Meningitis as Murder Weapon - The Statistical Anomaly of Bacterial Cases Near Me

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 01/14/2014
Discovery Date: 
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Walnut Creek CA:  They say at the end of they day statistics prove out the facts.  I'm taking a new approach by developing PowerPoint  presentations, videos, and continuing to write with new emphasis on how the political machine has sat back practically waiting for me to be killed.  It's gotten better but I've got bills, debts and my sons live in a shit-shack while my elected politicians cozy up with the Visa Machine.  

You'd be pissed if you have a cop run you off the road and six months later your sons half brother was murdered and you suspect that the Father of the son given up for adoption attempted to kill you via a hit and run but that his relative is the Chief of Police.  

Meningitis as a Murder Weapon

Getting back the Meningitis cases.  The first fatal near me was that of mom like me going through a divorce in Alamo CA.  I remember how the same Alamo 1st members tried to postulating her take that Magic Mormon Baptorama dip at the Great Big Temple in Oakland.  I think these guys carry little Baptorama scorecards on their I-phones (upgraded from paper in 2010).  

When this mom shared her story I'd already been concerned about the Doc's Pharmacy Case in Walnut Creek (2001) connected to many deaths in Contra Costa County with my long-time friend Bob Horowitz who was quoted that he felt "railroaded" by the Pharmacy Board and after you read to the other cases you'll probably wonder if perhaps this was a murder scene all along and by no means does Mr. Horowitz should anyone consider him a suspect.  If anyone is a suspect it's Jamie Sheets but he's dead after committing suicide in Pleasant Hill but few know this he once worked as Pharmacist at 500 South Broadway Walnut Creek which is 500 feet from where my friend Tim Hogan plunged to his death down the same creek/channel where my other friends son and his friend drowned from Los Lomas High School.  

Back the other fatal and near fatal bacterial infections - if anyone even considers this normal I have several Walnut Creek Police officers that will gladly mark you with 5150 Papers.  

Fatal 

Councilman Mike Shimansky

Councilman Gary Bell 

Tax Collector Bill Pollacek 

Alamo Girl

Doc's Pharmacy - four victims 

Survivors 

Phil - Former Coworker 

Supervisor Glover 

Pete Bennett 

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AMTRAK Railroad says woman killed by train at Davis station not on cellphone

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 01/13/2004 
Discovery Date:  01/13/2004 
Incident Date: 11/14/2013Reposted to Protect My Sons

Remote Viewing Station #1: Somewhere in a North Bay Starbucks my magnetism delivered another tragedy as the gal sitting across from me knew this young woman who walked in front of a train just like PayPal SVP Eric Salvateria did at the Menlo Park CalTrain station in 2012. 

More later on these dubious accidents.    

Railroad says woman killed by train at Davis station not on cellphone

Nov 18, 2013 

DAVIS, Calif. - The young woman hit and killed by an Amtrak Train in Davis Sunday night has been identified as 29-year-old Andrea Mrotz from Vallejo.

According to Davis police, at least one witness said Mrotz was on her phone prior to the train collision. At least one witness also tried to yell and warn Mrotz.

Officers talked to several witnesses including the train conductor. According to police, Mrotz, was in the danger zone.

Police say Mrotz was crossing the tracks when she was struck by the train.

Loved ones say Mrotz was an intelligent and responsible young lady who was familiar with the Davis Amtrak station and used the train regularly.

Alberta Jones says her niece was not someone who took things lightly.

"She was standing next to her belongings when she got hit," said Jones. "We don't know how she ended up on the tracks. That we don't understand."

Amtrak and Union Pacific Railroad were reviewing surveillance video from the incident.

"Until you see the video, we don't know how she ended on the tracks. That we don't know. She wasn't crossing back and forth. We still don't know if she was on her phone," said Jones.

Jones said Mrotz had an incoming call before the accident, but it was not certain that her niece was on the phone when she was killed.

Sunday night, A Union Pacific worker said there were additional passengers on the train because of the Raiders game. Mrotz's family believes the train was longer than usual. And, they believe there were a number of additional factors that may have contributed to Mrotz's death.

Amtrak and Union Pacific Railroad were not commenting on the investigation.

Mrotz graduated from UC Davis in microbiology several years ago.

According to her LinkedIn profile, she was a leader and organizer of LabelGMOs: California's Grassroots for the Vallejo and Benicia area. She stated that she organized group volunteer meetings and marches and advocated for sustainable farming practices.

On her Facebook page, Mrotz has many posts about her activism in public health and protecting the environment.

She was also an avid and accomplished sailor and often taught people how to sail with the Benicia Yacht Club, according to relatives. 

By Suzanne Phan, sphan@news10.net

Twitter: @suzannephan

Facebook: SuzannePhanNews10

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Dead Witnesses: Druggist used pain patches to end his life / Walnut Creek pharmacist punished for tainted doses

This person is technically a witness to a potential criminal case.   

Druggist used pain patches to end his life / Walnut Creek pharmacist punished for tainted doses

Erin Hallissy, Jim Herron Zamora, Chronicle Staff Writers

Published 4:00 am, Friday, March 29, 2002

Despondent that he was facing punishment for a fatal meningitis (please read Meningitis as Murder Weapon) outbreak last year that was linked to his pharmacy, a young pharmacist committed suicide by overdosing himself with powerful painkiller patches, coroner's reports say.

Jamey Phillip Sheets, 32, who owned just under half of Doc's Pharmacy until it was sold last year, was discovered dead on Tuesday night by his wife, Michelle, when she returned to their Pleasant Hill home from a trip to Southern California that Sheets had refused to go on.
"Everyone is shocked by this," Sheets' attorney, John Francis Martin, said yesterday. "I really can't comprehend how desperate he must have been."
Michelle Sheets told authorities that her husband had been depressed over having his license suspended for 90 days beginning on Sunday, and over financial problems related to losing his co-ownership of Doc's, said Pleasant Hill Police Lt. Gary Ezell
According to state records, Sheets believed he was being unfairly blamed for the contaminated medication that killed three people.
Sheets had not made any suicide threats, and his wife was not worried that he'd harm himself while she traveled with their two young children to visit her mother in Oceanside, Ezell said.
"She felt that she'd allow him some space in the hopes that he'd be improved" when she returned, he said.
Instead, she found him dead in bed, with six high-dosage fentanyl patches on his neck and chest and an open can of beer nearby.
No suicide note was found. A woman at the Sheets' home yesterday said Michelle Sheets would not speak to reporters.
Fentanyl is a morphine derivative mainly used by patients with terminal cancer. The 100-milligram patch is the strongest made, and is designed to release the drug over 72 hours, said Ryan de Guzman, a pharmacist in Stockton who teaches at the University of the Pacific pharmacy school.
"I would imagine that it would be a peaceful way to knock yourself out, with no pain at all," de Guzman. "This is probably why he chose the route he did."
Although Sheets owned 49 percent of Doc's Pharmacy in Walnut Creek, most of the legal and administrative blame for the meningitis outbreak has been placed on his longtime co-owner, Robert Horwitz, a major proponent of compounding, or specially mixing medications.
Last May and June, three people died and 13 others were hospitalized after receiving spinal shots of a steroid called betamethasone mixed by Doc's Pharmacy technicians. The medicine, used to treat back pain, was not properly sterilized and was contaminated by a common bacterium.
Horwitz will lose his license for one year beginning Sunday. Sheets would have gotten his license back, with some restrictions, and then been on probation for five years. He also was ordered to pay $37,159 in investigation and prosecution costs.
Sheets had worked in the pharmacy of a Walnut Creek Safeway since August. Safeway had agreed to let him continue working in a non-pharmacy role during his suspension, Ezell said.
Sheets "wasn't happy with the result, but I didn't think he was despondent over it," his attorney said. "He had everything to live for and nothing to die for. He had a beautiful wife and two beautiful kids. He was a great young man. This was not something that would keep him back for long."
Sheets was an up-and-coming pharmacist when Horwitz, 62, recruited him with the promise that the younger man would eventually take over the business.
But Sheets, who had specialized in clinical work, had no experience in compounding medications or in retail pharmacy.
"I foolishly was led to believe that Doc's Pharmacy, being such a well- respected pharmacy and Dr. Horwitz being so well-revered by his colleagues, was following all practices to the letter of the law," he wrote the Board of Pharmacy after the meningitis tragedy.
Sheets had no direct involvement in compounding the tainted medicine, the reports say. He insisted to state officials that he could not be blamed because he had not been at the pharmacy when the drugs were compounded.
State officials found that Horwitz was ultimately responsible because he was the pharmacist in charge and established most of the pharmacy's practices.
"Mostly out of deference to and respect for Horwitz, he never thought to challenge established compounding procedures or to push hard for improved quality controls," officials found

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The Arson Victims Speaks: Las Lomas Deaths Alarm Community

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 01/13/2013


North of Benicia Bridge CA: 

A few weeks back I reconnected with a friend whose son drowned in Walnut Creek and we've been comparing our mutual investigations.  It appears the same officers near my near fatal 2011 Police Shooting - I have no problem saying that Captain Tim Schultz was poised to use his weapon on me back in August 2011.  Three weeks later unknown to Captain Schultz was the State Attorney General Investigators began their investigation. 

Since September 2011 there have been over 10 deaths near me and the best the Walnut Creek Police can say is perhaps I should do a geographic relocation.  When recruiters call seeking to hire me they ask why have you had to so geographic relocation's, five offices, six residence but why does your mail point to a homeless shelter?  I need a job but few will take me with this nightmare near me in fact I wouldn't take me.  

This author got it right as there is a problem affecting Los Lomas Students and Alumni but more important does this extend to recent grads of students.  

Las Lomas Deaths Alarm Community

H. Tennant

On Wednesday, Feb. 23, the Las Lomas community gathered at the Shell Ridge Open Space for a candlelight vigil where they walked one of the boys’ favorite trails.

Hannah Tennant, Editor-in-Chief
March 11, 2011
Filed under News, Top Stories

Juniors Gavin Powell and Matthew Miller drown after rafting during a storm in Walnut Creek

On the night of Wednesday, Feb. 23, hundreds of Las Lomas students, family members, and Walnut Creek community members showed up at the Shell Ridge Open Space and walked a mile-long loop, candles in hand. They gathered to honor the passing of Matthew Miller and Gavin Powell, two juniors at Las Lomas High School who were pronounced dead on Sunday, Feb. 20 after attempting to raft down the rain-swollen waters of Walnut Creek.

- See more at: Juniors Gavin Powell and Matthew Miller drown

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Once You're an Arson Victim you'll understand >> Fire at old Antioch fire station was arson, officials say

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 01/13/2014

Reposted to Protect My Sons
Arson Murder - Magalia / Paradise CA
Related: Arson / Arson

Fire at old Antioch fire station was arson, officials say

By Katie Nelson Contra Costa Times

POSTED:   01/03/2014 05:53:35 PM PST | UPDATED:   10 DAYS AGO

ANTIOCH -- A blaze that caused $10,000 in damage to an old fire station Thursday night was arson, a fire official said.

Fire Inspector George Laing with the Contra Costa Fire Protection District said the investigation into the fire is ongoing, but evidence at the scene confirmed that someone intentionally set the blaze. The building is now owned by the city of Antioch.

The building was solely used for training purposes until three or four years ago, Laing said, and has since been sitting idle. Laing said the vacant building has attracted some trouble; as recently as a month ago, copper wire was stolen from inside the building's walls.

While the flames were contained to one room in the old station, fire crews said smoke damage extended through much of the building, resulting in $10,000 in damage.

Neighbors were able to provide possible suspect descriptions to investigators regarding who may have set the fire, but that information is not being released yet, Laing said.

The fire, on Deerfield Drive, was reported around 8:20 p.m. Thursday. Crews were able to knock the fire down by 8:50 p.m.

Follow Katie Nelson at Twitter.com/katienelson210.

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

Reposted to Protect My Sons

Does not seem suspicious? Really - the entire burns to the ground, unsafe for investigators and they already know it's not suspicious before the Arson Team shows up?  

We have an arsonist roaming around and it's not suspicious? 

Orinda: Fire guts home, two residents displaced

By Rick Hurd Contra Costa Times

POSTED:   01/13/2014 09:09:31 AM PST | UPDATED:   25 MIN. AGO

ORINDA -- Two people were displaced after a fire gutted a two-story home in Orinda on Sunday night, a fire official said.

A neighbor across the street was the first one to report the blaze, which began around 10 p.m. on Bobolink Road, Moraga-Orinda Fire District Chief Stephen Healy said. Fire crews arrived to find flames coming from about half the 2,500-square-foot home and vegetation outside beginning to burn, prompting a second alarm, Healy said.

According to neighbors, the residents of the house were not at home when the fire started. None of the neighboring houses were damaged, and nobody was injured, he said.

A home in Orinda burns in a two-alarm fire Jan. 12, 2014. (Moraga-Orinda Fire District)

Fire crews contained the blaze in 21 minutes. Healy said 29 personnel from the MOFD and Contra Costa Fire Protection District were involved in fighting the blaze, which caused approximately $800,000 in damages to the home. Healy said crews attempted to salvage some belongings in the home, but that parts of the house began collapsing later Monday morning, making any salvage work unsafe.

"It's too dangerous to go in there, so we're trying to determine whether the next step is to bulldoze the rest of it," he said. "It's not inhabitable."

The Red Cross was requested to help the residents find housing, but it was not known if they were going to use other alternatives, Healy said.

The origin and cause of the fire remains under investigation, but Healy said it does not appear to be suspicious.

Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rdERH.

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City Council Meeting Index

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL

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Phone: 510-460-5641

City Council Meeting Index 

Walnut Creek CA

City Council Special Meeting

December 10, 2013

03h 55m

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Letters sent to City Attorney 

Lafayette 
Letters sent to City Attorney and Town Council 


 

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