Pinole CA: According to the Contra Costa Times a bomb scare was called in to the Pinole CA Best Buy just past 6 PM PST. Few details exist but there are plenty of other similar calls. This store has a geographic relationship to the car fires found along Dam Road in 2011.
Pinole: Store evacuated Friday night after receiving bomb threat►
By Daniel M. Jimenez Bay Area News Group
Posted: 01/26/2013 11:36:42 AM PST
PINOLE -- Employees and customers were evacuated from an electronics store Friday night after the business received a bomb threat, police said.
An employee at the Best Buy store at 1490 Fitzgerald Drive flagged down a police officer in the parking lot about 7:58 p.m., according to a statement from Pinole police. Employees and management had already begun evacuating the store.
Police cordoned off the store and interviewed the staff. BART police also assisted, bringing an explosive-sniffing dog to help search the store.
No suspicious devices were located after a search of the store. Employees were allowed back in just after 10 p.m.
"St. Anthony's Fire" One possible method or tactic - This victim is speaking up
"St. Anthony's Fire" This may get the attention of some but this past December I recently encountered someone who was hallucinating, out of control, building into a rage. This is beyond my expertise but a local anesthesiologist suggested as "Ergot" as an alternative to a chemistry connected source such as bath salts which is present in every county in the country. The random pattern across the county suggests this could in the "food chain" or someone with an expertise of deception. As as a diabetic person I know what happens when my blood sugar is out of whack. This malady has been known for centuries but after reading up I could so how limbs and extremities would be affected but as a reminder fifty years diabetic related amputations were common site. We may act immortal but we are not. Apparatus Tactic - Disrupting targets medically This could be a source of what nearly killed me in 2005 but testing revealed nothing but my geographic re-location probably saved my life but that didn't stop the Apparatus Danville CA (via phone): In June 2009 I filed a police report with Officer Paul Murphy who laughed at my allegations. My dinner with Supervisor Federal Glover in April 2009 who shared his medical challenges. What I didn't share back was that I was supposed to meet Eric Nunn - candidate for office the following Wednesday after his fatal crash in June 2008. The Contra Costa Times has the only copies of emails exchanged as when my offices were targeted in 2010 I abandoned my equipment which was sold at Auction at Walnut Creek Storage sometime in December 2010. Don't know when I left which again probably saved my life.
I vetted my findings with an FBI Agent in parallelafter concluding that it was possible that Supervisor Glover and I were deliberately given something that would slip by standard toxicological testing or perhaps someone with the right expertise such as a Criminalist or in my case the former head of the scandal laden SF Crime Lab. But that was June 2009 and by August 2009 someone extremely well liked came down with a bacterial infection and passed but that's what happened to a former co-worker in Walnut Creek and to the daughter of a mom that once lived just off Stone Valley Road Alamo but I have another former Danville resident who was knocked out with GHB but noticed a puncture wound in her back. Days later she was in the CCU at CCCRMC a record that Dr. Walker wants to and should review. Mine was ingested her's was injected but the results are the same. So Murphy just in case the cat got your tongue I suspect the FBI has been monitoring your phones and cell phones for longer than you'd suspect. In 2001 I wrote for Contra Costa County the telephone billing system where I learned all the undercover numbers, how they were masked by AT&T. Knowing I suspected I was an Arson Victim I started calling about the Eiko Sugihara arson/muder fire but I know this number leads to the Coroners Office I've called enough times to know they aren't interested in solving that murder. This will help everyone understand how the state already knows more than the county knows they know - Oops! About the Statewide Telecommunications and Network Division I have no money only words and yes I am broke as the Apparatus has made sure I'm economically neutralized.
Apparently the Contra Costa Apparatus goes a little deeper than you were told. Take a close look at how a chess board works, there are Pawns, Castles, Knights, Bishops, Queens, and Kings but I can assure you that we're all on a chess board. "Vanna - False Police Reports for $1000 please" Wikipedia Resources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergot An ergot kernel called a sclerotium develops when a spore of fungal species of the genus Claviceps infects a floret of flowering grass or cereal. The infection process mimics a pollen grain growing into an ovary during fertilization. Infection requires that the fungal spore have access to the stigma, so plants infected by Claviceps are mainly outcrossing species with open flowers, such as rye (Secale cereale) and ryegrasses (genus Lolium). The proliferating fungal mycelium then destroys the plant ovary and connects with the vascular bundle originally intended for seed nutrition. The first stage of ergot infection manifests itself as a white soft tissue (known as sphacelia) producing sugary honeydew, which often drops out of the infected grass florets. This honeydew contains millions of asexual spores (conidia), which insects disperse to other florets. Later, the sphacelia convert into a hard dry sclerotium inside the husk of the floret. At this stage, alkaloids and lipids accumulate in the sclerotium.
Andrew Mantas, 21, was 16 when his mother, 43-year-old Dimitra Mantas, was beaten to death with an aluminum baseball bat in the family's Danville home. He is scheduled to next appear in court on June 27.
During this same time period someone tainted my food or medication as one day I awoke Hallucinating after being asleep for most of the morning. My medical records will corroborate dates but I was forced to changed medication as I wasn't getting better and left Contra Costa County Regional Medical as the Parasite issues was the same diagnosis even though there were at least five negative parasite tests.
I've been suspect that someone had deliberately given me psychedelics as there were several events during 2004 to 2006. It would easy to give a kid seeking drugs and I suspect that's what sent Anthony Banta, some of the homeless, and Chris Lacey all very strange events. There is a connection to the homeless that leads to local church.
Late on a November night last year, several days after she first reported to police that her 15-year-old daughter was missing, Minnie Norrell awoke from a fitful sleep and went to look outside her bedroom window.
There in her front yard, amid the many candles that well wishers carefully had placed and lit in her front walk, she saw a stranger.
She watched quietly as the man moved some of the shining candles aside to make room on the brick walls that line her front path for the one he had brought. He then lit the candle on the walk, which had become a symbol of hope for Norrell and her community, and disappeared into the darkness as silently as he had arrived.
“Pittsburg people are special,” said Norrell, nearly a year later, recalling those agonizing nights and the outpouring of public sympathy and support she felt. “I can’t tell you how many thousands of people were in this house. And I’m talking thousands.”
The tragedy of Lisa Diane Norrell’s disappearance and the news of her murder eight days later brought the community of Pittsburg together in fear and mourning like few other events in recent times, and has helped spark an effort by city officials and religious leaders to address problems of violence and youth alienation.
Lisa’s murder “heightened awareness of people and their surroundings,” said Mayor Federal Glover, 43, a lifetime resident of Pittsburg. “Emotionally it draws the community together. We all learned from the tragedy."
“She was a good person, who happened to find herself in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Glover went on. “Emotionally it makes you want to do more outreach.”
To that end, the city has held conferences on youth issues and set aside funding for a new teen center and skating park over the past year since Lisa’s killing, which remains unsolved. The city also holds open forums during city council meetings to promote dialogue between the teenagers and adults.
But one of the biggest changes since Lisa’s murder has been in the way Pittsburg officials discuss the problems of the city. According to Pittsburg’s Assistant City Manager, Glenn J. Valenzuela, 50, the city’s leaders were never so involved with young people as they are now.
“Involvement with the youth before Lisa’s death was a priority, but it was not at the front burner,” said Valenzuela. “Now, wherever you go in this city and hear elected officials speak, one of the first words that come out of their mouths is in support of young people. That is real rare in any city.”
Taking Comfort in Family
Pittsburg, a close-knit industrial town of 54,117, is located 40 miles east of San Francisco across the San Francisco Bay. Its hard-working residents are a diverse mix -- 47.2 percent Caucasian, 23.7 percent Hispanic, 17.1 percent African-American, and 11.2 percent Asian, according to the 1990 census. Many of its residents have lived all their lives in a town where Dow Chemical is one of the major employers along with a steel company called USS-POSCO.
They take comfort in their families, do the best they can to get by, and take pride in the city’s multi-ethnic character, which sharply contrasts with other, largely white, suburban towns in otherwise affluent Contra Costa County.
Indeed, at least one Pittsburg official, school board trustee Jim MacDonald, charges that local industries pollute the air and water more freely in Pittsburg than in other Bay Area communities precisely because of the city's working-class and ethnic makeup.
Earlier this month MacDonald proposed that the city demand that the Federal government declare Pittsburg "an environmental justice community." Such status, part of an environmental protection agency program begun five years ago to reduce the effects of pollution and toxic waste in poor and minority areas, would allow the government to oversee the industries and provide funding for education programs.
At first glance, Pittsburg, nestled next to the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, has a small-town feel, a safe haven from the problems of the major metropolis. But looks can be deceiving, for like many suburban towns across America Pittsburg is not immune from urban dangers: drugs, prostitution, youth gangs and violence among them. Lisa’s murder was one of at least six last year.
For some time, Pittsburg police have been at a loss about how to eliminate prostitution and the drug houses that became common sights on Ninth and Tenth streets. Gang warfare even began to claim lives.
One such death touched Father Ricardo Chavez enough to prompt him to do something about it. When a teenager named Douglas Askern was killed in a drive-by shooting only a few weeks before Lisa’s death, the town, numbed by the constant violence, did nothing.
“What got to me was that there was no reaction,” said Father Chavez, the priest at a local Catholic church who grew up in Pittsburg. “Nobody put a marker out there, nobody put up a flower or a cross. This was now the umpteenth death and I began to sense that everyone was like I was--you just expect it.”
Lisa Norrell’s murder soon followed, along with the deaths of several prostitutes from the area and brought hordes of Bay Area media attention to Pittsburg (See ETHICS). Finally, people were paying attention.
“The town just kind of adopted her, kind of like a strange phenomenon,” said Christine Rohde, one of Lisa’s teachers at Pittsburg High. “It was just this cute little girl who wouldn’t hurt a fly and all of a sudden she’s just gone. And violently and horribly.”
"A Wake-up Call to Residents"
In the aftermath of the killings, Father Chavez launched Families Against Violence, a group dedicated to teaching parents how to talk to their kids about violence. The city formed a task force in hopes of combating the problem and after school programs were instituted along with midnight basketball to help keep kids out of trouble.
Mark C. Leonard, 45, a resident of Pittsburg for six years, President of The Rotary Club and a member of the Board of Directors for the Chamber of Commerce and Boys and Girls Club, said that Pittsburg is no worse than any other city when it comes to crime. Still, he said Lisa’s killing has been a "wake-up call" for residents and police alike to do a more effective job at maintaining security.
“Personally, I don’t want my kids out after dark,” said Kathy C. Meidinger, Executive Assistant at the City Manager’s office and a mother of four. “And I preach to them ‘don’t put yourself in a compromising position,’ which is really what Lisa did. Just don’t walk alone in the dark.”
Lisa disappeared on Nov. 6, 1998 after leaving a rehearsal for a quinceañera party for a Latina girlfriend in an Antioch Hall. She reportedly left in anger and decided to walk home along the largely desolate Antioch-Pittsburg Highway. She never returned home. Her asphyxiated body, her hands knotted in fists, was found face down in the yard of a landscaping firm a week later.
It was a devastating time that council member Frank R. Quesada, 65, among many others in Pittsburg, will never forget. A retired postal worker, and Pittsburg’s mayor at the time of Lisa’s disappearance and murder, Quesada was an old family friend of Lisa and her family. Lisa’s 17-year-old brother Tony Quesada is Frank’s nephew by adoption.
“It was … heartbreaking,” said Quesada. “I saw her grow up. We would go to family functions and see each other. To me it was pretty personal, I knew her since she was a kid. The whole tragedy made you want to help the community.”
Like many, Quesada can’t make sense of the tragedy. He hopes the $60,000 reward money recently offered by Governor Gray Davis for information leading to arrest and conviction in the case will produce progress in solving a case that has seen little thus far.
“The funny thing, I don’t know what got her to be walking out there,” said Quesada. “It is not a heavily used road, people only used it for east-west traffic for work. Otherwise there is no traffic and no lights, it is very dark. I wouldn’t walk there and I am 65 years old. I know better.”
A statue of a fisherman adorns the Piazza di Isola delle Femmine on the Marina, representing the Pittsburg of the past, a predominantly Italian fishing community where Sicilians had come to make a better life in the early 1900’s. Originally named New York of the Pacific, the town became Black Diamond in 1905 after the discovery of coal in the hills just south of town. In 1911, residents voted to change the name to Pittsburg, after the Pennsylvania city, to reflect its industrial development. The “h” was dropped to simplify the spelling.
When commercial fishing in the bay and rivers was banned by the state legislature in the late 1950’s, the Italian community deteriorated and people began to move out. By then, an influx of people from all over the world had begun to call Pittsburg home and the population grew significantly. The largely Italian community began to give way to a new Latino population along with African-Americans and Filipinos. The change resulted in the exodus of many whites to neighboring Antioch, which consisted mostly of whites, as it does today.
In Pittsburg, the various races learned quickly to live with each other. “As far as I can remember, we got along well,” said Father Chavez. “It was such a small community that there weren’t really a lot of opportunities for doing wrong.”
Pittsburg saved its animosity for Antioch. For as long as residents can remember, there has been a rivalry between the two small towns that culminates in a raucous annual football game between their high schools each Fall.
“Antioch was our mortal enemy,” said Minnie Norrell, a graduate of Pittsburg High. “The Pittsburg-Antioch football game was the last of the year always. They had a lot of security out there because the funnest thing to do on Saturdays was to go to Antioch and start a fight.”
Remembering Lisa
These days, Minnie Norrell continues to mourn her daughter. The mention of Lisa’s name still brings tears to her eyes. But she is also doing what she can to find ways to better Pittsburg after the tragedy. She has been a vocal leader in seeking ways to bring new legislation so that children up to 16 years old will be considered missing instead of being automatically labeled as runaways.
She is also starting a non-profit organization called Lisa’s Closet to provide new clothes to needy children in the area.
And Norrell said she still takes great comfort in the citizens who have helped her cope, all the people who made a point to come to her and tell her how her daughter had touched their lives. She remembers the memorial for Lisa at the school, which drew over 2,000 students, many of whom were looking for ways to express their fear and grief. Norrell sat in the front row as Lisa’s teacher, Christine Rohde, gave a speech.
“It was very hard to speak looking at them because nobody knows what you’re going through until you look and see the pain in their eyes,” said Rohde. “Kids who didn’t even know Lisa just wanted to go up and hug her. She sat there for like two hours and just let kids come up and hug her.”
The children also remembered Lisa by decorating her locker with posters, cards and flowers. They held a candlelight vigil, walking from the high school to Norrell’s house, all the while singing Lisa’s favorite song, “Dreaming of You” by Selena. They crafted yellow ribbons and tissue paper flowers and gathered in Rohde’s room to weep and remember her.
Adults showered Norrell with gifts, flowers, constant visits, phone calls and the rapidly increasing collection of candles on her front walk, where so many strangers took the time to pay their respects.
Today, nearly a year later, a few candles still line Norrell’s front walk and a poster bearing a picture of Lisa remains in the front yard. Students from the high school stop by every once in a while and friends and neighbors still check in on her.
But for Minnie Norrell, who now lives alone in her modest corner house, things will never be the same.
“There is never going to be any closure. When they catch this guy and they kill him, I don’t have any closure,” she said. “My daughter is gone.”
Cause: Gun Cleaning accident
Work Location: Keller Williams 500 La Gonda Way Danville, CA 94526
Location: Not known
Chris was a my client in 2005 and suddenly disappeared. He visited my offices at 1425 Maria Lane Walnut Creek and once an licensed Real Estate Agent working at Keller Williams Danville CA .
During these visits he was seeking help on his real estate business and trying to support his family which he never shared but he was divorced. There is so little on his death, no obit but I'd heard it was a gun cleaning accident. It's always a bit discomforting to learn a client you liked dies but more troubling when you can't get answers.
There have been many real estate agents in the Tri-valley area killed but the amazing part is most were or were in Divorce processes of some type, child support, proceedings, hearings but there are others like a few homeless parents that appeared via court filings screwed out of their property. Contra Costa County family law clerks hid my files and interfered with a civil proceeding. They should be charged with obstructing justice as they also knew Tanabe who happened to live down the street.
In 2004 Gary Vinson Collins now deceased worked for the Town of Danville as a building inspector and was fired over attacking me in my house even though the Danville PD told me he had the right beat me up over a stolen paintbrush which is another Tanabe connection.
One of the real estate agents whom I met in 1988 became a whistle-blower around 2006. He changed to Real Estate and committed suicide but his widow was visibly upset as she knows Tanabe.
The degrees of separation between Butler, Lombardi, Wielsch and the entire CNET operation couldn't be more suspect as they're operation was governed by the Council of Chiefs and everyone but one has retired since CNET unfolded.
We just give our money - that's what Contra Costa does very well.
Update: Livermore Man Found Dead at Kaiser Was Longtime Elementary School Custodian Employees at Emma C. Smith Elementary School remember Michael Spence as caring, conscientious staff member. Crazy in Suburbia nailed it - we whitewash everything - then cover it up and "pretend" to ignore it. We probably be well served having warm-ups welcome rooms. Low cost sanity rooms for those in need.
I work over there and yes, he jumped off the parking structure. This is the second one in two weeks. Two weeks ago a man jumped out of his hospital room window and passed away also. Very sad. Thanks for keeping us informed. I can't stand the Contra Costa Times and get all my local news from Patch and Claycord.
Late on a November night last year, several days after she first reported to police that her 15-year-old daughter was missing, Minnie Norrell awoke from a fitful sleep and went to look outside her bedroom window.
Pittsburg, a close-knit industrial town of 54,117, is located 40 miles east of San Francisco across the San Francisco Bay. Its hard-working residents are a diverse mix -- 47.2 percent Caucasian, 23.7 percent Hispanic, 17.1 percent African-American, and 11.2 percent Asian, according to the 1990 census. Many of its residents have lived all their lives in a town where Dow Chemical is one of the major employers along with a steel company called USS-POSCO.
In the aftermath of the killings, Father Chavez launched Families Against Violence, a group dedicated to teaching parents how to talk to their kids about violence. The city formed a task force in hopes of combating the problem and after school programs were instituted along with midnight basketball to help keep kids out of trouble.
A statue of a fisherman adorns the Piazza di Isola delle Femmine on the Marina, representing the Pittsburg of the past, a predominantly Italian fishing community where Sicilians had come to make a better life in the early 1900’s. Originally named New York of the Pacific, the town became Black Diamond in 1905 after the discovery of coal in the hills just south of town. In 1911, residents voted to change the name to Pittsburg, after the Pennsylvania city, to reflect its industrial development. The “h” was dropped to simplify the spelling.
She is also starting a non-profit organization called Lisa’s Closet to provide new clothes to needy children in the area.
