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Posted by: kwflatbed

By Dennis Tatz
The Patriot Ledger
Posted Jun 06, 2008 @ 09:24 AM
Last update Jun 06, 2008 @ 12:13 PM

BRAINTREE —
In 2006, Linda Manna helped a constable find her former husband – wanted for being one of the state’s worst deadbeat dads – at his mother’s wake.
But the same constable suspected that Manna was less than truthful this week when he called to ask the whereabouts of her boyfriend, an ex-con who owes child support, penalties and interest totaling nearly $100,000.
“I gave her the names of a couple of attorneys he could call to keep from getting arrested,” Jerry Loomis of All State Constables Inc. of Weymouth said. “I was doing her a favor. She kept insisting her boyfriend was looking for a job out of state and was nowhere around. I asked her several times if he was here and she continued to assure me that he was out of state and wouldn’t be back until July 3.”
Loomis found that unlikely because Manna’s boyfriend, Lawrence Robertson, had only recently been released from jail and was on 10 years of probation for crashing into a car driven by a pregnant Quincy woman in July of 2005. The woman’s baby died a month after the accident, which took place on Copeland Street in Quincy.
Loomis, who runs a constable business with his son Adam, decided to go to Manna’s Patten Avenue home on Thursday to check out her story.
It was there that the Loomises and Braintree police found the 46-year-old Robertson.
“I walked to the porch area and I could see him through the glass in the kitchen,” Loomis said. “When he saw me, he took off.”
Loomis said Manna first refused to allow a search of the home, but the constables had a civil arrest warrant from Norfolk County Probate and Family Court in Canton.
Manna continued to deny that Robertson was there, according to Loomis.
When the constables went to the basement, Manna stood in front of a door and refused to let them enter.
Loomis, who has also slapped handcuffs on Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Bobby Brown for failing to pay child support, said they were able to get into the room and take Robertson into custody.
Loomis said a warrant for Robertson’s arrest had also been issued in Norfolk Superior Court for a probation violation.
As part of a plea agreement in August 2006, Robertson admitted to charges of fourth-offense driving under the influence of drugs, drunken driving, possession of marijuana and driving with a revoked license.
A judge ordered him to serve two years of a 2½-year jail sentence.
Robertson’s former girlfriend, who asked that she not be identified, said in a telephone interview that Robertson last saw their daughter when the youngster was 5. She is now 19 and attends college.
The former girlfriend, who grew up in Milton and later moved to Quincy, said Robertson has at least two other children with other women.
The 44-year-old single mother, who now lives in Billerica, said Manna should have known better.
“Personally, I think she should be locked up for hiding him” she said.
Manna hung up the phone when contacted for comment Thursday.

http://www.patriotledger.com/news/x2...e-deadbeat-dad

Posted by: celticsfan

Tonight: CSI, Constable Detectives

Posted by: Wolfman

Wow. What a badass.

Posted by: Delta784

Anyone who takes a baby-killer off the street is okay in my book.

Posted by: Wolfman

Blame the courts for him being on the street in the first place, less than 3 years inside and then probation. Imagining the story though if this cretin saw the Konstables, went downstairs and got himself armed...whose responsibility is the ensuing bloodbath? Let cops catch bad guys. Let Konstables serve papers.

Posted by: Delta784

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wolfman

Blame the courts for him being on the street in the first place, less than 3 years inside and then probation. Imagining the story though if this cretin saw the Konstables, went downstairs and got himself armed...whose responsibility is the ensuing bloodbath? Let cops catch bad guys. Let Konstables serve papers.

I don't disagree with you, but this constable obviously has some common sense;

It was there that the Loomises and Braintree police found the 46-year-old Robertson.

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