1998
Hazelwood West
Diploma year on her inventory. No school-issued PDF found.
01 · How I got here
The autobiography is a Comp I paper.
16 June 2016. College Composition I. Title on the draft: Here We Go Again. She had been out of the second federal stretch since November. One year clean that day. Employed. A student. Thank you — her words now — to the United States, to mental health court, and to prison twice. The charge sheet comes later on this scroll.
“The United States Marshall Service saved my life that day. Arresting me was the best thing that could have happened to me.”
“I am a college student. I can have fun without the influence of drugs and alcohol. I don’t have to break the law to feed an addiction.”
“If going back to prison is what it took to make me realize I am worth so much more, well then that is what was necessary.”
“I chose to change my life. I didn't lay down and die like this narrative tried to force me.”
“This isn't about money. It never was. This is about restorative rehabilitative justice and a success story (me).”
1980
first-person
Navy daughter
Born August 6, 1980, Bethesda Naval Hospital. Dual-Navy parents — mother RM3, father Hospital Corpsman. St. Louis after that. Legal names sealed. This is the start of the file, not a charge.
June 1998
inventory
Hazelwood West
Her credential inventory lists a Hazelwood West diploma, June 1998. Dual-column: the inventory vs. no school-issued diploma PDF in the connected archive.
1999–2011
first-person
Wage work, then the bounce
Denny's on Natural Bridge. Homestead Financial Mortgage in Maryland Heights, then job loss. The 2011 Hazelwood possession still sits open. That is a later page. This page is what she built after.
2012
first-person
Prison the first time
After fifty-plus bookings and a 2012 plea, federal time. FCI Waseca is in the care notebook. Her 2016 class paper calls it several years in the Bureau of Prisons — not military service. Close, she wrote, but not exactly.
2012–2013
inventory
Minnesota hours, then culinary
Century College on the inventory: vocational greenhouse 756 hours (October 2012), grounds and turf 592 hours (January 2013). Then STLCC Forest Park culinary under Chef Lemure, July 2013. Dual-column: hours and training named vs. no certificate PDFs found.
June 2015 – November 2015
first-person
Prison the second time
College Composition I paper, dated 16 June 2016: a month on the run, then the Marshals. Warrant for absconding from federal probation. Forty-seven violations, mostly dirty tests — she writes that she had not committed new crimes. Six months. Released November. Dual-column: her class paper vs. the sealed federal docket, which is not printed here.
16 June 2016
first-person
Here We Go Again — the autobiography
Written for College Composition I while ENG 101 was in progress. One year clean that day. Employed full-time seven months. Zero probation violations in those seven months. Early-release from probation in sight. A relationship with family, with God, with herself. Sister wrote from the outside: you are valuable and irreplaceable. Father said grow up. She credits the United States Marshals with saving her life. Three days before they found her she had been brought back with Narcan — the fourth time. The paper is her words. Family legal names stay off this page.
Spring 2016
unofficial
The 4.0 term
Unofficial student-center screenshot: term GPA 4.000, 9.00 hours. HUM 101 A, PSY 200 A, ANT 102 A. ENG 101 and HMS 100 in progress — the Comp I paper is that English class. Dual-column: the screenshot vs. no official registrar PDF. Student ID withheld.
after
inventory
What the government and the court made room for
AAS Human Services about 60 percent. Paralegal about 25 percent. Phi Theta Kappa, Dean's List, Next Step scholarship — named on her inventory. Missouri Family Care Registry, March 2017. Relias 27.75 credits (aggregate only). Workforce stack: MWA, HTE, TWAA. Federal probation's notebook names a mental-health-court officer. She says thank you to the United States, to mental health court, and to prison twice. Dual-column: her inventory and the 2016 paper vs. still no school-issued diploma PDF.
the work
inventory
Jobs the rap sheet does not print
KL Management. DialAmerica. Primax / Thermoview. Homestead Financial Mortgage. Old Standard Fried Chicken. Pisa Group. Preferred Family HealthCare. Bridgeway. STLmadewithlove, 2023–25. Charity Case Initiative. Touch the Streets. Then this site: Silent No More 314. The commercial report has a column for charges. It does not have a column for this.
2019–2026
public
The record still open — after the change
She did the education. She did the clean time. Case 20SL-CR00805, Maryland Heights, November 2019, is still NOT DISPOSED. That is why the notices went on the wall. The story does not start there. It arrives there.