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Posts published by “Bruce McEwen”

A History Of Love

Governor Jerry Brown recently appointed two new judges to serve in Mendocino County. Local attorneys David Reimenschneider, and Jeanine Nadel, vetted you can be sure, for political "appropriateness" by California's Democratic Party apparatus and the…

Knives & Hatchets

Fort Bragg is breathing a little easier these days. The picturesque little seaside town has managed to get some violent people off the streets, and the cops and the DA have wrapped up Franz Otto…

There’s Substantial & Then There’s Substantial

“I hope you print the truth,” Mrs. Plowright said as this reporter left the courtroom. I didn’t have time to ask what she meant by that remark, but I'll bet she thinks her son is…

Operation Ab Intercept

The Fish & Game checkpoint at the Boonville Fairgrounds Sunday morning caused quite a flurry of desperate activity between Boonville and Philo, what with last minute ditchings of illegally taken abalone and vehicles copping sudden…

When An LA Cop Meets A Westport Bush Hippy

An LA cop was deer hunting with a 12-year-old kid north of Westport. The cop and the kid didn't know they were in a bush hippy neighborhood. * The LA cop was armed with a…

Murder At The Campground

The dispatcher heard it all, the 911 murder of Jose Madrid by Glenn Hughes. It was recorded live early last New Year’s morning, and replayed in court last week during Hughes’s preliminary hearing. Even the…

Trail Of Destruction Leads To A Lizard Cage

A young fellow named Jimmy Allen was sentenced last Friday to four years in prison for vehicular homicide. He'd plowed drunk into another vehicle, killing the woman driving it. The victim’s mother, an elderly Ms.…

When Love Has Fled

Funny how domestic abuse can coincide with tax time.

An estranged couple by the name of Dolan has three or more kids between ’em, and one half of the former couple has been on an above-the-table payroll all year, so there’s a big refund check in the mail box any day now.

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