Alleged suspect in Shamus T Bones' embezzlement case to be arraigned this afternoon

Malcom Atwood III Carpenter is charged with a felony of property offense. Count 1 is Embezzlement and Count 2 is Grand Theft. He is to be arraigned on this complaint in Courtroom 1 this afternoon which is Judge John Feeney's Court.

Luke Brownfield is prosecuting for the People. There are previous posts about this case. Mr. Barry has been alleging that there has been a slow response by the DA's office. He himself admitted it has only been a couple months since he told EPD and that around the end of January, according to Mr. Barry, the case was forwarded to the DA's office. Court documents show that the complaint was filed 3/19/14 and the alleged suspect is being arraigned today.

Come to your own conclusions.

The courtroom is packed every day, there have been serious violent crimes, several high profile murder cases recently and the daily crime rate in Humboldt is evident, and every suspect has to be arraigned and time bound court procedures to be followed so even if the end of January timeline is accurate, a month and a half is not exactly a slow response.

Do we not want allegations investigated and people's constitutional rights followed before they get charged?
And the packed courtroom calendar is not helped when cases have to be retried. Certain decisions have a domino effect.

I do think Mr. Barry is doing the right thing being concerned about the community but the suspect is innocent until proved guilty.

Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Barry was present in the audience. Malcolm Carpenter was there with a private attorney, I will update this with his name on Monday. His attorney acknowledged the receipt of the complaint. A not guilty plea was entered. He entered a general time waiver.

Intervention is April 21 at 3 p.m. and Preliminary Hearing is May 14 at 8:30 a.m.