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Posts published by “McEwen Bruce”

Crazy Vatos Dos

Fort Bragg gangster Ivan Sanchez survived an effort to indict him on the attempted murder of his girlfriend last week. The indictment failed — not due to any impression of innocence Sanchez made on the…

Crazy Vatos Controlas!

The Fort Bragg gang problem doesn’t seem to be getting any better. The idiot wars between the red and the blue, the north and the south, the Norteños and the Sueños, La Familia and the…

Follow This Finger, Deputy

“Need for Speed,” the infantile flick filmed in Anderson Valley and other Mendo locales last spring, drew small crowds of onlookers wowed by the automotive stunts Hollywood enacted on our outback roads, none of them…

Half A Mil & You’re Free To Go

The latest offer to settle the case against Will Parrish hinges on his agreeing to own up to $490,000 in damages claimed by Caltrans but only two counts of trespassing.

Wangdoodle Blues

“Did the defendant ejaculate?” “He said he didn’t. He said it was his first time masturbating in public, and he became nervous and was unable to ejaculate.” Cory Rupp, 20, of Ukiah, was on trial…

Tweakers & The Women Who Love Them

The DA’s ace trial lawyer, Matt Hubley, has resigned. He has removed his services, himself and his handsome family to Sonoma County where he will be working for his former associate here in Mendocino County,…

The Tears Of The Phoenix

An early morning call came last Tuesday while I was sipping my first cup of Major Dickason’s Blend at Schat’s Bakery across Perkins Street from the courthouse: “AVA crime desk, this is Bruce.” “Do you…

Serial Parody

“Mr. Bruce Anderson doesn’t get to decide,” the District Attorney snarled, his nostrils aquiver. DA David Eyster was addressing Judge Ann Moorman in open court. “Just because he’s the editor of the Anderson Valley Advertiser,…

It’s Meth, Not Drugs

The joke in Anderson Valley is that the meth tasting rooms begin on the Deep End (Navarro) where the wine tasting rooms leave off. It’s one of those jokes based on regional conceits, the need…

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