Prison-Perryville. The very next day he was arrested in a sting operation for building a bomb and attepting to plant it in the vehicle of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America. Saville spent another four years, from ages 18 to 22, in jail awaiting his constitutional right to a speedy trail.
To make a long story short, the jury acquitted him, agreeing that the sheriff's office had entrapped him, apparently in a publicity stunt for the notoriously publicity-hungry Joe Arpaio,* via a jailhouse snitch and an undercover sheriff's officer. Saville is currently involved in a civil suit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office(MCSO).
There were a couple of things that were relevant about this case:
It involved an attempt to get a impressionable, vulnerable juvenile to commit a criminal act--building a bomb for the purpose of killing someone--by law-enforcement officers, and it happened around the same time as Columbine.
Something to keep in mind when contemplating questions of motive.
*Recently back in the news for organizing a citizen's "Posse" to round up illegal aliens in the Arizona desert.
------------------------
"....they knew that ...all the police knew that they were doing bombs,....pipe bombs......There's a police officer that knew that they were doing it....but he didn't.....(stop them?)"
--Jennifer Harmon(6550)
