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Dec 3, 2007 | Posted by: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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As Valerie Parkhurst was warning neighbors about sex offenders, one of them turned down the street. She confronted him at gunpoint, and ended up in jail. Parkhurst, 52, said Monday she was surprised police arrested her after the confrontation with Dale Weeks, 49, in the Playland Village neighborhood on Saturday. She was charged with aggravated assault and two counts of carrying a concealed firearm without a permit. 'I had a convicted sex offender, kidnapper who cornered me,' Parkhurst said. 'I don't expect to be convicted on any one of those [charges] because I was in the right.' Weeks was convicted in 1996 of abducting and raping a Walton County woman, according to state records. He served nine years and was released from prison in May 2005 Lt. Wayne Boulier, Davie police spokesman, said he can understand that neighbors are concerned when a registered sex offender moves into a community. 'Still, that doesn't justify pulling out a gun and threatening to kill people,' he said. Police said in a report released Monday that Weeks and girlfriend Maria Rodriguez were driving on the 4600 block of Southwest 66th Avenue at 1:50 p.m. Saturday. They were headed to a thrift shop to buy clothes when they came upon Parkhurst, who was posting fliers of sex offenders in the area. Parkhurst recognized Weeks and thought he was following her. So she got out of her Chevy SUV, pulled 9-millimeter Glock from a holster, and told Weeks she would kill him, police said. Rodriguez, who was behind the wheel, froze and could not drive away, police said. Parkhurst went back to her SUV, grabbed a 12-gauge shotgun, pointed it into the pair's car and again threatened to kill Weeks, police said. 'It's a vigilante-style move,' Weeks said Monday. 'She has no right to blow me away.' Parkhurst disputes the police account, saying that Weeks and Rodriguez stalked her after they saw her put up the fliers at Weeks' complex hours earlier. Parkhurst said they blocked her in at a dead-end street. When she got out of her truck to ask what they were doing, Parkhurst said Weeks threatened her in a profanity-laced rant. That's when Parkhurst, mother of an adult son, threatened to shoot him if he touched her, she said. When Weeks continued to swear at her, she grabbed the shotgun she keeps in her SUV for her and her boyfriend's weekly clay shooting practice. 'I figured if the pistol didn't scare him, maybe the shotgun would,' Parkhurst said. 'I stood there with the shotgun and said, 'If you come near me, I promise you, I will shoot you.'' Weeks called police. The officer arrested Parkhurst because she does not have a permit for either fully-loaded gun, police said. Rodriguez and Weeks were 'terrified that she was going to kill them,' the police report states. Parkhurst posted $6,000 bond and was released from jail Sunday, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office. Parkhurst said she didn't think she needed permits, because they weapons were not concealed. Also, this is the first time she's had such a confrontation with an offender, in the many years since she's been posting fliers in Playland Village, where she owns a home, she said. She lives in Fort Lauderdale. 'The Department of Corrections will drop them off anywhere and hope that nobody notices,' she said. 'But I scream. I'm not going to have [Playland Village] be a dumping ground for sex offenders.' Weeks' rap sheet goes back to 1977 and includes other convictions for trespassing, cocaine possession, culpable negligence, battery, theft and carrying a concealed weapon. He said he became a law clerk while incarcerated and has been working off-and-on in different cities since his release. Weeks said he's dealt with angry residents before, in many neighborhoods he has lived in. He said many people mistake registered sex offenders for pedophiles. 'I don't hold it against anybody to protect their children,' Weeks said. 'I just wish that all this money spent... some of it would be spent on educating the community.' Nancy Cotterman, director of Broward's Sexual Assault Treatment Center, said the confrontation represents a conflict between those who want to help their communities, and offenders who are trying to help themselves. 'You don't want people taking the law into their own hands, because that could jeopardize well-meaning people's safety,' she said. 'But at the same time, we are each other's keepers and we all have the responsibility to keep each other alert.' 'For those sex offenders who are making every attempt to be law-abiding and to re-engage and be fully-functioning citizens, you have to support them. There's a balance to be found there somewhere,' she said. Read more
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1 If Weeks had done something wrong, would he have called the police? wouldn't you think it would be better for HER to call the police to have the situation taken care of herself if he really had been the one in the wrong? give me a break. there was no excuse for pulling a gun on the guy and his girlfriend, no matter what. she needs to find out what prison is like. period. she broke a law. i want to see her punished. and not let off with a light slap, either. no one else would be let off easy for what she did. |
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1 If you were on a dead end street, blocked in by a convicted rapist, I suppose you would react differently.Yes, call the police.It may take a few for them to get there though. He took advantage of the situation in order to get attention drawn to him. These sex offenders want to be seen as the victim. How could you possibly be more supportive of him thasn her? He obviously followed her down that street in order to harass her. Oh, the poor sex offender had a gun pointed at him. Boo hoo hoo. He showed he was a coward with the first rape offense. Cry me a river! |
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She did call 911 and spoke to the dispatcher..guess that wasnt worth posting though uh?
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1 It is not a dead end street. She SAYS it is a dead end street but it has a utility alley at the end. This man and his girlfreind are victims. Don't like that? Don't do things to make them victims. See how easy that was? |
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1 I hate liars. Didn't your parents teach you that lying is bad? She never called 911. She pulled out an illegally-carried Glock and threatened to kill a man. then she went all the way back to her truck, got a fully loaded shotgun reapproached the man - while HE was dialing 911 - and threatened to blow him away (with expletives) with it. Duh, that's a hundred felonies right there and that's not even all. Now stop lying and go back to being a nuisance. |
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1 She has an arrest in 1996 for aggravated assault. |
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1 Truth be told, we still don't know what went down. I don't know Val personally, but I've dealt with her online. We're obviously on opposite sides of the issue. Yet she didn't just blindly attack me or ridicule me or try to intimidate me like WASP Ohio tried to do. However, I also recognize that she will also be judged on her words because she did say a lot of stuff online that will likely be used against her. The official police report points to Val as the aggressor. It doesn't look good for her. On the other side of the spectrum, I feel the victim should have approached Val in a different manner. There is a right way and a wrong way to do things. You don't just walk up to that person. I would have involved LE from the start, threatened her with civil sanctions, etc. I'm no fool to just walk up to someone on the street and confront them mono-a-mono, there's just too many risks involved, and seen it as a last resort. I feel I'm a bit more objective because while I know Val at least a little bit, I'm also an opponent of hers as well. I ultimately feel both were at fault here, just Val a bit more so for starting her crap. The Fallen One Through Knowledge and Wisdom Shall We Rise From The Ashes www.oncefallen.com |
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1 Liberto wanted to make himself look good in front of a rookie cop. What LIBERTO withheld ( evidence tampering ) is the fact that Valerie Parkhurst stopped at a Wachovia Bank ATM and withdrew $200 in cash at 1:38 pm, and was followed from the bank. She was stopped around 1:43 pm and approached by this sex offender on a dead-end street. Liberto is on the shit list of Davie Thugs to be prosecuted in 2008. |
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Oh yes. The perfect world according to Valerie. Sex offenders are not enough. Now cops are bad too. It wouldn't be because YOU WERE ARRESTED BY HIM ..........would it? Don't you see the aggressive anger you display? You don't see it do you? That is why you are going to go under community control and be forced to complete anger management group sessions. You will learn to get along in this free world, or you are going to have to learn to get along in jail. The choice is yours. All you have to do is stop all this childish denial and multiple-name postings via proxie serviers. You are going to find out that we are not that stupid. |
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Yes, SHE has an extensive arrest record. It seems she has been arrested/convicted in 1995, & 97 for the same nonsense. She's no angel, and surely NOT the victim in this instance. |
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1 You, like others that are lacking in common sense, just don't get it. The basic premis of this incident is that this woman has no right to waive a gun(or guns) around at someone simply because that person is listed as a sex offender. As far as "dead end road" goes, or "had no choice",.........if she was truly "cornered", the cop wouldn't have arrested her. Bottom line. She obviously has an negative agenda against sex offenders, this is made evident by the fact that she bothers to run around and distribute flyers "identifying" them. People that are truly concerned about sex offenders can easily ID them from the FDLE website. Mr. Weeks, the guy she victimized was probably sentenced to jail/probation......or whatever for his crime. I'm sure that his sentence didn't include "able to be shot and killed by anyone who dislikes sex offenders". Her actions were justified (in her twisted mind) by the probability that because the person she killed was a regitered sex offender, it would be "justified". In fact, she (parkhurst) is convicted felon. She is not permitted to even have a firarm in her posession according to florida law. Then she complains about the cop who arrested her(Gee,...I wonder why). I'm sure the cop who arrested her has a similer dislike for people like Mr. Weeks, however, realizing that a crime had been commited against him, displayed good judgement by arresting this parkhurst. |
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No, I don't think she was convicted. The information you are quoting is just a charge.
I've been charged for things before and not convicted and that is what you see in the web searches. Don't jump to conclusions. |
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Yes, she was convicted.........2 years state probation, ordered to pay restitution, waived COS. Filed for early termination, not granted. (I didn't get this info from a website) |
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interesting. but I think she still got Adjudication withheld which means means no conviction
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Tell it like it is well now you have screwed up with your name alone, extensive arrest record, what planet did you drop down from? Show me one conviction of this woman just one? Liar |
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Of course you didnt because it didnt happen you are one of those tiny little men with tiny little minds that think they can lie and extort and blow someone else's candle out so your shines brighter, if this site had a block on it you would be first on the list. |
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1 Do you really think this long post of yours is going to disuade the truth? Idiot. You got no fight give it up, this perv stalked and assaulted Parkhurst and she had every right to defend herself, even against pervs like you...you dont like it but it is what it is, give it up ...all my savings say she doesnt get one charge against her...sometimes not many but sometimes justice prevails you putz... |
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