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Judge on administrative leave after firing a gun
Fired into the ground as a warning shot
Judge on leave after confrontation outside his home By Bud Foster | March 1, 2021 at 9:51 PM MST - Updated March 2 at 7:34 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Justice Court Judge Adam Watters has been placed on administrative leave with pay following an altercation in which the judge fired a warning shot into the ground.
Watters and his family had been harassed by a man for nearly two weeks in February stemming from a court case in January where the judge refused to evict a family which had fallen behind on their rent.
Advertisement: All four of Watters’ truck tires had been slashed a second time. He said another bag of trash was left in place of the one left behind in the first vandalism. The report said in one of the trash dumps on Feb. 13, police found a letter addressed to Shayna Serrato, a tenant of Qin’s he attempted to evict in a case Watters presided over. Watters arranged a periodic check-in with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. Police would drive by to check on the residence due to the ongoing littering and vandalism reports. The judge told police he’d seen deputies driving by in the early morning hours, as the stress of the situation kept him from sleeping.
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A Tucson justice of the peace fired a gun into the ground during a confrontation with a man suspected of vandalizing his property and slashing his truck tires.
Judge Adam Watters and the suspect, Fei Qin of Tucson, had minor scratches and scrapes after the altercation Feb. 14 in the street near Wattersâ home in the Catalina Foothills, according to a Pima County Sheriff s Department report released Friday.
Qin, 38, was charged with stalking, a Class 5 felony, and is in Pima County Jail on a $5,000 bond.