My name is Robert Haynes.
I started this blog today to begin telling the story of how Daniel Robert Janney has ruined my life. This story of mine began back on July 4th, 2012, which was the day when I first met Daniel Robert Janney in Pasadena, Maryland.
Today - May 2, 2014 - is also Daniel Robert Janney's 39th birthday.
Daniel Robert Janney likely will not be celebrating his birthday much today, however. He will also not likely be reading this new blog of mine, either.
This is because Daniel Robert Janney is currently incarcerated at the
Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia. He was arrested in Bluefield, West Virginia on March 29, 2014, at a local bowling alley there, on the charge of public intoxication.
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This is Daniel Robert Janney's mug shot from his arrest in Bluefield, West Virginia. He does not look happy here, I would say. |
According to some personal information I received about a week or so ago, Daniel Robert Janney was reportedly joyriding around on an ATV while holding an open container of beer somewhere near to this local bowling alley. (I think this was just outside in the parking area of the bowling alley.) This was when he was spotted by a police officer who was also in the vicinity, and he was then subsequently arrested on the charge of public intoxication.
According to the pertinent web page on
Criminal Defense Lawyer.com, the charge of public intoxication in West Virginia is a misdemeanor and punishable with a fine as low as five dollars for a first offense. (Yes, you read that right, just five dollars, but I have no idea if the judges in West Virginia actually levy fines as small as that for first time public intoxication offenders.) All that it takes for someone to be charged with public intoxication in West Virginia is to be caught by a police officer drinking an alcoholic beverage in a public place. It does not matter if someone is actually intoxicated or not.
Unfortunately for Daniel Robert Janney however, his legal troubles were much greater at this time than just the charge of public intoxication. He was also an unregistered sex offender in West Virginia, and he was charged with this sometime soon after he was initially arrested for public intoxication. Furthermore, Daniel Robert Janney was also discovered by the Bluefield Police Department dispatcher to be a felony fugitive from justice in two separate counties of Maryland - Harford County and Cecil County.
Since about sometime in early November 2013, Daniel Robert Janney had been evading the authorities in Maryland at the time of his arrest in West Virginia. He was charged with felony theft and malicious destruction of property in Harford County, Maryland. In Cecil County, Maryland, he has been indicted on four charges related to sex crimes against a minor. I know all of this because of my own past personal contact with Daniel Robert Janney. We had one telephone conversation in early November 2013. He also left me several voice mails, and he replied to a few of my e-mails. I had also been frequently checking on his status with a website which the state of Maryland established; this website is known as the
Maryland Judiciary Case Search. (In Maryland, everybody with court cases, from traffic tickets, to divorce cases, to child paternity suits, to civil lawsuits, to first degree murder charges, can be found on this website. I know of no other state with such publicly accessible court records as what Maryland has.)
Today is the day that the story of Daniel Robert Janney's arrest, along with how I helped the authorities sort out their initial oversights, so as to start the process which will bring him to justice in Maryland, was
published in the local newspaper of Bluefield, West Virginia -
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
[Police arrest wanted Md. man: Man arrested on charge in Bluefield faces Md. sexual assault charges,
bdtonline.com, 5-2-14]:
BLUEFIELD —
A Maryland man who has been living in Bluefield for a few months is now
in custody at Southern Regional Jail in Beaver facing public
intoxication and failure to register as a sex offender in West Virginia
as well as new sexual abuse of a minor charges in Maryland.
Daniel Robert Janney, 39, of Bluefield, was arrested on March 29, on a
charge of public intoxication and was later found to have two warrants
out of Hartford County, Md.
Patrolman J.S. Bish of the Bluefield Police Department, arrested Janney
at the Mountaineer Bowling Lanes and a dispatcher conducted a routine
check of wants and warrants for Janney. At the time, the dispatcher
found that he was wanted in Hartford County, Md., on theft and
destruction of property charges.
However, authorities in that county said they would not extradite
Janney on those charges, according to Detective K.L. Adams of the
Bluefield Police Department. Janney was arraigned in Mercer County and
was remanded to Southern Region Jail on a $5,000 bond, Adams said.
“At the time of his arrest, we found that he was also wanted for
failure to register as a sex offender,” Adams said. “A few days after
his arrest, Maryland unsealed an indictment naming Janney that had been
under seal since December, 2013. We later learned from a person who was
familiar with Janney, that he was wanted on four counts of sexual
assault of a minor contained in a sealed indictment out of Cecil County,
Md.” After communicating with the Maryland authorities, Adams confirmed
the charges.
“When I contacted Cecil County. Md., authorities, they were happy to
hear he was in custody and immediately sent a detainer to Southern
Regional Jail to hold him on their charges,” Adams said. “They are eager
to indict him as soon we have court on his charges here.”
Adams received information about the sealed indictment as well as
Janney’s prior charges and earlier convictions from Robert Haynes, an
acquaintance of Janney’s from Maryland.
The reporter who wrote this newspaper story above is Bill Archer of
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph. I contacted Bill Archer via e-mail prior to his writing of this newspaper story. I was the person who suggested that he write this newspaper story.
Bill Archer and I both contacted Detective K. L. Adams of the Bluefield Police Department, at separate times, to call attention to the situation on Daniel Robert Janney's felony fugitive warrants in Maryland. I also sent e-mails of my own to both Detective K. L. Adams and the Bluefield Police Department chief. (Only Detective K. L. Adams has replied to my e-mails so far, but that is okay by me, because this is likely all just part of a police detective's job anyway, right?)
In a reply to my e-mail, Detective K. L. Adams of the Bluefield Police Department revealed to me that the dispatcher mentioned in the newspaper story above failed at first to contact the authorities in Cecil County, Maryland, about Daniel Robert Janney being in their custody. This was presumably after the dispatcher had first contacted the authorities in Harford County, Maryland, only to be told that it was against their policy to extradite him, because he was too far away from them - over 250 miles. If it had not been for my effort to alert the Bluefield Police Department of their oversight, Daniel Robert Janney still might have been able to evade justice in Cecil County, Maryland - from the confines of a jail cell in West Virginia! Detective K. L. Adams thanked me for my helpful information in this same reply to my e-mail.
So, while Daniel Robert Janney currently sits in a West Virginia jail cell on his 39th birthday today, I am still sitting here trying to recover from the damage that he has done to my life over these past 22 months. Of course, it is good to know that his days as a fugitive from justice in West Virginia are over now, and that he no longer poses any threat as an unregistered sex offender to the community of Bluefield in West Virginia, but this is not the end of the story for me just yet. It is far from it, actually.
I will be posting subsequent entries to this blog to tell the rest of my story - the story of how Daniel Robert Janney ruined my life. I will also be posting updates on the legal proceedings against Daniel Robert Janney in West Virginia and Maryland. So please check back here for those updates, and your questions and comments are welcome here too.