He'll get out of it... Look who his parents are!

i hope he can find a good lawyer to represent him

I think the arrest of the son of a state level elected official, particularly on a dope charge, is definitely news. That is part of living a public life. Granted, the son didn’t ask to be in the public eye but his mother did. Frequently the sins of the parents are visited on their children. Having said all that, I wouldn’t worry too much about young Montee. If the charge doesn’t get pled down to some harmless misdemeanor they will ask for deferred adjudication with the option of expunging his record. No way is Big Daddy Jimbo going to let a drug pop mar his son’s record. Might keep him out of law school!!

If Mayor Shearin's son was arrested (dont know if he even has kids) it would be reported. If Charlie Shield's sons were arrested, it would make the news. If Rob Schaaf, Ed Wildberger, Martin Rucker, etc etc etc etc etc etc kids got in trouble it would make the news just as this story did. It is part of living a public life. Might be right, might be wrong, but I don't see this as personal between the Bradleys and Montees.

Wasn't it Tom Mann's daughter that got in some minor trouble awhile back? That made the news just as this did, and he wasn't in near as esteemed position as Ms. Montee is.

you've got bigger fish to fry than attacking the news press on this one then deb. This is the norm, not an exception.

and it shouldn't be the norm and the proof is in the pudding, my comments were removed. so much for the free press for us who aren't in charge of it.

and i didn't mean any harm, or anything bad, i feel bad this person will have to live with that the rest of their lives, just trying to make a point about how biased the "free press" can be. when this person writes editorials on his opinions, and we aren't allowed to do the same on this site, what i stated was also the truth.

Please.... They will not do ANYTHING to him. They don't do ANYTHING to ANYONE!!! I have read some names so many times in the police briefs that I feel I know most of these people. He will get probation which will not be followed. He will be required to have random drug tests that will never be done. Then after months of ignoring everything the courts told him to do he will get shock time (...ooh scarry) Then the whole thing will be repeated several more times until the courts give up. I know this to be fact.... We are raising our grandchildren due to drugs. DO NOT call us bad parents, our world always revolved around our child they had every opportunity and chose drugs anyway.

Deb:

There's an old saying, "Freedom of the press belongs to the one who owns the press."

Ain't that the truth?!

you cant expect these site admins to let people bamouth their boss, can you? It's called job security.

who cares if he got arrested and for what...hes 19..hell make plenty of mistakes...and they should NOT all be in the paper...this is as crazy as TMZ reporting all that celebs do..give people in the public eye their privacy..I'm sure hes getting it at home already..I feel bad for him and he ain't gonna get anything because its his first offense and its just a misdemeanor..Let it go..but I do think that our paper doesn't have anything to report on so they focus of stupid stuff like this..

I'm curious about how this story reached print. The arrest was at 8 a.m. Wednesday. The police sent an e-mail Thursday. Was the e-mail in response to an inquiry from The News-Press? Or do police send e-mails on all arrests? Some clarification would be helpful. I would have assumed the reporter would have checked police arrest records during the day Wednesday, and any report would have been in the Thursday paper.

Kind of reminds me of Chris Farley in Black Sheep...

Kids will be kids.

Pot should be legal, it's not.

He'll get off, anyone could and should, slap on the wrist, testing, you know the routine.

News worthy? You bet, public officials, sorry, you're expected to "be better than us". And once in the public eye, stuff like this comes out -

And if a Monte is reading this, listen up:

The creme rises to the top, make the best of a bad situation.

First and foremost, get the kid the helps he needs, if he really needs it. Let the experts decide that one.

Second, do what you can to get pot legalized. Taxed like cig's and alcohol, the time has come.

Decriminalized at a minimum, better things for the legal system to be doing with their time, and the revenues could be put to use for the good of the public at large.

Thank you

Montee - sorry about the typo.

Oh, and kids act bad when caught, trust me, been there, experienced that........

StJoeMo, it'll never happen, but I couldn't agree more with your comments.

To be completely honest, when you step back and begin to take in all of these self-evident facts around you, I begin to get excited and frightened at the same time.

The last time a significant set of "truths to become self-evident," there was the American Revolution. I wonder how long before people say enough is enough?

Right on StJoeMo!

In fairness to the people who own/run The News-Press, I don't brelieve you can consider this story a vendetta. It's worth noting The Kansas City Star ran essentially the same story Saturday. It may not be fair, but families in the public eye get a great deal of scrutiny.