The suit alleged malicious electrical sabotage and demanded recovery of the $16,400 plus damages. Edith helped me with the response. We had 87 pages of documentation ready by the 18th. The documentation included the 7 months of inverter data logs showing the unauthorized draw, the thermal infrared survey from the 2nd of November identifying the buried cable, Maren's regulatory acknowledgement letter from the 18th of November, the Sandoval County Sheriff's preliminary criminal investigation file, the New Mexico statutes section 30-16-4 citation on electricity theft, the engineering documentation showing the inverter's voltage modulation was within the system's normal operating envelope, and a separate brief from Edith as an independent expert witness confirming that my voltage modulation activity was consistent with standard inverter testing protocols. Sandoval County District Judge Astrid Bouchard, another Bouchard, a coincidence, held a pre-trial conference on the 8th of January.
The conference ran 34 minutes. Judge Bouchard reviewed the documentation. She asked Tamsin's Albuquerque attorney whether his client had legal authority to draw electrical power from a private off-grid system without the owner's consent. The attorney conceded his client had not. Judge Bouchard granted my motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
She referred the entire incident folder to the Sandoval County Prosecutor's Office for review of potential criminal charges arising from the unauthorized cable installation and the 6 months of documented electricity theft. The Sandoval County Prosecutor, a 46-year-old career prosecutor named Greta Halvorson, no relation to Marin the regulator, a coincidence of Halvorson family names, filed felony electricity theft charges against Tamsin Lockhart Bramble, Kendrick Bramble, and Wallace Bramble on the 2nd of February. Tamsin took a no contest plea on the 14th of April. 20 months New Mexico state custody at the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Grants, 3 years probation, restitution of $4,200 to me for the stolen electricity, $16,400 to me for legal defense costs, plus $58,000 in HOA embezzlement restitution. The parallel HOA financial investigation that Edith helped me track had revealed Tamsin had been billing the HOA $2,200 a month for community sustainability consulting through her personal LLC for 26 months.
A permanent ban from serving on any New Mexico community board. She reported to Grants on the 5th of May. She has not made a public statement. Kendrick Bramble took a separate state plea in May. 12 months Sandoval County jail, suspended on completion of probation.
2 years probation, restitution. He filed for divorce from Tamsin by mail in July from his Albuquerque apartment. Wallace Bramble, the unlicensed electrician brother who had installed the cable, took a state plea in June. 18 months Texas state custody. Wallace was sentenced in Texas because that was his state of residence and the conspiracy charges crossed state lines.