SPRINGVILLE — The Utah County Attorney's Office has determined that a Springville man who shot an intruder in his home was within his legal rights.

"We reviewed the investigation that Springville police did and our conclusion is that the shooting was legally justified," Utah County Attorney Jeff Buhman said Thursday.

Buhman said there is more than one state statute that covered the actions of Doug Yarrington, but he cited the statute on force in defense of habitation as his reasoning in a letter to police.

That statute states that a person is justified in using deadly force "to prevent or terminate the other's unlawful entry into or attack upon his habitation," especially if the intruder enters the home by stealth or in a violent manner and intends to act violently or commit a felony while in the home.

Buhman said he felt the statute best fit the circumstances of the incident.

Yarrington shot and killed Armando Martinez Jr., 31, around 2:50 a.m. on March 1 in the bedroom of his home at 763 S. 475 East.

We reviewed the investigation that Springville police did and our conclusion is that the shooting was legally justified.

–Jeff Buhman

Police said Martinez had walked through the neighborhood Yarrington lived in, checking as many as 20 homes for unlocked doors. He ultimately entered Yarrington's house through a sliding back door. The door was locked with a child lock, but Martinez apparently disabled it by pulling hard on the door.

Once inside, Martinez found some dry clothes and changed into them before making himself a snack, police said. He then entered the master bedroom and threatened Yarrington and his wife, saying he had a gun. He demanded that they retrieve their wallets and keys and drive him to an ATM.

Yarrington walked into a closet under the guise of getting ready to leave, but instead, took a 9mm handgun from the closet and shot Martinez, striking him once in the chest. The homeowner and his wife were uninjured.

There were three children — 3-year-old twin boys and an infant girl — inside the home at the time, police said.

Martinez never actually produced a weapon, and police reported that while he told the Yarringtons he had a stolen a gun, none was found at the crime scene.

Springville Police Lt. Dave Caron said the department investigated the incident as they would any shooting.

"Martinez, at the time he was shot, was ... engaged in the commission of the crimes of burglary, robbery and kidnapping against Mr. Yarrington and his spouse. Additionally, when Mr. Martinez initially spoke to Mr. Yarrington and his spouse, he claimed to possess a gun and he made physical gestures that appeared to Mr. Yarrington to be confirmation that Mr. Martinez may have possessed a gun," Buhman wrote in a letter to the Springville police chief.

"In fact, at the point when Mr. Yarrington was able to grab his weapon, aim it at Mr. Martinez and verbally attempt to detain him, Mr. Martinez moved toward Mr. Yarrington and made gestures that appeared to be an attempt to access a gun."

Springville Police Lt. Dave Caron said the department investigated the incident as they would any shooting.

Caron said he often offers an opinion on the cases, but that the Utah County Attorney's Office has the final say. In this case, he agreed with Buhman that this was self- defense and justified under the law.

Police said the Yarrington family moved from the Springville home shortly after the incident.   (from  KSL    3/22/12)

Cops Believe North Carolina Inmate Hid 10-Inch Revolver In His Rectum. Luckily, It Was Unloaded.

Michael Leon Ward, a 22-year-old Georgia resident, was arrested Monday after a trooper spotted him speeding. Ward, who resisted arrest, was subdued with the help of a stun gun. A subsequent search of his vehicle resulted in additional charges for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

But it was only after Ward--who is a fugitive on a murder warrant out of Atlanta--entered the Onslow County jail that sheriff’s investigators discovered what else he possessed.

According to cops, Ward, pictured at right, summoned jailers to his  cell, claiming that someone was trying to kill him, and that he discovered a gun inside his cell. The weapon was found in the toilet, where Ward claimed he tossed it after finding it in his bunk.

The recovered gun is pictured in the above police evidence photo.

Sheriff’s investigators say they are investigating how Ward got the weapon into the jail, since he had been “strip searched prior to being booked into a cell block.” The inmate,was taken today to a local hospital “for possible injuries that may have occurred to Ward’s rectum where it is believed Ward may have concealed” the revolver.

The gun, deputies reported, was test fired and found to be operational.

- hahahahahaha!  A dumb ass packer.  -K

It is also on the wall of the editor of the Omaha Herald paper. How many other papers would have the guts to put this picture and story on the front page?

Leading the fight is U S Marine Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt, known as 'Iron Mike' or just 'Gunny'. He is on his third tour in Iraq .. He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour.

Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US Marines. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. 'You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision,' he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term 'the longest walk', stepping gingerly into a 5-foot deep and 8-foot wide crater.

The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7" knife to probe the ground. 'I found
a piece of red detonating cord between my legs,'
he says. 'That's when I knew I was screwed.' Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt. Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back.
At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet. 'A chill went up the back of my
neck and then the bomb exploded,' he recalls. 'As
I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road,
not able to feel anything from the waist down.'

His fellow Marines cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there. 'My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down,' says Sgt Burghardt. 'I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a real sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. 'I decided to walk
to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher.' He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. I flipped them one. It was like,'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week.'

Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of
Col. John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit.
Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

Are you proud enough to send this on ?

YOU BETCHA I AM!!!

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND OUR TROOPS!
IN GOD WE TRUST!

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