Halburn Skips Court Date

Fat Thief Still On The Waddle
 
A packed courtroom in Huntington was the scene on May 24th where more than 20 spectators (and 5 bailiffs)  waited for the inevitable show... which never happened.

Mark Vance Halburn did not appear for his scheduled hearing in Cabell County for the appeal of his Putnam County conviction for stalking Dr. Joe Matusic and his family.

Convicted Stalker Mark Vance Halburn

It appears that all of Putnam's circuit judges recused themselves, so Cabell County Circuit Court Judge Paul T. Farrell was appointed to handle the appeal.

Cabell County Circuit Judge Paul T. Ferrell[

Halburn's elderly lawyer, Christopher Butch, was there and argued the appeal on Halburn's behalf. A ruling is expected soon.

Since Halburn had a jury trial in magistrate court, the appeal is strictly a review of the record for any errors that may have occurred. PutnamLIES.com's legal corespondent says it it highly unlikely that any errors will be found.

Court watchers also reported that Mr. Butch may have withdrawn from the case after the hearing.

Why the no-show by a guy that has loudly proclaimed his innocence from the rooftops and literally tells his attorney what to say?
Because of the outstanding warrant in Kanawha County.
Halburn knew if he showed up he'd be arrested, so he was no longer interested in appearing.
Skip a futile appeal vs. an arrest and probation revocation. A no brainer even for a psychopath with no brain.
Halburn fled the state in January, returning occasionally, but staying with various degenerate friends to avoid detection by law enforcement.

Mark Vance Halburn Wanted By Dunbar PD

Allegedly Stole Cans From Recycling Center

An ex-Putnam County man is on the run waddle and the Dunbar Police Department is asking for your help to put him back behind bars.

Mark Vance Halburn

 
Halburn is accused of stealing numerous bags of aluminum cans from the city's recycling center on Charles Avenue in Dunbar and then fleeing.

Dunbar City Garage and Recycling Center

On Friday, December 22, 2017, Lt. Michael Lester of the Dunbar Police Department was dispatched to the Dunbar City Garage in reference to a larceny. Upon his arrival, he spoke with a city employee who advised the officer of an issue they were having with Mark Halburn stealing recycled cans. The worker stated that he witnessed Mr. Halburn remove cans from the recycle bins, place them in his vehicle and then leave.

After that incident, the worker stated that he set up a video camera by the recycling bin. The video showed Halburn returning in his his vehicle, a silver 2001 Buick LeSabre, WV license 4VV 367. He then exited his vehicle and placed at least three more bags of cans into the vehicle and drove off. This was all viewed by the officer who then swore out a warrant against Halburn.
There may also be an unnamed accomplice.

A warrant was issued for the following charge:

§61-3-13-b Petit Larceny

Halburn is currently on probation for a stalking conviction in Putnam County.

If you see Halburn, do not approach him. Instead, immediately, telephone 911. You can also call the Dunbar Police Department at 304-766-0204.

CashIn Recyclables pays $0.50/lb for aluminum cans. A full trash bag weighs about 5 pounds.

Halburn committed this crime for less than $25.
If this fucker worked half as hard at a real job as he does trying to scam money, he'd be rich.

This will definitely violate his probation in Putnam County. Should be interesting to see how he tries to spin this shit.
Between this,  him begging for money on GoFundMe, and moving in with his girlfriend sugar mama and her parents, Halburn has hit rock bottom now.

And Now A Word Of Advice From Judge Patricia Keller…

For Mark Vance Halburn

Down The Memory Hole II

Sunday, Mark Vance Halburn’s hate blog disappeared. Not completely though. All the pages have been replaced with a placeholder that says,
“Please Be Patient
Site under Maintenance”


It probably should read,
“Please Be Patient
Publisher in Jail”

He has obviously gotten one of his associates, or more likely his sugar mama Barbara, to turn off all access to his fake news blog.
Shortly after that, his personal Facebook page and both of the Facebook pages that he uses to pimp his blog were disabled as well.
 
The most likely explanation for this is that there was some content on there that violated the family court order that he is currently in jail for violating and he’s hoping that will help get him out.
Halburn can be held indefinitely until he complies with the order. In the past, he was ordered not to discuss the case on his blog or social media. This seem to point to something similar.

Sugar mama Barbara is out collecting checks from “advertisers” while Halburn  is in jail. Do you think she’s telling them that their ads aren’t being seen?

UPDATE:
Less than 5 hours after he was released from jail, he reactivated his personal Facebook page. Shortly after that, his fake news hate blog reappeared.  The blog had been scrubbed of any banned references, save one, which was removed in the overnight hours. His personal FB page, however, still has numerous, numerous, numerous pictures of his second ex-wife as well as screencaps of text messages, etc.

The New Mugshot Is Here!!!

Here’s Mark Vance Halburn’s new mugshot.
And just in time for Christmas.
Is that a neck or a chin or what?

80% chins. 20% head. 0% brains.

He's In The Jailhouse Now

Silver Bracelets For…
Mark Vance Halburn

He’s back in jail!!!
He was arrested today for violating a Family Court order. The case number has a D which makes it a domestic case. So it has something to do with his never ending divorce case. Probably contempt of court.
He was booked into Western Regional Jail at 5:50 pm this afternoon.
Our guess is that it has something to do with his appearance in a fringe video, threatening Judge Keller by saying, “I’m coming for you Judge Keller”, and violating a standing order to not discuss his case in public.




Does this violate his probation in Putnam County?

Magistrate Hunt clearly told him, “Understand me, If you violate that probation, I will have no choice whatsoever but to put you in jail for (90 days).”
BUT… Family Court is a civil court so probably not. This is a civil, not a criminal matter. So he is being held in civil contempt.
BUT… That means the judge can hold Halburn for as long as she wants until he complies with her orders.

Summer Camp Follies

Halburn’s Harassment Goes Too Far
Loses Visitation With Son

So, what’s Mark Vance Halburn’s vendetta against the Nazarene Church all about?
Here’s a partial explanation.

West Virginia Nazarene Camp in Summersville

Law enforcement sources tell PutnamLIES.com that Halburn’s son attended a church camp in Summersville run by the Nazarene Church last June.
Shortly before the camp got underway, Halburn found out the boy would be attending camp there, and began harassing the camp operators relentlessly.
He started publicly on May 27 by asking on his Facebook page: “FB friends: Would you allow your child to attend a church camp, in less than a month, that was cited for 15 violations, by its county health department, a few days ago?”
Nice overuse of commas, by the way, from a so-called professional writer.

He wasn’t worried about the condition of the camp or concerned for the campers. It was just another one of his attempts to harass, abuse, control, and punish his second ex-wife by preventing his son from attending that camp.

He complained non-stop that the camp had health code violations. He actually went to the camp on June 2 and met with an inspector for the Nicholas County Health Department there.
Were there violations? Yes. Minor violations like peeling paint, burned out light bulbs, and missing mulch on the playground. The inspection was made a month BEFORE THE CAMP EVEN OPENED and all violations were corrected before it opened.
It’s a CHURCH CAMP, not a Hilton resort.

On June 15, a hearing was held in Cabell County and over Halburn’s objections, the mother was granted the right to send the boy to camp.
Once the camp started, the harassment increased.
Halburn inundated the camp director with texts.
The director finally texted Halburn telling him he was not allowed on camp grounds.
But on Wednesday, June 21, Halburn returned to the camp anyway. At that point, HE called the Sheriff’s Department and demanded they help him get to the boy.
When they arrived, they escorted him onto the camp grounds. Because the police brought him onto property, he was not trespassing.
Halburn’s plans were unknown.  What did exactly he want? To see the boy? To talk to him? To kidnap him? It was unclear.

Think of how embarrassing it would be for a 9 year old to have his 400 pound, sweating bully of a dad barge into his camp with a police escort demanding to see you where you’re with other kids. This poor little boy will have to live with this for the rest of his life.
Despite his efforts, Halburn was not allowed to see the boy and was was escorted off the property.
Shortly thereafter, a protective order was issued in Cabell County.
The kicker here?

It wasn’t the Nazarene Church that got the order.
The DVP was issued to the mother on behalf of the son.
It states Halburn cannot directly or indirectly contact his second ex-wife or the boy.
It has since been extended.
The Dad of the Year has not seen the boy since late June.

However, Halburn has had it in for the Nazarene Church for much longer. It could be connected to his Matusic obsession as well.
Dr. Matusic tells that part of the story:
“My ex-wife’s Winfield Daycare was scheduled to move into the Teays Valley Nazarene Church on Teays Valley road in August of 2013. Mr. Halburn’s child was still enrolled at the daycare. When Mr. Halburn found out where we were moving, he called many of the church board’s members and threatened to sue them if they allowed our daycare to move to their church. The church board then terminated our lease, effectively closing that daycare.”

Halburn even posted video of him going to that church to harass them about it.

Three months later Halburn attempted an explanation for his actions concerning the camp .

“I run a news site. I do kitchen inspections. I did one on a Nazarene camp where they sent my son.
I’ve done it on many camps and 280 locations I’ve done kitchen inspections on. The health department does them. I just report the facts.

The camp had 15 violations which is about 3 times what other camps have had. And I met with a health department administrator by appointment, Next thing I know they’re falsely accusing me of taking pictures of the girl’s dorm.
One, I didn’t take pictures. two, I (unintelligble). and three, there were no girls because the camp wasn’t even in session for two and a half weeks later. But yet they went ahead and lied and said that I did that. We have an affidavit from the health department administrator saying I didn’t take pictures. None of this matters to the court. All they say is well you can’t see your son.”

Except Halburn DID take pictures at the Camp on his June 2 visit.

One of the pictures of the camp Halburn claims he didn’t take.

And oddly enough, Halburn NEVER previously reported about any camp inspections until AFTER his vendetta against the Nazarene Camp began.

What kind of asshole harasses a church and its leadership ?
It’s not their fault this godless heathen’s obsession with his blog, his vendettas against virtually everyone, and his abuse of his second ex-wife destroyed his marriage.
It’s not their fault that he had almost no visitation and now has NO visitation.
That’s ALL on him and his aberrant behavior.

It’s your fault Halburn. All of it.
You walked away from your family through your actions and bad decisions.
How’s that crusading journalist bullshit working out for you now?

HALBURN ORDERED TO GET PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT!!!

Matusic’s Stalker Walks, But…

Found guilty by a jury of his peers for stalking Charleston pediatrician Dr. Joseph Matusic and his family, Mark Vance Halburn was sentenced today in Magistrate Linda Hunt’s courtroom.
Halburn gets 90 days jail time suspended, and TWO YEARS PROBATION (unsupervised). Court ordered psychiatric counseling. No fine, only court costs of $1182.70 payable within 6 months.
Here are the details:
Halburn was originally sentenced to 1 year in prison, until the prosecutor pointed out the maximum under the law he violated is 90 days for first offense.
So he got 90 days, suspended for 2 years while under probation. So in essence Matusic gets an extended 2 year personal safety order and Halburn must keep his nose clean for that period.
During the probation, Halburn can’t:

• Violate ANY law of any state.
• Possess, drink or associate with anyone drinking alcohol or other intoxicant, meaning if his sugar mama Barbara has a glass of wine or a beer at diner, he violates the order.
• Visit any establishment whose primary business involves alcohol,  that does not include a restaurant that serves alcohol, because that is not the primary business.
• Associate with any disreputable person, I guess Suxt0n is included in that!
• Have any weapon.
• Have any contact, direct or indirect, or cause anyone else to contact Matusic or a family member, including adults (usually PSOs don’t include other adults, just minors).

AND THE BEST PART IS:  Halburn has been ordered to see a psychiatrist every 2 weeks for 2 years or until released, with biweekly reports going to the court.
If he violates any of these terms, he immediately goes to jail for 90 days.
Halburn has filed a motion to dismiss, motion to vacate, motion motion and appeal. BUT the appeal can only be based on errors in the original jury trial. No errors, no new trial. It will be denied.

PutnamLIES.com urges anyone who spots Halburn violating any of these conditions to send us pictures as proof of the violation.
There’s no way on God’s gray earth that this fat bastard can keep his nose clean for two years.
We will have more details as they become available.

Read Dr. Matusic's story here:
http://www.babymd.net/stalker.html

Halburn Faces Justice

Thursday, October 12th at 2:30 pm is the new date for the sentencing of Mark Vance Halburn. Hope Barbara doesn’t have any more fucking appointments
Come to the Putnam County Courthouse and take part in the festivities.

Halburn Pussies Out

Convicted Stalker Gets Temporary Reprieve



Scared shitless and desperate to do anything to delay going to jail, Mark Vance Halburn’s has managed to get his sentencing, scheduled for tomorrow, delayed. Supposedly because of a “family medical issue”. Which is bullshit because Halburn has no family in the entire state.

He’s talking about Barbara, the woman who he’s currently leeching off of.. They’re not married, so she’s not family.  Shacked up sugar mamas don’t count in the eyes of the law.
Legally she’s an just another unrelated person. It’s like “My neighbor is having surgery.”
Too bad.
 
Appointments like this aren’t just scheduled yesterday. Those are typically made weeks or months in advance.
So why didn’t he mention it three weeks ago? They had to adjust for everyone else when they set the date. It’s bullshit.
Whatever evidence he may have provided to prove the illness was probably fabricated. It wouldn’t be the first time he’s done it.

She’s not sick or he’d be looking for sympathy on Facebook from his audience of flying monkeys, sycophants, and fellow disaffected dads. The last time she had an “episode”  it was all he talked about.  Endless updates about her condition, tests, prayer requests, etc.. The past several days? Crickets.

All this does is delay the inevitable.  You’re going to jail, Halburn, Delaying it isn’t going to make the sentence any shorter. This isn’t going away. You can’t run and you can’t hide.

No word when the sentencing will be rescheduled. He will have to wait until after he’s sentenced if he wants to appeal

GUILTY!!!

Silver Bracelets For…

MARK VANCE HALBURN

A PutnamLIES.com/Trash Bloggers Alliance Exclusive


After a 3 1/2 hour trial today in Putnam County magistrate court, Mark Vance Halburn was was found guilty of violating a personal safety order issued against him on behalf of Dr Joe Matusic.
It took the jury just 10 minutes to return a guilty verdict.

The day began when Halburn arrived at the courthouse and started barking out orders to his attorney, Christopher Butch. The first thing he did was hand him a piece of paper and said, “These are questions for you to ask me.”
He then sat in the waiting area and prayed out loud for the jury to understand that he had the wrong address.

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.” Matthew 6:5

He also brought his Sugar Mama, Barbara, for support. And to go to his car and get his root beer that he needed.

Babs is fascinated by the newfangled cellular telephone.

Once in court, Halburn’s ancient attorney Christopher Butch appeared clueless and shook the whole time. But that was OK because Halburn seemed to run the whole show, sitting back in his chair like he owned the place, telling his attorney what to do and say, shoving papers at him the entire time and whispering to him every minute or so. The poor guy couldn’t keep his concentration because of it.  To the point where Halburn was told by the judge several times to be quiet and the prosecuting attorney asked “Which one of these men is counsel”?
It was a cut and dried case.

In his opening statement Assistant Prosecutor Kevin Lawson told the jury there were only two things to remember. There is a protection order, and that Mark Vance Halburn went to the home. The rest you hear, he said, is just smoke and mirrors meant to distract.

Lawson entered the order as exhibit 1, then a Google Earth shot of the Matusic property showing how you can’t see the house from Peach Ridge because the driveway is about a quarter of a mile long,

Exhibit 2: View of Matusic’s driveway from Peach Ridge Road

then pictures of the three no trespassing/ private property signs Halburn passed coming up the driveway, then a picture of the mailbox with large reflective numbers on it, and lastly a photo of Halburn’s car in Matusic’s driveway.

Exhibit 4 – Halburn driving his car up Dr. Matusic’s driveway

The red marker indicates the location of Halburn’s car in the picture above

Magistrate Linda Hunt accepted them all into evidence and they were shown to the jury.

The Prosecution called just one witness. Dr. Joseph Matusic.

Dr. Matusic did an excellent job on the stand.
He testified to the long term harassment and stalking by Halburn.
He explained about the pictures of Halburn’s car taken in the driveway.
The defense tried to bring up a lot of crap such as “Halburn is a local reporter and was going to get pictures” and “Why did you let Channel 13 on your property and not Halburn when he was just doing his job?”
The simple answer given was, “I don’t have a PSO against Channel 13 and you write a blog.”

At that point the prosecution rested its case.

The defendant's first witness was Putnam County Sheriff Deputy Shawn Johnson who testified that he went and took the report, went to the courthouse to verify the protection order and also spoke with Hurricane Fire Department.

Next, when Halburn took the stand they couldn’t shut him up. He would elaborate on anything and everything and talk and talk. The magistrate called him down multiple times because he would drone on and on. She finally said, “Just answer the questions”!
The answer to “did you go on to this property” isn’t a 15 minute response.

Halburn claimed he  had an email of the broadcast text sent to him by someone who worked (supposedly) at one of the television stations that he tried to enter as evidence. Magistrate Linda Hunt shut that down quickly. He wasn’t allowed to enter any of his material as evidence.  The look on his face was priceless when he had to come to terms with the fact that nobody cared about his mountain of useless, irrelevant and inadmissible evidence.

Halburn repeatedly tried to bring in what everyone told him on the phone and persisted with it.  The Prosecutor’s objections for hearsay were sustained every single time.

Then the lies started.

Halburn lied and said that he got lost and turned onto a public road. Except it was a driveway with no road sign on it, a mailbox clearly marked with large reflective numbers and THREE no trespassing signs.  He then drove up a 1/4 mile driveway to a house that can’t be seen from the road.

This shows the distance Halburn had to travel up the Matusic’s driveway.

Halburn had to make a conscious effort to go out Peach Ridge Road. It isn’t on the way to anywhere. He intended to go there. It’s not a thruway or side street. He drove 2 miles out a road that goes nowhere. Halburn knew exactly where the Doctor lives.

The route Halburn took to the house.

But he wants a jury to believe that an address that was clearly on a document he was served with was one he didn’t know.
And that he just made a mistake.

He can’t stop at someone’s house, ask if that’s Matusic’s property and then make the choice to continue to the property and call it an accident. If it was “an accident,” when the person told him it was Matusic’s property he would have turned around and gone home.

He continued to lie and said he was at the bottom of the driveway, except the Prosecution had pictures showing he was at the top of the driveway.
Lawson did a great job of tripping up Halburn’s defense on numerous inconsistencies, such as Halburn stating that he was given a wrong address from Hurricane Fire Department. The house number was on the mailbox at the main road and it is the same as was on the protection order. So that claim was disproved quickly.

Halburn tried to say he never came up the driveway and was nowhere near the house, but when shown the photos of his car at the top of the driveway, he admitted that it was his car.
Halburn continued to use his lame excuse that he was given the wrong address and he was there to take pictures for his news website because he is a “News Reporter.”, He got called out on that by Lawson who pointed out that it’s already been decided by the courts that it is a blog. At that point, Halburn slung his fat ass back in the chair until it looked like it was going to tip over.

On several occasions Magistrate Linda Hunt actually rolled her eyes at Halburn’s statements.

Halburn told the jury that Matusic followed him and therefore that negated the intent of the order.
The jury obviously thought that was just more of Halburn’s bullshit.

Halburn also wanted the jury to believe that Matusic called the police after Halburn blatantly violated the third personal safety order issued against him because Matusic was somehow trying to affect a motion to a family court judge that Halburn filed weeks earlier for sole custody of his son.

At one point, Halburn told his attorney to have Matusic’s fiancee thrown out for “Witness Intimidation.” Halburn’s sugar mama told the judge the fiancee was talking and helping out during the trial.

The jurors were buying none of it.
The surprising thing is that they could actually find six people that didn’t already have an opinion of him.

Then the verdict came in and the words people have been waiting years to hear were read.
“We the jury be unanimously agreed to find the defendant, Mark Vance Halburn, guilty of a misdemeanor offense of violation a personal safety order. So say we all”

Halburn’s lawyer then asked about the sentencing.When asked by Magistrate Hunt if he wanted to do sentencing today, Butch said he didn’t  bring his calendar.
She said “We can do sentencing today if you want.”
Butch asked, “Is he going to be sent to jail today?
And then the real laugher came out.
Butch says, “We would ask that you suspend any sentence your honor.”
Hunt asked, “You mean suspend any sentence?”
Butch meant suspend it permanently.
The State then asked for sentencing to take place immediately, but Butch asked for 3 weeks.
They rambled back and forth for several minutes before settling on September 21 for Halburn’s sentencing.

Then Halburn and his entourage of lawyer and sugar mama shuffled out of the courthouse and to the parking lot.

Halburn and his party doing the walk of shame.

But before he left, Mr Environmental Consciousness dumped some trash from his car/pigpen into the parking lot before he pulled out.

Can you believe this guy? Who keeps their car this filthy?

Fatlock asking for a jury trial has bitten him in the ass appeal-wise. He fucked himself on this one.


Here is a little known fact of the legal system. Halburn chose a jury trial thinking he could trash his victim that much more or he chose a jury trial because no sane judge would believe any of his rants. Anyhow, if you have a bench trial with a judge, and you appeal, then you get an entire new trial at no expense.
Halburn lied about his “businesses” and other sources of income in order to get a court appointed lawyer for his criminal contempt trial so that wouldn’t have been any skin off his nose.
But if he wants to appeal a jury trial, he can only appeal on errors that may have arisen during the jury trial. He will not get a new trial, only an opinion from a judge about any errors. AND he must pay thousands in court costs for the appeal. That’s money he does not have.

We should not make fun of nor torment the mentally ill.
Mark Halburn is an exception because he is the kind of mentally ill that is not bad enough to be in an institution, not mild enough for him to seek effective treatment and irritating enough to his fellow countrymen to piss off just about everyone he interacts with. Halburn is a blowhard and a bully who uses his “intelligence” and gifts of literary skills to extort local businesses out of some semblance of an income. Anyone who encounters Halburn can pretty quickly figure out that his elevator does not quite go to the top floor, but most also see that he is more the kind to post slanderous things than take physical action.

We all watch the news, we all see events where mass trauma and murder have been committed by the mentally ill. People whom others knew were dangerous, but had not quite committed enough to get them either incarcerated or helped before they hurt and killed others. Mr Halburn appears to fit into that category of pathology. We never know when Mr Halburn is going to go the next step but we should all be prepared for the day that happens and take appropriate action when it does. But until then, lets hope Halburn learns from this experience, hope that Halburns new cell mates can help him see the error of his ways, hope that Halburn’s sugar mama/girlfriend/ fiance Barbara is a good influence on him and calms the demons inside him even though she empties bedpans for a living and seems as dim witted as Halburn.. God knows his two ex-wives were never able to do anything.

But anyone who interacts with him should also remember this statement from his court ordered mental evaluation:
“Mr. Halburn’s psychological profile and behavior would suggest that he has propensity for aggressive behavior. Given his degree of agitation and volatility, any threats made by Mr. Halburn should be taken seriously and dealt with appropriately.”

Mental illness often has patterns and cycles and Halburn’s now appears to be on the escalation phase.
In June, he was sentenced in Kanawha County to 6 months in jail for harassing WCHS Radio and the Mayor of Charleston. While awaiting this trial, he trespassed at a church camp and has a personal safety order from that incident which prevents him from seeing his own son. In the weeks after that, he visited several churches of the same denomination and left flyers on worshipers’ cars while they were attending church services.

Halburn will be sentenced on September 21 at 2:30pm. The State will ask for the maximum sentence of 90 days.

It would be better than jail for him to do the time in a mental hospital.
Actual incarceration isn’t going to fix his problem.
He needs to be involuntarily committed.

PutnamLIES.com will have more on this story as it becomes available

Read Dr. Matusic's story here:
http://www.babymd.net/stalker.html

New Trial Date

The new trial date has been set for Mark Vance Halburn’s violation of a personal protective order for stalking Charleston Pediatrician Joseph Matusic, his wife and daughters.

The new date and time is August 31 at 9:00 AM in Putnam County before Magistrate Linda Hunt.
Halburn faces a penalty of not less than ninety days nor more than one year in jail or fined not less than two thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or both.
Halburn has requested a jury trial.

PutnamLIES.com and the Trash Bloggers Alliance will be sending correspondents.

The public is invited and urged to attend.

Halburn was convicted in Kanawha County on June 8 for telephone harassment and sentenced to six months in jail for those shenanigans.

HALBURN ARRESTED IN DUNBAR!!!

Mark Vance Halburn was arrested again today, exactly a year after he was jailed for contempt of court and spent 24 hrs in jail because he couldn’t pay $250

The story behind the story:

Halburn was caught on Charles Ave. in Dunbar, on Father's Day, close to midnight, going 39 in a 25 zone.
He got a second ticket for an unsigned registration card. The only reason that the second ticket was given was that he went off on the officer after getting the speeding ticket. He not only got the original cop involved but his shift commander as well when he threw his tantrum.
He demanded they call the Chief and also demanded that all speed limits be done away with after 11: 00 pm. since there is not much traffic.
He also wants the city to make a new law that contractors not be able to start work until after 9:00 am so he can sleep. 

On Wednesday, Halburn went to Dunbar City Hall to argue about the traffic ticket. He went to the
municipal court clerk’s office  where he became "very loud and demanding,” about about a sign in the hallway.
Halburn apparently was upset because he mistakenly walked upstairs to pay for his ticket and that the sign was wrong. He was told by the clerk if he wanted a hearing on the matter that he would have to come back to court at 5 p.m. on July 1.
Halburn continued to argue about the ticket and got louder and louder, causing the clerk to get worried and use a panic alarm.
At that point Dunbar Capt. Scott Elliott was summoned to City Hall. Mayor Terry Greenlee told Halburn to quiet down or leave. Jess Bailes, the Dunbar police chief, asked Halburn to step out of the office, but Halburn refused. At that point, Bailes and Elliott escorted Halburn out of the office.

Halburn was charged with disrupting a government process. He was free on bond Wednesday night.
It's unknown if the sign at City Hall said, "Use the other entrance."  

As two different court ordered mental evaluations stated :
"His psychological profile and behavior would suggest that he has propensity for aggressive behavior. Given his degree of agitation and volatility, any threats made by him should be taken seriously and dealt with appropriately."

and 

"His arrests follow the pattern clearly seen by the mental health professionals: he generates needless conflict and then overreacts when his bullying tactics are resisted."

The publisher of a Putnam County news website was arrested after allegedly being disruptive in the Dunbar court clerk’s office.
Mark Vance Halburn, 52, of 21st Street in Dunbar, was taken into custody Wednesday in Dunbar City Hall.
Dunbar Capt. Scott Elliott was dispatched to City Hall for a panic alarm. When he arrived, he found Halburn in the municipal court clerk’s office “being very loud and demanding” about a sign in the hallway, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.
Halburn told the clerk the sign was wrong and that he had walked upstairs because of it, according to the complaint. Halburn was at the court to pay a fine for an unknown offense.
The clerk then told him if he wanted a hearing on the matter that he would have to come back to court at 5 p.m. on July 1.
The clerk told police that Halburn continued to argue about the ticket and got louder and louder, causing the clerk to get worried and use the panic alarm, the complaint said.
Elliott wrote that Mayor Terry Greenlee had told Halburn to quiet down or leave. Jess Bailes, city police chief, asked Halburn to step out of the office, but Halburn refused. Bailes and Elliott escorted Halburn out of the office.
Halburn was charged with disrupting a government process. He was free on bond Wednesday night.
- See more at: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/article/20140625/DM02/140629491/1277#sthash.VvWd8480.dpuf

The publisher of a Putnam County news website was arrested after allegedly being disruptive in the Dunbar court clerk’s office.
Mark Vance Halburn, 52, of 21st Street in Dunbar, was taken into custody Wednesday in Dunbar City Hall.
Dunbar Capt. Scott Elliott was dispatched to City Hall for a panic alarm. When he arrived, he found Halburn in the municipal court clerk’s office “being very loud and demanding” about a sign in the hallway, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.
Halburn told the clerk the sign was wrong and that he had walked upstairs because of it, according to the complaint. Halburn was at the court to pay a fine for an unknown offense.
The clerk then told him if he wanted a hearing on the matter that he would have to come back to court at 5 p.m. on July 1.
The clerk told police that Halburn continued to argue about the ticket and got louder and louder, causing the clerk to get worried and use the panic alarm, the complaint said.
Elliott wrote that Mayor Terry Greenlee had told Halburn to quiet down or leave. Jess Bailes, city police chief, asked Halburn to step out of the office, but Halburn refused. Bailes and Elliott escorted Halburn out of the office.
Halburn was charged with disrupting a government process. He was free on bond Wednesday night.
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The publisher of a Putnam County news website was arrested after allegedly being disruptive in the Dunbar court clerk’s office.
Mark Vance Halburn, 52, of 21st Street in Dunbar, was taken into custody Wednesday in Dunbar City Hall.
Dunbar Capt. Scott Elliott was dispatched to City Hall for a panic alarm. When he arrived, he found Halburn in the municipal court clerk’s office “being very loud and demanding” about a sign in the hallway, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.
Halburn told the clerk the sign was wrong and that he had walked upstairs because of it, according to the complaint. Halburn was at the court to pay a fine for an unknown offense.
The clerk then told him if he wanted a hearing on the matter that he would have to come back to court at 5 p.m. on July 1.
The clerk told police that Halburn continued to argue about the ticket and got louder and louder, causing the clerk to get worried and use the panic alarm, the complaint said.
Elliott wrote that Mayor Terry Greenlee had told Halburn to quiet down or leave. Jess Bailes, city police chief, asked Halburn to step out of the office, but Halburn refused. Bailes and Elliott escorted Halburn out of the office.
Halburn was charged with disrupting a government process. He was free on bond Wednesday night.
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Walmart Neighbor Wants Out Of Marriage

HALBURN'S WIFE FILES FOR DIVORCE.
Mark Halburn says he'll shut down his blog and move.

Tired of the constant whining, the public embarrassment, the arrests, and the verbal humiliation, one neighbor of the Hurricane supercenter wants out of her marriage.

Mark Vance Halburn's wife filed for divorce on November 1 and a copy of the deed to her house was attached to the complaint. We hope Mrs. Halburn has a lawyer. You know he'll try and bully her into submission to get as much as he can.



Our Topix correspondent, sent along the following tidbit yesterday, posted there Monday night by none other than Mark Halburn, posing as "Newsguy Mark", under the heading of "Hallburns are divorcing".

Halburn writes,
"Before someone else announces it, I'm posting it here. All good things must come to an end, it seems. Tired of the Putnam County harassment, I am moving south. No adultery was committed. No more details, it's none of anybody's business. Show some class and leave it alone."

Well, that's not going to happen, fuckhead. No one's ever accused us of having any class, so let's just get right to it.

You say you're tired of the Putnam County harassment? And you're moving south? Great. We're tired of it too.
Have you already picked out someone new to harass down there? You should get in shape so it won't make you so tired this time.

Where are going to live? You have NO money. You should've thought this through before you once again tried your little sympathy kick. Or did you find a desperate semi-barren old maid on the internet to support you? Maybe someday you can buy YOUR third wife some cheap Chinese shoes.

And why even say "No adultery was committed" out of the blue? What brought that up?
You might as well have said "There is no taco salad" and it would have made as much sense.

Adultery? Hah! You haven't seen your cock in years.
How about mental cruelty?
We've seen how you treat women. We've seen how you bully and belittle people. Could it have been any different for your poor wife behind closed doors?

We can see that being prohibited from taking your child to the park can be a real marital strain. We can see getting fired (again) (you claim you quit, which would be even worse in this economy) from another job with benefits after only six months would cause problems. We can see that being publicly shamed for your behavior at the doctor's office might put a chill on things. The non-stop ranting and raving about trivial matters and all of your other juvenile behavior. It's cumulative. It takes a toll.
Maybe it was when you weren't at home in the evenings and things were so much nicer. Quiet. No chaos or drama. Reality finally strikes.

Looks like she finally reached her limit with you. After 13 years of your joblessness and being an impediment to life, she'd had enough.
She was totally taken in by you, which is how you sociopaths operate, which probably makes her all the more angry.

But on the other hand you've acted this way since you were married. She's seen how you behaved and saw how you were treated like a pariah and she went along with it, either by choice or by force.

PutnamLIES.com knew something was up a couple of months ago. He changed his Facebook status from "Married to DMH" to just "Married". Then she appeared to have defriended him on Facebook, plus his sister, his nieces and nephews ... all of them.

What's he going to do now? Change his status to "single" or "it's complicated"?

Then he goes on to say:

"I don't publish divorces on Putnum LIVE dot com. I am sure PutnamLIES will slime themselves some more by publishing it. Papers were supposed to be filed today. It's in the lawyer's hands.

I'm releasing the news here because I wanted SOME control over the inevitable publicity.

My plans are to move south and sell the news web site. I've already picked out a house that I will buy once the current one is sold.

The prospective new owner of Putnam LIVE dot com is a hard-hitting journalist that will give the bad guys that run this county nightmares that will surpass ANYTHING that I have done. The bastards will get what they deserve!"

You don't publish them but you've had plenty of snide comments to make about other people's divorces.
Believe me, assmunch, as soon as we get the papers we'll publish them.

You wanted to "release" this on the trailer park of the internet. How appropriate for you since you're lower than trailer trash.
Funny though that you didn't announce it on PutnumLive or Facebook. I guess you wanted someplace that more than 29 people would see. That sure will happen here.

You don't even have a claim on the house, asshole. Property acquired before marriage is not a marital asset. And, your name was never on the deed, as you insisted in pointing out at least five times in your deposition. Plus, your mother-in-law has an interest in the house as half owner. At most, all you'd be entitled to is 25% of the profits.

So, unless your second wife is so desperate to get away from you that she'd sell it for whatever she could get out of it and GIVE you some of it, all she owes you is a kick in your flabby ass as she sends you out the door, while she, her son and her Mother continue to live there. It'll be a lot more tolerable with you gone.

She's always been your meal ticket.
She works, cleans, cooks, takes care of the kid and she and her mother own the house. You can't hold a job because of your personality disorder. How are you going to survive in the real world without someone providing for you and wiping your ass?

It's about time she stopped putting up with your shit.

And then there's the son. The little boy that you've polluted and warped with your negative attitude. The only one that's truly innocent in this whole sordid mess.

Without you in the picture though, there's still hope for him. He's what 4? Get him away from you and he ought to smooth out in a few years. He has plenty of time. He'll forget a lot, because your broke ass won't come around often.He'll have a chance to start over if she drops the last name and moves to Kanawha County. If she's smart she'll petition the court to change the kid's name to give him a fighting chance. Going through life with the last name of Halburn would be like being the son of Charles Manson.You know you'll be a deadbeat dad. Collecting child support from you is going to be like pulling teeth.

God love her for giving that kid a chance. I hope she cuts all ties with you.

Then there's the house. Always the house.
That house isn't going to sell unless your second ex-wife accepts reality and puts a realistic price on it. $299,900 ain't going to do it. Reduced price? By $100? Please.

And then you bring up the Scott Edwards offer. But you never tell the truth about that.
The offer was the pre-Walmart appraisal of $149,000 plus 10%. That works out to about $164,000. You should have taken it. 100% of nothing is nothing. Which is what you have now.

Nobody wants your piece of shit opinion blog. The only thing that is worth a dime is the domain name and that's not worth much. The name is damaged goods.

Who are you going to sell it to? That hard hitting investigative reporter Jay Smith? Let him be the next one banned from everywhere. He already has the trespassing conviction to go along with it.

You know the really sweet thing? You're getting exactly what YOU deserve, you fat bastard. In public. The only thing better will be the day you pack up and leave town.

Adios, motherfucker.

As always, we invite Halburn to tell his side of the story or correct any inaccuracies, if he has the guts to.

PutnamLIES.com will have more as it becomes available.

UPDATE: 11/06
Here's the announcement as it appeared in the Sunday Gazette Mail.

Do I Get To Make An Opening Statement?

PutnamLIES.com's legal correspondent was present in court for Halburn's trespassing appeal.
We thought we'd recap some of the exchanges between Judge Kaufman and Halburn to demonstrate Halburn's legal brilliance.

Halburn (to Deputy Vernon): Why did you have your firearm when there's a sign that says no firearms?
Kaufman: What does that have to do with anything?
Halburn: Apparently he was breaking the law.
Prosecutor: He's authorized. He's a law enforcement officer.
Halburn: Is there an exclusion?
Kaufman: It doesn't matter! It's irrelevant!


Kaufman: Ever been to this pool before?
Halburn: No. I don't live in Kanawha County.



Kaufman: But you've been to other public pools?
Halburn: I've been to other public pools.

You've been to other public pools all right. The visit usually involves you leaving in handcuffs.

Kaufman: Hot August day. How many people would you say, in the middle of the afternoon, on a Saturday in August, were in the pool?

Halburn: A half dozen or more.
Kaufman: A half dozen or more on a Saturday afternoon in August. In a place you knew was a public pool. No manager, no employees, Any cars?
Halburn: There were several.

It's a 90 degree day in August (warm, you call it), yet there were no patrons at the pool. Didn't that seem a little odd to you, asswipe? Like you're the only one with the idea to go swimming.


Kaufman: Let me get back to the trespassing thing
Halburn: There was no trespass!



Kaufman: He made all that up? Nothing the sheriff said was true because he was so upset that you caught him swimming?
Halburn: I didn't catch him swimming. I walked in there to swim in a public pool with a sign that invited me in. I wasn't trying to catch anybody.
Kaufman: How can that make anyone upset unless they were nude swimming with another guy or another girl?


Kaufman: If my memory serves me most public pools are closed that last week in August because the lifeguards go back to school.


Kaufman: Why is it that you feel you had a right or some entitlement to ask them anything- the people that were swimming?
Halburn: I thought there were people swimming in the pool.
Kaufman: There were people swimming in that pool but it was none of your concern.


Kaufman: You've got this in a picture in your mind that's very favorable to yourself that you weren't doing anything wrong.
Halburn: I wasn't.
Kaufman: That's what you think.
Halburn: That's what I know.

That's right, Pee Wee Herman, argue with the judge. That'll get you real far.




Halburn: Had that sign not been posted I would not have gone in the pool.
Kaufman: Don't you think that this is for people who pay or have a right to go in there?
Kaufman: This is not trespassing because the sign said to go around?
Halburn: The sign says enter through the gate.
Kaufman: The gate was open & you didn't pay any money, and someone was in the pool?
Halburn: I also didn't go swimming.
Kaufman: You weren't cited for swimming.


Kaufman: He didn't look like he was there to give directions to the public did he? Honestly?
Halburn: He didn't look like an officer. He had no identification. I had no idea until he put the cuffs on me. He looked like a civilian. I thought he was joking with me.

It's all fun and games until someone gets handcuffed.
At this point I think the judge had enough and started fucking with Halburn.

Kaufman: Was he under water or above water when you asked him?Halburn: He was underwater when I first approached him and he popped up and he was above when I asked him. I didn't ask him where the manager was so I could pay, I asked him where the manager was and I would ask the manager where to pay.Kaufman: Had he taken a breath when you asked him?Halburn: I don't recall how many breaths. He appeared to have taken a breath.Kaufman: He caught one breath on his way up?Halburn: I don't know.
Kaufman: Was he in good shape, this fella?
Halburn: He appeared to... a lot of people are in shape that aren't deputies.
Kaufman: I mean he was in phenomenal shape, wasn't he?
Halburn: I wouldn't say phenomenal, but I'm not a physical fitness expert.



Halburn: He had no identification.
Kaufman: Of course he didn't, underwater?
Halburn: On his wetsuit, no identification.
Kaufman: He had a wet suit on. That should be enough.
Halburn: I've seen people swim in public pools in wetsuits.
Kaufman: 6 of 'em on an August day?




Halburn: I can see where this is going.

So do we.
Guilty.
Again.
Halburn must read Bartlett's on a regular basis. How else could he demonstrate two adages at once. "A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client." and "It is better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

He's too cheap to hire a lawyer and too stupid to keep his mouth closed.