January 22, 2007 Certified mail return receipt requested

Richard L. Stalder – 7004 2510 0006 7023 0678

Kathleen Babineaux Blanco - 7004 2510 0006 7023 0685

Richard L. Stalder

Secretary and chief executive officer of

The Department of Public Safety and Corrections

P.O. Box 66614
Baton Rouge, LA 70896-6614

Re: Demand for the return of property illegally seized by your agents.

Richard L. Stalder

As the person who is responsible for the functioning and control of all programs within the Department and as the person who formulates rules and regulations and determines policy regarding management, personnel, and total operations, I am writing to you and sending a copy to the Governor of The State of Louisiana, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, as the person who appointed you.

On December 21, 2006 your agent, a Jefferson Parish Policeman, did illegally seize and remove from my possession my vehicle and the personal property contained therein. Details are contained in the complaint I have filed (attached) with the Department of Internal Affairs of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office. On December 22, 2006 I did appear at the reinstatement office and was told by Brandy Cunningham that the Department of Public Safety and Corrections would not release my vehicle until I entered into contracts with your corporation by acquiring a “driver's license” and registering the vehicle with your office, plus, I must enter into a contract with any corporation in the insurance industry, plus, I must pay a sixty dollar fee. Then I must pay for the cost of the towing and storage of my vehicle. A charge and action that I did not authorize and did resist and object and do now reject.

I did inform Brandy Cunningham that the paper I received entitled JPSO Vehicle Storage, Wrecker Request and Inventory Record does state:

“If you do not provide proof within three days that your vehicle was properly insured at the time it was impounded the Office of Motor Vehicles shall destroy or cause to be destroyed, your license plate and revoke the registration until you have satisfied the provisions of the compulsory insurance law by showing proof of current liability insurance and paying all applicable fees owed the Office of Motor Vehicles.”

I did also inform Brandy Cunningham that the license plate has already been destroyed and the registration revoked and I, at worst, should only have to pay the sixty dollar fee. I was told that this was wrong. I would have to become a person bound to service for a term of years to your corporation and any corporation in the insurance industry or forfeit my vehicle and the personal property contained therein.

I have discovered that your corporation does maintain an admiralty lien on this vehicle as custodian of the State's property. I have challenged this article of the State Constitution in the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana as being blatantly unconstitutional. Even assuming that, by some concoction of law, the constitutionality of this lien is upheld, by what right have you seized the personal property therein contained? By what due process of law did you seize my equitable interest in the vehicle?

I am not currently under contract to your corporation. The registration on this vehicle has been revoked since January of 2004. If you have some contention that your lien is enforceable and do wish to deprive me of my property, I do DEMAND that you move me into a constitutional court and prove your claim. By your own paper work I am the undisputed owner of this vehicle. At worst, I own an equitable interest in the vehicle. There is no legal justification for your seizure on my personal property contained within the vehicle.

Until such time as, by proper and due process of law, you acquire legal right to seize my property I am DEMANDING that my property be returned to me at your expense. I am DEMANDING that the vehicle, and the personal property contained therein, be towed, at your expense and in good condition, to a place of my choosing not to exceed twenty five miles from its last known location at DC Towing and returned to me, the undisputed owner.

. I am further DEMANDING that you issue orders to your direct and contract employees and administrators to cease all proceedings against me. I am further DEMANDING that you notify your militia, both direct employees and contract agents, to cease unlawfully detaining me and the issuing of summonses and complaints and forcing me, under threat of imprisonment, to appear before your administrators, as we currently have no contracts to administer.

I am formally declaring that any claim you may think that you have on my vehicle is invalid and void. I am formally DEMANDING that my property be immediately returned to me until such time as you have obtained, by due process of law, legal right to deprive me of my property. I am formally DEMANDING that your agents, both direct employees and contract agents, and administrators cease and desist their harassment of this Citizen of the State.

If you have some reason to believe that my position is incorrect I do demand that you state your objections in writing addressed to me at the address below. To find out to what location my vehicle shall be returned and to set an appointment for the return of my property you can use the phone number below.

Thank you,

Michael E. DiRosa

C/O 318 Lakeshore Pkwy.

New Orleans, Louisiana 70124

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