by Bruce McEwen
I caught hell Monday from the tribal women in court every day for the murder trial of Alva Sonny Reeves and Brandon Pinola. The picture we ran with last week’s story was not Alva Reeves. The boys in this newspaper’s composition room put up a photo of a man named Danny Alva Reeves thinking it [...]
by Tim Stelloh
Judge Ron Brown denied Glenn Sunkett’s request to boot Mendo’s top public defender from his case. So Sunkett asked to go solo.
by Nate Collins
Muhammad Diop was shot down in cold blood in front of his house on 864 31st street in Oakland on Thursday March 4th at 7:30pm. Muhammad Diop was murdered by the pervasive culture of violence in Oakland that is gripping our inner-cities nationwide.
by Bruce McEwen
It seems that Terry Cohen, age 60, is more afraid of prison than death. He’s hung himself three times now on prescription chemicals, and he’s still hanging in intensive care in the Ukiah hospital from his third attempted suicide.
by Bruce McEwen
The murder trials are piling up at the Mendocino County Courthouse almost as fast as the bodies are.
by Tim Stelloh
A cigarette. That’s what caused the argument three years ago that lead to the federal lawsuit filed two months ago claiming a former Fort Bragg cop had altered police documents.
by Tim Stelloh
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 [...]
I don’t know Fort Bragg carpenter Todd Rowan, but I admire him. In a few short remarks quoted Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle, Rowan got to the core of the creepy case involving Aaron Vargas, who’s facing a first-degree murder charge for killing his sexual abuser.
“Maybe if we’d all talked more back then, it [...]
Three interesting charges have appeared in the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Bookings lately, all of which have prompted a bit of cyber-skepticism about why a person would be arrested on such charges.
Two people in recent months have been charged with “Use of offensive words,” which would appear to be a violation of the Constitution’s Free Speech [...]
by Bruce McEwen
When I first heard from a confidential source that Terry Cohen, who’s accused of murdering 38-year-old Jason Piper, had overdosed, I was sworn to secrecy. But within the hour the defendant’s overdose was as public as the moon.
