Murder, A Miscarriage and A Miscarriage of Justice

By
Robert Stanford

The erroneous charges catalogued on the felony arrest warrant were intense and lengthy.

Conspiracy, kidnapping, grand theft, extortion as well as crimes that constitute perjury.

This is the felony arrest warrant of Aleo John Pontillo II (AJ) - setting his bail far beyond the bail schedule or even the bail for murderers of children - two million dollars

AJ. Nefarious Pontillo II

When the economic boom of the housing market collapsed in 2007, a new rush ebbed into local Government. Federal Grants were used to prop up the dying economy of the County of Stanislaus and it’s hub, the city of Modesto as well as its surrounding communities.

These grants ran into the millions of dollars and funded what had been established to justify receiving the grants - the Central Valley Gang Impact Task Force. Originally led by Raul DeLeon of the Stanislaus County Sheriff Department, it was soon apparent that exorbitant salaries and “boy toy” equipment was all the County could show for millions upon millions of tax payer dollars squandered. But with a County as corrupt as Stanislaus, it was only a natural course of action that they were to pursue more grants by creating investigative “projects” to cover up for their wastefulness, which in truthfulness amounted to the actual embezzlement of millions of  Federal taxpayer dollars.

Their targets were also immediately obvious - those that spoke out against them. Their first target being  Innocent Sheriff Captain Raul DeLeon.

This the Trial and Eventual Acquital of Innocent Sheriff Deputy Raul DeLeon. 1. Second Superceding Indictment. 2. DeLeons Motion to Dismiss. 3. US Opposition to Motion to Dismiss. 4. Governments Trial Brief. 5. DeLeons Trial Brief. 6. Verdicts of Trial Jury, afterwhich one jury member literally embraced DeLeon while another said to him, Looks like they were trying to railroad you!

And their second - Aleo Pontillo II the owner of AJ’s Bail Bonds. The largest bail agent in Stanislaus County, capturing at times, up to ninety percent of the county’s bail market by his unique customer service and community outreach as well as his intensely prudent business skills. His reasons for success being indicative of his office location, which is nowhere near the jail, but rather at the foot of one of the nation’s most disparate and impoverished neighborhoods, The Modesto Airport District.

Hence my first interest in his legal case, as well as my experience of advocacy concerning the Road Dog Federal Grant cover up project, in which  Raul DeLeon was targeted due to his allegiance to the current Sheriff‘s opponent as well as his own race, in addition to that of the Hispanic and Black community, and elsewhere.

Court documents showing the Stanislaus County DA's illegal and fascist tactics consisting of sending their personal enemies to prison for upwards of 30 to 40 years.

It comes as no surprise that the Bail Bond industry is certainly on the fringe of ethical business practice by most. AJ Pontillo used this fact to his advantage and built his business by keeping his practices firm and never bending the rules, having always held a zero tolerance for any unethical behavior by his agents and/or employees. The other bondsmen in the area could not claim the same however, and quickly grew envious of the success AJ derived from his business - AJ’s Bail Bonds.

This is the policy manual for AJ's Bail Bonds - written and distributed previous to any investigation conduct by the FBI, STATE, or Local agency.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/81393282/AJ-S-BAIL-BONDS-BAIL-AGENT-COLLECTIONS-OFFICE-POLICY

“I don’t know what they were expecting.”, AJ told me in one of countless interviews over the past few years, “I mean, it’s like, hey. If you treat people like shit, what do you think their going to treat you like? I can’t even begin to tell you how many people I brought back to the office, because I knew. I knew if they went straight to jail strung out like they were, the chances were pretty good they wouldn’t be comin’ out alive. Know what I mean? It’s work man. It’s customer service. These other bail bondsmen, they think it’s all about the money. And yeah, that’s important, but the money will come after you do the work. Man, seriously. I don‘t like takin‘ people back to jail. That‘s bad business. What are they going to do as soon as they get in there?”

“Badmouth you?”, I asked in reply.

“That’s right. Their gonna’ talk nothing’ but shit man. And that’s bad business. I didn’t build this business by people talkin’ shit about me. I built this business by putting every single customer first!”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation holds court in the Double Tree Hotel in beautiful downtown Modesto. One of their agents, I first met as he was a member of the Central Valley Gang Impact Task Force, while I served on former Modesto Police Chief Roy Wasden’s  advisory board.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation specifically announces on it’s website that it’s intention is to assist in combating violent gangs - here listed, is the Central Valley Gang Impact Task Force. But of course, the funds and resources were not used to combat gangs at all, but rather, used for political vendettas against the enemies of the local state.

NO STANISLAUS LE CONTACT!!!

FBI Special Agent Tam’s office was approached by an individual that had been quite a prolific poster on the Modesto Bee’s former blogsite - The Hive. In so doing, she was attempting to contact the Central Valley Gang Impact Task Force with tidbits fresh from the rumor mill, spurned by another local bail bondsman, Dennis Morgan, who owns and operates Dennis Morgan’s Bail bonds. Providing a plethora of misinformation and rumors considered as facts, all of which she claimed to have discovered solely by herself regarding AJ, his business - AJ’s Bail Bonds and his alleged “gang affiliation”.

This the initial complaint by an individual calling herself a “community activist” - filled with rumor this complaint was originally taken as “Corruption of State and Local Public Officials” and was soon thereafter used to target a local bail bondsman in an effort to cover up the squandering of millions of dollars provided to the County of Stanislaus to combat gang violence at a price tag of millions of dollars more. 

At about this same time, Linda Taylor posted a blog on the local newspaper’s open forum, The Hive website, which was subsequently taken down at around the same time as AJ’s Arrest. A copy of this blog can still be seen in the Stanford Document Vault.

Taken down around the time of Aleo Pontillo II (AJ)s arrest in 2011 - believed by most by direct order of the Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office, recreated in full here - is the diatribe of the spinster - right wing anti-drug activist, Linda Taylor. 

At this point, I did not give any credence to the idea that Linda Taylor could be anything but grandiose, much less an FBI asset, even if she was, as was eventually discovered, to have put herself in that position in order to gain prominence and recognition in the community as a “true activist”.

A review of the FBIs Handling and Oversight of FBI Asset Katrina Leung.

Yet Linda Taylor was invaluable to the Central Valley Gang Impact Task Force and their mission to cover up the fact they had inadvertently and quite literally squandered millions of dollars in Federal Grant Funding - tax payer money. So much so, that they continued to seek her out, taking her statements as factual, including that the then current Chief of the Modesto Police Department, Roy Wasden’s son was in possession of a fully operational “meth lab”.

FBI Interview - 05-07-2008 - of Right Wing Anti-Drug Activist Linda Taylor - by Stanislaus Sheriff Bejaran (Not Real FBI).

In yet another interview, this time by FBI Special Agent Kenneth Tam, she revealed in no uncertain terms, that the majority of her information was coming from AJ’s Bail Bonds failing competitor - Dennis Morgan.

FBI Interview - 12-30-2008 - with right wing anti-drug activist Linda Taylor - Special Agent Kennth Tam (Real FBI). Linda Taylor, in this interview reveals that she is being pimped out by AJ's Bail Bonds failing competitor - Dennis Morgan.

Very soon after Linda Taylor’s first contact with the FBI, AJ himself, fell under investigation by the Central Valley Gang Impact Task Force, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the California Department of Insurance. He immediately found out about this as several customers began to bring him business cards, all bearing the familiar insignias of the FBI and Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department.

His first reaction was not one of panic, because he was fully self-assured at this point in his life and consciousness that he would be completely exonerated, never thinking, for as much of a mere moment, that several Governmental agencies would attempt to frame him in any way they could to bring an indictment against him.

No, his first reaction was to make t-shirts that bore the words, “Under Investigation” across the chest, even though he was the only one that would dare wear them.

Along with the business cards customers were bringing in, there also came the complaints of what the agencies were asking his clients to do and what they were offering them in exchange for doing it. Special gifts and favors for providing FBI Special Agent Tam and the Central Valley Gang Impact Task Force with the testimony they were needing, whether factual and honest or not.

In response, AJ’s Attorney, Frank Carson drafted and sent a letter to the Sheriff’s Department, demanding that they immediately cease and desist libeling and slandering him.

Attorney for Aleo Pontillo II - Requesting Stanislaus County Sheriff Department to cease libel and slander against AJs Bail Bonds. 

Federal and Local law enforcement would not relent and continued to inform AJ’s clients that they not only did they not have to pay him, that their cases could be quashed if they would cooperate by telling them what they wanted to hear about AJ, which was similar to the rumors Linda Taylor had parroted from Bail Bondsman, Dennis Morgan.

On December 23rd 2008, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department Central Valley Gang Impact Task Force, the California Department of Insurance, the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as well as several other local law enforcement departments took great pride and glee in raiding both AJ’s place of business, as well as his residence. They also raided his fridge, and helped themselves to several items that never ended up on the search warrant’s receipts.

“Hey, how many gallons is that pool over there?” AJ was asked by one of the attending Sheriffs.

“What? How many gallons is my pool?”

“Yeah, that’s a pretty big pool.”

“Dude, really?”They went on to trash the house, more than search it, excited by the anticipation of  gaining access to AJ’s gun safe. They confiscated several firearms, claiming that they were illegal to possess and that he would eventually be charged for possessing them, though they left several, taking only the most expensive pieces. Yet later, the ATF returned reports that items that were confiscated were, in actuality, perfectly legal.

ATF Results Declaring Gun Parts Confiscated from Aleo Pontillo Perfectly Legal.

In the course of this raid, AJ answered all questions asked, however those that were interviewing him, FBI Special Agent Kenneth Tam and Jon Reineccius of the Califonia Department of Insurance, had no clear concept of Bail law, on a Federal or even a State level, in particular, the case law of Taylor VS. Taintor which leaves AJ uncensorable of his presumed guilt regarding charges of kidnapping and extortion.

Bondsmans Right To Arrest Reprinted from the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, December, 1972, and January, 1973. The giving of security is not the full measure of the bails obligation. It is not the sum of the bail bond that society asks for, but rather the presence of the defendant....If the court lacks confidence in the suretys purpose or ability to secure the appearance of a bailed defendant, it may refuse its approval of a bond even though the financial standing of the bail is beyond questions.

Taylor VS. Taintor Case Law - 83 U.S. 366, 1872 WL 15393 (U.S.Conn.) Supreme Court of the United States TAYLOR vs. TAINTOR, TREASURER December Term, 1872 Complete Case Law with historic references. 

The testimony that is still being used directly against him in court as though he is admitting to committing the crimes of kidnapping and extortion, when in fact, according to the law, he has committed neither of these crimes.

Interview Conducted By FBI and DOI of California During 12/23/2008 Raid of Aleo Pontillos Business and Residence 

This being the first introduction to AJ of Jon Reineccius, little did AJ know that this was the man responsible for the botched SWAT raid, which he led by gunning down an unarmed Mexican Father - a simple farm worker, unarmed and in his own bedroom, before he even had a chance to rise, during a raid that the family successfully scored the largest ever settlement in California of 6 million dollars for having to watch their father and loved one brutally murdered, after which, Reineccius had the family held  in a jail cell at the local Dinuba Police Department for hours after the incident under intimidation that they testify to the falsehood that Reineccius' murder victim was standing and lunging at him with a knife.

Evidence that Jon Reineccius planted to try and make the event appear to be self - defense did not pan out, due to the lack of any fingerprints or DNA evidence whatsoever. But Jon Reineccius does not mention this caveat on his application to the Department of Insurance. In addition, the threatening, kidnapping and coercion of the family's testimony.

California Department of Insurance Investigator Jon Reineccius Murders Mexican Farm Worker In Cold Blood

But later, AJ was to learn that Jon Reineccius was just as empowered as a real law enforcement officer, in that he went on to influence the same “home invasion” type of raid on the second of three (so far) raids against AJ on February 10th 2010 for a single file, coming in just short of guns a blazing.

AJ Bailbonds Raid - An example of the out of control corruption of the Stanislaus County DA, local law enforcement facilitated to God-complex egoic manifestations as they conjure up preposterous cause to wreak terrorizing havoc on a local business owner.

After the second raid, the United States Attorney’s Office offered AJ a plea deal, which he refused with his attorney providing an exhaustive explanation of why the threatened charges were ridiculous to begin with.

Vincent and Cullers of the U.S. Attorney's Office for thye Eastern District of California:

"I provide you with this letter pursuant to Federal rules of Evidence, Rule 410, and any other applicable privileges. As you know from our earlier correspondence, I represent Mr. Aleo J. Pontillo who is under investigation for alleged illegal business practices and may soon face indictment. This letter sets forth the reasons why Mr. Pontillo should not be indicted, and furthermore, why the investigation against him and his business should be dropped."  

On September 9th 2010, FBI Special Agent Kenneth Tam manipulated, through his fraudulent testimony, The United States Government to utilize bastardized maritime law loopholes which are primarily used against large scale organized crime syndicates and drug runners. All together seized was $256,533.57 in US Dollars from AJ’s banking account.

Basterdized maritime laws that now give the United States Government the right to seize your assets and property without any due process whatsoever.

The local law enforcement agencies, district attorney’s office and judges were star struck by the mystique presented to them by FBI Special Agent, Kenneth Tam. So much so, in fact, that they felt there was no need to respect the Bill of Rights as far as AJ was concerned, since he was “presumed guilty“.

The first of these incidents appeared as the Deputy County Council, Alice Mimms, used particular individuals such as, FBI Special Agent Kenneth Tam and a local district attorney investigator that fancied presenting himself as an FBI agent, Steve Jacobson. She used them to provide testimony regarding allegations as though they were fact in open court against AJ and his business, AJ’s Bail Bonds without any recourse to defend himself at any time - no due process.

AJ would not stand for anymore and his reaction was succinctly stated in a concise complaint to the California State Bar against Alice Mimms.

STATEMENT OF FACT REGARDING COMPLAINT TO THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA IN REGARDS TO STANISLAUS COUNTY COUNCIL - ALICE MIMMS

But the first complaint was swiftly replied to by simply stating that although Mimms libeled and slandered AJ in open court, as well as a slew of other unconstitutional actions against him that were used to punish him, based on allegations that had never been put through any due process of law test whatsoever, previous to any charges even being filed, that even if all of this could be proven, there would not be any grounds for any disciplinary action.

State Bar of California Reply to Complaint Number 1 by Aleo Pontillo in regards to Alice Mimms - Stanislaus County Council

Stanislaus County Deputy Council Alice Mimms continued to strip AJ of his constitutional rights in yet, another action. And in return, AJ fired off another complaint to the California State Bar.

Second Complaint by Aleo Pontillo to California State Bar in regards to a separate incident with Alice Mimms - Stanislaus County Council  

And the California State Bar protected Stanislaus County Deputy Council Alice Mimms from losing her malpractice insurance through multiple complaints by mis-characterizing AJ’s complaint against her as not a complaint at all, but rather as a request to re-open the first complaint, that was previously filed.

California State Bar Bows To The FBI and supports Civil Rights Violations Against Aleo Pontillo of AJ's Bail Bonds

In these same course of events, Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge, Linda McFadden, recklessly violated the constitutional rights of AJ, further showing her  lack of knowledge regarding common contract law terms (specifically "novation") in an argument with AJ’s Bail Bond’s Surety attorney, John Rorabaugh. All of this based on the star struck assumptions made by the rumor mill at the court house and allegations put forth that AJ was to be presumed guilty as a criminal, thereby not deserving due process or the presumption of innocence because the FBI Special Agent Kenneth Tam said so. AJ made a judicial complaint against her as well.

Complaint on Judicial Performance - Filed by Aleo Pontillo II - DBA AJ's Bail Bonds VS. Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Linda McFadden

And most ironic of all, the very judge presiding over AJ’s case today, the Honorable Judge Scott Steffen showed his ignorance of bail law by refusing to accept the surrender of a defendant in open court. AJ filed a judicial complaint against him as well, but hence, since Judge Steffen has refused to recuse himself, it becomes obvious that State Bar complaints, Judicial Complaints, as well as Civil Grand Jury complaints (which are controlled in this area by Stanislaus County Deputy District Attorney, Dave Harris, AJ’s primary prosecutor) are a waste of time.

Judicial Complaint of Aleo Pontillo About The Honorable Judge Scott T. Steffen

On February 11th 2011, Aleo Pontillo received in the mail, his first battle won. A letter informing him that the funds seized from his bank account, under the auspices of archaically bastardized maritime law, were to be returned with any interest that may had accrued. In the brief was stated clearly, “5. This Stipulation and Agreement is a compromise settlement, entered into by all the parties for the purpose of compromising disputed claims and avoiding the expenses and risks of further litigation.”

States VS. Approximateldy $256,533.57 In US Currency Concession to Avoid Litigation from Aleo Pontillo II

It was also discovered that a criminal informant - well known on the street to give sex and take drugs from/with Modesto Police Department and Sheriff Deputies, who had bailed through AJ’s Bail Bonds under the false identification of her sister, was instrumental in being used to “set up” AJ. By using Rita Elias to pose a mock demonstration of kidnapping and extortion, even though neither of these crimes would apply anyway, they were able to generate a real world example. And with the help of another individual that was also later discovered to be a criminal informant, David Nelson, it brings some speculation on whether any part of the event in the following 3 falsified police reports even transpired at all.
Falsified police reports were inserted in AJ’s multi-thousand page discovery, more than likely under the false supposition that no one would bother to read every single word, such as I have.

These are two separate police reports with contradictive information and dates that were inserted into Aleo Pontillo's discovery - with the same subject - Rita Elias - first used to demonstrate the crime of kidnapping and extortion against AJ, then used to demonstrate a charge of murder against innocent Sheriff Detective Kari Abbey two years later. 

After using Rita Elias and internal criminal informants to attempt a demonstration of the false crime of kidnapping and extortion against AJ, no more than two years later this same individual, Rita Elias, was used by the same prosecutor, Stanislaus County District Attorney Deputy, Dave Harris (of Scott Peterson fame), to demonstrate a charge of murder against Innocent Sheriff Detective Kari Abbey, which was so weak on the onset that the murder case did not survive preliminary examination. Yet, as of this writing, Innocent Sheriff Detective Kari Abbey remains a prime target of Stanislaus County for the same reasons as Raul DeLeon and AJ. They said too much regarding the corruption of local Government. Therefore they have all been labeled “Enemies of the State”.

This is the complete transcript of the preliminary murder trial - People VS. Kari Abbey. Due to California Government Code Section 69954(d) These documents are not allowed to be printed, copied, or downloaded, but may be viewed as they are not intellectual property, but rather public Government documents.

On May, 5th 2011, a third raid was conducted by the request of California Department of Insurance Investigator, Jon Reineccius. This time he asked for night time service, citing primarily that AJ and his “associate” Robert Stanford were threats to any officers involved, particularly FBI Special Agent Tam, because of writing posts on the Modesto Bee’s Hive blogsite against Governmental and law enforcement corruption. In effect saying that we were anti-law enforcement and anti Government (domestic terrorist threats).

Investigator Jon Reineccius, the Daddy Murderer, that held his victim’s family in detention for hours in one attempt of many to cover up for his non-criminal crime of decriminalized murder, states the following in his request for night service:

“I have knowledge that PONTILLO was the target of a federal search warrant in December 2008, at both his business and personal residence. PONTILLO was also the target of a state search warrant in February 2010, at his business. In both search warrants PONTILLO was found to be in possession of firearms, including high power rifles. In addition to firearms, steroid and  human growth hormones were located in PONTILLO’s residence during the December 2008, search warrant. During that search warrant PONTILLO told SA TAM he had used steroids since he was 24 years of age. According to the Department of Insurance license records PONTILLO was born in 1971, which would have made him 24 years of age in 1995.

I also have knowledge that PONTILLO has made several statements in “The Hive”, a blog connected to the Modesto Bee newspaper. PONTILLO uses the screen name “Freedomtofacism” and has posted anti government and anti police statements in his postings. PONTILLO has referred to police as “Nazi’s”, “Gestapo” and has made reference to government as the “Fourth Reich”. PONTILLO was wearing a “Resist the New World Order” tee shirt with the outline of a rifle on it during the service of the February 2010, search warrant.

During the February 2010, search warrant PONTILLO was smoking marijuana with Llorens at the time of the service of the search warrant. PONTILLO later made a statement to Stanislaus County District Attorney Investigator Steve Jacobson that he did not need permission from the government to possess marijuana.

I have knowledge that PONTILLO had a working video surveillance system at the business during the search warrant in December 2008. PONTILLO also had a working video surveillance system at the business during the February 2010, search warrant. Robert Stanford has posted video on behalf of PONTILLO and AJ’s Bail Bonds on youtube of the service of the February 2010, search warrant.

STANFORD is believed to be a non-licensed employee of AJ’s Bail Bonds and an associate of PONTILLO based on posts he has made on The Hive. STANFORD is a frequent user of The Hive, posting under the screen name “Robert_Stanford”. On December 16, 2010 a posting for STANFORD’s account mentioned having a “date lined up with special agent TAM” and continued by asking another Hive user if she had a rope. (ATTACHMENT L) Stanford has also posted several anti-government and anti-police statements as well.

Due to the above stated facts I would request that I be allowed to conduct a search during night hours to minimize any potential conflicts with PONTILLO or other employees and associates.”
Search Warrant Requested by the Mexican Farm Worker Murderer Jon Reineccius - for AJs Bail Bonds 05-05-2011

September 14th 2011, it finally happened. AJ, Mark Davis and Janelle Llorens were arrested and appeared before the Honorable Judge Valli Isrealis later that day, with Stanislaus County Deputy District Attorney Dave Harris arguing that their bail not be lowered from two million dollars because AJ was “Anti - Government” and had access to “guns” and “steroids”.

It all started for me, by trying to manage answering a ringing cell phone, while holding a cigarette in one hand and an over-filled Styrofoam coffee cup in the other staggering through a donut shop parking lot not more than two blocks away from the AJ’s Bail Bonds office building.

“Hey, are you at the office?”

“No, I’m at Scotty’s. Are you at the office?”

“Yeah, hey, stay away from the office for like 30 minutes.”

“Sure, no problem. Is everything all right?”

“Tam just called me and said he had my house surrounded. I told him, ‘ hey, that’s great bud, but I’m not at my house. I’m working out at the office. So he said, ‘Ok, well, let’s get this over with, we’ll be right there. So bro, I’m going to be arrested here in a minute.”

“Oh shit.”

“That’s right. Oh shit. And they are arresting Janelle and Davis too. Look, you need to be strong right now. Everything will be fine. I‘ll call you as soon as I can.”

The very next day, AJ, Janelle Llorens and Mark Davis appeared before the  Honorable Judge Scott Steffen. This was the same judge AJ had lodged a judicial complaint against, and by a reading of the transcript, one can see that this Judge, who was deemed as incompetent in regards to bail bond law and that in itself being the very nature of AJ’s judicial complaint, contemplates the bail of all three defendants even going so far as to admit that in setting the bail of an accused murderer, at an eighth of what AJ’s bail was set at, he took full responsibility for having previously “misread” the bail schedule. Though one would have to admit that there is quite a difference between 250,000 and 2 million dollars.


Mark David Davis, Janeele Llorens, and Aleo John Pontillo, II defendants before the Honorable Scott Steffen, Deparmtent 7 - Thursday, September 15, 2011

Page 16 line 28 through Page 17 line 8

“THE COURT: Mr. Carson, just so everyone knows, and this is probably not general knowledge, the bail was originally set in Deputy Abbey’s case because I misread the bail schedule when -- we had just revised the bail schedule. It was brought to me, and I used the wrong criteria for setting bail. I’m the one that set the bail originally at 300,000 or whatever that amount was. So to the extent it got set at a surprisingly low level, I take responsibility for that because I misread the bail schedule.”
Frank Carson argued vigorously for Judge Steffen to lower the bail of all three defendants, citing the obvious unconstitutional butchering of the constitution behind the ever closed doors of a Stanislaus County Superior Court Room.

Deputy District Attorney Harris, naturally, took full advantage of Attorney Frank Carson’s admitted disrespect of the court, and was able to keep the bails of all three defendants extremely high as well as re-enforce his assertion that all three defendants - particularly Janelle Llorens and AJ were dangerous to the community.

Stanislaus County Deputy District Attorney Harris, led Judge Steffen by the nose effortlessly and said, “First, we start, since we’re just dealing with the issue of bail, it’s presumed that the defendants are guilty of the charges. In Count I for Defendant Pontillo and Llorens, there’s a life sentence. So that’s not an OR-type of case.”

On the heels of this appearance, there was soon another to continue the issue of bail reduction, on September 23rd 2011.

From the previous appearance, Mark Davis, who kept spouting off pathetic pleas to the Judge in open court, only to be constantly reprimanded to speak through his council, of the moment, Frank Carson had been  suddenly appointed in the same proceeding a public defender, by the name of Greg Spiering.

From Page 9 line 3 through Page 10 line 1

“MR. SPIERING: I’ve got a couple things to add on behalf of my client that I think are very important. And it goes to Mr. Harris’s credibility, if the Court is intending to accept anything out of his mouth as truthful. I’ve got in my hand here a immunity agreement as to my client that’s -- that involves this affiant in the back of the courtroom here, that sows that my client was given transactional immunity by the Government last summer in exchange for his cooperation.

I’ve also got a police report that shows that my client’s prior counsel, U.S. attorney, this officer, were all present after he -- after an executed immunity agreement was filled out and testimony was taken or questioning was done. And if you look at this -- I’ve got a copy for the Court here.

THE COURT: Do you have a copy for Mr. Harris?

MR. SPIERING: I do. I talked to Mr. Harris briefly about that yesterday.
    The fourth paragraph,
        “In exchange for your completing truthful cooperation and statement -- “

    THE COURT: Slow down.

    MR. SPIERING:
   
        “-- the Government will not prosecute you for any crimes, offenses, or matters described, discussed or disclosed by you at this meeting.”

    And you go on -- and it goes on to,

        “It doesn’t include if you lie to us at the meeting.”

Toward the end of this appearance, Frank Carson entered into evidence a newspaper clipping that headlined the crimes of the Department of Insurance Police Officer - The Dinubian Daddy Slaughterer, Jon Reineccius. Judge Steffen quickly tucked the clipping away as sealed states evidence, never to see the light of the court room again.

Evonne C. Honorio and Baby Prometheus Pontillo

Always were, Always Will Be, Always Will Have

All our love forever and ever!!!!

Evonne & Prometheus' Celebration of Life

Memorial Fund for Evonne's Children 

Please Mail To:

Bank of the West

901 H Street

Modesto, CA 95354

Checks to be made payable to:

Evonne Pontillo Honorio

Account # 030233965

Cards, Flowers and Letters of Condolences may be sent to:
AJ's Bail Bonds
1325 Yosemite Blvd.
Modesto, Ca 95354

 

 

Copyright 2012 Robert Stanford all rights reserved.

A Criminal Amongst Us

Mark Davis - Sept. 2011 - booking photo

"Computers, cell phones, chat rooms, social networking sites, digital cameras—these gadgets of our new high-tech world are the same tools criminals have at their fingertips, taking the sexual abuse of children to a whole new level.

The families of children who were preyed upon online are telling their stories with the hope that parents will pass their lessons on to their own children."

Oprah on Child Predators Online

This Friday, November 2nd At 9:30 AM in department 7, three defendants will be facing the most treacherous experience of their lives. The irony is that only one of them is actually deserving of what may await them.

And the two others are only the first two of his many, many victims. Decent and hard working people that Davis has utterly tattooed with the most horrendous of reputations. Completely undeserved, they confidently step forward, believing that the truth will win out in the end.

In my advocacy of the Modesto Airport District, I dealt with many family issues across multiple cultural lines. My primary obstacles in promoting positive growth in the lives of Airport District households were gangs, drug use, alcoholism and most of all - domestic violence.

At the peak of my advocacy, in 2007, my caseload had reached nearly 200 households that I had ongoing projects applied to. Not that all of these households were within the Modesto Airport District, but the majority of them were. I had much time, energy and money invested in these projects. Projects meant to cause positive change. I was successful in some and failed miserably in others, but was able to come away with enough material to fill several books of methodology as it pertained to needs assessment and implementation of support and education to assist these households in bettering themselves - mostly in terms of stemming the horrible tides of drug use, alcoholism, gang involvement and domestic violence.

When relapses occurred, however, the usual way that it was revealed to me was the incarceration of individuals in the household. Generally the one individual that was responsible for maintaining the necessities of the family, as impoverished as they were.

Upon their arrest, the clock began ticking. I did not have much time to get them back to where they needed to be, before the family/household would literally fall apart due to the absence of  funding. The most valuable tool I had was AJ’s Bail Bonds. Conveniently located at the foot of my district along a stretch of Interstate called Yosemite Boulevard. For little and sometimes no money down, these individuals could be bailed out, saving me all that I had invested in delivering them from their plight. Without AJ’s Bail Bonds - there would not have been hardly any success, and I am sure that I would not be nearing the decade that I am nearing now, having been entrenched in my social outreach of the Modesto Airport District. Without AJ’s Bail Bonds. I would have been an utter failure.

But then enter the scene in 2007, a con man, by the name of Mark Davis. A man that promised the owner of AJ’s Bail Bonds, Aleo Pontillo,  that Davis knew the law, and that he would be able to assist Mr. Pontillo in handling the volume of bail that his company was writing when it came to those that refused to appear for their scheduled court dates.

Because when this happened, there was only a window of time no longer than a few months in which Mr. Pontillo needed to either re-instate the individual (get the person back on court calendar for another opportunity to appear in court) or apprehend and arrest the individual for eventual surrender into the local county jail.

Mark Davis said that he knew of a better way to do this, so that he could be allotted more time to either get the individual that was on his bond to cooperate and follow through with their obligation or himself or his designated bounty hunters to apprehend the individual, thereby bringing the bond contract to a resolution that would not cost in some cases upwards of a million dollars, if not more.

Mr. Pontillo did not know the first thing about  bail motions, other than they were available if circumstances prevented him from fulfilling his regular tasks expected despite due diligence on his, and his company’s behalf.

Mark Davis would talk a mile a minute in legalese that Mr. Pontillo (nor anyone else, including attorney’s for that matter) could even understand. A real fast talker, Mark Davis.

“Have I ever let you down before, AJ? Trust me on this.”

Mr. Pontillo certainly had no reason to believe that Mark Davis did not really know what he was doing. That Mark Davis was reckless in his over-estimation of his own abilities, if not his understanding of the law as it pertained to bail.

But Mr. Pontillo was far from Mark Davis’s only victim. It is still unknown just how many they were, but slowly we are learning.

Mark Davis never quite grew up. At least not in any kind of a healthy and normal sense. To compensate for this, he has always had to resort to pathetic and immature actions that result in those around him loathing him. Almost as if this in itself was achieving the goal he strives for - self sabotage.

From his boasting to a confidant, it was soon discovered that Mark Davis’ affection for young men seems to not be outside of consideration when it comes to using them to demonstrate this “control” or “power” that is so important for Davis to demonstrate to others.

As recently was the case in one of his most recent victim’s lives - Lonnie Todd, the owner of Gangster Bail Bonds.

Mr. Todd found it more than odd, especially after having known of Mark Davis’ sickness for so long, that Davis was going out of his way to walk his dog in front of Mr. Todd’s house. And then come to find out, this act, was only the beginning, as Davis began to stalk Mr. Todd’s child to and from school.

Mr. Todd was furious when he discovered what Davis had been up to, and rightfully so, as any responsible parent should be. He called Davis on it immediately and told him in no uncertain terms, “Hey, you fucking weirdo, you need to knock that shit off”.

Davis did as he was told, as any bully always does when confronted, but just like the criminal sociopath  Davis is, he quickly thought of another way to demonstrate his “power” and “control” over Mr. Todd by befriending Mr. Todd’s son on FaceBook and attempting to engage his son in some dialogue that was, to any sane thinking person’s understanding way out of bounds.

Once again, Mr. Todd, upon the immediate discovery of Davis’ “creepiness” toward his child, put his foot down and banned Mark by blocking him from his son’s FaceBook page.

And once again, this was only a mild deterrent for Davis, as he continued, under the auspices of “just kidding around” to draw from a list that Davis had created of all of the friend’s of the young man’s accounts and began contacting their parents, trying to rally their support for Mr. Todd’s son’s “drug problem”.

Mr. Todd found out about this immediately of course, since these parents knew Mr. Todd and his family - suddenly there is some guy masquerading as someone with some sort of secret information.

As time marches on, I will be bringing more information and news about Mark Davis and his victims. Hopefully with positive conclusions, the best of which would be Mark Davis’ long and overdue incarceration, before he goes on to destroy more lives.










Copyright 2012 Robert Stanford all rights reserved.

Homeless In Modesto the New Crime of the NAZI Regime

On June 5th 2012, the Modesto City Council, voted in a new law which paves the way for police to arrest any individual that they have “reason to believe” will not be sleeping in their own dwelling, thereby, with huge brush-strokes criminalizing a large portion of the citizenry of Modesto that the elite of the city of Modesto considers to be undesirable, or as termed by councilman Joe Muratore - “human blight”. What most of us would term as either temporarily displaced or “homeless”.


Any clothing, backpack or instrument that could be conceived as being useful on a camping trip now is considered to be sufficient evidence to arrest, prosecute and convict any person of violating this new anti-homeless person law, if the officer states that he believes the person is intending to not sleep in a dwelling at anytime in the future. Just like the gulags of NAZI occupied Europe, an individuals only recourse would be to provide sufficient documentation to the police officer that they are financially stable. Stability that has been clearly defined by sub-committees created by the current Mayor and Modesto City Council. If one is unable to produce these “papers” upon request of the officer, they will be jailed and stricken with a criminal misdemeanor that will follow them for the rest of their natural lives.


Though the public was allowed to speak, it was nothing more than a legal formality that the Modesto City Council had to weather. For when the last of fifteen speakers in opposition to this massacre of the spirit of the United States Constitution was finished speaking, the public was scolded by councilman Joe Muratore. A man who has stated that even transvestites have no place in the City of Modesto, much less, “human blight” I.e. the homeless or other “undesirables”.


This is the first of many proposed laws that are being passed without any participation considered by the general public. The opportunity afforded to speak to these issues are only formalities, and freedom of speech at the sub committees or city council meetings are truncated by the iron fist of our new fuehrer - Gerrad Marsh.


Marsh’s inherited police force, the Modesto Police Department, testified that approximately ninety percent of homeless individuals are rapists and child molesters that when camping in alleys or parks are - “looking for prey”. This was seconded by analogies provided by councilman Dave Lopez. When in actuality, when one reads the McClatchy Pravda editions of the daily Modesto Bee, it would seem that the Modesto Police Department is comprised of rapists and child molesters, if not homicidal maniacs.


No longer do members of this anti-American, NAZI infiltrated Modesto City Council bastardize the very name of Jesus Christ and the very word of God, to justify their cruel oppression and elimination of the homeless, transvestites and other “undesirables”, since they have learned that the public may have input, but they do not need to listen. Since they no longer work for us.


The people of the City of Modesto, rich or poor, gay or straight, young and old are now officially in servitude to the Modesto City Council and beginning to experience an actual totalitarian regime.


If you do not earn enough to have your name on a document that can be considered a mortgage, lease or rental agreement, you can and most likely will be charged with a misdemeanor if you are found in public by the Modesto Police Department.


Uber allis Modesto Elite.


May God have mercy on their souls. Because I sure as hell won’t.




Copyright 2012 Robert Stanford all rights reserved.

DEATH, DEATH, DEATH

by

Robert W. Stanford

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

Ezekiel 25:17, Pulp Fiction

Along my daily path, by the fork, the chickens have fortified their ranks with bunny rabbits. Now late at night, what at first appears to be leaping cats, are rabbits. At least two dozen encroaching upon the fork and the chickens that reside there. Almost as joyful as the older dogs that bark upon my approach, only to subside at the sound of my voice. “It’s me!”

Of course, it didn’t use to be that way. Literally, years ago, I would leave seething canine ferocity in my wake down every Airport District street I would walk. Not any more, just the occasional bully dogs, we all come across no matter how many of our own shoe prints are etched into the dust which shall never be covered by sidewalks. Now, I leave broken hearts and whimpering in my wake, as so many dogs want me to spend more time than a passing pet and reassurance of what magnificent animals they are. But there is always tomorrow…for me, at least.

Not so much for JD Love, who’s memorial still graffiti’s Oregon Park appropriately for the surrounding neighborhood. Walls that many of us, probably including his own mother, are not looking forward to seeing be re-painted. Despite the murderous numerical references to the CA state penal code - 187...and Norte.

Now he is forever a part of the Modesto Airport District; a part of it’s culture. That is of course, at least until Nazi Joe Muratore, the sixty-two thousand dollar thief finally gets his way and has the entire 1.2 square mile area that comprises the Modesto Airport District razed in favor of a financial shell game to be forever played with outside investors and the actual Modesto City/County airport that separates us in the Airport District from the bordering area between Ceres and Modesto, aptly named, “No Man’s Land”. Two ghettos separated by Lear Jets and caviar. All the while, useless to those that are in reality just like us, is their fork in the road.

Pollo, Polo and Looney were standing outside of the now infamous non-tobacco front shop one day.

And then, just like every other day, dark clouds appeared and commenced engulfing the atmosphere with grief. One of us was missing - Lil’ David.

“Why pollo?”, he softly asked me. “Why did the cops have to lie to her like that? They said that they would protect her. And now look at David.”

Through his tears, it was not that I had nothing to say, but at this point, it would have sounded insensitive and uncaring for the situation at hand. Not because it was a rant against local law enforcement, but rather, because it would sound more like an “I told you so!”. It just really wasn’t the time for another political lecture against the ways of the tyranny that has now befallen us.

All just another piece of scenery stripped away from me, just like animal control always picking up the wrong strays. Or my neighbors that delight in killing my dogs. Taking something away from me that makes the Modesto Airport District a beautiful place to live. Leaving a tragically ended memory in it’s place, with much pretentiousness.

I have found it to be not just the trauma of these murders that take me away to a place of intense and bitter anger, but their repetition. Is this really what I have chosen to do? Watch everyone die, while trying to show them which side of the fork to take instead?

Seems pretty noble, since there has been nothing but sacrifice of every part of my being and rewards that seem rather inedible.

But not to a fat bitch like Karlha Davies of the Tuolumne River Trust.

Maggie Mejia has taught her well.

She would rather talk shit about me behind my back, then actually try to get to know who I really am. What it is that I really do. Instead, she distracts for her own narcissistic gain. But of course, nothing can stand in the way of her precious river or any aspirations it’s contamination might bring for a political future. What’s another dead baby, as long as you can successfully convince the impoverished to swim in a contaminated river?

Maggie Mejia has taught her well.

Just as bad as the fat assed crack whore, Mary Lynn Lebow, who allowed meth to drive her and the Modesto Airport Neighbor’s United into the ground.

One who now, after embezzling practically $70,000 dollars a year for several of those years (money earmarked primarily to prevent infant death) is heading up a Healthy Start Program, when she should, in all actually, have her own children taken away from her and herself, be thrown into a desolate prison.

To me, this bitch is just another Airport tweaker now. Another scum bag criminal to blame the death of my pets on. A pathetic excuse for a human being - standing on the accomplishments of others and snorting $70,000.00 worth of meth per year. Not anymore, though. Just whatever her salary is now.

Walking past the fork in the dawn of a new day is quite different than two to three o’clock in the morning. It’s like night and day. No longer are there only the stragglers and scrappers afoot. Now there are the familiar faces. Faces I have greeted more than twenty-four hundred times.

Everyone knows my name, where I am going, what I do, what I eat - everything - with affection - just like David did.

They see in me, something they can depend and rely on - hope. They see hope in me because they have watched my struggle for so many years. They can see now, that the only way I will be leaving them, will be as their own family members leave them - as a murder victim that not even the Modesto Police Department gives a second thought to.






Copyright 2012 Robert Stanford all rights reserved.

Murder/Manslaughter Charges Against Stanislaus Deputy Sheriff Dismissed Following Preliminary Hearing

By Michael Rains, Defense Attorney for Kari Abbey






It was Thursday, May 5, 2011 when my cell phone rang and I chose not to answer. I was listening to my son and his seventh grade jazz band playing a concert at Disneyland. I had volunteered earlier in the year to serve as a chaperone and had traveled on a bus with the jazz band members the day before. After their concert and later listening to them play in a Disney sound studio, I started catching up on telephone calls, including the one I missed during the performance. The call had come from Bennie Taylor, a Hayward police officer who I had represented in a very gnarly fatal officer-involved shooting a couple of years earlier. Bennie had left a message telling me that his wife, whose name was Kari Abbey, was having some "pretty serious legal issues" and could use my help and advice.

I telephoned Kari, a deputy sheriff employed by Stanislaus County, only to learn that she had been charged with murder, voluntary manslaughter, and several other felony offenses. She was unhappy with her current legal representation and wanted to talk to me about assuming her representation. That initial call, additional telephone calls I made during the next couple of days from Disneyland, and a meeting with Kari and Bennie upon my return to my office ultimately led to my entering the case of People v. Kari Abbey, venued in Stanislaus County.

The "heart" of the case filed by the District Attorney against Kari related to her fatal shooting of a woman named Rita Elias on September 24, 2010. Immediately following the shooting, detectives from the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office and the D.A.’s Office commenced a criminal investigation surrounding the circumstances of the shooting. The Sheriff was quoted several weeks after the shooting in local newspapers stating that it appeared that Deputy Abbey had shot Rita Elias in "self defense."

The investigation appeared to stagnate for a number of months, but resumed momentum with the D.A.’s Office in March of 2011. At that point, Sheriff’s Department investigators and District Attorney investigators began seeking the issuance of search warrants for evidence relating in one way or another to the shooting. The investigators had learned that Kari, in addition to her detective assignment, managed a number of rental properties which she and Bennie owned or which were owned by other individuals, including her father. The fatal shooting of Rita Elias by Kari had occurred in front of a rental duplex owned by her father after her father, the property manager and Kari had gone there to collect rent from the tenants. When they arrived, the three male tenants were gone, but Rita Elias, laboring under the combined influence of alcohol and methamphetamine, was standing out front.

A verbal argument ensued between Kari and Elias, and when Elias advanced on Kari in an aggressive manner, Kari struck her with a fist, knocking her to the ground. Kari went down on top of Elias briefly, but then got back up and told Elias to leave. Kari threw a purse and a backpack which Elias had been carrying toward the street in order to hasten her departure away from the apartment. Elias continued to scream at Kari but picked up her backpack and purse and started to walk away from the area, according to a next door neighbor who we called as a witness at the preliminary hearing. The next door neighbor testified that as Rita was walking away from the area of the apartment, Kari said nothing to her to antagonize her or threaten her. All of a sudden, without warning, Elias put her purse and backpack down on the ground, shed the high-heel platform style shoes she was wearing, and said, "F*** it, I’m going to get a gun." The next door neighbor testified that Rita then made a beeline toward the front door of the apartment (where she had apparently been staying on and off with the three male renters whom Kari and the others had come to collect the rent from).

Given Rita’s threat to get a gun, Kari went to her own personal automobile, which was still running and which had her one-year-old daughter and six-year-old son inside, and retrieved a firearm. In less than a minute after Rita had walked into the front door of the apartment, she emerged holding what appeared to be a .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol. She carried the pistol in her right hand and a stick in her left hand. As she approached the area where Kari was crouched behind the front end of her father’s vehicle, Rita threw the stick down and raised the handgun, pointing it directly at Kari. Kari fired two or three times and Rita appeared to fall or stumble, and screamed a profanity. Rita then started walking around to the other side of the rear of the vehicle owned by Kari’s father, and Kari walked toward the same side of the vehicle at the front end. When Rita appeared once again holding the handgun in a raised position with her right hand, Kari fired several more rounds. One of the rounds, the second of three which entered Rita’s body, entered through her raised right arm on the outside of the arm just below the elbow, traveled briefly through the arm and exited in the inner bicep area and then reentered the body through the chest, ultimately penetrating the heart and causing the death of Elias. The autopsy confirmed that at the time this round was fired, Elias’s right arm was raised as witnesses had described it to the authorities.

As I argued to the judge who heard the preliminary hearing which lasted four days, Kari’s shooting of Elias was lawful in all respects as an act of self defense and defense of others, including her father, her two children, and several other bystanders in the area.

If this was a self-defense shooting, why in the world did the Stanislaus District Attorney’s Office decide that Kari Abbey had either committed a murder or a voluntary manslaughter? The D.A.’s argument was essentially this: Rita Elias was a "resident" and a "tenant" at the apartment where Kari and the others had gone to collect rent. When Kari and Rita became involved in a verbal dispute, Kari became the aggressor and struck Rita, knocking her to the ground. When Rita got up, Kari’s father was overheard by one or more witnesses to say something to Rita which suggested that if she did not leave he would "set" Kari after Rita once again. Since Rita did not have a cell phone and could not call the police, she had to defend herself and entered her "residence" to secure a firearm. Once inside the residence, Rita could claim the "defense of her castle" presumption contained in Penal Code section 198.5, and Kari Abbey, as the initial aggressor, would lose the right of self defense.

The D.A.’s clever and crafty "theory" for prosecuting Kari had several major obstacles, not the least of which was the fact that Rita Elias was really neither a resident or even a tenant at the apartment – she was simply a squatter who even the tenants who were interviewed said was essentially homeless and just "came and went" on various occasions. More significant, however, was the fact that the Penal Code section 198.5 presumption that allows a resident to assume that an intruder intends to inflict death or great bodily injury only applies when the resident is inside his/her "castle" to begin with. Here, after Kari Abbey had completely disengaged physical contact and verbal contact with Rita Elias, and Rita Elias appeared to be leaving, she suddenly and inexplicably set her belongings down, walked back into the apartment, armed herself, and reemerged from the apartment in order to point the weapon at Kari. According to one of the crime scene investigators, at the time of the shooting, Rita Elias was no less than twenty feet north of the doorway of the apartment and thirty to forty feet west of the same doorway. Thus, it could hardly be said that she was "defending her castle" when she pointed the gun at Kari.

Search warrants served at Kari’s residence, her workspace and assigned detective’s car led to the D.A.’s Office seizing evidence which became the basis of other charges which we also actively litigated at the preliminary hearing. As I argued to the judge, these subsidiary charges were really an effort by the D.A.’s Office to assassinate Kari’s character as a deputy sheriff, landlord, property manager and mother. To give our readers an example, Kari was charged with receiving stolen property when several different types of vests were found under other items of clothing in a walk-in closet shared by Bennie and by Kari. The D.A.’s office claimed that Bennie, who had recently retired from Hayward Police Department, had failed to turn the vests in at the time of his retirement, making them "stolen property." There were two problems with this "theory." First, no one from Hayward Police Department could identify the very aged and outdated vests as property of the Police Department, and in one case, a lieutenant from the Police Department who testified at our request indicated that one of the vests had been purchased by another officer who had apparently given it to Bennie. Second, of course, was the fact that no one could establish that Kari was even aware that the vests were located under the items of clothing on Bennie’s side of the closet or that she had any knowledge or belief that they were stolen to begin with. Thus, that charge was dismissed as well at the preliminary hearing.

We still need to deal with several more charges that the judge at the preliminary hearing felt could be decided by a jury. I am confident that no jury in Stanislaus County is going to convict Kari Abbey of those charges, and the only issue which warrants some amount of debate is how long it will take for an acquittal to occur once the case is submitted.

In the final analysis, I am glad I took the call from Bennie when I was at Disneyland last May. I am glad I entered the case for Kari Abbey because it is another case where politics resulted in a bad decision to prosecute a cop. I am extremely happy we were assigned a judge for the preliminary hearing who, despite the media attention this case had garnered in Stanislaus County, had the intellectual honesty and the fortitude to do the right thing with the most serious charges.

Politics and political grandstanding have no place in the very serious business of evaluating police officer conduct which often occurs in the spur of the moment without much time for pause or reflection.

Here, the Stanislaus District Attorney tried to "hook" Kari Abbey on very serious criminal charges based on clever and crafty lawyer theories, rather than a solid evaluation of the evidence. And, in doing so, the D.A. almost succeeded in reducing the search for justice in Stanislaus County to a fairytale from the kingdom of Disney.












Copyright 2012 Robert Stanford all rights reserved.

The Rita Elias Toxicology and Autopsy Reports - Kari Abbey - Not Guilty!

This is the autopsy report for Rita Elias who was killed in self defense by Stanislaus County Sheriff Detective, Kari Abbey. In this report, it does show that Elias' arm was raised as though she was pointing the realistic handgun at Kari Abbey when shot.

Autopsy Report for Rita Elias

This is the toxicology report for Rita Elias after she was killed in self defense by Stanislaus County Sheriff Detective Kari Abbey, showing methamphetamine is present in Elias' blood stream.

Toxicology Report for Rita Elias












Copyright 2012 Robert Stanford all rights reserved.

Activism in 1981 - Mt. Diablo Anti-Nuclear Power Protest

Click on the image above and take special notice of how this does not look like a criminal being
arrested, but rather as an indidual that is proudly and triumphantly making a stand for what
she believes is what is best for humanity. Many that were arrested that day were incarcerated
for several months, including those that were there from the Modesto Peace/Life Center.

Arrested the same day I was in 1981 at one of the largest protests to ever hit California - the Mt. Diablo anti Nuclear Power Protest - I think I had just turned 15 years old at the time.

Also arrested that day were the late Jim Higgs and Sam Tyson of the Modesto Peace/Life Center as well as other heroic activists from Modesto that took the time to pause and think about those that had nothing to do with them whatsoever.


My biggest hero at this time though was someone who chose to protest just as heroically in other ways and not be arrested - Sandy Sample, also of the Modesto Peace/Life Center. One of the most enduring influences in my life at this time that showed just how strong a woman can be by standing up to the then board of the Peace/Life center declaring the truth - her importance in the struggle despite the choices she makes for the same outcome.







Copyright 2012 Robert Stanford all rights reserved.

Nothing Changes On New Years Day

Don't Forget To Pay For That Donut!

I didn’t see the roosters as I passed by the fork this morning, although a few hours earlier, at about three, roosters could be heard from all around, walking through the Modesto Airport District(1).

It was like they were calling to each other, back and forth in turn. One could almost reach out and touch their grandiose plans of having the Modesto Airport District completely dominated by fowl at the crack of the true dawn. A rooster revolution of sorts. Plotted through their hidden language.

I was so impressed with them, that I have decided to forego any rants that I would care to indulge regarding the avian flu and weak county interventions for personal aviaries of fowl. I will let these brave birds have their hope. Unless the economy doesn’t turn around, at which point I may be charged with chicken rustling.

Yet in the morning, seeing lush fields of chickens starting about their foraging day is just so invigorating on my slight trek to the start of my day. Especially when they are in the street and I start chasing them to and fro across the road. One really has to be aware of traffic when…chicken spotting.

Walking through chalk lines, some real - some imagined, I would think that others like myself would care to take comfort in the luxurious safety of good scenery.

So that in the midst of a dozen, obviously robustly large roosters planning some sort of a…coo - a master plan, if you will, of domination.

Just the energy of being within that interchange, while some guy that lives in what appears to be an RV has an exploding bonfire going in a burning barrel. A different scent every night, or should I say, “every wee morning”.

On some of these wee mornings, he incinerate particles board. Bonfire fuel acquired by chopped up furniture abandoned in another lot made vacant by Strand/Depot(2) type developer arson.

The formaldehyde fills my senses like Testers model glue in a plastic bag. At any moment I begin picturing myself writhing and twirling, while lying perpendicular to and abutted to the gutter of the sidewalk surrounding the county park.

Only the menthol provides any relief. And the coffee.(3)

Coffee acquired at the Vietnamese refuge camp, we are now not suppose to talk about or advertise for. I suppose something came over the wire. Of course all of this information comes from Chin. The one that says I eat like a cat. The one with that birth mark that looks just like a tattoo one would get for killing someone in a Vietnamese prison.

The same tattoo that she didn’t want to talk about anymore(4), not more than just a few morning ago(5) she dared point to it and made some vague reference to the hard life that she endured, trapped in a Vietnamese prison. But one knows that she is safe now in the confines of a Vietnamese refugee camp disguised as the Ye Olde Donute Shoppe.

It’s not a refuge for everyone though. That was finally decided when the latrine was redone in tile and the very best in bathroom fixtures. It must be part of the Asianic cultural reaction to disrespect from a community that completely thrashed the bathroom to the point of necessitating it’s complete replacement. Everything.

“Pollo.” She whispered.(6) “I go into bathroom today and people have sex in there.”

“What? Seriously? That’s horrible. I keep telling you. Just don’t let anybody use it. They can go to Jack in the Box.”, I replied, six years ago. That was before the re-model.

And a year or so after someone committed suicide in the Jack in the Box bathroom. Now they have to “buzz” you in.

Today, on any shift, they refuse no one. Most of the time they don’t have to, since the bathroom is occupied by families shooting up heroin they acquired from just around the corner. It’s so heart warming to see a mother pushing a stroller, accompanied by her older offspring - scurrying into the Jack in the Box bathroom to inject herself with heroin and nod out in a bathroom stall for an hour or so.

“Um, can you buzz me in?”

“Sure, go right ahead.”

That was the same family that approached every single one us, one morning - pimping out her oldest child to panhandle change for his mother’s heroin fix.

“Hey can I use your bathroom? I need to change my baby.” The zombie mother asked Chin.

“You want to use the bathroom? OK. You can use the bathroom. I will go and unlock it for you and you can go use the bathroom.”, Chin chipped into the undead whore of heroin and mother of three.

“SSSS - hey!”, I side whispered to the Mother Teresa of Vietnam.

“What what what is it?”

“Don’t let them use the bathroom.” I silently said, yet ever so sternly, while vigorously shaking my head back and forth.

“Pollo! She needs to change the baby. You can’t expect her to go Jack in the Box. That too far.”

And with that, it was not long until loud knocks were to be heard.

“Hey! What you do in my bathroom?! You need get out now! Pollo. Man. You were right. Why I not listen to you.”, Chin said to me, her hair unusually ratted out as though it had been styled that way, when in reality, it was from the sheer stress of the entire family having locked themselves in the bathroom for nearly five whole minutes now.

“Just give her a few more minutes to finish shooting up and she might be easier to get out.”, I said, as though I were giving report to a general regarding enemy troop alignment.

“Shoot up?! What you mean Pollo?!”

“Nothing. Nothing. Here, I’ll take care of it.”

And with that I was once more overcome by an air of exaggerated over bearing maniacal role play as I cast the family into the cold dampness of the street.

“And stay there….bitch.”

Coming back into my Morelia(7) fold, I am able to fill in half a dozen people with the situation’s past, present and probable future in less than 30 seconds. After all, I have to get to work. I can’t just sit here all day talking about some junky mother shooting up with her kids watching locked up in a bathroom of a Vietnamese Refugee Camp overtaken by Mexicans. Even the Vietnamese refugees have to adapt.

It’s the perfect backdrop for my budding Spanish - Vietnamese refugees aggressively trying to keep dozens of Mexicans at bay with dirty Mexican words screamed with Vietnamese accents. It’s really special when Chin starts waving around her Babe Ruth slugger and threatening to kill everyone if they don’t provide her with enough session money for a Black Oak Casino(8) weekend.










1. For the lone traveler through the internet that may have no interest here….this is a private article. Be gone with you - NOW! To feather dust.
2. Two Modesto, California historical monuments that didn’t have to pass the giggle test of any landmark preservation laws, state or federal due to arson by local developers.
3. Coffee so good, it deserves to be my hook lead in. Keep reading.
4. When they, “arrested the man and the girl”.
5. Or more.
6. Like, “psssst”.
7. A group of approximately 36 rotating Mexican friends, all quickly claiming to be born within an eagles nest at the very top of the tallest mountain in Morelia, Mexico.
8. Actually, it was at Jackson Rancheria Casino that I was accused of eating like a cat. At a buffet, it was. And upon further recollection, it was actually her husband that accused me of that, after seeing my self-made sampler plate with only 3 items from the entire buffet. That’s right. He had to drive us back in my van to the David Bowie’s Low album that night.






Copyright 2012 Robert Stanford all rights reserved.

KARI ABBEY JUSTIFIED IN DEFENDING HERSELF AND HER FAMILY!!!!

Today, December 19th 2011 was the final closing arguments in the preliminary hearing for the People VS. Kari Abbey. It was requested of me by the defense to be there and bear witness to what many of us thought was going to be a travesty of justice.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Dave Harris, of Scott Peterson murder case fame, started things off with a litany of charges.

Barely audible, he sat and muttered from his chair like a reluctantly false prophet.

He said all of the evidence showed that Rita Elias was an actual tenant of the house - that it was her home. He referred to the actual tenant of the dwelling as her roommates who were “trying to evict her”.

Harris painted a picture of Abbey going to the house which was apparently where Rita “lived” with several large males, including Abbey’s husband, Benny Taylor. Inferring that Abbey entered the house, dragged Rita Elias out by her hair and beat the hell out of her on the front porch.

Then, Harris went on with his colorful strokes at the truth, that Rita was forced back into the house by Abbey’s father threatening her with further “beating” by Abbey. A house which had no phone. “Rita Elias had no way to call 911” - “Kari Abbey used her status as a police officer as a weapon”.

Most of Harris’ citations were sensationalized to the point of ridiculousness and contradiction of testimony given by the same witnesses he attempted to cite - and most of these were Proposition 115 hearsay testimony by cops.

His opening statement was actually rather short, but effective enough to give anyone who may be the first to hear of it the impression that Kari Abbey was a crazed criminal - an extortionist that surrounded herself with overgrown family members, pumped up on steroids, all in an attempt to extract money from people and throw them out of their “home”.

Over and over again he used expressions to seemingly flesh out what had already been determined by Sheriff Adam Christianson, himself, as an obvious act of self defense by inserting falsehoods in the form of expressions misplaced within his dialogue - “forced entry” - “We’re gonna get money or get’ em out” - “They went there to throw these people out into the street” - “She severely beat Rita Elias” - “She ripped off the county”.

Then it was Abbey's defense attorney Michael Rains’ turn to speak. As though his knees were about to buckle under his very own weight, Rains pushed himself up from the table, where he sat next to Kari Abbey.

“Your honor….In this case, the entire judicial system is on trial. If there was ever a case where a crafty DA will re-construct the law to turn absolute self-defense into a murder charge - this is the case. Right here.”

Rains went on to cite those things that we do not hear from the Modesto Bee’s puppet reporters. Things such as the shooting actually not happening at the doorway where Rita Elias was “staying for a couple of days at a time” but up to seventy feet from there outside. And that at no time was there forcible entry, because Kari Abbey never stepped foot into the house.

He went on to point out the obvious. That despite facts, testimony or any reality whatsoever, Harris and his press hungry DA crew were going to do whatever it took to paint Kari Abbey as a terrible landlord, a terrible cop, a horrible mother and a horrible person - a real “killer”. A roided-out monster.

Rains went on to recite preceding testimony that Rita Elias was really not a tenant at this house at all. Especially in consideration of the testimony from the actual residents saying that for the most part Rita Elias was homeless, staying there for a few days and then leaving for long periods, living most of the time as a squatter in abandoned homes.

And then Rains went on to make several other pertinent points that Crafty Harris had done everything he could to keep hidden:

1. The United States postal service had no record of Rita Elias ever living there.

2. That Abbey did not come to the house unexpected, that she was there by appointment. An appointment derived from two previous telephone conversations with the actual tenants of the dwelling and was led to believe by them that she was there to collect rent.

3. That the actual tenants were three weeks late on the rent.

4. That Harris was severely amiss in his citation of the law, accusing Abbey of failing to provide 24 hour advance notice, because this only applies to actual entry of the dwelling, which though inferred by Crafty Harris, was simply not the case, as Abbey never entered the residence, nor ever intended to. She was simply there to collect rent according to arrangements that had previously been made by the actual tenants of the dwelling (the ones that also were trying to get Rita Elias to leave).

5. That Rita Elias was under the influence of methamphetamine, had been without sleep for several days, and according to actual testimony, had a tendency to violence and agitation.

6. That the back pack and purse that were found at the scene was in actuality all of the belongings that Rita Elias owned, including clothes and toiletries.

7. That some of the evidence, particularly that evidence that Crafty Harris put forth as the child endangerment charge - three firearms found in the house of Kari Abbey, had been tampered with and was obvious by an examination of the photos.

8. That despite assertions by Crafty Harris, no key to the dwelling was found belonging to Rita Elias. Rita would come and go through a side window in the house - even against the wishes of the actual tenants.

9. Despite the perjury committed by Crafty Harris, Benny Taylor was nowhere to be found in the incidents discussed that lead to the death of Rita Elias.

10. Kari Abbey had left her car running. The car that contained her two young children.

11. Any blunt force trauma was not necessarily a result of the fight between Rita Elias and Kari Abbey. Even the coroner’s report regarding hair having been pulled out was suspect, since there was no hair found in the area.

12. Rita says to Kari Abbey, “If I didn’t have high heels on, I’d kick your ass”. Later Rita Elias took off her high heels.

13. That Rita Elias said directly to Abbey, “Fuck it, I’m going to go get my gun”.

14. It was impossible to look through the windows as they are “sheeted up”.

15. That according to testimony provided by Modesto Police Department Officer George Papadopoulos, there may or may not have been rounds in the chamber. That he folded under cross examination and that it was from this ambiguous recount of his that the Child Protective Services investigator derived their information.

16. That the children were not in the house, because they stayed in another part of the property with their grandparents, and if at any time they were near the firearms that there was an adult right there that would have prevented the children from having any contact with the weapons.

17. That the Modesto Irrigation District electric bill that had been submitted so proudly by the prosecution as proof that Kari and Benny were financing a “grow operation” actually turned out to be at the wrong address and bearing the wrong utility company.

18. That the two customer service officers that had worked for Kari in the past, may have worked with her long before Kari began to “amass this vast apartment empire across the city”.

In closing, Kari Abbey’s defense attorney insulted the Stanislaus County Court system by calling out to what many of us have come to believe is the common practice of perjury by both police officer and DA across the country, but according to Rains, the severity of Stanislaus County for running innocents through the “meat grinder of false justice” is proficient here and he had never seen anything like it.

A closing statement?

Looking right at Crafty Harris, he said in no mild mannered tone, “I smell a rat. It has a SERIOUS stench.”

Once again, Crafty Harris got his opportunity to earn his tax paid exuberant salary to propel himself into another Scott Peterson type fame scenario.

He went over every charge with the same drivel packed litany as he exposed of himself in his opening statement. Mostly relying on what is obviously his primal nature of laziness, on Proposition 115 hearsay testimony as “factual”.

He re-iterated the constant borage of misleading expressions - “forced entry” - “beaten” - “They went there to evict and get money”, etc.

What I personally thought was the most disgusting thing that this moronic excuse for a man proposed, was that the situation was actually reversed, and that if the gun had been real, that Rita Elias would be justified in shooting Kari Abbey in self defense. Of course the moron was still thinking that everyone was still buying his “Hang Kari Abbey” portrait.

You know the one by now. The one with Abbey snarling. The blood, the wads of Rita Elias’ hair in Kari’s claws. Kari “forcing entry” into the “home” of Rita Elias. But of course, what can you expect from your DA (Crafty Harris) that will say that “a little meth is no big deal“.

And with that, your overpaid and over fed pig of a District Attorney, Mr. Crafty, glanced at the clock, probably panicking that he might be missing a lunch date with one of our illustrious and oh so trusty Defense/Conflict attorney’s to dispose of a young black man’s life while sucking on an olive and dreaming of an oncoming election year.

With that, the proceedings fell back into the Judge’s court. I don’t believe that any of us in the courtroom were expecting him to arrive at a decision regarding the case so quickly, as he began by saying, “I have carefully studied the evidence of this case.”

One by one, now the presiding judge of this case went over each count. Citing the reasons for each decision for each account, every single one was going to stick, until he got to the fifth one, receiving stolen property. No evidence and the only person that could provide sufficient testimony has passed away.

On the charges of murder and manslaughter?

He held up the picture of the BB gun that Rita Elias used to threaten the life of Kari Abbey, and as far as Abbey was concerned - Abbey’s children as well. Then he held up a picture of a 1911 .45 caliber. No difference really. No reason for Kari Abbey to believe any differently than there was an actual gun being pointed at her and that she had no choice but to defend herself. In addition to meeting the requirements necessary to demonstrate self defense, Kari Abbey was justified in the shooting of Rita Elias. Therefore, there would be no grounds for trying Kari Abbey for the shooting whatsoever.

If it is so easy to charge a beautiful and caring Stanislaus County Sheriff Deputy with the murder of a tweaked out junky criminal like Rita Elias, why does it seem so hard to charge Harris, Jacobson and Bunch with the murder of District Attorney Nate Baker?

Since we have seen a glimmer of justice for Innocent Kari Abbey today, maybe we can soon see the end of these pathetic individual’s careers before they destroy anyone else’s lives on their insatiable hunger for the Modesto Bee’s favored lime light.

















Copyright 2011 Robert Stanford all rights reserved.