Hello!
I have a new neighbor who we were having problems with his dog (and later dogS) coming onto our property. we asked several times for the problem to be fixed, but never was, finally we had to call Animal Control and upon being verbally accosted by the man, had to call the sheriff as well.
about 3 weeks later, (dog problem was solved) the man shows up on the property where his mom was building a house, and he disturbs us for 4 hours. extremely foul language, shooting guns, driving a quad runner etc. finally at 9pm, after putting our kids to bed at 8:30, my husband hollered out "could you keep it down now, we are putting our kids to bed" to which the defendant replied "F*** YOU.. you blew it last time you called the sheriff's on me, now I am coming over to take care of this once and for all"..
we called the sheriff's again, who came out and after a LOT of yelling and fighting, finally arrested him for public intoxication and resisting arrest.
we filed for a restraining order and were granted one, but we had also asked for our costs to be reimbursed by the defendant (we purchased additional security equipment for our home because we were terrified of this man.. ) the judge granted the restraining order, but lowered it to 50 yards so the man can live in his mom's house. he also denied our costs.
I want to know if I would have a case in small claims?! I want to recover the $1000+ that we are physically out for money we spent.. plus time involved in doing all the legal stuff for the restraining order.. and also for emotional distress. I have 3 young girls who are now being locked inside the house daily with me since we are in such fear of this man... who not only resisted arrest that night, threatened us TWICE that night.. but has previous arrests for battery on a peace officer and Grand Theft.. not your "ordinary run of the mill neighbor" we got here. and since he had no problem scuffling with two sheriffs on the night he threatened us.. I have tremendous fear that he will come after us if given a chance!
Hope someone can help.. I don't know where else to turn.. I have tried these type of boards before, but they don't seem to have any activity on them.. and if I am going to do this, I want to act fast..
oh... I should also mention, we are now in the process of trying to find a new home. since we have been threatened, we no longer feel safe here and feel in order to provide a family home where our 3 girls don't have to hide inside, then now we must move from our house of 13 years.. which, all of these problems occurred PRIOR to this man even moving IN! he wasn't even living here before he did all this to us!!
I have a new neighbor who we were having problems with his dog (and later dogS) coming onto our property. we asked several times for the problem to be fixed, but never was, finally we had to call Animal Control and upon being verbally accosted by the man, had to call the sheriff as well.
about 3 weeks later, (dog problem was solved) the man shows up on the property where his mom was building a house, and he disturbs us for 4 hours. extremely foul language, shooting guns, driving a quad runner etc. finally at 9pm, after putting our kids to bed at 8:30, my husband hollered out "could you keep it down now, we are putting our kids to bed" to which the defendant replied "F*** YOU.. you blew it last time you called the sheriff's on me, now I am coming over to take care of this once and for all"..
we called the sheriff's again, who came out and after a LOT of yelling and fighting, finally arrested him for public intoxication and resisting arrest.
we filed for a restraining order and were granted one, but we had also asked for our costs to be reimbursed by the defendant (we purchased additional security equipment for our home because we were terrified of this man.. ) the judge granted the restraining order, but lowered it to 50 yards so the man can live in his mom's house. he also denied our costs.
I want to know if I would have a case in small claims?! I want to recover the $1000+ that we are physically out for money we spent.. plus time involved in doing all the legal stuff for the restraining order.. and also for emotional distress. I have 3 young girls who are now being locked inside the house daily with me since we are in such fear of this man... who not only resisted arrest that night, threatened us TWICE that night.. but has previous arrests for battery on a peace officer and Grand Theft.. not your "ordinary run of the mill neighbor" we got here. and since he had no problem scuffling with two sheriffs on the night he threatened us.. I have tremendous fear that he will come after us if given a chance!
Hope someone can help.. I don't know where else to turn.. I have tried these type of boards before, but they don't seem to have any activity on them.. and if I am going to do this, I want to act fast..
oh... I should also mention, we are now in the process of trying to find a new home. since we have been threatened, we no longer feel safe here and feel in order to provide a family home where our 3 girls don't have to hide inside, then now we must move from our house of 13 years.. which, all of these problems occurred PRIOR to this man even moving IN! he wasn't even living here before he did all this to us!!
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