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Christian Burkin writes about Stockton area crime and public safety. Born in Los Angeles, he moved to Stockton as a teenager, briefly attended Bear Creek High School, joined the U.S. Army, served four years on active duty and then was honorably ... Read FullCategories
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Daily Chaos: The EXGF and the NYPD
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 [...]
Daniel Dominguez, 25
The man shot to death Friday night in the 900 block of Greensboro Court was Daniel Dominguez, 25, and is by my count the victim of the sixth homicide in Stockton this year.
Dominguez, of Stockton, was shot just before midnight Friday, and after he was shot crashed his car into the garage of a Greensboro [...]
Daily Chaos: Snitches and Cows
I don’t even want to think about puns
Around 2 p.m. Monday a truck hauling dead cattle to a rendering plant in Sacramento slowed too quickly and rolled its trailer on northbound Highway 99 just south of Farmington Road. The driver told me there were about 30 carcasses in the bed, and they all came out. [...]
Medical Marijuana Dispensaries: The PD’s Needs
Deputy Police Chief Mark Helms spoke to the Planning Commission Thursday night, and said medical marijuana dispensaries would be a burden on an already-strained Police Department.
To start, Helms said the Police Department was neutral on whether the city should allow medical marijuana dispensaries.
“We clearly recognize the voters of California have spoken; the legislature has spoken,” [...]
California Opathics Patient Association: Cutting Room Floor
Some of the material from my interview with members of the California Opathics Patient Association’s co-op board didn’t make it into a story printed in the newspaper today.
Sammy Trujillo, COPA board’s vice-president, on the possibility the city will deny COPA a permit to operate precisely because they opened before regulation settled: “Good things happen to [...]
Daily Chaos: Side benefits, and the Internet is dangerous
Spittoons to be standard equipment on patrol cars
At a traffic stop near midnight Wednesday at 5th and Sutter streets police found a drunk driver, 9.15 grams of cocaine and two of the most pleasant young people one might ever arrest. The driver, 19-year-old Henry Alvarez, was arrested without any apparent complication. But it was the [...]
“If it wasn’t for her I wouldn’t be talking to you now.”
On the same night Officer Robin Harrison was named the Stockton Police Department’s 2009 Officer of the Year, Janet Lee Rodrigues-Caltharp was celebrating her 15th year as an employee of Sutter Tracy Community Hospital.
“If it wasn’t for her, I would never have reached 15 years at the hospital,” Rodrigues-Coltharp, a phlebotomist, said Thursday.
On June 13, [...]
Kathryn Flanagan, 24
On Tuesday night police responding to a “disturbance” at a home in the 2200 block of Dario Circle found Kathryn Flanagan, 24, dead.
By Wednesday morning they had arrested Flanagan’s boyfriend, 42-year-old Michael Simmelkjer Inman.
Officer Pete Smith said Inman had a history of domestic violence against Flanagan. The two did not live together — Inman lives [...]
Daily Chaos: Leaves, Signs, an Ice Cream Man
To every thing there is a season
The Sheriff’s Office said that a little after midnight Tuesday deputies were sent to a “disturbance” in the first block of North Adelbert Avenue. What they found was 41-year-old Lisa Marie Scroggins screaming, flailing her arms and rolling around in a pile of leaves. It turned out Scroggins was [...]
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A patient defends Pathways