Alright, I'll get right into it: My brother (half brother anyway) has been living with my mother, stepfather and their 7 year old for the past several months. He is a convicted felon and has recently started re-using meth.
Yesterday he started destroying property and was kicked out, however, later that night he got back into the house and took some money (it was his that my mother was saving for him) and a power-washer (not his) to pawn, and spent the night.
The police were called in the morning and he was escorted out and that was it, and when my mother asked about a restraining order, the officer said that she couldn't get one with the way things currently are. since then he has called saying that he hopes she dies and that sort of thing. Not directly threatening, but not far off either.
I may go over there to stay with them in case he returns, but I need to know what level of retaliation is legal should he come back and start breaking stuff. Would mace be going too far? I know gun=bad idea unless your life is on the line, but I don't know how the use of non-lethal things goes.
Although in the end, I'd rather not confront someone who is high and strung-out on meth.
I'm sure that this will turn out to be a non-event as things usually do, but it never hurts to prepare for the worst.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Yesterday he started destroying property and was kicked out, however, later that night he got back into the house and took some money (it was his that my mother was saving for him) and a power-washer (not his) to pawn, and spent the night.
The police were called in the morning and he was escorted out and that was it, and when my mother asked about a restraining order, the officer said that she couldn't get one with the way things currently are. since then he has called saying that he hopes she dies and that sort of thing. Not directly threatening, but not far off either.
I may go over there to stay with them in case he returns, but I need to know what level of retaliation is legal should he come back and start breaking stuff. Would mace be going too far? I know gun=bad idea unless your life is on the line, but I don't know how the use of non-lethal things goes.
Although in the end, I'd rather not confront someone who is high and strung-out on meth.
I'm sure that this will turn out to be a non-event as things usually do, but it never hurts to prepare for the worst.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.