Less than three years before he shot and killed a Joplin police officer and wounded two others, Anthony Reymond Felix pleaded guilty in June 2019 to assaulting a Maricopa County, Arizona police officer and was sentenced to a year and a half in prison with credit for the 57 days he had spent in jail before his sentencing.
According to Arizona court records, Felix pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on an officer and for using physical force to resist arrest. Under a plea bargain agreement, charges of marijuana possession and possesson of drug paraphernalia were dismissed.
At the time Felix shot and killed Cpl. Ben Cooper he was still serving three years of probation on the Arizona charge... even though court records indicated he had violated his probation and was listed as an absconder.
Felix' assault on a police officer was not the only brush with the law he had during his days in Arizona.
Court records indicate Felix had a number of arrests between 2002 and 2009, all felonies, with the 2009 arrest being for armed robbery and flight from law enforcement.
Despite Felix' lengthy criminal history, on the 2019 sentencing document he is described as being "non-dangerous" and "non-repetitive."
The "non-dangerous" Felix who was considered not likely to repeat his crime killed one police officer and wounded two others before being shot to death, according to the Joplin Police Department.
8 comments:
The judicial system is a joke, if they invested as much money into capturing and protecting the community from real criminals ( violent offenders, serious offenders) as they do villainizing, imprisoning, and then revoking and re-imprisoning drug offenders. There would be a lot more room in the prisons to be able to hold the violent criminals and the sex offenders for longer sentences.
This is very biased reporting.
Biased in what way? Apparently facts are now biased ? Please Mr anonymous ..lighten us.
Biased in what way? Not enough sympathy for the shooter?
1:44 is right. If we did a better job at defunding the police then these officers would still be alive. There is far too much focus put on laws that these right-wingers think we need instead of getting these people the help they need.
This reprobate got exactly what he needed.
Some right wing morans aren't worth responding to.
Taking down dangerous criminals is hard work, busting people who just like to get high is easy.
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