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woman held a press conference today searching for answers Paige coffee has been missing for 9 months now her family
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says she would never have left without telling them the reward for information now up to $5,000 Kendall forward live in
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Cleveland now with more details on this Kendall Aaron Paige was last scen here at surveillance video at the Ste yard
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Commons 7 months ago on May 7th now her family hoping someone somewhere might have some information on where she is
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now they say she was so close to her family and she never would have wandered off without telling them Paige is a
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wonderful young lady she's very close to her family after 9 months Paige coffey's
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family still searching for her still searching for answers her aunt with Paige's heartbroken mother standing by
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her side says she never would have left without telling her family Paige has a very close relationship with her parents
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her grandparents brothers and cousins and there is no way she would go over 9 months without contacting her family
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Paige was last spotted on May 7th on stard common surveillance video her family saw her just a week prior her
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aunt describes her as reliable and dependable an art lover with a great personality her disappearance is
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completely unlike her and she knows something is wrong there would be no reason for her to just walk away that we
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could think of um she she was just a great girl Paige now 28 years old lived in Cleveland and
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worked in Macedonia at torid a wom's clothing boutique she attended Youngstown State and visited her
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grandmother in bratel often bratel police now investigating searching for answers and they say no tip is too small
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it's extremely unusual that 9 months have passed and no one has heard or seen Paige coffee the
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reward now up to $55,000 for information to find Paige her family begging for some sort of information to help bring
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her home no no tip is too small um it's been agony ganizing over these last 9 months now we showed you her picture
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there but she's about 5'8 and also has a tattoo on her arm of piano keys again this was the last place she was spotted
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on surveillance video here at Steelyard Common so if you have any information or
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know where she might be contact Crime Stoppers or brat all police reporting live is sard's Commons pel forward 19
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[Music] News [Music] Paige coffee is a young woman who grew up in the Cleveland Ohio area she
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graduated from Charles Brush High School in 2010 and enrolled at North Coast College Paige wanted to study fashion
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merchandising something that she loved and something that came naturally to her she worked throughout her teens and 20s
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at various retail stores and women's fashion retailers at least one that is located in the steel yard Commons
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shopping area which is in the Greater Cleveland area Paige is one of those young women who is always trying new
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hairstyles experimenting with makeup and wearing carefully curated outfits prolific selfies of her show a young
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woman who rarely Smiles for the camera yet looks as though she's enjoying herself Paige is very close with her
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mother her aunt and her cousins she spoke with them daily if not several times a day her aunt says she is very
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artistic outgoing reliable and dependable PA's mother tretta Williamson who we spoke with at length and who is
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the major source of information for this episode said that Paige is super outgoing a talker someone who is
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friendly and bubbly mother and daughter share a loving relationship they were very close in 2012 when Paige was still
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young she got married to someone who we will call tea coffee the two met in high
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school Paige's mother tretta was against the marriage because she thought that the two were too young she wanted Paige
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to focus on College and her career Paige and T got hitched anyway and moved to Hawaii where he was stationed with the
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Army but the young couple struggled in the two High School sweethearts divorced this in
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2016 after the marriage Paige was living back in the Greater Cleveland area then
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in 20 2017 Paige met someone she started dating Patrick Samar Mason Jr he was in
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his mid 20s from the Greater Cleveland area they dated on and off for about 2 years and this is where trinetta says
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Paige started to change according to Paige's mother she could tell early on in this relationship that Patrick was
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pretty controlling yeah Patrick goes by the nickname of PJ so we will refer to him mostly As PJ throughout this episode
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Paige stopped posting on her social media and her last Facebook post was in early March
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2017 she told her family that PJ would check her Instagram account and see what she was doing and who she was talking to
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and with this PA's personality began to change all of her life she was always the chatter box now she was becoming
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closed off hardly speaking at all and some would say she was becoming rather secretive Paige started dropping out of
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touch with her family and friends for days at a time she was unreachable and then later would say that she lost her
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phone or it was broken her family would get her a new phone so they could keep in touch and time and time again the
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replacement phone would break or get lost yeah if you Google signs of a controlling boyfriend the first thing
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that pops up up is that they increasingly isolate you from friends and family the phone always seems to be
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the first cut off point for these types Yeah by this time Captain we have Paige she's living in a house on Oak Shore
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Drive in Braton Hol now we are not liking what we are seeing here are we captain no I don't like anytime I hear
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about somebody being isolated within a relationship no so now in our timeline we are in the early 2019 time frame
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March and April of 2019 to be more on point this is when something incredibly alarming happens things start to get
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scary this is when an officer from the south uid Police Department was out front knocking on tetta's door when she
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answered the officer said that he was there to return a lost and found purse that belonged to a page coffee and
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asking if she was there now trinetta told the officer that Paige no longer lived there but it makes sense that they
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went to tetta's home because the address listed on PA's driver's license was still tra's home address the officer
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asked the obviously concerned mother if she had any idea why the police found PA's purse full of personal items on the
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side of the highway trinetta said no it didn't make any sense the officer asked trinetta if she could get in touch with
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Paige as the officer would like to ask her some questions mainly to make sure that the young woman was all right
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tretta explained how Paige had recently become distant from the family and how she was very difficult to get a hold of
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telling him she didn't really respond to text or even pick up the phone when called the officer left the purse with
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tretta and before leaving took an incident report to document the situation now Paige's purse was actually
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recovered by Macedonia police which is nearby they gave it to the South uid police because of the address listed on
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the driver's license found inside this making the situation even more of a big question mark for both police but more
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importantly Paige's family so now because of this whole weird purse thing Paige's family is just perplexed and
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extremely concerned for PA's well-being it's not good when you can't get a hold of a loved one and then police show up
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at your front door because they found her purse full of personal items on the side of the freeway no that's a very bad
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sign now if that wasn't weird enough for you well then check your head because things are going to go from scary to
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very strange with the quickness because on that same very day and even though PJ
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knew trinetta did not like him one bit trinetta receives a text from PJ so PJ is texting tretta and boy does he have a
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story to tell PJ told her that Paige had shot him in the head say what minutes later trinetta receives a photo of PJ's
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bloodied head a few minutes go by and then boom another photo this time he sent her a photo of a handwritten note
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it's a note in PA's handwriting in which she is confessing to shooting PJ in the
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head so now the police are involved once again regarding Paige this is on the same day as the purse incident the
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police intervene and ended up putting Paige in the hospital for a psych evaluation because she was completely
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hysterical so Captain even though we have this note that appears to be PA's handwriting a note saying she shot PJ in
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the head right it looks like this whole incident is not so cut and dried it's more complicated than that and a little
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confusing to boot so right palava one of the sergeants told Paige's family that he feared a murder suicide was in the
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future for these two well because these people are so abusive and controlling and they manipulate you a lot of times
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you don't feel like there's any way out yeah and it's not really clear exactly what happened here in this situation now
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one thing that is fact is PJ actually had bullet fragments in his head so he was shot but so was his car his car was
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shot up so he was shot too but no one was really for sure who actually fired those shots the hospital would be a
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chance for Paige to get away from PJ and out of what is clearly a horrible situation even if she did shoot him in
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the head which I don't think that he she did this is clearly not a good situation
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for anybody right while in the hospital Paige told her mom that PJ forced her to
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write The Gunshot note at gunpoint and we know that his car had been shot up that portion of the story was on the
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news and at least one eyewitness confirmed bullet holes on his vehicle so it looks to me like PJ is in
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it with somebody else he's got something else going on here and he might be using
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this situation where he's already controlling this young woman who's in a air quotes relationship with him and
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he's going to use her as the scapegoat for why he ends up shot forcing her to write a note at gunpoint well this is
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some wild [ __ ] in April Paige was released from the hospital now she told her mom that she was trying to get away
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from PJ and while it is unclear as to the details it appears that the two eventually reconciled and unfortunately
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within a month Paige would be gone but there's some more interesting events leading up to her disappearance this
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takes us to Tuesday April 30th 2019 this is when Paige asked her mother to give her a ride to Oakwood Village trinetta
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did not ask Paige what she was doing there or what she intended to do there because she knew PJ lived in that area
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Paige knew that her mom did not approve of PJ's treatment of her and wanted to hear nothing about him and of course
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trinetta was upset about the choices that Paige was making and she let Paige know about it now Paige got out of the
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car and walked away and that's the last time tretta saw her daughter the next day Paige text her mom asking her to add
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$30 to a cash app card after the stay in the hospital Paige was without a vehicle
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and without a job it appears that the only thing she thought she had at that time was PJ and her mom unfortunately
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for reasons we won't pretend to understand it looks like she was choosing PJ and because of this she is
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becoming more and more isolated and this was because PJ wanted her all to himself
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here's some proof from series of text we found one between her friends that says
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quote Paige told me before he took her phone and didn't want her to have a job he wants to make her life so shorty that
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she has no choice but to always need him yeah he's a real piece of [ __ ] on May
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5th tretta got a phone call from a Work Connection of pages who was trying to get in touch with her she texted Paige
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to let her know this but got no response police later told tretta that at this time on May 5th they verified that Paige
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and PJ were staying at a cheap motel in Copley Township near anran Ohio hotel motel but they got evicted and on the
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6th they left the motel police are going to tell PA's mother tretta that on Monday May 6th she went to work with PJ
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right so she's not working at this time we know that but PJ is working he's a landscaper and well she was working at a
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boutique right not after she got out of the hospital well right but this is another
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way to control her now she doesn't have her own money and hey we know that she loves fashion we know that she wants to
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study fashion what better place to learn about the business than a boutique well
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separate her from anything that she loves so what we do know is that they were together on this Monday May 6th now
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the following day Tuesday May 7th police knew that PJ went to see his probation officer for a required check-in they
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found surveillance footage of Paige and PJ together at a Home Depot in Steelyard
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Commons this is a large shopping area in Cleveland they each purchased something
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records show that Paige bought a candy bar and PJ bought a Snickers and some brake fluid and they left the store
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together unfortunately there are no surveillance cameras outside of the store that show where Paige and PJ went
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when they walked out so no one really knows where they went after that or really what happened after that police
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say that Paige's phone pinged that evening this is May 7th around 6:00 p.m. now police will not comment on the cell
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phone activity after that the obvious inference here Captain is twofold for me one we know police have all of the cell
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phone science and information which leads us to number two that they are likely keeping this information Hush
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Hush as it's crucial to their investigation and holds evidentiary value right we have been told from
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Paige's family that after this she never contacted her family again and after the
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7th of May her phone went right to voicemail she has never posted on social media since then and law enforcement
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says that Paige coffee has not used her social security number she's not used her cash app or card she's not made any
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electronic payments it seems like after this trip to the Home Depot where we have them both on surveillance footage
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in the store together poof paig is gone after that do we have a record of what her financial transactions were before
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then did she transfer money to PJ I don't believe that she did so or if she did they're just not reporting it
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correct her family and the police have that information that's not information that we have so who is this PJ right who
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is this PJ character we already said his real name is Patrick Samar Mason Jr and
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I'm just taking a while guess here Captain but I would be willing to bet all of the beer in the garage fridge
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that the Mason family are probably very thankful that this guy is not going by his birth name or throwing that last
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name of Mason around too much in fact if they are smart well then they won't have
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anything to do with him at all don't drop by here on Christmas Patrick Samar Mason Jr or PJ the doors are closed now
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this case has received virtually zero media attention and so your boys here in the garage decided to step in we dug up
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some background information on PJ because well federal court documents are publicly available in 2020 Patrick Samar
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Mason Jr or PJ was 29 years old he dropped out of high school after his junior year but went on to get his GED
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and even had two semesters of college where he had an overall GPA of 3.0 surprisingly apparently he had a psych
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evaluation at some point and it was determined that quote though he has a number of Mental Health diagnoses he is
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not intellectually disabled end quote but he has a lengthy criminal history dating back to when he was 17 years old
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right so he's mediocre at school but an overachiever at being a [ __ ] bag his juvenile adjudications include a traffic
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related offense theft related offenses and failure to comply he has four prior adult felony convictions involving
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burglary and robbery and he has a misdemeanor convictions involving theft domestic violence and menacing and to no
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one's surprise PJ has been arrested for domestic violence toward the women that he has dated this even prior to paig but
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it wasn't just pushing or shoving here is what the courts say he was charged by Cleveland Police for aggravated menacing
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on January 12th of 2017 the court record stated domestic violence high risk and a
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refer to a psych referral as well a no contact order was issued in this situation prohibiting PJ from having any
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contact from or with the victim or better said domestic violence Survivor then on January 26th
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2017 PJ was again charged with domestic violence and also unlawful restraint an arrest warrant was issued
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and he was arrested on September 16th so it looks like he was on the run for quite some time PJ was found guilty and
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received a sentence of 180 days 166 days suspended 14 days credit for time served
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in other words all he got was probation yeah slap on the WR this is surprising and horrifying because PJ already had a
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record we found three separate arrests in 2011 in kyoga county for burglary theft aggravated theft aggravated
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robbery a firearm was used and Grand Theft he did about 10 months in prison for those charges he was arrested in the
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same county in 2014 for complicity to burglary and obstructing official business usually that means like during
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the course of an investigation he he may have lied to the police or did something
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of that nature right and he did time for those charges as well long story short here Captain PJ is and was bad news and
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Paige was mixed up with him and had been withdrawing from her family and seemingly falling increasingly under
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PJ's control she didn't tell her mother the worst of it but Paige sent electronic messages to one of her
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friends telling her the things that PJ had done to her now he is not named specifically in these messages which we
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viewed but her friend knew who Paige was talking about in these messages and the
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messages say implied it was it was implied cuz they were obviously in a relationship that's right and the
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messages say I'll read from the transcript here the friend says hey Mama how you been girly Paige replies girl
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shitty but I'm a Survivor friend says what's going on Paige replies I got a divorce two years ago jumped into a
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relationship got dogged and humiliated then into another one where for two years he nearly killed me I've been shot
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at strangled stabbed beat burnt with mild raped and embarrassed and I still tried to stay I had to ask myself why
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just out of that now so I'm trying to get my [ __ ] together so based off of this here Captain it sounds like this is
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kind of fleshing out what we already knew was a terrible situation but she's adding some horrific details to that and
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it sounds like she thinks that she's out of this relationship at this time when she's having a conversation with her
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friend but that's why it's so hard hard to leave these abusive situations because when you think you're out that's
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probably the most dangerous time for you well and the thing is we say leave but we often see in these situations that
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person is not allowed to leave now this was not just a case of a domineering boyfriend this was violent
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physical abuse and then after May 7th Paige seemingly vanished no one heard from her after that for about a week
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trinetta said she was concerned because it was so unlike her daughter to be completely out of touch for that long
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and no call or visit on Mother's Day May 11th this is when trinetta really knew something was very very wrong even if
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Paige was furious at her mother for objecting to the PJ situation she would have at least called her on Mother's Day
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if she could now desperate on May 16th trinetta called PJ and he told her that he and Paige were not together anymore
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and he had not seen her in weeks now trinetta knew that this was a lie so she called PJ's mother whom PJ sometimes
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cheers to you Captain cheers to all the people in the back on May 17th tretta went to the Braton all police department
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and filed a missing person's Report with the sergeant on duty the incident report
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dated May 17th 2019 reflects that trinetta told the sergeant that she had not had any
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contact with her daughter in more than two weeks and she believed her to be in the company of Patrick Samar Mason Jr or
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PJ so Braton all police took on the case but noted in the report that there was friction between mother and daughter
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over the boyfriend it also notes that Paige is bipolar and may be off of her meds they asked
00:31:02
trinetta if Paige was depressed and she answered yes at times this in my opinion
00:31:07
had a good and unfortunate result both good and unfortunate right one the good is a missing person's alert for Paige
00:31:15
was issued at that time but it read that she might be in danger because of a change in mental status this was
00:31:24
something that I and her family disagrees with even if Paige was struggling mentally she would not have
00:31:30
ever just dropped off of the face of the Earth and stopped all contact with them
00:31:34
then frustrated about the total void of information about Paige and trying to get information out of PJ trinetta had
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her goddaughter Vanessa call PJ this call took place on May 20th 2019 at 9:32 p.m. and it was recorded now we made a
00:31:51
transcript of this conversation as best as we could make it out it starts off saying hey it's
00:31:58
Vanessa again I just got a quick question cuz we're so worried about her where do you see her at the last time
00:32:05
you seen her PJ's response is left her downtown last time I seen her I went to court I was coming
00:32:12
downtown he seems to be saying that Paige went to court with him he could not remember which day whether it was a
00:32:19
Tuesday or a Wednesday right we know that it was in fact that Tuesday Vanessa then asked you went to court together PJ
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says no she I went to court though I can't quite make out everything he's saying there Vanessa then says because
00:32:36
we don't know why she hasn't called or anything you all get into an argument or something PJ says no and something else
00:32:44
which is inaudible Vanessa then says have you checked up on her at all PJ says I text her a couple of times I
00:32:52
called her a couple times he says something else that I can't understand and then says change her number she was
00:32:58
talking a bunch of crazy stuff Vanessa says do you know where she could possibly be she's usually with you all
00:33:06
of the time PJ says no she ain't with me we broke up I don't know how long ago and then says something else which I
00:33:13
can't understand Vanessa then says and she was downtown question mark when question mark to which PJ says
00:33:22
Monday or Tuesday now as you can put together based off of that PJ's basically sticking to his story that he
00:33:30
has no idea where Paige is at this time the family knows that she's missing and he says that they've broken up and he
00:33:38
hasn't seen her in a while or so on according to his words this despite the fact that the police have verified that
00:33:45
Paige and PJ were together at the hotel they were together at his work and they were together at the Home Depot so this
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takes place on that Sunday Monday and Tuesday May 5th through May 7th of 2019 they're together he claims we're
00:34:01
not together I don't know when it was that I last saw her boom she disappears right after being with him well the
00:34:09
first red flag is that his memory is so fuzzy I don't really remember H we broke
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up a while ago not really for sure nine months after PA's disappearance the FBI and the Braton Hall police held a press
00:34:23
conference to announce a $55,000 reward in exchange for information about PA's whereabouts now during the conference
00:34:32
the then Braton Hol police chief noted that it was unusual for Paige to be out of contact with her family and stated
00:34:39
quote numerous investigative leads have been conducted but to date nothing has led to the location of paig we strongly
00:34:47
believe that someone in this community has a vital piece of information that law enforcement needs end quote despite
00:34:54
this seemingly interested involvement by BPD the chief made it clear that they were not 100% on board with Foul Play
00:35:03
having be fallen Paige right he said that Paige actually lives in Cleveland and the Braton Hall police were just
00:35:10
helping out because Paige's grandmother lives in bratel that's horeshit the FBI was just assisting he said for all they
00:35:18
know Paige could be sitting on a beach actually his words were for all they know Paige could be sitting on a sunny
00:35:24
beach somewhere I want to point out a couple things here before we move on that Braton all police if you watch that
00:35:33
press conference and this is very unfortunate this takes place nine months after she's been missing so if you you
00:35:39
could believe whatever you want the day or two after she no one can get a hold of her but after nine months has gone by
00:35:47
and she's not popped up or not returned to her family you got to recognize that you're dealing with a serious situation
00:35:53
now could she be on a beach that I guess that's possible does does anybody think
00:35:57
that no so why he bothered to go out of his way to say that seems a little weird
00:36:02
and also saying that they're just helping out because Paige actually lives in Cleveland it depends on who you talk
00:36:08
to if you want to say that the the hotel where they were staying is where she was
00:36:12
living then I guess but in all reality no she was last living in your community in Braton all Ohio it's like they don't
00:36:21
want to take full responsibility and I understand law enforcement's you is is it possible that she just said you know
00:36:29
what life sucks and I'm going to move away sure but no no activity on her bank cards just she has money sitting in a
00:36:39
bank and she's just not going to take any of it out well at this same press conference Paige's aunt was she speaks
00:36:47
right after the chief does and makes it very clear that Paige is not sitting on a sunny beach somewhere she says quote
00:36:56
she would never have just walked away from her family and friends she said all they have is speculation but they know
00:37:03
that something happened to Paige she said I've known her her whole 28 years she would not put family through this
00:37:12
she spoke to her mom all of the time end quote Now trinetta does not believe that
00:37:17
the Braton all police and the FBI have done nearly enough to try to find her daughter a detective did acknowledge to
00:37:26
her that Paige appeared to have battered woman syndrome Braton all's new police chief has been much more helpful and
00:37:34
tells trinetta that the case is being actively worked and everything I can see Captain I'm very confident that this is
00:37:42
actively being worked and a recent tip which is now in the hands of BPD and the FBI came in and says that there's a
00:37:52
chance that Paige was trafficked and she's in the San Jose area this is something that could be
00:37:59
true but I I I suspect that it's probably not the case but it is information that has made its way to law
00:38:08
enforcement well and again at first she wasn't reported as an endangered missing
00:38:13
I hope she is now because if this tip is is somewhat true yeah she's alive but she's in a a dangerous situation and it
00:38:23
hurts me to say this because I've met some of her family and I I'm picturing you know I want to have something
00:38:29
positive to offer them some light at the end of the tunnel here but none of the information that
00:38:37
that we are digging up or that has made its way to law enforcement none of it is
00:38:42
a good result none of it is anything that anybody wants to hear about one of their loved ones now in regard to the
00:38:51
tip that I'm talking about this could be a good tip I guess but again the information we've covered is screaming
00:38:57
loud and clear that the answers likely are much closer to home because as you will see the sources of this information
00:39:04
are close to home more importantly close to Patrick Samar Mason Jr and that is PJ's
00:39:12
sister who told a cousin that after Paige vanished PJ torched his GMC truck and got a new
00:39:21
one I mean that sounds suspicious yeah that's a huge red flag I mean why would you set fire to your
00:39:29
vehicle uh insurance fraud or maybe to cover up evidence well thankfully the cousin reported this to the police so
00:39:41
the police passed along that information to trinetta saying hey we're we're looking for this guy's truck we've we've
00:39:48
received some credible information that he torched it after your daughter disappeared right he's telling us that
00:39:55
he sold it but can't provide any proof of that and on top of that there's no record of the sale of a vehicle with
00:40:03
that VIN so the truck is missing and everybody's looking for this truck well you know his initials shouldn't be PJ
00:40:14
they should be BS because this guy is full of [ __ ] I mean he wants to sit there and say I don't
00:40:22
know last time I saw her I haven't seen her for weeks and then we know that's a l why cuz he saw her on Sunday and
00:40:28
Monday and on Tuesday and now he's saying oh yeah I sold this vehicle but there's no proof that he sold the
00:40:34
vehicle just another [ __ ] lie this guy's serving up horseshit sandwiches yeah and I'm jumping out of the line my
00:40:40
friend they stink stink in November of 2020 Paige's family received communication from a man named Devon
00:40:49
this is PJ's half brother well I'm glad you're bringing this up because let's be
00:40:53
clear this is PJ Mr BS himself this is his family coming forward they know what kind of creep this guy is and they're
00:41:02
coming forward with information and and that's what's going to solve this case is them coming forward with information
00:41:10
friends of his acquaintances of his this guy has told somebody something well and
00:41:15
listen to this this is Devon again a family member of PJs who's reaching out to Paige's family because he's concerned
00:41:23
and he says to the family quote I really wish the best for you all and I really had deep feelings for Paige and it's
00:41:30
still bothering me that no one knows anything about her whereabouts and then goes on to say
00:41:37
quote last thing I heard about PJ is he was in Oakwood jail being held without bond for trying to choke out and smother
00:41:46
the girl that he was with most recently end quote let's be clear this is a relationship that he took on after Pages
00:41:55
missing it's not a relationship it's a relationship and he is locked up for now abusing this person so this guy's got a
00:42:06
history of violence and he's got a history of domestic violence that doesn't seem to end now this information
00:42:14
that came forward from the half brother was true so he was locked up at that time PJ was and he found himself in
00:42:22
federal court this again about 9 months after disappeared PJ was arrested again but this time with another young woman
00:42:32
and we're going to read from the court record describing this incident but it's rather interesting so bear with me here
00:42:38
captain and it says on January 29th 2020 at approximately 2:39 p.m. officers and
00:42:47
detectives of the Willoughby Hills Police Department responded to a call for two people passed out in a vehicle
00:42:54
at the bishop Shell gas station located at 2770 Bishop Road in Willoughby Hills Ohio which is in Lake County yeah I
00:43:03
actually know this area pretty well cuz they used to play at Willoughby Brewing Company so shout out to those guys great
00:43:09
beer by the way I wish we were sitting there right now mhm the car in question was parked next to the gas pumps with
00:43:15
the engine turned off officer Craig Anderson says that he was already on the scene when officer Mino arrived and was
00:43:24
attempting to wake the subjects by yelling into the vehicle wake up officer Anderson's police cruiser was parked in
00:43:33
front of the vehicle so if these two wake up and decide to take off they're not going anywhere what losers officer
00:43:40
Mino says as he approached he noticed that the windows were fogged up and he could barely make out the outline of the
00:43:47
people inside he could tell that we have a male seated in the passenger seat who
00:43:52
slumped to the right and a female who was in the the driver's seat and she slumped to the left neither individual
00:44:00
was moving so using his baton he tapping on the window and again yelling into the
00:44:07
vehicle but both occupants remained unconscious and unresponsive he says that he planned to
00:44:13
break the window to gain entry to the vehicle because he believed that the occupants had overdosed on drugs or
00:44:20
blacked out from alcohol they could need medical assistance or died of stupidity
00:44:25
but for entry ultimately proved unnecessary as the female in the driver's seat eventually sat up and she
00:44:32
seemed to be partially conscious at the officer's urging she manages to unlock the door eventually the officer Mino
00:44:42
opened the passenger side door he looked into the vehicle and observed Mason we know as PJ still unconscious he says
00:44:51
that he was breathing but was not responsive to efforts to try to wake him the vehicle omitted a strong smell of
00:44:58
alcohol and officer Mino observed that Mason's hand was over a black gun holster later the officer testified that
00:45:07
this was a red flag that a weapon might be present in the vehicle and he has heard on the video recording you know
00:45:15
they're recording this from the the dash cam is recording this or or body body camera is recording this you can hear
00:45:23
the officer sharing his con concerns with the others on the scene that we might have a a gun in this vehicle he
00:45:30
says that he also noticed ammunition on the floor of the vehicle as well as an open container of Jin located on the
00:45:37
console he continued to try to wake Mason or PJ and administered a sternal rub which temporarily caused Mason to
00:45:44
open his eyes before he fell unresponsive again with the assistance of emergency medical technicians and the
00:45:51
fire department personnel on the scene the officer removed Mason from the vehicle and a gun dropped from his pants
00:45:59
officer Mino took Mason to the ground to render Aid as he verbally signaled that
00:46:04
he had discovered a gun this guy PJ is beyond a dirt bag well whatever he had consumed that day either the driver the
00:46:14
female driver she was either unwilling to communicate that to police or or just didn't know so they're able to wake her
00:46:23
they're not able to wake him and until they pull him out and a gun falls out of his his pants well again he's
00:46:29
controlling an abusive for all we know he drugged her well once that weapon is secured Mason is then detained and the
00:46:40
officers run his license where they quickly determined that he had outstanding warrants so he's under
00:46:46
arrest at this time outstanding warrants and carrying a gun the female driver was
00:46:51
also arrested and taken into custody as she was believed to be intoxicated and became belligerent and combative with
00:46:59
the officers because both of the vehicles occupants were taken into custody the vehicle was impounded well
00:47:05
un fairness to her they did wake her up okay so PJ is drunk and passed out at a gas station and when police are able to
00:47:13
wake him up this gun Falls from his pants Smooth Move xlax M but here's the court record of the car's inventory
00:47:22
which I think you'll find interesting an inventory of the contents of the vehicle
00:47:26
and on Mason's person revealed a 30 round magazine loose rounds of 9 mm ammunition a digital scale an open
00:47:35
bottle of Bombay dry Jin and a gun holster the weapon was identified as a Taurus model
00:47:42
PT111 Millennium G2 9mm caliber pistol serial number tjp 22624 special agent Corey Miles with the
00:47:55
ATF is the one that wrote that report and took the inventory of the contents of that vehicle and the items found on
00:48:04
Mason on PJ so all of this was super bad for PJ but good for the rest of us right
00:48:09
because we're going to lock this dude up but not because PJ can't handle his liquor and was passed out in public it
00:48:16
was because as a multiple felon he's prohibited from being in possession of a firearm so PJ was initially charged in
00:48:25
late County Ohio for what will end up being federal gun charges and this comes about after they do their due diligence
00:48:35
the police were able to show that the gun PJ was found with had crossed eight lines which gave the fed's jurisdiction
00:48:42
over this whole mess because PJ was in violation of laws prohibiting him from possessing a weapon that had been
00:48:50
transported via Interstate Commerce yeah and I believe once the feds get involved
00:48:54
that you can tack on on some years for this crime a Federal indictment against PJ was filed on April
00:49:00
22nd the complaint upshot is that PJ violated federal laws against being a felon in possession of a firearm and
00:49:07
also specifically against felons convicted of domestic violence of possessing a firearm the 2017 conviction
00:49:15
for domestic violence served as a predicate offense for count two of the indictment after his arrest police
00:49:22
searched PJ's house according to to trinetta they were looking for information on PA's whereabouts as
00:49:32
well or looking for items belonging to Paige right there they found one of Paige's cell phones now investigators
00:49:39
question PJ about this but he's refused to discuss the phone he's refused to discuss Paige with law enforcement yeah
00:49:47
cuz he's guilty of something at PJ's initial appearance court appearance this took place on April 24th he waved his
00:49:54
right to a preliminary hearing now the Magistrate Judge found that there was sufficient evidence to proceed and the
00:50:02
matter was bound over to the grand jury to determine whether there was probable cause to proceed to trial although the
00:50:10
federal prosecutor requested that PJ be held without bond the judge permitted PJ
00:50:17
to be released on $20,000 unsecured Bond but there were conditions PJ had to submit to the supervision of United
00:50:26
States pre-trial services and he had to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and abide by a curfew that precluded him
00:50:36
from leaving his grandparents residence after 6:30 p.m. and before 8:00 a.m. this guy is a known criminal this guy is
00:50:44
a known liar you're going to give him any privilege shame on you you know what's going to happen well it didn't
00:50:52
take long for PJ to violate the conditions of this Bond of course not right uh and a a warrant was issued for
00:51:01
his arrest and according to the status report filed by the pre-trial Services it states that on May 18th of 2020 PJ
00:51:09
left his home without authorization at 9:02 p.m. this breaking the curfew and the police were called by his
00:51:18
grandparents again kudos to his family for stepping in and alerting the police hey
00:51:25
he's he's not supposed to be out at this time he's left our home hold on the family should have spoke up at the trial
00:51:31
and said look you don't set bond for this guy because nobody wants him on their property we don't want him at our
00:51:38
house yeah why would you want to take the risk of that he's abusive towards women he's a liar he's a scumback he's
00:51:45
probably the reason why Paige is missing yeah you don't want the scumbag at your house well this is interesting
00:51:53
too and this report also o provided that the following day PJ's sister and girlfriend went to the Oakwood Village
00:52:01
Police Department making separate complaints about PJ his girlfriend reported that PJ strangled her and
00:52:08
placed a pillow over her face to prevent her from screaming PJ's sister reported
00:52:14
that he had been calling and threatening her so he's continuing his Dirty Deeds beating up women and he's also
00:52:23
threatening his own family according to these complaints yeah and that's why every individual that has talked to him
00:52:31
or has information about Paige needs to come forward to law enforcement and tell
00:52:37
them what they know about the scumbag PJ was taken into custody on May 29th the Magistrate Judge conducted a hearing to
00:52:44
consider whether he should revoke PJ's Bond and send him to jail while awaiting trial or whether he should let pja stay
00:52:52
out on Bond and the judge decided to lock PJ up now well that's common sense right yeah I could read for you Captain
00:53:02
the paragraphs written by the judge and and filed in the court records but our friends out there in listener land and
00:53:08
Parts Unknown well well their poor little earballs will get bored and spit out their airbuds but amongst other
00:53:14
things basically the judge is confirming what we and the courts seem to already know simply put this chump exhibits A
00:53:22
History of Violence and it's not safe to have him anywhere other than locked up so good like we said Common Sense his
00:53:30
bond is revoked and he is now in the custody of the US Marshals PJ filed a motion to reinstate his bond and revoke
00:53:38
the Magistrate's order basically appealing the decision motion denied that makes three women now that
00:53:47
we know of whom PJ has strangled or suffocated Patrick Samar Mason Jr is a danger to society and as the captain
00:53:55
says a big piece of [ __ ] and good news with Mason sitting in the pen waiting for trial the government
00:54:05
didn't waste any time proceeding at a pre-trial hearing PJ's attorney reported to his client that the government had
00:54:12
presented a written proposed plea agreement there was a lot of wrangling over this but eventually the government
00:54:19
agreed to basically reduce the base offense level charges resulting in a bit L time for PJ at a November 12 2020
00:54:29
hearing the government announced that it agreed that PJ's base offense level would result in a guideline range of 51
00:54:37
to 63 months prison time Mason's attorney indicated that with that change Mason would accept the plea agreement
00:54:44
and enter a plea of guilty to count two of the indictment and count one would be
00:54:50
dropped which is a gift for him again they shouldn't go leading on this guy at all a a known abuser of women a known
00:54:59
liar a known criminal give a Max time for everything and not only that Captain there's
00:55:07
there's evidence there's things suggesting here that this man is much more guilty of things that he's never
00:55:13
even been charged with right so that should be all done right well not quite because on February 10th of
00:55:20
2021 the court received a letter from PJ's attorney is this this guy I don't know how he got a 3.0 grade average for
00:55:30
those two semesters maybe he maybe you got points just for showing up or something anyway
00:55:36
this letter is requesting that he wants to withdraw his guilty play so oh yeah I
00:55:43
ple guilty I admit that I'm guilty you give me the sentence and now I you know what I changed my mind I'm not guilty
00:55:49
anymore yeah well again it was it was a mistake to plead down the deal anyway they should hit him with more charges
00:55:57
right so I mean basically this guy's full of it and the court borrowed my beer goggles and saw right through his
00:56:06
BS again request denied but it's sad we all go through this life on our journey and we're looking for somebody that that
00:56:14
makes us feel good about life makes us feel good about ourselves and sometimes these guys get involved with these women
00:56:21
and they're conmen and they talk a good little game and then they start manipulating them and they start like I
00:56:27
said divide and conquer you know separate them from their family people deserve to be happy people deserve to be
00:56:34
in healthy relationships if you feel that you're in abusive relationship look I've never never been in that kind of
00:56:42
situation I I wouldn't even know where you know to begin other than to tell you that you deserve better than this you
00:56:50
deserve to be treated correctly you deserve to be um valued and taken care of and if you feel like you're in a bad
00:56:59
situation call this number 1 1800799 safe that's 1 1800799 safe and goodby you Captain for
00:57:10
putting that number out there that is the domestic violence support line if anybody out there listening needs some
00:57:18
type of support do not hesitate to call them so in short Captain what we have here is PJ is in prison thank the Lord
00:57:27
he can't hurt anyone else at least on the outside and he can't pass out at any more gas stations and you don't want to
00:57:34
pass out in prison from what I hear yeah but what about PA and what about her family what is her family supposed to do
00:57:42
now again the the current chief of police at Braton all says the case is active says the case is being worked in
00:57:51
a meeting with the FBI agents assigned to the case Unfortunately they told her family that Paige is likely
00:57:59
deceased the question is is anyone working to find her or find out what happened to her is what I want to know
00:58:06
and what about PJ I think there's some other things going on with him we we said that yes he was charged by the feds
00:58:14
for this gun charge yeah but the FBI is still investigating him and seems to be involved in Paige cof's case as well so
00:58:27
what else is going on or or what else was he up to we still don't know who shot up PJ's car or how he got shot and
00:58:37
what about his GMC truck that he torched after Paige vanished has anyone subpoena
00:58:42
PJ's phone records to see where he was in the hours and days after the Home Depot outing on May 7th
00:58:50
2019 yeah we we have PA's cell phone information and law enforcement has that and again they're very tight lipped on
00:59:00
some of that information that they have but have they looked into PJ's phone records that's what you want to look at
00:59:07
here or have they looked at his employer's records to see if he missed any work after the 7th of May will we
00:59:14
ever have answers to all of these questions yeah I'd be very interested to see if they subpoena
00:59:21
his cell phone records not so much for him calling people but maybe GPS on his phone and did he go to a field somewhere
00:59:31
or a wooded area to possibly dispose of a body these are serious questions um or
00:59:39
that's what I would be interested to know if if they have received this information and again I believe this
00:59:45
case will be solved and it'll be by somebody that has talked to PJ whether that's a friend or acquaintance or a
00:59:53
family member he told told somebody something cuz he's a known liar and he and he's probably lied so much that he
01:00:02
can't even stop himself from lying and he's going to get caught in one of those lies well and we've already seen that
01:00:08
some of his family turn in information and pass along information to the proper channels I feel like we need some more
01:00:15
of that family to come forward that as you pointed out I think there's somebody out there that knows something somebody
01:00:21
can fill in some of these blanks here and again we've met PA's family they're lovely people
01:00:27
they're wonderful people we wish them the very best this is not a good situation at all and there's not a whole
01:00:35
lot of Hope here but they deserve to have some answers now Paige is described as 5' 8 in tall 230 lbs with brown eyes
01:00:44
and black hair she has a tattoo of piano keys on her arm anyone with any information at all please please call
01:00:55
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