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In a letter from San Quentin, Aaron Vargas talks prison & politics.
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Vargas Sentenced to Nine Years
by Bruce McEwen
Aaron Vargas is the highest profile local news story to go national and even international since Jim Jones. His sentencing last week closed yet another unique chapter in Mendocino County history when he was sentenced to an unexpected nine years in prison for shooting to death a Fort Bragg child molester, Darrell McNeill. Nine years [...]
Mendo Justice Failed Vargas
Judge Ronald Brown has put his stamp of approval on child rapists in Fort Bragg and beyond.
June 21, 2010 | Posted in Letters to the Editor | Read More »
Happy Birthday, Little Man
Four years ago today, my first and only son was born. Seems like just yesterday I huffed and puffed until I thought the whole bottom half of my body would simply break apart. And then there was a baby. And it was a boy. And he had 10 fingers and 10 toes was healthy and [...]
A Sad Outcome No Matter What
So Aaron Vargas is going to state prison for killing the Fort Bragg businessman that he and a dozen other Mendocino Coast men said had molested them over the past two decades. Tuesday’s sentencing left no one happy, least of all a circle of Vargas’ family and friends who waged a futile campaign to win [...]
Off the Record
by The AVA
IT’S NO SURPRISE that the County’s retirement system is in trouble. Years of fishy accounting practices, more years of the fundamentally false assumption that capitalism would make more money for everyone forever, lavish payouts to a large population of long-lived former employees, and all of it now occurring in a shrinking economy, an economy that [...]
June 10, 2010 | Posted in County | Read More »
Big Checks, Small Balances
by Bruce McEwen
The lawsuit against Bear Trucking is seven years old. In April a jury in Judge John Behnke’s court found the company had been negligent in a Mendocino County accident. The injured party and his lawyer stands to make a lot of money. The files for the case fill three hand trucks of banker’s boxes, which [...]
Van Patten’s “Attack” on Vargas
Mindy Galliani, Aaron Vargas’s sister, talks about detective Greg Van Patten’s comments on 20/20.
May 28, 2010 | Posted in Letters to the Editor | Read More »
Fallout Continues In Vargas Case
Is it “consensual” when a man as an adult engages in sex with another who began molesting him as a boy?
Off the Record
by The AVA
This week: Dennis Boaz takes on four Mendo County superintendents who accused him of racism; 20-20 on Aaron Vargas; more porn talk concerning county officials; Comptche Catholics; and much more.
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