Police: Father attacks son with bulldozer at Maltby nursery
MALTBY — The owner of the Maltby nursery Flower World allegedly used a bulldozer to push his son’s SUV, with his son inside, down an embankment Thursday morning.
The incident took place about 7 a.m., on the north side of the 15-acre business that has been owned by the family since 1968.
John Postema, 78, was on one side of a barbed wire fence, piling up dirt, according to a report by a Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy. His son was on the other side, working a backhoe on his own property.
After working on opposite sides of the property line, the younger man got into his Jeep Cherokee.
Then, he told deputies, his father allegedly drove the bulldozer through the fence and pushed the Jeep about 80 feet and down a 20-foot embankment.
John Postema was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of first-degree assault. At a bail hearing Friday, public defender Tobin Klusty argued that there wasn’t enough evidence for probable cause. How fast the bulldozer was going, or whether the son was injured, was not described in the report, Klusty said.
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Postema was one of the people involved in the so-called property rights and "Freedom County" movement back in the 90s.