{"id":5787,"date":"2015-01-25T13:03:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T20:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:36:25","slug":"da-will-not-pursue-charges-against-terry-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/da-will-not-pursue-charges-against-terry-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"DA &#8216;Will Not Pursue&#8217; Charges Against Terry Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5789\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ABATEshirt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5789\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ABATEshirt.jpg\" alt=\"ABATE shirt\" title=\"ABATE shirt\" width=\"497\" height=\"296\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5789\" srcset=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ABATEshirt.jpg 497w, http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ABATEshirt-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>Terry Howard will no longer be prosecuted for alleged theft from ABATE.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>I just came from the ABATE District 10 meeting and once again it seems everyone else already knew what I only learned in an off-handed reference: The Denver District Attorney has decided to drop the one remaining <a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/looking-for-answers-at-abate\/\" target=\"_blank\">charge against Terry Howard<\/a>, ABATE&#8217;s former state coordinator. Although Bruce Downs, the new state coordinator, made the point that it should be stated in the terms that the DA &#8220;will not pursue&#8221; the charges any further. I&#8217;m not really clear on the semantic difference. Either way, Terry is no longer being prosecuted for theft.<\/p>\n<p>As Bruce explained, ABATE was asked to provide a &#8220;victim&#8217;s statement,&#8221; which it did, and later the DA&#8217;s office got back to Bruce to inform him of its decision to call it off. He said the call had come on Wednesday or Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s where it ends,&#8221; said Bruce.<\/p>\n<p>At least that&#8217;s where the criminal aspect of the situation ends. Of course both ABATE and Terry Howard remain on the hook for this <a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/hopes-and-doubts-from-abate-state-board-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\">high-interest loan<\/a> that the group has defaulted on and for which Terry co-signed. It&#8217;s probably going to be a long time before that business comes to an end.<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>Careful maintenance and preparation is critical to making sure your dirt bike is reliable enough to tow your buddy&#8217;s bike back to the truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came from the ABATE District 10 meeting and once again it seems everyone else already knew what I only learned in an off-handed reference: The Denver District Attorney has decided to drop the one remaining charge against Terry Howard, ABATE&#8217;s former state coordinator. Although Bruce Downs, the new state coordinator, made the point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[638],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abate","tag-terry-howard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13135,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions\/13135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}