Missing Probation Officer
Missing Howard Porter
Please click onto the comments for the post.
MR. PORTER HAS BEEN FOUND click onto the comments for more details.
posted by Bob at Sunday, May 20, 2007
Custom Search
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Missing Howard Porter
Please click onto the comments for the post.
MR. PORTER HAS BEEN FOUND click onto the comments for more details.
A DEMOCRACY TOWN HALL HOME
Do you have a topic you want to discuss at the Town Hall? Email your request to A_Democracy@yahoo.com
“A DEMOCRACY” Disclaimer- While the administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to this forum express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.
You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned
THE ROOF GUYS
Mickey's Diner 1950 7th Street West, St Paul, MN
(651) 698-8387
AX-MAN SURPLUS
1639 University Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55104
Tel:(651)646-8653
LANDLORD.COM LINK HERE
SHHHH! While we listen to words of wisdom from a wise man.
Conscience is the light of the Soul that burns within the chambers of our psychological heart. It is as real as life is. It raises the voice in protest whenever anything is thought of or done contrary to the righteousness. Conscience is a form of truth that has been transferred through our genetic stock in the form of the knowledge of our own acts and feelings as right or wrong. A virtuous and courageous person can alone use the instrument of conscience. He or she can alone hear the inner voice of the soul clearly. In a wicked person this faculty is absent. The sensitive nature of his / her conscience has been destroyed by sin or corruption. Hence he or she is unable to discriminate right from wrong. Those who are leading organizations, business enterprises, institutions and governments should develop this virtue of the ability to use their own conscience. This wisdom of using the clean conscience will enable them to enjoy the freedom.
Dr APJ Kalam, President of India given during the inauguration of the seminar on “THE EFFECTS OF CORRUPTION ON GOOD GOVERNANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Previous Posts
- Highland Council Books In Chaos. Meeting Scheduled
- 650 Central Shooting
- The Roots Of Evil, Ethnic Cleansing
- MORE Proof Deconcentrating Poverty Isn't Working
- In Detroit Houses Cheaper Than Cars
- Two Youths Shot Near Basketball Game In Saint Paul
- Why Did Gayle Summers Really Quit The Highland Cou...
- Mayor Chris Coleman & The Victim Intervention Prog...
- COOKING WITH Rena Ray
- People from all over the United States Are Signing...
11 Comments:
MEDIA ADVISORY
Saint Paul Police Department
367 Grove Street
Saint Paul, MN 55101
Officer Paul Schnell
Chief’s Assistant for Media Relations
John M.Harrington
CHIEF OF POLICE
May 20, 2007
Police Seek Missing Person
Saint Paul Police are asking for the public’s help in locating Howard Porter. Mr. Porter is a Ramsey County Probation Officer, who has not been seen since about 9:00 P.M. on Friday, the 18th of May. Mr. Porter is 58 years old six feet eight inches tall with a medium build. He was last seen wearing dark blue Villanova running pants and shower shoes with one strap. We are not certain what type of shirt he was wearing.
Saint Paul Police believe that Mr. Porter’s disappearance is suspicious and are concerned for his welfare. Any one with information about Mr. Porter is asked to call the Saint Paul Police at 651-291-1111
Saint Paul Police Department - Committed to Excellence, Ethics, Empathy & Education
What is suprising is that this hasn't happened sooner. POs are routinely threatened by parolees and probationers, it (sadly) was just a matter of time. Minnesota POs work with dangerous folks, and the state and the bench just ties their hands.
Mr Porter has been found alive but hospitalized due to injuries. I have not yet heard yet how he was injured or what the injuries consist of.
Nancy
St. Paul / Probation officer is found
Police 'gravely concerned' after ex hoops star went missing Friday
BY DAVID HANNERS
Pioneer Press
Article Last Updated: 05/20/2007 11:42:18 PM CDT
Howard Porter, a Ramsey County probation officer and once one of the nation's best college basketball players, disappeared mysteriously Friday. He was found Sunday night, and police said he had been assaulted, but they refused to say what condition he was in or where or how he was found.
St. Paul police spokesman Tom Walsh claimed that releasing even basic details of the case would jeopardize the investigation.
"We're not talking about where or what his physical condition is," he said, declining to answer questions. "It's part of the investigation. We feel that to release that would jeopardize the investigation."
Earlier in the day, police had said they suspected foul play in the disappearance of Porter, 58, an adult probation officer and former pro basketball player.
"Given the way he went missing, the circumstances of him having gone missing, we are gravely concerned for his well-being," Walsh said Sunday afternoon before Porter was found.
The spokesman said that later, after television news stories about Porter appeared Sunday evening, "somebody was able to identify him for us." Asked what he meant, Walsh declined to comment. "We're not in a position to say anything about that."
A woman at his home who wouldn't give her name said the family would have no comment on his discovery.
Porter was considered the top college basketball player in the country when he played at Villanova in 1971. Following a pro career, he dabbled in some failed businesses,
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Advertisement
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
got addicted to cocaine, came to Minnesota for treatment, got clean and discovered he had a knack for counseling others. He went to work for Ramsey County Community Corrections in 1995.
Porter works out of the Spruce Tree building at University and Snelling avenues in St. Paul. He has a caseload of 102 clients, said Chris Crutchfield, a spokesman for Community Corrections.
"He is very well liked and very well respected," said Crutchfield before Porter was found. "Everyone is very, very upset. We're very concerned about Mr. Porter."
Walsh had said police were investigating possible links between Porter's probationers and his disappearance.
Porter was last seen about 9 p.m. Friday when he left the home he shares with his wife on Iglehart Avenue in St. Paul's Summit-University neighborhood. When he was last seen, he was wearing dark blue Villanova running pants and shower slippers; police said they were unsure what type of shirt he had on.
Porter is originally from Stuart, Fla., and wound up in Minnesota after going through a drug treatment program and deciding he liked the state.
He has had a life of success, setback and comeback. He has parlayed his own been-there, done-that experience conquering cocaine into a successful career counseling others, and that led to his being hired by Ramsey County as a Community Corrections worker in June 1995.
His life on the basketball court was the stuff of legend. He averaged 35 points a game his senior year of high school. When he was leading the Villanova Wildcats to the NCAA National Championship game in 1971, Porter was considered "arguably the best college player in the country," according to a 1996 profile on him published in Sports Illustrated.
But his life in basketball was also tarnished by things that happened off the court. In the 1971 NCAA final, even after Villanova lost to UCLA by six points, Porter was named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. He was never given the award after it was discovered that during his senior year, he had signed a contract to play with the new American Basketball Association. NCAA rules prohibited signing a pro contract before the school year was over. Villanova forfeited its tournament wins, and the record books list Porter's Most Outstanding Player award as "vacated."
Porter was a second-round draft pick by the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association. After a legal battle between the ABA and the Bulls, Porter wound up playing for the Bulls and later played for the New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons and the New Jersey Nets. His career was hampered by a leg injury and a blood clot in his lung; his best season in the NBA was 1976-77, when he averaged 13.2 points per game.
In the Sports Illustrated interview, Porter said he had been a "social" user of cocaine while in the NBA but that he began using it more heavily after some failed attempts at setting up businesses.
He was arrested and charged with drug possession. After violating the terms of his probation, he was sent to jail for six months. A friend urged him to get counseling, and he wound up going to the Hazelden Clinic in Center City in 1989.
"I finished the 28 days, and they offered me a chance to go to a halfway house," Porter was quoted as saying in the Sports Illustrated article. "I was at the halfway house, and they offered me a job with the treatment program."
Porter joked in the interview that he was one of the few people to move from Florida to Minnesota.
"The way I look at it," he told the magazine, "the life of Howard Porter is just beginning."
David Hanners can be reached at dhanners@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-5551.
Even people in corrections and the police dept. have drug issues. Isn't it time to change our policies on the drug war?
Let us be the first to take the steps in the right direction. Decriminalize drugs in the state of Minnesota and put that money into drug education and treatment programs.
9:51 -
That's all well and good, but let's deal with the important stuff first. Lets find out what happened, then deal with the legislative mumbojumbo.
Days now, Ya all wanna no somethin! This guy is dirty and this is a nother case of tha city coverin up for their own.
I hate to say it but I am also starting to think that there is something up with the way the information on this case has been kept quiet. You would think they would want to draw attention, offer rewards for information leading to the arrest of the offender and etc... Damn if I worked for the county and was honestly taken and almost beaten to death I sure as hell would expect them to show more interest in getting information out to catch the offender than what I have seen here with the Porter case. Unless they have enough info on the suspect to where they are just waiting to grab him/her and don't want to scare the suspect off to the point where they might lose the suspect, also they could be waiting for the forensic evidence results to come back it can take weeks to get some of the the results back. That sometimes can be needed to provide enough evidence to get the arrest warrant, that is the only honest form of explanation I can think of.
Nancy
8:24 -
I have diagnosed your malady, it's cranial-rectal inversion syndrome.
He works for Ramsey County, not any city. Whatever the outcome, you look like a buffoon when you spout off and show your ignorance.
11:36, he works for Ramsey County.
Who is investigating? Saint Paul City Police!
11:56,
Wrong again numbnuts, Minneapolis is the primary investigator
Post a Comment
<< Home