A youth group took a holiday sign to a sheriff's home. He's accused of holding a gun to the chaperon

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Source: Washington Post

A youth group took a holiday sign to a sheriff’s home. He’s accused of holding a gun to the chaperone’s head.

Members of a church youth group giggled as they taped a Thanksgiving decoration to Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland’s door in Blackfoot, Idaho, and ran back to their friends in a nearby vehicle. The paper turkey with “thank you!” written in black letters was supposed to be a surprise for the sheriff’s wife.

But as the group’s adult chaperone, Chelsea Cox, began to drive away on Nov. 9, Rowland — wearing long johns and holding a gun — appeared in the middle of the street, the girls later told investigators. At first, they said, they thought he was joking. Then, after the car rolled to a stop, Rowland allegedly approached the vehicle and pointed the gun at two girls in the front seat before turning the weapon toward Cox, according to a 10-page affidavit.

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“Get the f--- out of the car,” the sheriff told Cox, according to the affidavit, before grabbing the woman by her hair and yanking her out of the vehicle.

A 12-year-old girl told investigators she then saw the sheriff hold the gun to Cox’s head — close enough to be touching — and say “I will f---ing shoot you,” according to the affidavit. Cox, investigators wrote, is Rowland’s neighbor.

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Another good guy with a gun? Oh yeah, He's a Republican.

[Scrivener7]

1. The responsible gun owner strikes again. They're so rational.

[OldBaldy1701E]

21. Well, he did not buy that gun

It was given to him as a law enforcement officer. Now, the 'responsible' part? That is up for real debate.

[AZLD4Candidate]

2. And police wonder why many people want the entire system overhauled

Unreal. Give a normally powerless person a little bit of power and they turn in a monster. It happens with police, managers, business owners, media executives, politicians. . .all forms of life.

[SheilaAnn]

3. Sounds like he could have been drunk also...nt

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. He claims he was sober and that it was daylight savings time that caused his behaviour.

[SheilaAnn]

5. Wonder what the hell that means but okay I guess...LOL. n/t

[Deuxcents]

6. He's the sheriff and the time change was too much for him?

Yanking a kid by the hair n curses at them? Time to take his badge..and definitely his gun.

[Dial H For Hero]

8. That excuse makes the Twinkie Defense sound plausible by comparison.

[Scrivener7]

11. Because he likes to threaten people with guns and nearly kill them, and then

set the clocks back.

It's just what he does. Second Amendment, baby. Well regulated daylight savings time militia.

[jaxexpat]

18. Yep, there's a new "time sheriff" in town, pardner. Welcome to Idaho.

"I said, fall back, NOT spring forward, ya communist b--tard", was shouted throughout the night and into the next morning. The chickens stopped laying and the cow went dry, alas.

[Scrivener7]

19. .

[Probatim]

12. Imagine if he had eaten Twinkie that morning.

Would this asshole buy that excuse from anyone? Ever?

[Mister Ed]

7. Remember: "An armed society is a polite society."

[NullTuples]

9. He's a "Law and Order" Sheriff, and I'd guess a CSPOA

"We’ve had a protest in Bingham County, we had undercover officers watching them in a peaceful protest"

“What happened in Minneapolis was completely wrong, but it’s also wrong to get in an officer’s face."

Rowland said the $50,000 for weapons and ammunition goes for more than guns and bullets, that it includes expensive tasers as well.

“Weapons and ammo are not cheap,” Rowland said.

Rowland said his department has an armored Humvee that was given to the department by the Idaho National Laboratory that is used on such cases as search warrants when weapons may be involved.

“When you call for help, what are you going to do, let them shoot at you or let them shoot at an armored vehicle?” Rowland said. “That’s why we have them, we’re given military vehicles for free. We hope they’ll shoot at vehicles and not at us.”

[SergeStorms]

10. He drank one alcoholic beverage.

Yeah, one 3 gallon bucket 🪣.

Daylight savings time always throws me into a homicidal rage, too.

No, sorry, that's someone stabbing me in the abdomen with a steak knife that throws me into a homicidal rage, not Daylight Savings Time. I always get the two confused.

This guy needs to be locked in a rubber padded room for a few years. He does not belong in any Sheriff's department, especially one that issues firearms to their Chief.

[niyad]

13. Wow. . Drunk Indians.. cqsing the joint. Does not recognize his neighbor and friend

of 30 years (the chaperone Cox), and admits to the police chief that h "really screwed up".

Getting an extra hour of sleep screwed him up??

[riversedge]

14. ...Rowland also told investigators "drunk Indians" have driven down his cul-de-sac and "come to my d

I hope they throw the book at this sheriff Rowland.



.................Rowland also told investigators “drunk Indians” have driven down his cul-de-sac and “come to my door,” adding: “We have a lot of reservation people around us that are not good people.” (In a Thursday Facebook post, officials with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes said the comments were “racist” and “extremely offensive” and called on Rowland to step down.)

After hearing the knock at his door, Rowland told his wife to get his gun, and he walked outside to see people running down the street, he told investigators. He also saw a vehicle he didn’t recognize turning around, he added, and thought someone might be “casing the neighborhood.”

Cox, who also did not respond to a request for comment, later told investigators the sheriff ought to have recognized her because they had been neighbors and close family friends for 30 years. Cox and her husband let Rowland park his trailer on their property, the affidavit states.

But as Rowland allegedly held his gun to her head, Cox told investigators their relationship didn’t seem to register to the sheriff. “That’s when I really got scared because the gun was still at my head and he didn’t know who I was,” Cox said, according to the affidavit..............................

[Maru Kitteh]

15. Well now she understands how he really treats people when

he doesn't know them or need a sliver of dirt to put his trailer on.

[flying_wahini]

16. If the kids were black it would have had a bad outcome and everybody knows it now.

He SHOULD resign but probably won’t cuz he’s a Republican AND an Asshole.

[raccoon]

17. What a POS. He needs to be evaluated for dementia. Nt

[lark]

20. Lock him up and fire him posthaste.

Bet he's not vaccinated either - fits the MO.

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. "You people need a new Sheriff"

?t=32

[Tom Kitten]

23. I thought daylight savings time ended lo these many days ago?

Wouldn't standard time be the real culprit here?
Also wouldn't he have gained an hour's sleep in the morning? Isn't that something most people like if not enjoy?
Oh well... Maybe this shows what can happen if you get too much sleep...


Oh btw

[Maraya1969]

24. And he's a racist. Check out what he said about the Indigenous people living

by him


"Rowland also told investigators “drunk Indians” have driven down his cul-de-sac and “come to my door,” adding: “We have a lot of reservation people around us that are not good people.” (In a Thursday Facebook post, officials with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes said the comments were “racist” and “extremely offensive” and called on Rowland to step down.)"