Retaliation. Above what you see is Animal Control officer Jeff Stillman taking pictures of me while I was at a local Animal Swap meet at Tractor Supply a couple of weeks ago. I was with a couple of friends and met with other people who I know at this meet. The pictures were taken of not only me, but also a couple of the friends I was with. What set this off? Nothing that I did. I could care less that he was there. I was not even aware that he was doing this until one of the people I was talking with told me he was taking my picture.
Once I was made aware of what he was doing, it became a battle of the cameras. It would seem clear that this is retaliation for my reporting issues surrounding other Animal Control officers and how they seem from every appearance, to be following made up illegal county ordinances as well as reporting on them as they use government vehicles for personal use.
After several minutes of the Battle of the Cameras, he pulled behind Tractor Supply and called in the Sheriff's department. Numerous deputies showed up. After about another 10 minutes, several Sheriff's deputies get out of their vehicles along with Jeff and then they walk up to where I am with a friend and stare us down. Since that did not work for them, they removed themselves to the middle of the swap meet and it became a Mexican standoff. I was not about to leave just because they wanted to be intimidating.
Now is this stalking by Jeff Stillman against me and my friends?
https://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/victims/documents/stalking.pdf
That is a tough one. Technically, Animal Control in the state of Virginia are not considered law enforcement in one area but are in other areas. They are not police. Do they have the authority to conduct public investigations? Not from what I could find. What right did he have to do this? If he was out of uniform? Who cares. But he was in uniform and on county, hence, taxpayer time. Am I even someone who needs to be checked out for animal issues? Don't you have to own animals first?
So if I can not be considered someone who needs to be watched for past animal abuses, then why is he doing this? All we can come up with is this is pure retaliation.
This picture above is from a story we did on Animal Control where this deputy was about to break into a vehicle and take someone's personal property. The owner came out just in time. She was acting on what we have shown to be an illegal county ordinance in our view based on all available state codes and the Dillon Rule research.
That illegal ordinance is in the sign above, again, based on our research and reported here on this site.
Jeff Stillman still has a job even though we reported this issue to county officials. What did they do, just slap him on the hand while patting him on the back for this retaliation? This is only part of the story. There is more coming soon. This guy carries a gun. Do I feel safe knowing he is still on the road? No. But there seems to be no state law against what he has done. That means we are all in danger with this guy being out there and county officials don't seem to care. Who is next? You? Will he decide to not use a camera the next time and use his gun? Who knows? Either way, it seems clear that he is unstable.
This picture was taken inside of Buying It Used, owned by yet another Animal Control deputy. The above is of County property. How was it acquired? It's against county ordinance for county employees to buy county used goods from the county auction site which is how county property is supposed to be disposed of. The projector says Petsworth School on it's side.
