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Pfrimmer agreement ends case

Following an agreement to enter a guilty plea to one misdemeanor charge of aiming or pointing a firearm at others, former Marsing Mayor Glenda Faye Pfrimmer, 75, was fined $500 and put on a year’s probation in the court of Judge Dan C. Grober.
The charges date to an encounter in an alleyway behind Caba’s Restaurant in Marsing on May 5. Pfrimmer entered the plea, based on a complaint involving Travis Barnhart, Amanda Fink, Rick Cuevas and Matthew J. Elwood.
Pfrimmer, who said she was advised not to discuss the case, did offer her take on the results.
“I didn’t have a hell of a lot of choice,” she said. “Either accept it or they were going to try to hang me. I’m just (angry) over the whole ... thing.”
Pfrimmer, in an earlier interview with The Owyhee Avalanche, had said she went to investigate screaming noises, and had taken the weapon with her for protection.
As part of the agreement, Pfrimmer has relinquished her concealed carry permit, and agreed to not reapply. County prosecutor Douglas Emery said that Pfrimmer had also agreed to forego the ability to file torts arising from the case in future, and would be submitting a written apology to the Owyhee County Sheriff’s deputy involved: Jim Mackenzie.
Emery said that Mackenzie had not cuffed Pfrimmer. Pfrimmer still contends he did, but the agreement to forego future tort claims would make any lasting issues arising from the incident moot.
The apology may be moot as well. Pfrimmer said she has not written one.
“I really thought they were going to send me away,” she said. “I was a nervous wreck. They made it sound so horrible. I guess the sheriff’s department — they wanted me to make an apology to them — I said ‘Why do I owe them an apology? I did nothing wrong.’
“Sometimes I think they wanted to make an example of someone.”
Pfrimmer’s revolver is to be returned to her, Emery said, though she can no longer carry it.

-MML