My question involves a speeding ticket from the State of: Washington State
I was given a speeding ticket by the swinomish tribe in Anacortes on 3/18/2011.
If you have ever been to the casino you know how to get to oak harbor and how to get to burlington from entering and exiting and doing the loop around to the gas station.
So around 12 at night coming back from oak harbor I thought the casinos gas station would be open to get cheaper gas. I saw police had someone pulled over on E. Casino drive and went to fill up only to see I was one in twelve cars wondering the same thing why was the station closed. On my way back up the hill i stalled 2 times and pulling past a police car. They pulled 15 feet ahead and turned on there lights when i was already stopped.
I told them my trouble and I asked them if they where WSP or the sheriff. They moved to the next question of proof of insurance and took my id and went back to there car returning with a speeding ticket 51 in a 30 mph zone. I told my trouble again and they said well you should have told us we would have delt with it in another way. I felt I was on the show of super troopers. Here is the thing on the ticket in two places it says 5/18/2011. It also says I was paced by definition they have to be behind you.
So as soon as they got back in there car a few seconds later they had someone else pulled over. It took me a few minutes to get my car started and got to the crest of the bridge and ran out of gas. So sitting in my car watching them pull everyone over going up and down that road i counted 13 cars. Finally an elderly couple of Canadians pulled over and we went to get gas in Mt. Vernon's Am PM/Walmart. They said we are going home and never coming back to that casino again after being also harrassed as well. Keep in mind the Tulip tribe a time ago was doing this to people on I-5 not so long ago.
When I asked for discovery they said it was ambigious I even asked for such a thing and when discovery came I saw they sent me an SMD report why? They where parked a quarter mile ahead of me in the opposite direction. And the ticket says Paced.
On the ticket it says 0006 or 12:06 and on the notes from the cop it says the right hour and right date 3/18/2011. So this proves he wrote it up the moment I asked for discovery. And in the comments it says "I was sorry for speeding".
I am presuming. Skagit County prints these tickets out for the tribe and on the top and bottom it shows 2 check boxes in if the infraction was on tribal land or in skagit county.
I asked again for pre trial discovery and they gave me the same run around they said they are a Soverign Nation and the other run around's and said this will go in your file. They do not abide under Washington State Law.
Just wanted to put this out there and think if I dont show up to court they will send it to a collections agency. June 9th at 9 am is the court date.
Any Ideas?

