Today the love of my life, my partner of 26 years was arrested and taken into custody for cannabis. A charge in Hawaii from nearly three years ago.
As we were living our peaceful lives here on the Snake River in Washington, an everyday encounter with the police, turned into handcuffs and an indefinite jail sentence. I am now alone and fearful of what will happen to him. So I guess I will take you back to June 2015..
After working very hard for 12 years we had built an oasis from bare lava.
In 2003, while living in Oregon, where we are from, and after mr. choosefreedom’s (Billy) mom died of cancer at the age of 47, we bought an acre of land on the slopes of Mauna Loa ( Big Island Hawaii) for $4500 and moved onto it. We lived in a tent for a year and saved money to build the first small part of our house.
We worked for 12 years on that piece of land and it grew into a beautiful home of nearly 2000 sqft. surrounded by grass and fruit trees.
In the end of June of 2015, on a beautiful sunny morning, with baby peeps (chickens) running around the yard, 8 men in body armor showed up as I was making coffee and preparing to give my 14 year old dog with cancer her medication.
They said they were “police” and they pointed a shotgun at me in my pajamas. They claimed someone had said we were “harboring dangerous criminals” (local Hawaiian carjackers, guys we had never heard of). They said they smelled weed and wanted to search.
We were arrested, but released without charges, they just took the weed. We got a lawyer and checked in with him once a week for 6 months. Nothing.. Our lawyer told us “we probably just got robbed” and we should “move on with our lives”. We did.
Today however, we find Billy was charged sometime since then. So now he sits, awaiting extradition to Hawaii for weed charges, and I am alone and afraid of what will happen next.
They plan to fly an officer from Hawaii to escort him back to face charges. In 2018 this is what our hard earned money is paying for through taxes. If you feel so inclined, call Hawaii County prosecutor and tell them what a waste of taxpayer dollars this is.
No victim, no crime.
Peace