By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – A protection order against Mossyrock Police Chief Jeremy Stamper was terminated today, at the request of his wife who sought the court order at the end of May saying she feared her husband’s access to weapons.
Shannon Stamper, 36, was asked if she was making the new request voluntarily and if anyone had threatened her in any way. She answered yes and no respectively.
Lewis County Superior Court Commissioner Tracy Mitchell told the Mossyrock woman she needed to take some time to speak with a victim’s advocate and if she still wanted to go forward with canceling the order, it would be signed.
Chief Stamper was not present at his morning’s hearing in Lewis County Superior Court in Chehalis, but his attorney was in attendance for a portion of the proceedings.
Chief Stamper remains on the job, although the court order restricted him from possessing firearms, except his duty weapon while on shift. Mossyrock Mayor Tom Meade said late last week he was unaware of the requirement he store his police chief’s gun, and that anyway he considered the town’s only police officer on duty 24 hours a day because he is subject to being called out at any time.
Chief Stamper declined to comment on the situation; Shannon Stamper said on Friday it was “all blown out of proportion.”
Just four days after the order was filed, Shannon Stamper made a written request it be withdrawn, noting her husband had never hit her and they agreed to reconcile.
Commissioner Mitchell this morning pointed out to Shannon Stamper the results of a test she had ordered at a June 10 hearing; a UA conducted that day that showed the presence of alcohol in Chief Stamper’s system.
“This was despite his representation to the court he’d had no alcohol since May 20,” Mitchell said.
Shannon Stamper returned before the court commissioner about an hour after her first appearance and the termination order was signed after she confirmed that was what she wanted.
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For background, read “Mossyrock police chief contesting protection order” from Friday June 28, 2013, here
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
@Mom_NW…….My mother also was taken from me at the age of 6 by a man who promised to change. He did, he changed his method of destruction from fisty cuffing, to a 12g shotgun, and shot my mother in the face, in a room full of people while she was @ work. He was sentenced to 7 years, of which he did approximately 4. Why might you ask? Because he was intoxicated, and not “completely” responsible for his actions. That was 37 years ago, and it torments me daily. If Mrs. Stamper has any love for her children, she will get out, while the getting is good. In the mean time, I am completely disgusted that this garbage is publicized for the entire world to see. If Mrs. Stamper had any self respect, she would take herself and her children to a community where they are not known, so her children would not be subjected to the public humiliation.
Mom_NW, you made some excellent points, and i am sorry for your heartache and loss. Unfortunately and sadly it will fall on deaf ears. He won’t change and she won’t ever break free. She has proven that. She must be very selfish to keep dragging her kids through this and you are right, she is teaching them that this is ok. Sad and unnecessary.
Shannon,
There are one of two things happening here, only you and Jeremy ( and your kids) know what that is.
1. You lied. You told half truths because of a nasty divorce. You wanted Jeremy to know that you could hurt him, so you conjured up a list of things that would make him look like a real d-bag. So you went to court and asked for help, and when Jeremy realized how quickly you could take him down, he vowed to work it out.
Or…
2. You told the truth in court. You are a victim of abuse. Your life has been threatened. You genuinely feared that Jeremy could and would make good on those threats. He promised to change, you believed him, so now you are “working” it out.
I am leaning towards the later of the two. The court has already proven that he is willing and able to lie under oath, which speaks volumes about his character. If he lied about drinking ( not illegal) then what other kinds of things has he lie to the court about?
The sad part of all of this is that your four kids have front row tickets to this show. Think of all the things that they are learning from this experience. They are either learning that it is ok for a man to abuse his wife, threaten her life and not be held accountable. OR they are learning that you can lie ( or blow things out of proportion) and potentially ruin a mans life to exact revenge of some sort. Either way you can sweep it all under the rug, and try to work things out. Sure people can change, and sure people can work it out, but you have been there, and done that. It has not worked out. Things will continue to escalate until something happens that changes their lives forever, and how dare you do that to your children. STOP dragging them, through the mud. One of you needs to be the hero and fix this. Either work it out or end it. BUT just STOP. They deserve better and so do both of you.
I had a mother a lot like you. She allowed things to happen that should have been deal breakers. Things that normal women walk away from. She hid it, she denied it, she pretended that it did not happen, and in the end Shannon….she was dead before she was 33. I was the child that paid the price for that marriage. I was left with life long scars. I was left believing that my mother did not care enough to save us from abuse, or love herself enough to know that she did not have to live like that. I can’t and won’t pretend that it does not affect me as an adult because it still does. Not having a mother has been really really painful. Not having a mother has hurt less than having a mother who was in danger day in and day out, and worrying she was not going to be ok this time.
And we are surprised he lied? What have people been saying….that she has ruined his reputation and career with her lies? And yet he lies right to the court officials about his consumption of alcohol. But it’s all her fault, right? And we certainly shouldn’t be surprised by the fact that they are reconciling ONCE again. And once again, dragging all kinds of people through their crap, including their kids. If you are just going to keep doing this over and over and over again, don’t involve anybody else. It has just become a joke and a predictable one at that.