Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Violating Terms of Probation
Press release from the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office:
On October 7th, 2020, Judge Timothy Canning sentenced Nathan Michael LaCount (age 40) to 8 years in state prison for violating the terms of his probation. LaCount received probation from Judge Kaleb Cockrum in March of this year, after LaCount pled guilty in February to charges linked to incidents in 2016 and 2019.Nathan Michael LaCount Booking [Booking photo from July of 2019]
In the 2016 incident, LaCount crashed a vehicle causing injury to a passenger, whom he left on the side of the road and fled the scene. In the 2019 incident, LaCount drove while methamphetamine-impaired and crashed again, injuring his 3-year-old child. Since 1999, LaCount has been convicted of driving under the influence eight times in addition to multiple convictions for evading law enforcement and hit and run. He has been offered many programs and been given many opportunities to alter his behavior.
LaCount’s sentencing in March included an 8-year prison sentence recommended by the District Attorney’s Office, but the prison sentence was suspended over the D.A.’s objection, pending successful completion of an in-patient drug/alcohol treatment program in San Francisco. LaCount began the program in March, but left after less than a month. Warrants were issued for his arrest at that time, and a second time after he was apprehended, released on bail, and failed to appear for a July court date. Using information provided by a community member, District Attorney Investigators made contact with LaCount in Arcata, but he escaped by ramming their vehicle. Additional information from community members allowed Eureka Police Department officers to apprehend LaCount the next day.
District Attorney Maggie Fleming said, “Mr. LaCount’s long record of interaction with the criminal justice system makes clear that as people receive opportunities to alter their criminal behavior that endangers others, for the sake of public safety there should be increasing consequences for failing to take advantage of those opportunities. Thanks very much to the people who improved public safety by providing information that helped us get LaCount off the streets.”
Earlier Chapter:
- Humboldt DA’s Office Seeking Man Wanted for DUI, Child Endangerment, and more
- DA Looking for Man Convicted of DUI 8 Times
- EPD Captures Man Wanted for New DUI Charges After Being Convicted Eight Times Before
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If he would have been dealt with any of the times before he at least wouldn’t have been able to cause so much grief to everyone. He definitely earned a cell in prison and had to work pretty hard to get one.
Good Riddance!
8 convictions for DUI and was still on probation. This guy should have been locked up a long time ago.
I agree 110 %, The facts in all 3 seperate subjects cases are very much worth a federal magistrate to look at possible prosecution against a district attorney and maybe some superior court judges for such major inconsistent sentences on the two cases besides mr lacounts.
And yet she did her best to keep wade Harris out of jail ? Speaking of that…..crickets
This doesn’t bode well for child molester Mark Dare getting a well deserved long sentence on Oct 19. Judge Cockrum overrode DA’s recommendation on LaCount despite his criminal history. Same judge ruling on Dare.
Second chances are ok.
They can even be good.
If a person can actually change, which upon being given a second chance, a large percentage of people do.
Thats a plus.
Not only do we get to have another functioning people out there to help the others who have found themselves in a similar situ. But We’ve successfully avoided the large cost of housing said people for 5+ years. As well as not had to roll the dice of “set and setting” that will determine how this people is going to emerge from their prison experience.
Will they be all face tats and “down for the cause”, will they be a beaten and tragic psychological mess, or will their story be one of triumph, and overcoming ones past?
Who knows?
That’s the fun part of incarceration, one never knows how one will handle it. And before apathy covers your eyes and ears, giving you such strength to say: “I don’t care, it doesn’t affect me.”, it most certainly does.
That people may get out, bitter, tweaked out, and initiated . Or maybe they’re so damaged from their experience they become a state case until their expiration. Or maybe they become a motivational speaker. Or maybe they just sat in prison, not developing at all, in which case they may as well have never gone in the first place.
Sending peoples to prison is the road of unknowable outcomes. Hell, some people (and many people do) find that they enjoy the institution. That, along with the “no change” outcome is the worst of all possible.
Sending peoples to “programs” not only boosts the likelihood of society accruing more functioning peoples, but the weight we as”other people” have to bear from it is far less. The weight financially, and the weight of these people when they get out. Because, it’s far more likely that the people who go through programs are going to possess the tools to stay out of trouble, as well the tools needed to recognize other peoples who might be in a situ that they’ve had experience working out of, and the willingness to employ such empathy.
Or, fuck ’em all.
Let our sons and daughters deal with the progeny of the institutionalized. That seems to have worked real well, so far.
We are nibbling on the fruit of the 80’s. We are living in what happens when we choose money over what is right and good.
Unfair trade practices? We sold our manufacturing power to China.
Don’t be confused into thinking they stole anything. We practically paid them to take out tech, and produce it, then sell it back to us at a cheaper rate than we could do ourselves.
Yay us!
We gave up our prime manufacturing position in the world for cheap PC parts. #thumbsup!
We ship our garbage over there because it’s cheaper than being responsible for it. And now, on certain days, nearly 25 percent of the particulate matter in the skies above Los Angeles can be traced to China. Good job!!
So, clamor for stricter punishments, populate the Colosseum with those who “broke the rules”. Grind up your heart for your fellow man, and put it in a pipe and smoke it. While you cheer on the heavier sentence.
Because given enough time, at the rate we’re moving, empathy will be the oddity.
And ya just gotta fit in, don’t ya?
It wasn’t a second chance that this loser fucked up. He has 8 DUI convictions. He has had many second chances. He has harmed others and would be very likely to harm more if enabled.
Catbus ..Im not a doctor but i play one in the comment section….i would recommend an indica strain