Category archives for: Flypaper

Update on the Death of Jeanne Huckins

by Tim Stelloh

Update on the Death of Jeanne Huckins

The death of Jeanne Huckins, a Fort Bragg woman who was found dead in January, has been ruled a suicide.

Facebookin’ for DA

by Tim Stelloh

Facebookin’ for DA

The Godzilla of social networking sites is apparently a prerequisite for Mendo’s DA candidates.

Jill Ravitch & Bruce Anderson on Glenn Sunkett

by Tim Stelloh

Jill Ravitch & Bruce Anderson on Glenn Sunkett

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Glenn Sunkett’s problems firing public defender Linda Thompson. In the following excerpt from this week’s Off the Record, prosecutor Jill Ravitch and AVA editor Bruce Anderson weigh in on Sunkett’s Thompson problem…
Bruce McEwen reports: “Glenn Sunkett had his Marsden hearing last Wednesday, his formal attempt to dump [...]

Will Kenny Rogers Get A New Trial?

by Tim Stelloh

Will Kenny Rogers Get A New Trial?

The latest attorney for disgraced Mendo Republican Kenny Rogers, who was convicted last summer of hiring a hitman to kill a political adversary, is claiming that Rogers’ last attorney so thoroughly botched his defense that the case deserves another try.

Fort Bragg’s Smoking Police Report: The Documents Behind the Story

by Tim Stelloh

Fort Bragg’s Smoking Police Report: The Documents Behind the Story

Below are links to the documents I used for this week’s story on the strange case of Robert Forest, who’s suing former Fort Bragg police Lt. (and current Merced commander) Floyd Higdon in federal court for causing Forest’s “malicious” and “wrongful” prosecution.
The incident the suit grew out of took place in November 2006 in downtown [...]

More PC Police

by Tim Stelloh

More PC Police

Here’s a copy of the e-mail (courtesy of Washington City Paper) that got Chris Dovi, a Style Weekly reporter, fired after the e-mail was accidentally sent to the PR guy for a blind motivational speaker named William Weeks (i.e., the “blind fucker” Dovi’s referring to below). Dovi thought the e-mail was going to his editor.
This guy [...]

PC Police 1, Alternative Media 0

by Tim Stelloh

PC Police 1, Alternative Media 0

The alt-weekly in Richmond, Virginia, apparently canned a reporter yesterday for being mean to a blind motivational speaker and his PR guy.

Timothy Pearce on Glenn Sunkett

by Tim Stelloh

Timothy Pearce on Glenn Sunkett

Mendo County Jail Commander Timothy Pearce talks (briefly) about Glenn Sunkett’s allegations of abuse.

Among the LaRouchies

by Tim Stelloh

Among the LaRouchies

An excerpt from this week’s Off the Record, in which Bruce Anderson has an amusing encounter with a coupla’ LaRouchies in San Francisco…

Oaky Joe & His Many Grows

by Tim Stelloh

Oaky Joe & His Many Grows

This week, I wrote about “Oaky” Joe Munson–a former outlaw grower who “came down off the mountain,” went legit and made medical pot his mission. In the last half-decade, he’s been through the medicinal marijuana-criminal justice ringer in Mendo and beyond.
So far, every case against him has been dropped.
Below is a series of photos of [...]

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