Mary Nolan takes the deal

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 09/13/2013

Protect My Sons from being killed by who's not been arrested

uilty plea expected in Conta Costa 'dirty DUI'

Justin Berton

Updated 12:02 am, Friday, September 13, 2013

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(09-12) 19:29 PDT CLAYTON -- A divorce attorney linked to the private investigator at the center of Contra Costa County's "dirty DUI" scandal is expected to plead guilty later this month to charges that she hired him to plant listening devices inside the car of a client's ex-husband.

Mary Nolan, 61, was indicted by a grand jury last year on four counts of tax evasion and allegedly paying former private investigatorChristopher Butler to bug cars on her behalf. Court records show she is scheduled to enter a guilty plea Sept. 27.

Nolan's attorneys did not respond to a phone call for comment.

The divorce attorney's name first surfaced in 2010 after two men told The Chronicle that Nolan had used their drunken-driving arrests against them during divorce and custody battles.

Nolan represented both men's ex-wives in family law court.

The men, David Dutcher of Concord and Declan Woods of Clayton, later filed lawsuits alleging Nolan had worked with Butler to ensure their arrests to "dirty" them up before court proceedings.

Butler has admitted to conceiving the so-called "dirty DUI," which he also called a "designed coincidence." For Dutcher and Woods, Butler hired female "decoys" to approach the men, drink with them at a bar and then ask the men to follow them in their car to another destination. Then, Butler would call 911 or a police officer to report a drunken driver.

Brian Gearinger, an attorney who represents Dutcher, said Nolan's change of plea and sentencing will allow the lawsuits by Dutcher and Woods to move forward.

"We trust the interest of justice will be served by her plea and subsequent sentencing," Gearinger said.

Butler, who was sentenced to eight years in prison last year, testified in a separate criminal trial last month that Nolan had hired him to conduct Woods' DUI arrest.

Under oath, the private eye also admitted to planting eavesdropping devices inside "hundreds" of cars for clients.

Nolan was never charged in connection with the drunken-driving scandal.

According to the State Bar of California website, Nolan voluntarily deactivated her bar license Sept. 1. Court records also show she is selling her Oakland home to help pay a portion of the $1.8 million in taxes the IRS claims she failed to report.

Nolan's charges call for a sentence of up to 15 years in prison and $750,000 in fines.

Justin Berton is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: jberton@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @justinberton

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Starbucks San Ramon CA - Another fire at another restaurant - no question we've got a super serious arsonist.

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San Ramon Starbucks Fire

SAN RAMON, Calif. — KTVU and Wires

An early morning one-alarm fire Friday damaged a San Ramon Starbucks and filled a neighboring bank full of smoke, authorities said.

The blaze was reported at 4:07 a.m. at the Starbucks located at 3110 Crow Canyon Place.

Firefighters arrived, saw flames on the exterior walls of the coffee shop and were able to extinguish the fire at 5:14 a.m., San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District spokeswoman Kim French said.

The Starbucks sustained damage that will keep it closed today, she said.

Two adjacent businesses, a cheesecake shop and a Comerica Bank, sustained smoke damage but crews hope to have the businesses open today, French said.

No one was injured in the fire. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, she said.

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Starbucks Customer Service - trust me I've tried to convince them

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 09/13/2013

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Starbucks Customer Care (info@starbucks.com)

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6/22/13

To: pete@petebennett.net

Hello Pete,

Let me start off by thanking you for your patience while waiting for a response.

It looks like you've already called in and were able to get your inquiry addressed. If you still have questions or need assistance, please contact us.

Thanks again for writing us.  If you ever have any questions or concerns in the future, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

We would love to hear your feedback. Click here to take a short survey.

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From: Pete Bennett <pete@petebennett.net>
Received: 6/19/13 11:10:59 AM MDT
To: Starbucks Customer Care <info@starbucks.com>
Subject: RE: Other

Thank you for the response
 
Since the letter more has happened.  As you know Anothony Banta Jr once worked at the same Duncan/Main Starbucks he graduated from Paradise  High School Paradise CA. 
 
Last week there was an arson murder in Paradise - the victim list per a reporter with direct information from the Unders Sherrif told me it was two males in the trunk and one Adult Female in the back seat. 
 
http://contracostawatch.blogspot.com/#!/2013/06/three-dead-bodies-discovered-in-burned.html
 
For five days I waited but someone from the Butte Coroner confirmed it was not them - 
http://www.paradisepost.com/news/ci_23451937/dead-bodies-discover-burned-car-near-stirling-city?source=rss_viewed
 
Why the concern?  That's where Anthony Banta Jr. Graduated from and what I know about the interaction between Butte and Contra Costa County (200 miles) concerns me when they have back to back fires where soemthing explodes buring three in one car and one in a mobile home to death.  
 
http://contracostawatch.blogspot.com/#!/2013/06/rossmoor-limo-fire-another-coincidence.html
This was 2 milles from your store - not saying its connected but we have many fires surfacing around the county - they simply haven't assigned enough resources to the investigation.  
 
The San Jose incident smacks of my existing allegations well documented with the FBI 
 
Just pay me for the lost guitar and my emotional stress and fire the fucker as fast as you can - another patron lost their Ipad the day before my guitar was stolen.  
 

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To: pete@petebennett.net
Subject: Re: Other <<#466040-10836822#>>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:57:09 -0500

Dear Pete, 
 

Thank you for contacting Starbucks.
 

Rest assured that Starbucks takes reports of theft seriously and investigates them thoroughly.  Once the investigation is concluded, appropriate actions will be taken.

I am sorry for this unfortunate incident, and thank you for bringing it to our attention. I am forwarding this to the appropriate level of review. Your case number is 11704933. We will do everything possible to investigate the theft of your guitar.

Thanks again for writing us.  If you ever have any questions or concerns in the future, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
 

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--- Original Message ---
From: Pete Bennett <pete@petebennett.net>
Received: 6/14/13 10:03:44 PM MDT
To: <sbxinfo@buf.sitel.net>
Subject: Other

Name: Pete Bennett
Address: NA Walnut Creek California 94596 US
Phone: 5104605641
Event Date: 
Event Time: 
Store Location: Duncan and Main Street Walnut Creek
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Purchased From: Duncan and Main Street Walnut Creek
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#morganfire

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 06/13/2013

In 2004 my truck was riffed by Arsonist that I'm positive is connected to Police or Fire Agencies.  

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Contra Costa Arsonist is Busy Again

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 09/08/2013

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Banta Coroners Inquest: From CNN: 3 deaths may be tied to synthetic marijuana in Colorado

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 06/13/2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/health/synthetic-marijuana-denver/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

3 deaths may be tied to synthetic marijuana in Colorado

By Jacque Wilson, CNN

updated 8:39 PM EDT, Fri September 6, 2013

This pouch of dried herbal potpourri is called "synthetic marijuana" and is labeled with the warning: "not for human consumption."

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• 75 people in Colorado may have become sickened after smoking synthetic marijuana
• Health officials are looking into whether these are linked to one product or several
• Fake pot is a blend of plant and herbal materials that have been sprayed with chemicals

(CNN) -- Three people in Colorado may have died after smoking synthetic marijuana, state health officials fear. The Colorado Department of Public Health has launched an investigation into an outbreak of illnesses at hospitals that may be tied to the dangerous substance.

"Initial reports show approximately 75 people who reported smoking a form of synthetic marijuana may have been seen at hospitals in the Denver metro area and Colorado Springs beginning in late August," said Dr. Tista Ghosh, interim chief medical officer for the state, in a written statement. "Several individuals were in intensive care and three deaths are being investigated as possibly associated."

The Colorado Department of Health, with help from local health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will attempt to figure out if the synthetic marijuana is to blame, and if so, whether all the patients were sickened by the same product or different ones.

But "don't wait for the results of this investigation," Ghosh urged. "If you have synthetic marijuana, stop using it and destroy it."

Teen narrowly escapes death after smoking synthetic marijuana

Known as K2, Spice, Black Mamba, Mr. Smiley and Blaze, among other things, synthetic marijuana can have more serious consequences than regular marijuana, which is legal in Colorado. These synthetic cannabinoids are a blend of plant and herbal materials that have been sprayed with chemicals, producing an extra toxicity, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Teen nearly dies smoking fake pot

Sold most often on the Internet, synthetic marijuana produces euphoric and psychoactive effects similar to those associated with marijuana. But doctors say there are additional side effects that may be particularly dangerous. The drug can leave patients catatonic and listless. And what makes matters worse, very little is known about synthetic marijuana or how to treat an adverse reaction or overdose.

According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the number of calls to poison centers related to synthetic drugs soared from about 3,200 in 2010 to more than 13,000 in 2011.

"Easy access and the misperception that Spice products are 'natural' and therefore harmless have likely contributed to their popularity," the NIDA website states. "Another selling point is that the chemicals used in Spice are not easily detected in standard drug tests."

Because the chemicals used in these products have a high potential for abuse and no medical benefit, the DEA has designated five of the most common active chemicals frequently found in synthetic marijuana as Schedule I controlled substances, making it illegal to sell, buy, or possess them. But manufacturers seem to be changing the chemical compounds as fast as lawmakers enact legislation to ban them.

The CDC was sending a team of four to assist the investigation.

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Tanabe is getting off easy

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 06/13/2013

Reposted to Protect My Sons
Perhaps we should take pause as a bigger fish is coming up the ladder.  Albert has screwed over so many contractors, customers but his worst mistake was f__king me over, lets Delta Pacific Bank 1985, that contractor found floating in the delta in the early 80s who ripped out the foundations, or perhaps me your database programmer when Tanabe, Wielsch, Butler and others all managed to push me to the edge gave the database to the FBI.  That includes the bonding agency who seems to have most of the probate bonding business locked down.  
I suppose that's why the former Head of the Walnut Creek Bomb Squad back in 2011 was so interested in my PGE database on the San Bruno Fire, or that Walnut Creek PD officer Burns was dying to know what I told the FBI.  The genie has been out of the bottle for years as unknown to me my divorce Attorney Dax Craven was passing my confidential documents to his father in-law James Greenan who knows Supervisor Anderson.  Just in case you didn't know it Greenans firm defended Seeno for 30 years.  

SEENO and ALAMO 1st Mormons 
What you will begin to notice is there are no more Murder Suicides connected to Divorce - these disastrous Contra Costa County Divorces.  Gulob can longer pull in divorce cases into his court, the family Destruction center is now peaceful down to just 6 armed deputies protecting the peace instead ten.  The screwing and flogging your assets but now the Probate Court is next as it the Contra Costa Bar Association as you have to realize it's a club at the Bar, Churches and Courts. 

On November 1st 2011 I gave Chief Bryden documents linking CNET officers to WCPD, he said he was the FBI contact for CNET - he was not, he was lying and two weeks after our July 6th 2011 conversation my car was totaled by a retired SFPD Lieutenant who once showed me pictures of the Piedmont Fire when only 20 people were standing there.  Trust me First Alarm images are real  hard to get.  

The arsonist is still living among us, the killed of Vitale likely fell to his death as after all he was one of the few links connecting Butler to other crimes.  
I know, met, talked or worked with every person in the list.  The elected officials are one degree of separation between me and this story.  If I were an elected official in any city I'd head my warnings while this story unfold.  Watch your six as someone is taking out witnesses and public officials as Gary Bell, Mike Shimansky, Bill Pollecek, Federal Glover, myself plus my former co-worker cannot all have come down with near fatal or fatal bacterial infections.  The one other survivor I know of has vanished.  He was poisoned when he was arrested by Wielsch in 2006 and spent three days in the jail infirmary vomiting his guts up like I spent back in 2005.  

NO ONE BELIEVED BUT fatal Spinal Meningitis is 3 per 100,000.  I know of seven but if you add in Docs. Pharmacy it would 4 more fatal plus 16 near fatal.  There isn't a statistic like that anywhere in the world nor do you we have anything like Piedmont or San Bruno Fire which based on what I've gathered is a domestic terrorism for economic gain.  PG&E is clueless about how this may have occurred but if they want my theory they can pay me the money their vendor owes. 

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