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Posts published by “Bruce McEwen”

When It Came To Blows

Scott Rhodes and Pablo Gonzales shared an apartment at 234 Clara Avenue, Ukiah, until March 21st, when they got into a fight, allegedly instigated by…

What To Do With Mr. Vega

Rodolfo Vega-Carrillo, 30, has been diagnosed with schizophrenia since childhood, but he’s got other health problems too, life-threatening ones, and needs dialysis soon or he…

Millions For Mental Health Services, But…

Luke Stanford McCrae was arrested for assault on a peace officer on July 18th around 10:30 pm in the 300 block of Leslie Avenue, Ukiah.…

The Ruoff Sentencing

Last Friday’s judgment and sentencing of Joshua Ruoff for the murder of Timothy Sweeting brought to the fore all the courtroom drama necessary to make…

Caleb Silver Sentenced

“Nasty, brutish and short”—the Hobbesian view of life, has been replaced with “a long life of clean living” for one Caleb Silver, 28, sentenced to…

Firebug Held To Answer

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Judge Clayton Brennan in a Ukiah courtroom, but he was on the bench during a preliminary hearing last…

The Beer Made Me Do It

Joshua Ruoff’s trial for the murder of Timothy Sweeting ended in a verdict of guilty of first degree murder last Friday, despite his lawyer, Jan…

Summertime Horror Story

The murder trial for Joshua Ruoff got under way last week after three days of intense jury selection, due to a reluctance on the part…

Court Notes

THURSDAY, June 14, was the day that Public Defender Linda Thompson stepped down. As the readership knows, the Mighty AVA will not miss her, and since her significant other owns a tract of land larger than our County Seat, and her pension package, though modest by the standards of other County Dignitaries, she probably doesn’t need our blessing for her retirement to be complete and satisfying.

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