First impression
According to the Stockton Police Department, on Monday night Samantha Williams, 30, stopped by her ex-boyfriend’s home in the 9500 block of Cody Way to pick up their child. At the door, she met the new girlfriend, and “immediately began stabbing” her. Then, police said, Williams drove away in a black Camaro.
Williams was arrested on Tuesday and booked into the County Jail. The new girlfriend, a 26-year-old woman, was treated at St. Joseph’s Medical Center for her injuries, which police said were not life-threatening.
Police said it was the first time the two had met.
And elsewhere
Pretty much the entire world is reporting that three New York Police officers have been arrested for trying to steal $1 million worth of perfume from a warehouse in New Jersey. They allegedly hired day laborers to load the stuff into trucks one officer rented with HIS DEBIT CARD and ran into the warehouse shouting “N.Y.P.D.! Hands up!”
I can’t decide whether I would want to cover a police department like this or not. Wait, what am I talking about? Of course I would.

A patient defends Pathways
A regular customer of Pathways, the medical marijuana dispensary whose business license the city has revoked, called today to defend the co-operative.
Jermaine Manuel-Wilson, 29, said he has severe scoliosis and the very rare Antley-Bixler syndrome, and has had a total of 27 surgeries, including one for a tumor in his forehead. He said he had been taking medication for pain since he was a child, but they had begun to have little or no effect on him.
“I took every medication in the PDR, all the way to OxyContin,” he said.
Since 2000 he has been using marijuana, instead. It’s not addictive and its effect is not diluted by continued use, he said.
If Pathways is forced to close, Manuel-Wilson said, he will have to go to Sacramento or the Bay Area to get what he needs to relieve his pain. (Antley-Bixler, by the way, sounds really nasty. Manuel-Wilson says his case is relatively mild.) Pathways, he said, was clean, legitimate and well-run.
“I’ve been to a couple of other places. They’re OK, but they’re just not friendly,” he said. “I know everybody at Pathways on a first name basis.”