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Saginaw woman who led anti-violence march faces gun charges
SAGINAW, MI - Months after organizing an anti-violence march in the wake of a several shootings in the city, a Saginaw woman faces gun charges after police allege she threatened an employee at a salon.
Sparkle N. Roby, 34, on Wednesday, Sept. 18, appeared in Saginaw County District Court for arraignment on three counts of felony firearm and single counts of felonious assault, carrying a concealed weapon, carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent, and felon in possession of a firearm.
Prosecutors say Roby on July 22 had an altercation with an employee at Unique Styles Beauty Salon in Saginaw and said she’d come back with a gun. She left the business, then returned with a pistol and waved it around, yelling for the employee, prosecutors allege.
Roby left the salon when she heard police were being called, prosecutors said. No one was injured, but police said several people were in the salon at the time.
Authorities issued a warrant for Roby’s arrest on Monday, Sept. 16. The next day, police arrested her during a traffic stop.
Roby, speaking with MLive on Thursday, said she expects the case against her to be dismissed.
“They’re all false claims,” she said. “I don’t know the person who made the report.”
Earlier this year, Roby organized the Take a Step Walk. The June 1 march was in response to several shootings and two homicides that occurred in Saginaw in a few weeks’ time.
In May, she told how her life has been affected by violence in Saginaw.
In 2005, her best friend Brandy Boose, 20, was killed in a drive-by shooting as she slept in bed with her infant. Two years later, Roby’s 26-year-old sister Tekisha R. Curry — a mother of five children — was fatally shot during a late-night birthday party in 2007.
In 2015, Roby found herself in legal trouble for witness intimidation for twice threatening a female who was a witness against her brother, Brandon Sims, who is serving 26-50 years in prison for the 2014 shooting death of Keyonus Mobley.
“When I was put in that situation, I had never been in that situation, and I learned that I never wanted to be in that situation again,” Roby told MLive in May. “I was able to grow and learn from the experience.”
She ended up pleading no contest to one count of intimidating a witness by committing a crime and/or threatening to kill or injure. As a convicted felon, Roby is prohibited from possessing guns.
In 2018, she regained custody of her sons, who had been removed from her home in 2010. They also became motivation for her.
“I learned to use my time more wisely and started doing more positive things and ever since then things have been going more positively for me,” Roby said.
Roby, who has bonded out of jail, is to appear for a preliminary examination at 2:15 p.m. on Oct. 2.
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)-“A Saginaw woman who organized an anti-violence march has accepted a plea deal her felony gun case,” Saginaw and Bay City News reported Saturday. “Sparkle N. Roby, 34, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, appeared before Saginaw County Chief Circuit Judge Darnell Jackson and pleaded no contest to single counts of felonious assault, felon in possession of a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon, and carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent.”
As part of the deal to get the plea, prosecutors agreed to drop three “felony firearm” counts stemming from an incident where witness testimony said Roby returned to a beauty salon with a gun to threaten an employee she’d had an argument with moments before.
That hardly lives up to the “authoritative” lecturing Roby gave the media when interviewed for her “Take a Step Walk.” Perhaps if “reporters” giving her free publicity had been more interested in doing a balanced job, they could have asked her on camera about her prior deal after threatening to kill a witness against her brother, now serving 26 to 50 years for shooting a man to death. She pled out on that too, making her a “prohibited person,” forbidden by law to have a gun. And just to re-emphasize, she had faced two charges for the death threat.
Roby evidently learning nothing makes Judge Jackson’s decision to allow her to be free on bond pending sentencing all the more curious. Based on results she has demonstrated extreme anger and cognitive dissonance issues and has shown a penchant for threatening to kill witnesses. Allowing a demonstrable menace unrestrained access to others is irresponsible and dangerous, although hardly unexpected considering how prosecutors and the courts have continued to show leniency to this repeat offender.
What’s also hardly unexpected is that so many “anti-violence” activists are violent themselves, particularly the ones who rail against guns and then end up using them. Cases in point:
The anti-gun Democrat politician charged with shooting her husband to death.
The “school shooter” who advocates for citizen disarmament.
The “Stop the Violence organizers” who beat a man so severely he vomited blood.
An “anti-violence” pamphlet distributor, working for the State of Illinois, who “accidentally” shot his accomplice in the head during a home invasion.
The “anti-gun advocate” busted for illegally selling firearms.Hell, for that matter, look at Leland Yee, or all those criminal Bloomberg mayors.
There are plenty more examples. Here are some I talked about 15 years ago for a GUNS Magazine column:
The gun and ammunition straw purchasers for the Columbine killers who apparently decided going full anti-gun would make things easier on them.
The Million Mom March sponsor who got a .45 and paralyzed a man she wrongly thought had killed her son.
Another Million Mom Marcher, this one a chapter president, who was busted with drugs and a gun with a filed-off serial number by police investigating a drive-by shooting.
“Long Island Lolita” Amy Fisher, who had her anti-gun epiphany after shooting her sex partner’s wife in the face.Then there’s my personal “favorite” for insane hypocrisy, Columbine killer Eric Harris, whose “Guns in Schools” report concluded, “a school is no place for a gun.” And guess who agreed with him:
“First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period … with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained security personnel.”
The projection in the gun-grabbers is strong, and it’s fair to surmise how much of not trusting others with guns arises from knowing what’s in their own hearts. In any case, that should not be allowed to have any bearing on the rights of those who suffer no such moral defects and impulse control issues, and the bottom line and undeniable truth is, anyone who can’t be trusted with a gun can’t be trusted without a custodian, a concept that evidently escaped Judge Jackson in the Roby case.
And unlike the gun-grabbers, “our side” even insists on full due process before meting out legal consequences.
(Score: 5, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Monday February 03 2020, @05:58PM (15 children)
...what Runaway does every time someone brings up the murder of Heather Heyer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @07:16PM (14 children)
Oh c'mon! Look at her. it was a mercy killing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @07:49PM (12 children)
I dislike this trend of shock humor and/or lack of filters for good/bad content. Guess it'll be another decade or more before internet denizens are socially shunned enough to drop their adolescent puking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @08:49PM (11 children)
Sorry, bub. Fart jokes are always funny. So's yo mama!
Really you should quit bellyaching and learn how to scroll past instead of stopping to make a big stink on how offended you are. Nobody wants to hear about it, so you can shitcan the pearl clutching holier than thou self righteous bullshit!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @09:44PM (10 children)
When good people do nothing you violent assholes flourish. So I stop and at least inform you about what decent human beings think if your hate-fetish. Not to mention your "joke" is really bad. The only people who might be amysed are also the ones getting an erection from it.
Pure bile, and if you don't like being shamed then don't be shitty.
PS: your response makes you 100% a whiny bitch, you couldn't even muster up some canned masculinity for cover?
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @11:10PM (9 children)
Heh, We do it because you always give us the money shot. You're too emotional to even have the self discipline to ignore the post. That's what we love about you! You give the internet its best material. You honestly believe people like you can shame us, or even anybody? You need to look at yourselves. But we know you won't. You'll just keep blaming everybody else. Shame on you! Don't be such an ass!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @11:45PM
There is that pretend masculinity, I'll remind you that you complained that I didn't like your tasteless joke. You win hypocrite baby of the week!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 04 2020, @02:53AM
Most boys outgrow that shit in fourth grade, usually after a teacher lets them have what-for a few times. What's your excuse? Arrested development? Hell, not just arrested, but detained in a black site somewhere, in your case.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 04 2020, @04:43PM (6 children)
Why would we ignore it? Calling out assholes is where all my internet points come from!
No, absolutely not. The purpose is to make you look dumb in front of any passers-by.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @07:09PM (3 children)
Who do you think you're making him look dumb towards exactly? I mean do you people even have any sort of self awareness anymore? What a normal person here sees is:
1) Guy with a tasteless sense of humor making some mildly amusing wisecracks.
2) A handful of millennials taking offense and trying to virtue signal their little hearts out.
Nobody's making anybody look dumb. You're just playing your stereotyped role without even realizing it because you lack the awareness or empathy to even begin to imagine how people might see you, let alone others.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @09:41AM
Runaway looks towards your dumb, AC. Can't you see it? When you stare into the Runaway, as Friederich Nietzsche said, the empty void of the lack of intelligence of an Arkasaws yokel stares back at you. This is what we are making him dumb towards looking. I think. Your syntax is strange. Are you an illegal alien speaker of English, AC?
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday February 06 2020, @02:52AM (1 child)
Amazing how many old farts hate the next generation. As if they have no responsibility for anything that is going on in the world today.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 06 2020, @07:27AM
My kids never listened to me. I wanted to inflict the same ignorance and stupidity that I had suffered from for my entire life on them, just out of a sense of revenge for having fathered them. They were so much smarter than me, they made more money, they understood the universe in a way I could never. So, I hate them, and voted for Trump, because his kids are just like my kids. GET THEM OFF MY LAWN!!!!!
So, there it is. Runaway hates most of his kids, too. Cain't understand them. And this is in Arkansaws. Amazing.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @07:24PM
And as an aside to the above this is a perfect microcosm of exactly how and why Trump was elected. 'Heh heh - we'll make people think he's literally Hitler. Nobody will ever vote for him!' It's such a neanderthalic level of cognition, if you can even call it cognition. Those who conspired in this nonsense again lacked the self awareness to understand that people do not simply eat what you're trying to feed them, but rather interact with the system as a whole: 'Wow, these people have totally lost their shit and gone way too far off the deep end. It's seriously time for a change.'
Hillary got about 3.5 million fewer votes than Obama did 8 years prior. Trump received more votes than any republican, ever. Yes she won the popular vote is a decent retort except for the fact that the margin she won the popular vote by was less the margin she won California by. So all that datum tells you is California has become an easily exploited pool of folks that'll vote, en masse, for a flaming turd so long as you stick a (D) beside it.
The most ironic thing here is I'm liberal. But I also have a nice tasteless sense of humor, and think the neo-democrats are somehow spreading collective literal retardation. Sanders may be the only solution since he's liberal but, at least relatively speaking, without the identity politics and virtue signaling crap that really seems to make people just literally stupid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @04:40AM
HA! Fuuunny! You're not "calling out" anybody! You just get your points from democrat assholes. Yours is what is commonly called a circle jerk.
The purpose is to make you look dumb in front of any passers-by.
And like your caucus and all things democrat, you're a miserable transparent failure. You have no idea how to play the psycho's game. You have no depth at all. You're just follow like those minions in that movie.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 04 2020, @02:57AM
By that logic, rounding up you trolls and dropping you all in an open sewer wouldn't be mass murder, it'd be vaccination. Hey, good for the goose, good for the gander. Cue the "whaaaa, the mean lady's so hateful to me, mommmmeeeeeee~!" pants-wetting in 3, 2, 1...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...