Galveston business owners accuse city marshal of citing them for violating ordinances that don't exist

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'I won't lie to you, I'm afraid.

"I went to court on the pretrial date, described what happened to the prosecutor, and he immediately dismissed the ticket," he said."The bigger problem is not the citations because those you can go fight," Dagnon said. "But it's when he shows up and storms in here with his hand on his gun, and he tells your employees they have to do this or they have to do that.""That's false.

"Literally him coming up, positioning his hand on his gun. He's got a bulletproof vest on. It's intimidating, and he's threatened me specifically. I have this documented as he will come every day and ticket me for the exact same thing," said Tiffany Gibson, co-owner of Beach'in Rides."We are following the laws. We are following the ordinances, we read the ordinances. I know what's there.

"He didn't have a drivers license. I asked him to exit the golf cart, and he didn't want to comply, so we had to physically restrain him when he began to fight us," Stroud said. "For law enforcement to do that for a golf cart permit, and for me asking a question, that's just not right," Reuter said."They have no reason to be intimidated by me," Stroud said. "I've got a job to do, and I do my job as fairly as anyone can do a job like this."

 

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