not actually texting. When Sprague began to realize he didn't actually have solid evidence for the alleged crime, he worked to manufacture evidence to pressure Mandi to say Scott did it. All the search warrants in this case were rubber-stamp fishing expeditions, and none of them were a search for the truth. Sprague was apparently raised by wolves, or at least in another country, or maybe just in Seminole County. He thinks where Mandi's right to keep private what she does with a guy begins, is where his mandate to invent unfounded criminal allegations about her begins. People who shoot black kids in the back when they are running away, have an emotional problem, dealing with failure or rejection. They can't just say okay, he won, I lost. In poker, people like this give all their money away. Because they get a pair of jacks, and they just keep calling, they can't let it go. When Mandi said nothing in her police interview, Detective Sprague looked at Lieutenant Murphy like "Oh no, what do we do?" The older, more honest Lieutenant Murphy just shrugged, and said oh well, that's what I expected. But Sprague got emotional, and went into a panic he would be exposed as ineffective. He started faking evidence. Because he would rather break the law than let someone else win. For catching the world’s slowest bunny, and making up some nonsense about her, Sprague was given LEO of the year. In some ways Sprague is like Mulrenin. They are both mediocre men, whose self esteem was propped up at the expense of a young girl. Mandi Jackson is like a dog who jumps into the truck of a dog catcher who can't catch anything, to make him feel good about himself. In Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat, they gave hapless dog catcher Tall Bob Smoke some dogs to put in his truck to look successful. In Seminole County they gave dipshit Detective Sprague someone's daughter to put in his truck. Never have such fools been allowed to use not dogs, but other people’s daughters, as tiny mountains to stand on. That would be a horror novel, which Steinbeck did not write. In a way Mandi is a divining stick for failures and scumbags, and the stupid. Her father once told me they follow her like flies, because they can't catch anything else. The taxpayers have no idea how their money is wasted on little girls. I was always ashamed of what people might say if they found out I was taking advantage of a young girl. They made this guy Sprague LEO Of The Year for it. III-8