🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

[Ruin]

I have no doubt he heavily downplays his criminal history. Most conservatives are law and order types, and constantly complaining about "Negroes" committing crimes while having an extensive criminal record would make him look like a tool.

 

[DrJonesHat]

Where to start?

Compare the two searches. The star-spangled brony has done a search for driving records -- clearly stated at the top of the search -- and then gloats that all of the results are for driving records. What a surprise. (It's possible that SearchQuarry is returning all public records no matter what search parameters are entered; I'll check some other sources.)

From AJM: "After further research, this is nothing more then records to the state about personal identification, license tabs, and various vehicle updates. The family apparently uses his name. Nothing here is crime related."

I'll run a LexisNexis search later, but I find it hard to believe that Mr. Sweet's entire family is registering all of their vehicles in his name. Seems an odd thing to do when you consider that he's not allowed to handle the money he receives from what he calls his "small government stipend." Vehicle inspection stickers, registration stickers and license plate tag documents are all entered in the name of the person who holds the vehicle's title; does anyone believe that Mr. Sweet's entire family lets him hold the titles to -- and the ability to sell -- their rides.

Mr. Sweet has admitted to being arrested, booked into jail, tried, convicted and sentenced in the attempted-skull-crushing "domestic disturbance" involving his brother. He has also admitted to being visited in Blytheville by police officers from Arkansas State University. He also admits to making terroristic threats and "conspiring to have carnal knowledge of a minor." I wonder which "driving record" or "vehicle update" covers those events. And according to the Jonesboro Police Department, he currently has or at one time had two outstanding warrants for failure to appear in court. Maybe he was caught jaywalking a couple of times. And why does Mr. Sweet, who doesn't drive, have "driving records" in a county where he doesn't live?


This Doubting Brony is either willfully blind to the numerous crimes to which Mr. Sweet has confessed or he one of Mr. Sweet's sockpuppets.

More to come.

Good points all Herr Doktor. A lot of these open-to-the-public criminal record websites are inaccurate, or outdated. I am curious as to why Sweet's warrants in Craighead County aren't listed on the Arkansas Court Records website. As you suggested, the original charge he failed to appear for was probably related to his ongoing harassment of ASU faculty or he actually got his delusional ass out there and got caught.

 

[Le Bateleur]

Confirmed that Sweet filled out blank cheques from his own bank account.

Dr. Belch: No money. My brother learned how to forge my signature, stole my checks, and drained my bank account.
***
Dr. Belch: I had a strongbox filled with checks. He snuck into my room and stole it, thinking it was full of cash, then took it somewhere to pry off the lid. He was caught and sent to jail. The checks were useless to him then...
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Dr. Belch: but after a couple more stints he learned a few new tricks. I got new checks and a new hiding place. He found it and made off with them.
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Dr. Belch: So in answer to your question, I don't know, okay? There are rules. I've learned you don't question the rules. No, these were ordinary blank checks, drawn on my bank account. I had a small nest-egg socked away. He cracked it.

So...

It seems that Sweet initially had a normal chequebook that his brother stole, and used to rob from Sweet's bank account by forging his signature.

According to Sweet, this led to his brother being arrested and jailed. After his brother was released, he again stole Sweet's cheques and fraudulently withdrew money. (At this point, to preempt much pointing and many cries of nuh-nuh-NUH from Sweet Bro, I will explicitly indicate that I feel his brother was very much in the wrong for committing these crimes.)

It was apparently at this point that Sweet decided that he would start to fill in the signature on the cheques, whilst leaving the amount blank - thus making it far simpler for any would-be thief (such as the repeat offender who lived in the same house as Sweet) to steal his money.

 

[DrJonesHat]

I read the shoutbox transcript, and Sweet's responses don't even make sense. He's hiding a lot, and I suspect he's got a lot of skeletons in the closet that will come out due to his tendency to overshare.

 

[JU 199]

The current situation summed up visually-

 

[sonichuis44]

Confirmed that Sweet filled out blank cheques from his own bank account.



So...

It seems that Sweet initially had a normal chequebook that his brother stole, and used to rob from Sweet's bank account by forging his signature.

According to Sweet, this led to his brother being arrested and jailed. After his brother was released, he again stole Sweet's cheques and fraudulently withdrew money. (At this point, to preempt much pointing and many cries of nuh-nuh-NUH from Sweet Bro, I will explicitly indicate that I feel his brother was very much in the wrong for committing these crimes.)

It was apparently at this point that Sweet decided that he would start to fill in the signature on the cheques, whilst leaving the amount blank - thus making it far simpler for any would-be thief (such as the repeat offender who lived in the same house as Sweet) to steal his money.

Not to argue with you, but where in that transcript does he say he signed his blank checks? Or are you synthesizing this with his earlier statements?

 

[AJMLurker]

The AJM STUDIOS name is being dragged through the muck here and the AJM'ers only have themselves to blame. This whole situation could of been easily handled if the AJM'ers actually made an effort to communicate with you guys, but nope, they had to hide while they let Sweetness do the speaking for the forum.

I've been with AJM for awhile and I'm seeing a lot of harsh things being said about the forum here, but I'm not gonna waste my breath defending them. There is not a damn thing I can say to sway your guys' current opinion of them and I understand why you guys have such a horrible opinion of them. If the AJM'ers want to fix this relationship, they need to stop hiding and have the cojones to come here and open up dialogue with you guys like me and Treenbeen have. Me and Treenbeen don't represent the forum, we're just members who saw Sweet for what he is and decided to join the discussion here. Yes, this is being directed at the AJM staff.

Sweet doesn't even need to be banned, they simply need to start holding him accountable for his behavior. If Sweet starts saying his stupid crap, he needs to be called out. It doesn't work when two members are the only ones calling him out on his behavior and the others are busy hugboxing him. Sorry AJM community, but the Kiwis are here and you need to deal with them instead of viewing them as pests.

 

[Holdek]

The good Dr M may have his own response, but my rebuttal is below:

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That one particular website may have been a red herring, but I think it's been established beyond reasonable doubt that:

a) Jonathan Mack Sweet aka Dr. Belch aka @The_Iconoclast has been arrested and booked at least once for failure to appear - on 20th January 2014.
b) As implied by the above, he has been summonsed to at least one court date - to which he evidently failed to appear.

Thanks, info cross-posted to AJM.

Confirmed that Sweet filled out blank cheques from his own bank account.



So...

It seems that Sweet initially had a normal chequebook that his brother stole, and used to rob from Sweet's bank account by forging his signature.

According to Sweet, this led to his brother being arrested and jailed. After his brother was released, he again stole Sweet's cheques and fraudulently withdrew money. (At this point, to preempt much pointing and many cries of nuh-nuh-NUH from Sweet Bro, I will explicitly indicate that I feel his brother was very much in the wrong for committing these crimes.)

It was apparently at this point that Sweet decided that he would start to fill in the signature on the cheques, whilst leaving the amount blank - thus making it far simpler for any would-be thief (such as the repeat offender who lived in the same house as Sweet) to steal his money.

Eh, the way I read his statement, he may be using the term "blank check" in a confusing way. He says "ordinary blank check" so he may mean "ordinary check not filled out with anything," whereas in non-man-child jargon "blank check" actually means a check that is blank except for the signature.

To take what he says at face-value would mean that after he had his checks stolen, but was protected specifically due to a lack of signature, he then decided to start signing blank checks. I mean that's basically like leaving your keys in your ignition after your car had been broken into but the thief was unable to drive it away because they didn't have any keys. That's mind-bogglingly stupid, even for Sweet (I hope!).

 

[Holdek]

So this is kind of old and has been posted before in, I believe, incomplete form, but at one point Sweet tried to join PVCC to troll Chris-Chan and instead someone from there drew this. Needless to say he didn't like it:

Spoiler: #1, with a special appearance by Rush Limbaugh

Spoiler: #2

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

The good Dr M may have his own response, but my rebuttal is below:

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That one particular website may have been a red herring, but I think it's been established beyond reasonable doubt that:

a) Jonathan Mack Sweet aka Dr. Belch aka @The_Iconoclast has been arrested and booked at least once for failure to appear - on 20th January 2014.
b) As implied by the above, he has been summonsed to at least one court date - to which he evidently failed to appear.

Sweet! (So to speak.)

But that document might be too complicated for some of them to understand.

After all, on their very own site, Mr. Sweet wrote the following: "In the law's eyes, I am guilty of copyright infringement, terroristic threatening (I didn't take being let go well and I said some regrettable things) and conspiracy to commit carnal knowledge of a minor (a separate incident that haunts me to this day)."

That is Jonathan M. Sweet in his very own words on their very own forum. What more do they want?

The bronies can also go to this web page maintained by the Jonesboro Police Department and click on the "Check Warrants" link. They will find two warrants issued for Jonathan Mack Sweet for failure to appear. It is not clear if the warrants are current. But the bronies should be able to figure out that arrest warrants are not being issued because Mr. Sweet (who does not hold the titles on all -- or even any -- of his relatives' cars) is the owner of some vehicle that was pulled over in Jonesboro because of an out-of-date sticker on the license plate.

In fact, two warrants would seem to indicate that Mr. Sweet decided to skip two court appearances for two separate offenses, although some kind of data-entry error isn't impossible. It would be nice if he'd confess to what he was doing in Jonesboro that led to court dates and arrest warrants. But maybe he doesn't want to scare off the teenagers he's hanging with.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

Yep. See, whatcha have here, barring error and me messing up the math, is at least four run-ins with the law. That makes up fully half of the number of priors we've seen. It's not so far-fetched.

 

[Holdek]

Sweet! (So to speak.)

But that document might be too complicated for some of them to understand.

After all, on their very own site, Mr. Sweet wrote the following: "In the law's eyes, I am guilty of copyright infringement, terroristic threatening (I didn't take being let go well and I said some regrettable things) and conspiracy to commit carnal knowledge of a minor (a separate incident that haunts me to this day)."

That is Jonathan M. Sweet in his very own words on their very own forum. What more do they want?

The bronies can also go to this web page maintained by the Jonesboro Police Department and click on the "Check Warrants" link. They will find two warrants issued for Jonathan Mack Sweet for failure to appear. It is not clear if the warrants are current. But the bronies should be able to figure out that arrest warrants are not being issued because Mr. Sweet (who does not hold the titles on all -- or even any -- of his relatives' cars) is the owner of some vehicle that was pulled over in Jonesboro because of an out-of-date sticker on the license plate.

In fact, two warrants would seem to indicate that Mr. Sweet decided to skip two court appearances for two separate offenses, although some kind of data-entry error isn't impossible. It would be nice if he'd confess to what he was doing in Jonesboro that led to court dates and arrest warrants. But maybe he doesn't want to scare off the teenagers he's hanging with.

Well done.

I have also posted a link to this warrant list on AJM.

This way they can see with their own eyes.

By the by, I just wanted to make sure all the Ps and Qs were checked in terms of the criminal allegations raised here. I hadn't looked at them too closely. But we Kiwis pride ourselves in the integrity of our research, so I wanted to make these doubts were addressed. You and @Absinthe have risen to the occasion and conducted yourselves with aplomb.

 

[Le Bateleur]

Not to argue with you, but where in that transcript does he say he signed his blank checks? Or are you synthesizing this with his earlier statements?

Eh, the way I read his statement, he may be using the term "blank check" in a confusing way. He says "ordinary blank check" so he may mean "ordinary check not filled out with anything," whereas in non-man-child jargon "blank check" actually means a check that is blank except for the signature.

To take what he says at face-value would mean that after he had his checks stolen, but was protected specifically due to a lack of signature, he then decided to start signing blank checks. I mean that's basically like leaving your keys in your ignition after your car had been broken into but the thief was unable to drive it away because they didn't have any keys. That's mind-bogglingly stupid, even for Sweet (I hope!).

I was basing my conclusion on this line: "these were ordinary blank checks, drawn on my bank account".

My interpretation of "drawn" was that they were drawn by Sweet, and subsequently stolen by his brother. This, to me, would suggest that Sweet took some action to "draw" the cheques, as opposed to leaving them completely unfilled - and I presumed this could be him making them out to cash and signing them.

Having re-read the transcript, it could well be that Sweet's use of "drawn" refers to the point in time when his brother used the forged cheques to draw money from Sweet's bank account. Alternately, Sweet could be using the terms "blank check" and "drawn" in a nonstandard fashion, as @Holdek suggests.

There's something off about the whole exchange. Sweet was being very guarded - and at other points in the shoutbox discussions he was outright dishonest, such as when he insisted his brother (who was not living with him) forbade Sweet to have a mobile phone, before eventually admitting that he didn't have a phone because he doesn't understand how to use one.

 

[Ti-99/4A]

Failure to Appear ain't no joke, at least not around here. They tend to upgrade your charges if you do that.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

There's something off about the whole exchange. Sweet was being very guarded - and at other points in the shoutbox discussions he was outright dishonest, such as when he insisted his brother (who was not living with him) forbade Sweet to have a mobile phone, before eventually admitting that he didn't have a phone because he doesn't understand how to use one.

Indeed:

Dr. Belch: So in answer to your question, I don't know, okay? There are rules. I've learned you don't question the rules. No, these were ordinary blank checks, drawn on my bank account. I had a small nest-egg socked away. He cracked it.

This entire post makes no sense. The most glaring oddity was already questioned by Kiwi's months ago: Why exactly, if Sweet was a victim of fraud, didn't he simply contact the bank and tell them that he had not written those checks (or that his credit card had been stolen)? The conclusion one could logically draw would be that Sweet's money got stolen, aaaaaaand - nothing was done about it. Que?

The Jonsense that I find really intriguing, however, is " I don't know, okay? There are rules. I've learned you don't question the rules. " Okay, now, wait just a hairy, pervy minute.... Jon Sweet has been burdened for quite some time with the woefully misguided conviction that he is clever and observant. Whenever he thinks he's got something figured out, he won't shut up about it, no matter how ill-conceived, utterly unsubstantiated, or plainly absurd his claims are. Yak yak yak yak blah blah blah blah, the guy is an utter expert on everything about The System, the Liberals, and the Rules .... until you push him so far as to explain the reasoning behind actual, real-life events that happened to him, and why he folded as completely as he did to the forces against him. Then, all of a sudden, the Opposable Dr. Belch has "learned you don't question the rules," nor do you identify exactly who makes or enforces them, apparently.

 

[sonichuis44]

I was basing my conclusion on this line: "these were ordinary blank checks, drawn on my bank account".

My interpretation of "drawn" was that they were drawn by Sweet, and subsequently stolen by his brother. This, to me, would suggest that Sweet took some action to "draw" the cheques, as opposed to leaving them completely unfilled - and I presumed this could be him making them out to cash and signing them.

Having re-read the transcript, it could well be that Sweet's use of "drawn" refers to the point in time when his brother used the forged cheques to draw money from Sweet's bank account. Alternately, Sweet could be using the terms "blank check" and "drawn" in a nonstandard fashion, as @Holdek suggests.

There's something off about the whole exchange. Sweet was being very guarded - and at other points in the shoutbox discussions he was outright dishonest, such as when he insisted his brother (who was not living with him) forbade Sweet to have a mobile phone, before eventually admitting that he didn't have a phone because he doesn't understand how to use one.

I see. I interpreted "blank check" to mean completely blank, and "drawn on my bank account" to mean "that's where the money comes from," i.e. more poor English from TBBOCJ.

Although... Come to think of it, the checks being pre-signes would explain why he couldn't claim fraud and why the rules were an issue - apparently the liberal banking industry has rules about "keeping your checks secure" and "not signing them all and leaving them blank like a fucking moron" and rejected his fraud claim.

 

[MrsFrizzle]

I can imagine Mom Sweet pressuring Jonathan not to call the cops on his brother. That's not an unusual scenario.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

he expected his brother to be cowering and begging for mercy

As I said earlier, Sweet wanted to beat his brother into submission. Sweet not only obviously relished the thought of that, but he also didn't get that to happen - and he seemed bitter that his brother fought back instead.

 

[drtoboggan]

As I said earlier, Sweet wanted to beat his brother into submission. Sweet not only obviously relished the thought of that, but he also didn't get that to happen - and he seemed bitter that his brother fought back instead.

Funny how little bitches like him expect everyone to take their shit. Ike is too dumb to figure that out.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

As I said earlier, Sweet wanted to beat his brother into submission. Sweet not only obviously relished the thought of that, but he also didn't get that to happen - and he seemed bitter that his brother fought back instead.

Yeah, pretty pathetic. He got a lead pipe, and took toward his crazy, unarmed brother with a vision of Tim cowering before him, begging for mercy. Tim fought back and ripped the pipe from his hands. Good googly-moogly, wotta loser.