YELLOW HOUSE CUSTOMER SUBJECTED TO FALSE ARREST BY LAWRENCE KANSAS POLICE OFFICERS

OFFICERS BIALEK AND RANTZ.

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During the summer of 2006, two unmarked police cars and two marked police cars pulled up to Louis Marshall’s residence at 512 Locust Street in Lawrence Kansas. This has been verified also by two documented eye witnesses.

Two officers in plain clothes Micky Rantz and Jay Bialek and two uniformed police officers (identity unknown) knocked on Louis Marshalls door. Louis Marshall answered the door and was told by officer Bialek that he had to go with them to the police station to answer questions about the Yellow House Store. Louis told them "no" and gave them his attorney Sarah Swain's business card. He then told the officers they would need to contact her if they had any questions for him since he was on probation.

Officer Bialek told Louis he was going to have to come with them down to the Police station anyway. He also told Louis that when they were through they would give him a ride back home. Louis informed the officers that the terms of his probation required him to get a judges order before he could have any voluntary police contact, and his attorney told him not to talk to police unless she was with him. The officers told Louis he would need to come with them anyway.

Upon arrival at the police station on 11th street, Louis was escorted by the officers to the second floor, taken down a hallway and into an interrogation room. There he was asked by officer Bialek if he wanted a cup of coffee or a soda. Louis told the officer "no". A tape recorder on the table was turned on. Louis told the officers that he needed his attorney. Then officer Bialek started telling Louis that he knew he used to work at the Yellow House Store (approx. 12 years ago) and he should know some things. Officer Bialek informed Louis that they knew the Yellow House store had written a check to him several days ago for $150. (This was for a washer & dryer set that Louis had purchased from the Yellow House six months prior and then sold back to the Yellow House) The officer asked Louis what the check was for, and Louis told him "None of your business" then told them he needed his attorney. He informed the officers that Judge Fairchild had ordered him not to talk to police without his attorney present. Another officer stuck his head in the doorway and told the officer Bialek that he had an important phone call. At that point the officer said he would have to take the call, so Louis was free to go but would need to return at 3:00 to finish the questioning. Louis asked the officers for their business cards. The officers informed Louis that they were out of business cards but that when he came back at 3:00 they would have a card to give him.


Louis left the police station (he was not given a ride) he walked to the Yellow House store. The owners of the Yellow House store called Attorney Sarah Swain who was also representing them at the time. They explained to Sarah what had happened, and she said that she would call down to the police station and find out why they were messing with her client. She also informed Louis he was not to go back to the Police station at 3:00 like they had requested.

After talking to the police Sarah called the Yellow House back and stated that the police were denying that Louis had been picked up. Louis informed her he had two verified witnesses that saw the police pick him up. The Yellow House owners requested that Louis's statement be documented and added to their evidence file So Sarah told him to come down to her office and sign an affidavit. Later that day Louis had his mother give him a ride down to Sarah Swain’s office. She then sent him to the private investigator Cecilia Woods’s office to have her document his statement in a notarized affidavit. Woods investigative services was also given the names of the witnesses and asked to get statements from them also.

These collected documents later mysteriously disappeared from the Yellow House files while still in Sarah Swain’s office.

During a phone call Sarah Swain made to Louis Marshall's mothers house looking for Louis, his mother informed Sarah that she had driven Louis to the office that day and that she knew he had signed an affidavit for Cecilia Woods. She asked Sarah what had happened to the affidavit. Sarah informed her that it was destroyed and she did not want her client involved with the Yellow House case.

This is a signed replacement of the original affidavit, as recounted by Louis Marshall. November 14, 2007


footnote:
When Sarah Swain was no longer representing the Yellow House owners, the Neighbors picked up their documents and files from Sarah Swains office, The signed affidavits associated with this incident along with the receipt for same inventory list were both missing at that time. When Carrie Neighbors asked Sarah about the missing items Sarah told Carrie that Cecilia Woods had the receipt for Same list and that she did not remember the Louis Marshall incident and there was no affidavit. 6 weeks later a fraudulent “receipt for same list” was allegedly returned to Sarah Swain’s office by Cecilia Woods for Carrie Neighbors to pick up.