Time for an update on several previous posts from September 2012, starting with The Pinnacle of Hypocrisy and carrying on through Thank you, Crystal Bonvillian. Innocent Until Proven Guilty. Nepotism. These posts came months after my first suggesting that sending HCS students to The Pinnacle Schools’ Elk River Treatment Program at the sole discretion of Wardynski was wrong for many reasons. .
The Sept. 2012 posts were about the arrests of owners Karen and Charles Lee’s sons, Charles Lee, Jr. and Eric Lee for trafficking on December 10, 2011. Reports noted agents seized “24 pounds of marijuana and about $37,600 in cash during the bust” and “weapons, including shotguns and rifles.”
Two others were busted along with the Lees: Corey McDonald and Stephanie Porter.
Now, parents aren’t responsible for the behavior of their adult children. Hypocrisy, like Karen Lee claiming she can turn your kids’ lives around, isn’t a crime.
Apparently neither is employing someone awaiting trial on charges like these as a counselor supervisor in the remote Elk River Treatment Program, aka Wardynski’s teepees of yesteryear, boot camps this season. Lee says she told the Board about the arrests before her contract with HCS was approved. When the Lees’ arrest came to the public’s attention, and it became known that Eric Lee was up at Elk River,
“Superintendent Casey Wardynski expressed support for Pinnacle and Lee, who he said contacted him Thursday afternoon and told him she was altering her son’s duties with the program pending resolution of his case.
“She is removing him from the Elk River program and he will be working other duties,” Wardynski said. . . . Lee told The Times on Thursday that her son would remain an employee, just as any employee would if they were charged with a crime but had not been convicted. That will change if he is found guilty of the drug charges. “Of course, if he was convicted he would be terminated,” Lee said.”
So what does this have to do with social media? Well, I was doing a little bit of my own monitoring of Facebook, and paid a visit here:
Elk River Treatment Program. Look in pictures and who do you find? This guy. There are two instances of that same picture, one on July 30, birthday greetings, and then one on July 31, 2014 with the caption: “Mr. Lee is a supervisor at ERTP.” Well, Karen Lee did promise Wardynski “she was altering her son’s duties.”
She made him a supervisor.
Now, it’s true he hasn’t been convicted of anything. He and his brother do not even have case numbers yet, although in a little over 2 months, 3 years will have passed since their arrest. Scroll down to the end of he post first to see what I am talking about.
But interestingly, the other 2 arrested, Corey McDonald and Stephanie Porter, have case numbers but no sentencing.
It took me a while to figure this out. If you have a case number, it shows up. If you don’t, you just have 000-0000 as a placeholder.
If you go to
http://jail.madisoncountyal.gov/smartwebclient/, what comes up first are the new bookings, and they have 000-0000 for case numbers too, just like Eric Lee. Now Charles still has no case number for the 2011 arrest, but he seems to have gotten himself in trouble again in 2013 and spent 13 months inside.
McDonald has a case number for the Dec. 2011 arrest .Porter has a possession charge with no case number from the Dec. 2011 arrest, but does have a case number for the trafficking charge.
So what are we to make of this? Four arrested; two have case numbers and two don’t. Why? What does it mean not to have a case number? Not guilty? Dismissed? Or trial pending? I simply don’t know.
And by the way, the Pinnacle guard charged with torture, Julian Boykin? He too has no case number.
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| Status: |
Released |
| Booking No: |
MCSO11JBN014271 |
MniNo: |
MCSO11MNI002388 |
| Booking Date: |
12/09/2011 15:05:42 |
Released: |
12/13/2011 1:50:00 PM |
| Age On Booking Date: |
23 |
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| Bond Amount: |
$25000.00 |
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| CELL Assigned: |
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| [-] |
13A-12-231 |
000-0000 (STAC) |
DRUG TRAFFICKING |
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F |
$25000.00 |
| TRAFFICKING (MARIJUANA, COCAINE, METHAMPHETAMINE, DRUGS) |
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| Status: |
Released |
| Booking No: |
MCSO11JBN014270 |
MniNo: |
MCSO00MNI058191 |
| Booking Date: |
12/09/2011 15:00:19 |
Released: |
12/13/2011 6:40:00 PM |
| Age On Booking Date: |
24 |
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| Bond Amount: |
$25000.00 |
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| [-] |
13A-12-231 |
000-0000 (STAC) |
DRUG TRAFFICKING |
|
F |
$25000.00 |
| TRAFFICKING (MARIJUANA, COCAINE, METHAMPHETAMINE, DRUGS |
| Status: |
Released |
| Booking No: |
MCSO13JBN001160 |
MniNo: |
MCSO00MNI058191 |
| Booking Date: |
01/30/2013 09:51:51 |
Released: |
1/25/2014 12:01:00 AM |
| Age On Booking Date: |
26 |
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| Bond Amount: |
$0.00 |
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| CELL Assigned: |
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| [-] |
15-10-60 |
CC12-3134 (MADISON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE) |
COURT SENTENCED (FELONY) |
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F |
$0.00 |
| COURT SENTENCED |
| Status: |
Released |
| Booking No: |
MCSO11JBN014269 |
MniNo: |
MCSO11MNI014234 |
| Booking Date: |
12/09/2011 14:45:10 |
Released: |
12/14/2011 6:45:00 PM |
| Age On Booking Date: |
27 |
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| Bond Amount: |
$25000.00 |
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| CELL Assigned: |
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| [+] |
13A-12-231 |
DC11 7712 (STAC) |
DRUG TRAFFICKING |
|
F |
$25000.00 |
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| Enlarge Photo |
| Status: |
Released |
| Booking No: |
MCSO11JBN014265 |
MniNo: |
MCSO11MNI000693 |
| Booking Date: |
12/09/2011 14:10:48 |
Released: |
12/14/2011 5:20:00 PM |
| Age On Booking Date: |
25 |
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| Bond Amount: |
$2500.00 |
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| CELL Assigned: |
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| [+] |
13A-12-231 |
DC11 7709 (STAC) |
DRUG TRAFFICKING |
|
F |
$25000.00 |
| [+] |
13A-12-212 |
000-0000 (STAC) |
POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE |
|
F |
$2500.00 |
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Enlarge Photo
| Status: |
Released |
| Booking No: |
MCSO12JBN008364 |
MniNo: |
MCSO11MNI000693 |
| Booking Date: |
07/19/2012 13:33:11 |
Released: |
3/13/2013 6:32:00 AM |
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| [+] |
13A-12-231 |
DC12-4952 (STAC) |
DRUG TRAFFICKING |
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F |
$0.00 |
| [+] |
15-10-60 |
DC11-7708 (MADISON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE) |
BOND REVOCATION |
F |
F |
$0.00 |
| [+] |
15-10-60 |
CC12 3133 (MADISON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE) |
COURT SENTENCED (FELONY) |
|
F |
$0.00 |
Time for an update on several previous posts from September 2012, starting with The Pinnacle of Hypocrisy and carrying on through Thank you, Crystal Bonvillian. Innocent Until Proven Guilty. Nepotism. These posts came months after my first suggesting that sending HCS students to The Pinnacle Schools’ Elk River Treatment Program at the sole discretion of Wardynski was wrong for many reasons. .
Merts Center Monitor 
My brother recommended I might like this web site. He
was totally right. This post actually made my day.
You can not imagine simply how much time I had spent for this information! Thanks!
My pleasure. Thanks for writing. Some days I feel like I might as well be cramming my messages into bottles and throwing them into the sea. So thanks for the encouragement!
I understand Karen Lee wants to “help” kids with problems including drug problems. Her son’s are out there trafficking drugs that these kids in Huntsville can possibly obtain. What better way to promote business? The Pinnacle Schools is a joke and needs to be shut down. A lot of the counselors have more issues than the kids they are trying to help, just saying.