User talk:Tmoorex1

Tmoorex1 I am a former employee of WalMart. I was terminated on April 3, 2013 for violation of policy; ARREST AND CONVICTION. November 20, 3013 I was arrested for protecting my property and what I thought was my right as a property owner. A week prior to my arrest, I had a 16' flat trailer stolen from my property. I called the Montgomery County, Tennessee Sheriff's Department to file a report. I got a call back stating that I lived too far out in the county for them to send a deputy. The deputy said she would take the information over the phone. On 20th November I watched 3 trespassers drive on to my property. They parked the car in my yard, 10 feet away from my NO TRESPASSING sign. One person got out of the vehicle and went to the road as if he was their lookout while the other two people headed straight towards my 20 foot camper. I grabbed my .38 pistol and stepped out on my front porch and told them to get off my property. They started toward the car and I told them the car was staying right where it was. I informed them that I had already called the Sheriff's Department and they were on the way. When the deputy showed up, I informed her as to what took place and that I wanted them cited for trespassing. She said she could not cite them for trespassing because she did not see them on my property. I told her that their car in my yard was proof they had trespassed. She drove down the road to where the three guys were standing to get their story. A few minutes later a Tennessee Wildlife Agent and another deputy showed up and went down to the three trespassers. A few minutes later one of the deputies came back to talk to me about the incident. He told me that it was all a mistake that the three parked on my property. He informed me that the Sheriff's Department was not going to cite them. He said they were going to get in their car and leave. I told the deputy that since he wasn't citing the trespassers, I didn't care what they did, but they weren't getting their car. the car was illegally parked in my yard and I was holding it until I could get a tow truck out here to remove the vehicle. He said I didn't have the right to hold the car. again, he said they were releasing the car. I again informed him that the car wasn't going anywhere. He asked me how did I plan on stopping them. I told him that if I had to, I would shoot the tires on the car so it couldn't be moved. I then walked down to where the car was parked and shot 4 times, striking 1 tire. I then walked back to the deputy and we began to talk. I sat down on my arbor, after placing my gun at the other end. When the other deputy and the wildlife agent came running up, the deputy I was talking to tackled me, jamming my head into the top of the arbor. The deputy lost his balance and we fell into the back of the arbor with such force that the concrete nails holding the arbor gave way. We fell over an embankment approximately 8 feet over. The deputy fell on me injuring my already bad back and the wildlife agent put me in a choke hold until I passed out. After being seen at the hospital for my injuries, I was taken to jail and charged wit 4 felony counts; 1 count of vandalism, 3 counts of reckless endangerment. After posting bail and getting out of jail, I contacted my store manager and told him what was going on. I told him I would not be able to work on the 21st but I would be back to work on the 22nd (Thanksgiving Day). 2 1/2 hours after I arrived at work, I was called to the office and was suspended without pay until I was either cleared of the charges or get the charges reduced to a misdemeanor. I could have beaten the charges, but I didn't have $4,800 to pay my lawyer to take this to trial so I plea bargained with the DA. The vandalism charges was dropped along with 1 felony count of reckless endangerment. The remaining counts were reduced to 2 counts of misdemeanor reckless endangerment. I was also given 18 months of unsupervised probation. My fine was $850.00. this was resolved on 27, March. on April 3, 2013 I was terminated with the status of un-hirable. I appealed the decision but was told because a gun was used, the decision would stand.. All of this took place on my property and had nothing to do with WalMart. Instead of innocent till proved guilty, upper management had me guilty till proved innocent.

Terry Moore Former Assistant Manager tmoorex1@huhghes.net Tmoorex1 (talk) 13:41, 24 September 2013 (UTC)