02/19/2017
In April 2016 a neighbor, Cornelius Vango, had me arrested for misdemeanor terrorist threatening. Two misdemeanors with a $15,000 bail. The corrupt cops were in on it. When arrested they took me back to my RV and 'secured' my high power .22 caliber pellet rifles. The pellet guns were their cut. Within minutes after my arrest the accuser posted on facebook that my place was vacant and unguarded. Scavengers arrived promptly. As a result I lost everything I had accomplished, three computers and solid state hard drives with unpublished manuscripts, photos of loved ones I will never see again, two all-terrain vehicles, an entire ship where I could build/repair anything.
Both Rex and I went to jail for five weeks. Him in a very small cement cubicle, me in a more spacious cell... Misdemeanors must be tried w/i 30 of arraignment so I demanded a speedy trial. Since Cornelius had been represented by the Public Defender for firing a shotgun at a person trying to recover a stolen car battery from her... I could ask for a private lawyer.... This previous PD representation gave me the right to claim a 'conflict of interest.' A lawyer appointed to represent me. Luckily for me this was a great lawyer, Raj Singh.
The trial lasted eight half days. The jury was out for two hours with a not guilty verdict. Cornelius had recorded our incident with her iphone so my lawyer subpoenaed it as evidence. She had claimed that my 16 month old German Shepard was off-leash and I was using him as a weapon. Bringing up the contrast of the video a leash was in use. Enhancing the sound Cornelius could be heard saying “Are you threatening me?” and my responding “No, I am not threatening you.” There was no case.
The jury couldn't believe their eyes, and ears, that a criminal charge would be based upon such a witness's testimony. The free-box clothing, her severed leg and prosthetic made her look like an old pirate. All she lacked was a parrot crapping on her shoulder. She had lost her leg while hopping a train at the age of 13. Her life was hard-knocks.
But it doesn't end there. While I was in jail Cornelius got all her facebook friends to give negative, damning, testimony/feedback and trashed my Slab City Sanctuary page. My golden five-star rating became a 2.5, with reviewers claiming that I was a criminal and an awful person. Accusing me of criminal acts from terrorist to s*x offender.
I had been on good terms with Cornelius and gave them greens and filled propane tanks in the past but it deteriorated when they not only expected these services but violated my rule of “call first.” I cut them off. Our relationship deteriorated steadily thereafter.
Two weeks previous to the alleged threatening incident I had been walking my dog, on a leash, when he was attacked by Cornelius' dog, Buddy, a 110 pound Shepard, a year older than Rex, who was 15 months old at the time. Cornelius and Caveman, her submissive, 20' away, just stood and watched, doing nothing to stop the attack.
Rex was exactly half Buddy's weight and age, destined to lose, maybe killed, but he je**ed his head out of his collar. He was so fast I could hardly see his moves. He ran Buddy away. The main different between the two dogs is that Rex never gets beaten, or hit. Buddy had been held down and punched in the head so many times he had no ability to fight. Rex and Spot, my Mexican Street-dog, play/fought all the time, so Rex defended himself well.
I had been bitten in the dog fight so filed a formal complaint with animal control.
I never expected a false arrest to be used as a weapon.
Compared the squalor of Slab City the Sanctuary was Beverly Hills. 1400 watts of solar, chest freezers, wifi, an organic garden, all-terrain vehicles. It was a prize just waiting to be stolen.
So, for those of you who know me, and want to help in my recovery, please get into my Slab City Sanctuary page and give honest feedback, thwarting the campaign to discredit the Sanctuary and myself.