[meteorite-list] [IMCA List] 'Meteorite man,' wife arrested

From: Raremeteorites <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:40:03 -0800
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Steve Curry's ?common law, grand jury in Montrose County" has sentenced
several List Members to hanging.

He fancies' himself a fiscal progressive liberal whatever that means.




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*Montrose Daily Press ? By Katharhynn Heidelberg Daily Press Senior Writer *

*Nov. 13, 2015*

'Meteorite man,' wife arrested

*Steve Curry, the Montrose man convicted in 2012 of theft relating to the
sale of a purported meteorite, will begin serving a yearlong jail sentence,
after deputies arrested him at his home Tuesday.*

*Also arrested at the Dave Wood Road residence was Curry?s wife, Sandra
Tyler, who allegedly hit a deputy, Montrose County Sheriff Rick Dunlap
said.*

*Tyler posted bail before her initial court appearance and is to return to
court Dec. 7. A call made to her listed phone number rang unanswered
Thursday.*

*Dunlap?s office was prompted to act on Curry?s outstanding failure to
appear warrant from Mesa County because of a letter Curry allegedly sent to
the Montrose County Treasurer?s office, the sheriff said.*

*?The county treasurer received a letter from Mr. Curry that we considered
threatening. We decided that we had to take measure to remedy the problem,?
Dunlap said.*

*The MCSO executed a plan in order to take Curry into custody safely,
Dunlap said, declining to elaborate. *

*Curry was contacted outside of his home and arrested without incident on
the Mesa County warrant for failure to appear, and, per Dunlap, on a
Montrose County warrant for allegedly violating a protection order that
barred him from contacting certain county employees.*

*Tyler arrived home and ?tried to insert herself into the middle of the
arrest,? Dunlap alleged.*

*Sgt. Mathew Taramarcaz saw Tyler get out of a car; he told her to walk
toward him and away from the Special Response Team that was arresting
Curry, according to Tyler?s arrest affidavit.*

*?That?s my husband and I am going to him,? Tyler said, per the affidavit.
She then ?walked at a fast pace toward the team,? Taramarcaz alleged in the
document. He told her to stop and she allegedly said she wouldn?t, while
also trying to walk around Lt. Ben Halsey.*

*Taramarcaz attempted to grab Tyler at about the same time that Halsey also
tried to take hold of her. Tyler jerked way from Halsey, striking
Taramarcaz?s forearm with her left hand, causing pain, the affidavit
alleges.*

*She allegedly continued attempting to pull away from the officers, who
reported they made several attempts to calm her.*

*The affidavit alleges she continued to resist and, when told she was under
arrest, ?stated something to the effect of, ?I did not hit you that hard.??*

*Tyler then allegedly refused to get into a patrol truck, until Sgt. Keith
Sanders began escorting her to it.*

*She was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault, interference,
resisting arrest and accessory to a crime. Dunlap said Tyler knew that
Curry was wanted and had tried to prevent his arrest.*

*Formal charges have not been filed and again, Tyler is free on bond.*

*Dunlap did not specify what the Curry?s alleged threat to the treasurer
had been. The remarks that were construed as threatening referred to a
foreclosure, Dunlap said.*

*Curry, known in town as the ?Meteorite Man,? previously told the Daily
Press he had discovered terrestrial meteorites. *

*In 2011, he sold as a meteorite a piece of iron to a Grand Junction
business and was subsequently convicted of misdemeanor theft and fraud; he
vowed to appeal and maintained his innocence. In a 2013 document, he called
his sentencing in Mesa County ?illegal by all constitutional measures,
procedures, standards and statutes.?*

*Curry in 2013 also tried to generate interest in establishing a ?common
law? grand jury in Montrose County.*

*Common law juries have no power; legal experts say they don?t exist today,
but Curry disagreed. *

*Grand juries in Colorado are subject to statute.*

*Curry failed to appear for sentencing, per Dunlap?s information.*

*He is to serve a year in jail in Mesa County on the case there, Dunlap
said.*

*The Grand Junction Police Department could not be reached for comment late
Thursday afternoon.*

*Authorities have known Curry?s whereabouts for some time since the failure
to appear warrant was issued; Dunlap said they acted with caution to ensure
the safety of all involved.*

*?We tried to prevent a confrontation at the house, because of previous
correspondence from him, plus the fact that we knew there was a least one
firearm in the house,? Dunlap said.*

*?We wanted to do it at the time when it was less likely that anyone,
including him, would be hurt. ? Nobody got hurt, and that?s what we were
after all along.?*
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