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Posts published by “McEwen Bruce”

Home, Sweet Home

Fausto Ordonez Restrepo, 20, of Ukiah can’t get out of jail because he has no place to go, and with a name like that it seems only an Umberto Eco novel would have a place…

Holding The Helping Pros Accountable

Last Wednesday the helping professionals from County Mental Health, led by newly appointed interim County Counsel Katherine ‘Kit’ Elliott, the helping pros came to court to answer to a summons from Judge Ann Moorman regarding the pile up of mentally ill inmates at the jail, all accused of crimes, most of the crimes petty.

Bedlam On Low Gap

Some call it a debacle, others a fiasco — pick your adjective — but the escalating disaster of the County’s privatized mental health serices is now so severe that two judges, Ann Moorman and John…

The Empty Seat Defense

Richard Bolton, Jr. made no attempt — no pretense at all that he was growing all that pot for medical purposes when it was obvious he was growing for tax free cash, and the Mendocino…

Burning Debra

In the early morning chill of January 27th Debra Bower was rescued from her burning motor-home by a man on his way to work in Ukiah. Ms. Bower was a homeless person, living in an…

The Accidental Criminal

“It was all a big accident,” Jaime Rodriguez, Jr. explained, and Rodriguez was right. It was the biggest accident two people could have, especially if one of them didn't live through it, which is what…

Rutherford The Innocent

The sad and tragic tale of Rutherford the Innocent was the only newsworthy case over the past week. It sometimes happens that all we find in the Mendocino County Courthouse is a parade of the…

Betty The Riveter Has Died

Born August 10th, 1925, she has had her gravesite and headstone in place ever since she lost her first husband a train wreck, 1954. While he had been fighting with Patton’s Third Armor in the…

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