WAUSAU, Wis. – Marathon County authorities acted appropriately when they sent two dozen officers and an armored vehicle to seize property from an elderly couple in the town of Stettin, Sheriff Scott Parks said Monday in response to critics.
I guess it becomes a matter of opinion in such matters....the department thinks it was appropriate. HOWEVER, according to the department, soon after deputies started counting the items on the property, Roger Hoeppner came out of the house. When staff tried to calm him, he got "pushy" and tried bowling past them. At that point, a lieutenant decided to handcuff him and put him in the back of a squad car. On the way to the jail, Hoeppner agreed to pay the judgment, at which point officers left the property without seizing anything.
So all that firepower....just to leave the property without seizing anything after a simple promise to pay??
It makes me question Marathon County's statement. If all you needed was a simple promise to pay....why do you need a humvee and 24 dudes?
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