The Peacocks. It was a nice little story. Gave everyone an excuse to get their hate out for the Queen and take up for the little guy, not to mention, Christmas. Well, this correspondent decided to file a public records request with the City of Madison for everything on this address after receiving numerous tips about that particular victim. The response was 67 pages of documents. Needless to say, this is not the first time there has been some drama at 425 Church Street in Madison.
Madison police have responded to 14 calls at that address since 2008. You read that right: 14. Mrs. Cheeks stated in numerous media reports she has rented the home for five years. There are various reasons for the calls. Four 911 calls were for emergency medical services. The call logs are posted below. Other incidents were:
*March 9, 2007: Mrs. Cheeks called the police after neighbor's dog bit her daughter. Child was taken to MEA.
*December 4, 2008: "Welfare check requested by DHS supposed to be a 1 yr old and 4 yr old at residence without gas or heat.
*March 29, 2009: Blower stolen from driveway.
*October 20, 2009: "verbal dispute between father and son"
*January 19, 2011: Verbal dispute. "Caller advised her son arguing over an Ipod.
*April 30, 2011: Jered Meeks complained about credit card fraud.
*July 11, 2011: Armed robbery. Credit card stolen. Melvin and Wanda Cheeks came to police department five days later and stated they think the story was made up by their son. They claimed he owed them $1,800 and fabricated the entire incident to avoid repayment. They claimed the son, Adrian, had bi-polar disorder although he has not been "diagnosed with anything" and they fear Adrian is trying to set them up for some "type of altercation to make it look like their fault."
*April 13, 2010: City sent a cease and desist letter to quit using home for commercial business in violation of city ordinances.
*October 10, 2008: city revoked certificate of occupancy after city claimed landlord failed to obtain rental inspection, property licensing permit, and a home occupation permit.
*November 10, 2011: Suspect standing in middle of street "waving a gun and has pointed at people and taunting people" Log says it was a "toy gun".
Only question I will ask is what took them so long to wind up on tv? It doesn't take a genius to figure out the neighbors are probably sick of all of these calls. Several sources in the county, not the city, knew the address immediately when I mentioned it to them. It would not be surprising if the neighbors are looking to report the residents for any violation just to get rid of them.
One final question: Will the Downtown Jackson Commissioner start up a Madison Trash blog since his office is now in Madison?
46 comments:
The Cheeks clan obviously belongs in South Jackson. They'd just be another fambly on the block there.
Actually, sounds like a couple with a mentally ill child. That stuff happens. Several of the calls are very familiar as someone dealing with a person in their home who is ill and acting out.
i live in jackson.. I hope mayor mary doesnt bend an inch on anything else.. do you think the jackson city council would bend an inch... NO...i dont hate jackson.. because of jackson fabulous small towns were created such as Madison, Flowood Pearl...
So a troubled family should have to relinquish its 1st Amendment rights? I don't think so.
I'm with Butterknife. You'd be amazed how often the police have to get involved when a family has a mentally ill child, young or adult.
Depending on the situation, an "unofficial" diagnosis of bi-polar disease might still be pretty accurate. Many people cannot afford to see mental health professionals so they see family physicians who try to make an accurate dianosis. Not saying that's how it OUGHT to be done, just saying that's how it often is.
When my sister first started showing signs of her bipolar disease at age 13, we had a number of police visits. She hallucinated things, tried to harm herself and then accused family-members of committing violent acts against her, tried choking my dad, you name it. Fortunately, we had neighbors who understood the trials we faced and were willing to be friends to us, rather than find excuses to complain to the mayor's office about our Christmas decorations.
In case Queen Mary is reading this, not to worry, my family will not be poisoning your well with our bipolar loved one. She committed suicide 6 years ago. Madison is safe from her, at least.
A lot of assumptions going on in this comment thread.
In case Queen Mary is reading this, not to worry, my family will not be poisoning your well with our bipolar loved one. She committed suicide 6 years ago. Madison is safe from her, at least.
YOU ARE AN ASS for playing off a family tragedy in order to ding MHB. AN ABSOLUTE ASS.
3:15 As for being an ass, I can only think et tu, Brute.
appreciate your work, KF, but respectfully, the people who live there could be total jackasses but that doesn't give a state employee the right to make up a law and have it enforced by another state employee over what someone personally likes/doesn't like.
Actually, 3:36, I couldn't agree more with 3:15PM. Your comment was pretty self-aggrandizing.
Bill B should pipe in about now. He has a blue peacock up on his house. It's niiiice.
Peacocks are cool.
Hey, if being a little overly-protective of the the mentally-ill and being extremely put-out over the treatment they and their families get at the hands of "polite society" makes me an ass, I can live with it. Hell, I'll get me a t-shirt.
I agree.......Madison should have an annual Peacock Parade to rival the tater queens.
Or tar and feather the ass wearing a t-shirt.
Further questions for the armchair psychologists:
1) How does a report of children living in a home without the gas (thus heat) turned on relate to a bipolar or problem child? Sound to me like it's an indication of an inattentive or abusive parent.
2) What does violating a city ordinance by running a commercial enterprise in the house have to do with suspected mentally ill children? I would think this relates more to an adult who is violating the law.
3) How does the fact that the landlord failed to observe certain city ordinances have any connection with you experts weighing in on childhood mental issues?
I'm not a big fan of Christmas but I do enjoy the decorations. And it wouldn't be Christmas without tacky decorations. I had light-up pink flamingos last year.
Jane, where did you find the light-up flamingos? I have to settle for elf hats and scarves on my regular plastic ones.
I got some last year from Target. I didn't look for them this year and I noticed yesterday they only have these huge fuzzy-looking ones for about $50 each. The plastic ones looked better.
But if yours are hollow, just stick some lights in there. That's basically how the pair I got last year operated.
Gotta' love Christmas decorating advice right here on good ole' Jackson Jambalaya!
Out in the woods of M'sippi you have folks opening a bar in their residence. People who like to party discovering that they can make a good living at it. Really they are just small business people who learn success means getting a liquor license before you really get rolling with your club. Or if you are selling illegal drugs don't retail liquor by the glass at the same time.
Is Tyrone selling any Christmas stuff ?
Anyone been to Greenwood. The underground cash economy, sellin' a smoke for a quarter and a beer for two bucks is alive and well.
Seems to me that Mrs. Cheeks is well-schooled in crying for attention to get her way. That's clearly evidenced by her calls to Madison PD because she's too sorry to regulate her little hyena's behavior.
Crying shame that our gullible media went running to this misfit's aid without checking into her background.
I had hoped the Mayor would stand her ground. The reason Madison is nice is because the City has never tolerated the antics of people like Mrs. Cheeks. For an example of what happens when "anything goes," see Jackson.
Imagine for a minute that these folks are pond scum. The worst neighbors in the world. They violate every city code/ordinance in the book.
Queen Mary still shouldn't try to force as an issue a couple of completely legal Christmas decorations, no matter how tacky. Use the laws on the books and quit trying to be a dictator. There's a right way and there's Queen Mary's way.
Testify!
Testify was meant for CC.
Mrs. Cheek's must be a one woman, unreported crime wave.
Meanwhile, Rosalind Anderson, sleuth weekend reporter for WLBT, showed up to interview Miz Cheek and a neighbor or two. Ole Roz leaves town without employing the skills of a first year reporter (check with the PD for public records involving Miz Cheek). On her way out of town, she drives by Mr. Rice's junkyard on Rice Road and twists the Peacock story into a "Oh yeah, well lookie here what Mary is ignoring" story.
WLBT issues was the attack on Christmas. I fell into the trap of the liberal media again. Thanks Jackson Jambalaya for the rest of this story.
I have no way of knowing what WLBT's issues 'was'. I can tell you that Rosalind Anderson rabbit trailed her report off to a junkyard on Old Rice Road which quickly turned the story to one of 'unfair enforcement of regulations' by the city. Mr. Rice, the proprietor of the Madison junkyard, seems impervious to Christmas if you bother to do a drive by of his property.
DJT, I'll bet you thought East Germany in 1961 was "nice".
Bill, I wouldn't exactly call it "nice," but there damn sure wasn't any graffiti on their side of the wall.
Well Damn! I jumped on the Hate Mary train pretty quick and thought those people had every right to keep their peacocks..... I want to formally apologize to their neighbors.....
Yeah I remember touring East Berlin as an Allied Powers Observer back in the day. It was a very clean city. But then again, there were 4 Stasi agents on every street corner. Hmmmmm, police state vs. graffiti? Guess I'll have to take the graffiti.
Sure you did.
I wouldn't think a kangaroo and a peacock would tolerate each other very well. Both are all about strutting.
You are right 5:39PM....
But a Shadowfax-type decoration standing proud above a peacock would get along just fine. Both are about...
You can also buy flamingos at Bealls in Florida. They ship to Madison
My subdivision has really strict covenants that forbid this kind of tacky crap. I applaud Mayor Mary, who keeps Madison property values high by enforcing restrictive covenants and having a strong police force. While her methodology may seem draconian at times, the fact of the matter is that there are a lot of trashy scumbags who act like morons and cause trouble for law abiding citizens. Case in point, I have had to call the Madison PD multiple times for affluent families who have had keggers for there kids that have resulted in disturbances of the peace, meaning they were so loud that I couldn't sleep. They responded efficiently and succinctly. If it had been JDP, I would still be waiting. So for all of you Mary haters I offer you this, would you rather have Bracey Coleman or the current assclowns in charge in Jackson?????? Hell no.
At least the neon comes out in Madison only at Christmas. In Jacktown and Cantown, its on every corner every day.
941. You dont get it. The government has lied to you and you dont see it. Dont be a putz. This had nothing to do with property values. If it did, the city would ban PODS in your front yard like the one around the corner.
It has nothing to do with permitting to put up structures.
It has nothing to do with putting metal on the roof.
It has nothing to do with safety.
It has nothing to do with them being a decoration or not.
We were told at one timeor another that these were reasons for justification to take them down. Now if the city actually believed their own lies, why are they still up
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where can we get a neon Kangaroo?
Metal roofs are a violation in Madison?
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