BONDSMEN KNOW THAT 'D-RAY' CAN SELL ENOUGH DOPE TO PAY FOR HIS BOND

I got a kick out of the way this story was written. That’s why I’m posting it.

THE CASE OF THE COPS AND THE RABBIT

The Police News
February 27, 2010

GALVESTON - Friday, as some Galveston Police Narcotics officers were snooping around town keeping an eye on the population of drug dealers, drug users and others who engage in drug related occupations, they noticed several known, local police characters hanging around a car parked at the Time Out Food Mart, 710 Holiday Drive. One of the characters was "toaking a blunt." (smoking a a marijuana cigar)

Seeing that, the officers invited themselves to join the party and decided at that point to detain them all until they could determine just who was doing what.

One of the characters in the crowd was an old familiar face to the officers. In fact, he is an old familiar face to probably every cop in Galveston County and beyond.

He's known on the streets, and in the jails, "D-Ray" or "Dee". His real name is Dominique Alonzo Stokes and he's a 30-year old crook who has made his way through life since his teen years as somewhat of a drug dealer and who knows what else.

In police circles he is also known as a "rabbit." Rabbits are characters that take off running everytime they see a cop coming down the street. And in case the cop happens to catch up with him, they usually have to fight him to arrest him. If you catch a rabbit, the fight is on, they say.

That's what happened Friday when three narcs caught "D-Ray." Sgt. Gilbert Gomez had him collared and told him to put his hands on top of the car so he could pat him down. D-Ray didn't agree and started acting tough and jerked away from Gomez. With that action, officers Robert Owens and Joey Quiroga joined in and after a brief tussle and some rolling around on the ground, D-Ray was cuffed up and given a comfortable place to rest in the back seat of a police car.

No surprise to anyone there, the officers found D-Ray to be holding cocaine and marijuana. Once again D-Ray was given a free ride to the county jail, courtesy of local taxpayers, where he was registered for a room and charged with the manufacture and delivery of drugs, assaulting a policeman, resisting arrest, evading arrest, (he did try to run but they got him, remember "rabbit"?) and possession of marijuana.

We should point out that in cases where the police have to fight the bad guy to get him in cuffs, they still charge him for assaulting the cop, even though he looses the fight. It goes to the old saying, "you can't win for losing."

Two of D-Ray's partners in crime who were hanging out in the crowd were also invited to go along to the county jail. Even though they didn't participate in the scuffle with the cops, Theodore Smith, 35, went to jail for possession of some marijuana and 6 outstanding municipal court warrants, and Walter Spurlock, 27, had a warrant out for his arrest for driving with a suspended license.

D-Ray's bonds total $267,500. You would think that's a mighty big bond and wonder if he could ever get out of jail. Hide and watch. Drug dealers have no problem making bond because bonding agents know they can come up with the money. The just go out and sell some more drugs.

Here's a brief glance at D-Ray Stokes rap sheet. These are crimes he has actually been convicted of. It doesn't include the one's he got away with or got dismissed in court.

1996 Reformatory in Brownwood, Texas for juvenile criminals

1998 Galveston PD - Resisting Arrest

2000 Galveston PD - DWLS (driving while license suspended)

2000 Galveston PD - Drug possession – Felony

2000 Galveston PD - Possession marijuana

2000 Galveston PD - Evading arrest or detention

2001 Houston PD - Man/Del Drugs

2002 Galveston PD - Evading arrest in a car (police chase in cars)

2003 Galveston PD - Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon & terroristic threats & aggravated assault with a deadly weapon

2004 Holliday Unit for offense committed in 2000 (He finally went to prison but apparently was not rehabilitated)

2006 Galveston PD - Tampering with evidence

2006 Galveston PD - Evading arrest (running from cops. Vilolation of the "rabbit" act)

2008 Galveston PD - Resisting arrest or search

This is probably an interesting story to many readers. We tell it a little different than the socially and politically correct, mainstream media tells it, but that's because we tell it like it really is. This is not an unusual story. It's just another routine day in the life of a a narcotics cop.