Seattle Police Trying to Rescue Mentally Unstable Man from Tree. (LIVE COVERAGE NOW)

[Blondie in Spokane]

Man who spent 25 hours at the top of an 80ft sequoia while refusing to come down is charged... as lawyers ask for a 'no contact' order to protect the tree


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...awyers-ask-no-contact-order-protect-tree.html

 

[scmom]

'This caused an incalculable waste of time and services and arguably (affected) the efficacy of local law-enforcement's reaction times to other serious calls for service around the city,' Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Stephen Herschkowitz wrote.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...tect-tree.html

Exactly what I had wondered about the other day.

 

[scmom]

Another article with pretty much the same.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/us/what-is-the-value-of-a-tree-in-downtown-seattle.html

 

[i.b.nora]

Some background info on the man in the tree, from his mother.

He’s obviously sick’: Mother of Seattle’s tree-climbing man says he needs help
The man who spent nearly 25 hours in a downtown Seattle tree has been charged with third-degree assault and first-degree malicious mischief. Prosecutors also are asking for a no-contact order to keep him away from the sequoia tree near Macy’s.

By Christine Clarridge
Seattle Times staff reporter
The Seattle Times
Originally published March 28, 2016 at 12:43 pm Updated March 29, 2016 at 8:02 am

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...-man-charged-with-assault-malicious-mischief/

“A man who spent nearly 25 hours last week perched in a giant sequoia tree in downtown Seattle was charged Monday with first-degree malicious mischief and third-degree assault.

Cody L. Miller, 28, is scheduled to be arraigned on April 11.

In charging documents filed in King County Superior Court, prosecutors are asking a judge to issue a no-contact order banning Miller from going near the towering tree just outside the downtown Macy’s store.

Arborists estimated damage to the tree at about $7,000, prosecutors said.”

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“Miller’s mother, Lisa Gossett, of Wasilla, Alaska, said she had not talked to her son for about five years when a friend called saying he was on the news.

She said she could hardly recognize him.

“There are all these people out there worried about the tree, but they’re not worried about him, the human,” she said. “He’s obviously sick.”

She said Miller had been a “regular” kid with attention deficit disorder until his late teens or early 20s, when he came up to visit her in Alaska and she noticed that something was “off.”

When she straightened his room, she noticed he had knives stashed under a pillow. He warned her there was an evil “presence” in the house and while they were out to eat he insisted “everybody” was looking at him.

“I did not know it was mental illness at first,” she said during a telephone interview on Monday.”​

Much much more.

 

[bluesneakers]

Man who spent 25 hours atop Downtown Seattle tree ordered to Western State

Cody Miller, the man who spent 25 hours atop an 80-foot tree in Downtown Seattle in March has been ordered incompetent to stand trial.

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Miller will now be sent to Western State Hospital for a 45-day evaluation and then face another competency hearing on July 11.