by Bruce McEwen
Rey Reyes shot his stepson dead a year ago in Laytonville. The shooting occurred on a Wednesday night, December the 1st, 2010. Reyes’ murder trial began December 4th of this year.Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 year. Rather pay with a check? No problem— e-mail and let us know. Or, sign [...]
by Bruce McEwen
“This is the most repulsive case I have ever seen,” Judge Richard Henderson declared as he took up the sordid matter of Steven J. Henry, lately of Laytonville. Henderson, pushing 70, is the oldest judge in the Mendocino County Courthouse except for a few retired judges who fill in occasionally. “Even in all my years [...]
by The AVA
This Week: Gjerde for Supervisor; Adams for Congress; Still searching for Bassler; and much more
by Bruce McEwen
Timothy Burger, 21, of Sacramento, was shot dead early the morning of October 30th, 2010 during a home invasion robbery attempt at a home on Steele Lane, Laytonville Burger’s accomplices, 18-year-old Tyrone Bell and 19-year-old Christopher Shinn, also of Sacramento, were arrested later that day walking south on Highway 101. They were booked into the [...]
by The AVA
CAN’T MISS the large Boonville signs pleading that our deputies and now our health center be saved. It looks like we’ll probably lose our enormously popular junior deputy, Craig Walker, whose assiduous attention to The Valley’s criminally oriented population has so nicely supplemented that of long time resident deputy Keith Squires, and unless some sort [...]
by Bruce McEwen
Reading the Gualala-based Independent Coast Observer during a lunch break at the Courthouse, I was interrupted by Mark Wuerfel. This was scarcely a nui sance.
by The AVA
PLUG-PULLINGS Dear Editor: Bear Kamoroff is confused (Letters, April 13), and not just about the location of the Lookouts’ [Livermore’s band] first encounter with Piano Jimmy (it was Grapewine Station, not Grapevine). It sounds as though he might be conflating the plug-pulling incident with another uglier and more violent one that occurred two years later [...]
by The AVA
ONE DAY AT A TIME Editor, J. Biro seriously needed a buzz. He could talk the talk but like everyone he knew would rather do anything than actually meditate. He had already smoked up the moldy roaches stuffed into Cyril’s truck’s ashtray. It was hard to get into the truck because Cyril had crammed it [...]
by Bruce McEwen
This one goes back deep into former DA Meredith Lintott’s raggedy regime, an age-dated pot case that began with a big bang of a bust in July of 2007 and has been supplemented by busts of the same guy at the same Spy Rock property every year since. Subscribe now to access our entire site—only [...]
by Bruce McEwen
The cops catch a Bell Springs guy with two-dozen assault weapons and a half dozen marijuana gardens and they think they’ve got a case. The DA thinks so too, and it all limps into court three years later. The prosecution rested just last week, perhaps satisfied they’d finally slam dunked the alleged proprietor, the gun [...]
