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Subject: Local News Was Punked by a Conman. Here's the Real Wolf Story They Missed

Do you good folks here in Peoria remember the segment a year or two back when our local news shills ran with full dramatic flourish about a “stolen wolf lawn ornament” replete with faux tears, outrage, the whole nine yards from the allegedly aggrieved homeowner? The whole jumbled story was treated like the theft of a National treasure by our local news darlings.

It was a lawn ornament, folks.

But here's the part you missed – or that the media didn’t bother to tell you: the actual living wolf hybrid (husky) doggo that belongs to that same “local treasure” of a tirading man is currently dying behind his hoarder-infested property and garage. There’s always a reason they position the news crews at the foot of the driveway – practically in the street to film the rage bait news piece – while they feign outrage and curated crocodile tears on cue for the cameras, now isn’t there, folks?

Because they don’t want you to see what’s hidden behind their carefully curated curtain of cruelty.

But see, here’s what y’all didn’t catch in that story: The real wolf is still there.

Not a statue. Not a prop. A living husky-wolf hybrid ~ old, sick, and dying ~ trapped behind a hoarder’s garage in the blistering July heat, abandoned by the same man you handed a mic to and called a victim back in 2023.

That man decried a stolen lawn ornament, dragged local media into his tirade – and because of his zip code and last name – the local media played right along like the good little propaganda puppets they are – as if the man were delivering the Gettysburg Address from his own driveway.

Meanwhile, the man’s REAL world/husky dog is currently languishing from a heat stroke in 90* weather over the 4th of July weekend. How do I know? I got a tip from a local Citizen’s Watch Group. Apparently that man who cries wolf all the time to local media and local LE is being watched by a group of neighbors who know who he REALLY is – and know the truth about him – and they are only too eager to tell it – if only someone would ask them.

So, after doing some vetting and recon of my own on this matter, I decided to join those concerned citizens and tell you all the REAL story about this local con man – who by the way has a history of felony fraud. So now, we here at the War Memorial Citizen’s Watch – we’re keeping an eye on that man and that hoarder property. We’ve seen what Animal Control won’t. We’ve documented what Code Enforcement won’t. We’ve called. We’ve begged with them for intervention. And what did we get back? Silence. Or worse – lies wrapped in intentional red tape and weaponized incompetence.

Current condition of his neglected, jailed and abandoned doggo in this July Prairie heat: Padlocked in a cage like he’s a prisoner at Rikers. His only crime is not dying before now, apparently. No regular access to fresh water, love, treats, walks or belly rubs. No relief from the heat except a hotbox of a plastic doghouse. No one who visits him. No one checking in. Just a man’s hand who shows him only cruelty behind that hoarder garage.

Huskies can heat stroke in 90* heat – and this wolf husky is far up in years and medically frail. Left for days of 90–100° heat – rotting in real time.

I watched that man cry crocodile tears over a lawn statue and y’all aired it like it was gospel on your local news. But when it comes to an actual living, wolf-husky, like a noble stead in doggo form- suffering on that same man’s watch? Not a whisper from our local media. Not a single follow-up – except to help the local grifter with his ongoing lies and promote the false narrative that the allegedly stolen lawn ornament was….checks notes “magically returned” without incident – or any proof of the veracity of that entire tall tale.

You could send a REAL news crew there today and find that dog and let freedom ring for a languishing animal in distress for Independence Day. The Fourth of July is a slow news day for the skeleton news crews. And everybody loves a rescued dog story. Especially old William here. They’re my favorite kind of news story.

Animal Control refused to intervene because he’s bourbon buddies with power people in elected office at the local Club where you and I aren’t welcome, friends. You know how small town politics play out here, folks. We’ve seen this kind of cronyism before here in Peoria. It’s just a different part of the same rot.

Sure – you’d have to get past the trip hazards and hoarder yard at the top of the driveway – to find the real noble wolf forsaken like yesterday’s garbage behind the rear garage – by that man who calls HIMSELF the victim. But isn’t that what investigative reporting is all about? I guess I wouldn’t know – it’s been so long since I’ve actually seen any such real reporting around these parts.

So just as a suggestion: maybe trade in the lawn ornament narrative for one that matters and stop selling your craven Corporate media souls for false “rampant thieves criming against the white community in Peoria – can you believe the nerve?!” puff pieces. Because the tip I got says the statue was never even stolen. The man had no proof of the theft and a maintenance worker found that lawn ornament hidden in that con man’s basement and threatened to go public and tell the truth on him. Which, by the way, is the ONLY reason he again – falsely – told the local news crew “Whew, what a relief – my lawn ornament was returned.”

You want to know why people don’t trust local media anymore and why your ratings are in the bucket? Because the real stories die in cages while the staged ones from “select zip codes” get local news prime time spots aired from the foot of the expensive driveway. Fair and balanced reporting, my foot. I’d surely love to see it here in Peoria. Even one time.

So if local news crews had any integrity left at all, you’d go back out there.

Only this time – with your eyes wide open. Asking the hard questions and seeking the REAL truth of the matter.

This isn’t about a lawn ornament. This is about the cost of silence and a man who is utterly shameless. He played you fools like a fiddle – from the local news – and you sang right along to his false tune.

Meanwhile, the real wolf remains hidden and abandoned behind the hoarder garage and is still crying out for somebody to save him. But I suppose that part of the story was just out of your news crew’s camera frame.

I’m William on War Memorial reporting live from the intersection of a car-sized pothole and a future Superfund site.

– William on War Memorial

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