POLICE LOOKING FOR INFORMATION JKB 3/1/12
- LAKE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPUTIES ARE SEEKING INFORMATION ABOUT THE APPARENT ASSAULT OF LOWER LAKE WOMAN IN HER HOME FEBRUARY 9TH.
ACCORDING TO POLICE, RELATIVES DISCOVERED A 61 YEAR OLD WOMAN UNCONSCIOUS IN HER HOME. SHE HAD SEVERAL SEVERE INJURIES AND WAS AIRLIFTED TO A HOSPITAL OUT OF THE COUNTY WHERE SHE WAS TREATED AND LATER RELEASED. SHE IS CURRENTLY LISTED IN STABLE CONDITION AND IS RECOVERING FROM HER INJURIES. DETECTIVES ARE INVESTIGATING SEVERAL LEADS IN THE CASE. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION RELATED TO THIS CRIME IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE LAKE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT.
TRAIL BEGINS IN TODDLERS SHOOTING DEATH JKB 3/1/12
- THE UNUSUAL SIMULTANEOUS MURDER TRIALS OF TWO MEN CHARGED WITH KILLING A 4 YEAR OLD CLEARLAKE BOY WHILE SHOOTING INTO A GROUP OF PEOPLE GATHERED FOR A FAMILY BAR-B-QUE LAST JUNE BEGAN YESTERDAY.
FIVE OTHERS INCLUDING THE MOTHER OF 4 YEAR OLD SKYLER RAPP WERE INJURED. EVIDENCE AGAINST 24 YEAR OLD JOSEPH LOPEZ AND 21 YEAR OLD PAUL BRADEN IS BEING PRESENTED IN A COMBINED TRIAL, BUT EACH MAN WILL BE JUDGED BY HIS OWN JURY. A THIRD MAN, 29 YEAR OLD KEVIN STONE PLEADED NO CONTEST IN NOVEMBER AS AN ACCESSORY TO MURDER AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ROBBERY. HE IS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY AGAINST THE DEFENDANTS. THE TRAIL IS EXPECTED TO TAKE AT LEAST TWO MONTHS.
MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER JKB 3/1/12
- A SONOMA COUNTY JURY REJECTED AN ALEXANDER VALLEY MANS CLAIM OF SELF DEFENSE AND MENTAL ILLNESS IN FINDING HIM GUILTY OF THE MURDER OF HIS SISTERS BOYFRIEND ON MARCH 8TH OF LAST YEAR.
PROSECUTORS SAY 30 YEAR OLD JARROD MILLER HAD BEEN LIVING OFF HIS SISTER AND HER BOYFRIEND, 29 YEAR OLD TIMOTHY NEUER SINCE BEING KICKED OUT OF THE MARINES IN 2010. THEY CONTEND MILLER BECAME ANGRY AT BEING ASKED TO LEAVE, DROVE TO NEVADA TO BUY A GUN, AND RETURNED TO SHOOT NEUER THREE TIMES KILLING HIM IN HIS HOME. THE DEFENSE CLAIMED MILLER WAS AFRAID OF NEUER AND SUFFERED FROM PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA. AFTER TWO DAYS OF DELIBERATION, THE JURY REJECTED THAT CLAIM AND FOUND HIM GUILTY OF 1ST DEGREE MURDER. HE NOW FACES A MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF 50 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON, PLUS AN ADDITIONAL 16 YEARS DUE TO SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES.
PROSECUTORS TO SEEK DEATH PENALTY JKB 3/1/12
- MARIN COUNTY PROSECUTORS SAY THEY PLAN TO SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY AGAINST A PHOTOGRAPHER SUSPECTED OF KILLING FOUR PROSTITUTES BETWEEN 1977 AND 1994.
78 YEAR OLD JOSEPH NASO IS ACTING AS HIS OWN ATTORNEY AND HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO ALL CHARGES. PROSECUTORS CONTEND THAT NASO DRUGGED HIS VICTIMS BEFORE KILLING THEM, PHOTOGRAPHING THEIR BODIES, AND THEN LEAVING THEM IN RURAL AREAS. THEY PRESENTED DOZENS OF HIS PHOTOS, SOME OF WHICH APPEARED TO SHOW TWO OF THE ALLEGED VICTIMS EITHER UNCONSCIOUS OR DEAD. NASO CLAIMS THAT THE WOMEN IN THE PICTURES WERE ALIVE AND WELL AT THE TIME THE PHOTOS WERE TAKEN.
PILOT SETS RECORDS JKB 3/1/12
- SONOMA COUNTY PILOT WILL WHITESIDE SET FOUR WORLD RECORDS THIS PAST WEEK IN HIS ROMANIAN-BUILT PROPELLER DRIVEN FIGHTER YAK-3U.
WHITESIDE REACHED A HEIGHT OF 3000 METERS, NEARLY 10,000 FEET, IN TWO MINUTES, FIVE SECONDS, SMASHING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF THREE MINUTES, 33 SECONDS FOR A PLANE IN HIS WEIGHT CLASS. HE ALSO SET THRE OTHER TIME TO CLIMB RECORDS BETWEEN SUNDAY AND TUESDAY ABOVE THE SONOMA COUNTY AIRPORT. THE RECORDS COME LESS THAN FIVE MONTHS AFTER HE SET A WORLD SPEED RECORD IN THE SAME PLANE, TRAVELING AT A TOP SPEED OF 416 MILES AN HOUR, AGAIN, SMASHING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 304 MILES AN HOUR IN THE RESPECTIVE WEIGHT CLASS. WHITESIDE WAS LEADING A HEAT RACE AT THE 2011 AIR RACES IN RENO NEVADA WHEN FELLOW RACER JIMMY LEEWARD CRASHED, KILLING HIM AND 10 SPECTATORS LAST FALL.
POT BUST IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY JKB 3/1/12
- STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOUND 3,881 MARIJUANA PLANTS, 110 ONE POUND BAGS OF PROCESSED MARIJUANA AND MORE THAN $420,000 INSIDE A YURT AND A NEIGHBORING HOME IN EUREKA ON WEDNESDAY.
STATE DRUG AGENTS OBTAINED THE SEARCH WARRANT LAST WEEK. 45 YEAR OLD JOHN CROMWELL AND 42 YEAR OLD ELISABETH OLSEN, WERE CITED FOR CULTIVATION AND POSSESSION MARIJUANA AND MAINTAINING A DRUG HOUSE, BUT NOT ARRESTED BECAUSE THEY ARE THE PARENTS OF FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN. A THIRD RESIDENT OF THE HOME, 34 YEAR OLD CHARLES BRUZZA OF PORTLAND OREGON WAS BOOKED INTO THE HUMBOLDT COUNTY JAIL.
QUARANTINE LIFTED JKB 3/1/12
- THE QUARANTINE FOR UKIAH VALLEY GRAPE GROWERS DUE TO THE EUROPEAN GRAPEVINE MOTH WILL BE LIFTED BY NEXT WEEK.
THE QUARANTINE WAS LEVIED ON 179 SQUARE MILES OF THE VALLEY WHEN THE MOTH WAS DISCOVERED IN VINEYARDS IN HOPLAND AND UKIAH IN THE SPRING OF 2010. IT SEVERELY RESTRICTED THE HANDLING AND MOVEMENT OF GRAPES IN AND OUT OF THE QUARANTINE ZONE. THE QUARANTINE IS EXPECTED TO BE LIFTED AS OF MARCH 8TH.
LEAP BABIES BORN JKB 3/1/12
- AT LEAST TWO BABIES WERE BORN ON LEAP DAY YESTERDAY IN UKIAH.
THE RECORDED BIRTHS TOOK PLACE AT THE UKIAH VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER. BOTH BABIES WERE BOYS, BUT NO OTHER INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE.
