Showing posts with label Contra Costa District Attorney. Show all posts
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Amber Swartz-Garcia - A

In 2015, I filed kidnapping police report with the Walnut Creek Police.  According to California Law there is no waiting period.  After years of battling for access to my legal access to my sons I began emailing FBI, State Attorney General and USDOJ.  

Between 2011 and 2016 I called Senators, Assembly Members and Police.  In 2017 the SAG charged Contra Costa District Attorney Mark Peterson with a felony.  Today I am still waiting who orchestrated the kidnapping of my sons, then totaled my car for the umpteenth time over 40 years.   
 
Reposted to Protect My Sons



The Pinole Police Department announced late Tuesday it has reopened a high profile missing child's case, citing in part, that new technology will allow them to better process age-old evidence.
The department said it no longer considers the 1988 disappearance of 7-year-old Amber Swartz Garcia closed. 

The department's decision also comes after Lea Duel, a family friend, started an online petition at Change.org last month asking authorities to reopen the case, which has more than 1,300 signatures.
"I'm ecstatic," Amber's mother, Kim Swartz told the Pinole City Council Tuesday evening. "Thank you. The whole conversation has changed.

Amber disappeared forever from her front yard while skipping rope on Savage Avenue on June 3, 1988.
In November 2007, convicted child molester and murderer Curtis Dean Anderson confessed to killing Amber. He told FBI agents he dumped her body off Highway 10 near Benson, Arizona. Anderson died a month later before he could be re-interviewed by Pinole investigators. And Amber's body was never found, and agents could never find corroborating proof that Anderson was the kidnapper.

Kim Swartz has never believed that confession; she reiterated to the city council that she'd rather have her daughter listed as a missing person forever than have the wrong person be fingered for it.

Even though a search of the area came up empty, on July 6, 2009 the Pinole Police Department and the FBI announced that the case was formally being closed based on Anderson's signed confession. Both agencies said they were confident that Anderson’s confession was truthful.

In the release announcing the case had been reopened, Pinole police said:
"No information or evidence has been received that would dispute the confession made by Curtis Dean Anderson. However, Amber Swartz has not been located and consequently, effective immediately, the Pinole Police Department is modifying the status of the Amber Swartz case from closed to open."
Investigators now say they hope reopening the case will bring out new tips that could give Amber's mom the closure she has been waiting for for more than 25 years.

Anyone with information regarding Amber’s disappearance, or location is encouraged to call the Pinole Police Department at 510-724-8950.





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Kill Pete? You Be The Judge






Contra Costa Watch - Tragedies, Arson and Corruption 
Kill Pete? You Be The Judge



Back in 2000 was the beginning of one of many CNET Tactical Campaigns run on me. The Danville Police pulled out their Civil Rights Violation Handbook and turned the page to "How to violate the constitution without being caught!"

They then unleashed then Norman Wielsch who was the then supreme Commander of Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Taskforce with pals Chris Bulter, Norman Wielsch, Louis Lombardi and Stephen Tanabe plus many others far too many incidents have occurred.

I actually have over one hundred police reports or incidents going back to 1980, on July 20th, 2011 I was blinded via another vehicle where in seconds I'm being pushed into oncoming traffic but turned a hard right into the traffic island.


But that was the seventy vehicle destroyed since Chris Butler arrived at my house in Sept 2004.


In Mid August 2004 my F-250 truck bursts into flames, all over my blog I've mentioned this accident saying it was arson. My oil plug was down 2 1/2 turns flowing out like Chocolate Milk.


A month later Gary Vinson Collins is beating me in my house. Collins was actually a building inspector for the Town of Danville, then the Kinder Morgan Gas Pipeline Explosion, then Alicia Driscoll kills her daughter near Petaluma CA, then the key witness to that fire dies, then I nearly die from what I've said was poison.


Ten years later (2014) on June 5th, July 2nd and July 26th there were three distinct attempts to run me down. In the middle a good friends tires were shot out with I'm suspecting was SABOT round. The only information available is the insurance company held his totaled car for nearly 45 days. That would be long enough for FBI forensics to analyze a tire where the tire was gone - not ripped up from a blowout but completely gone.

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Contra Costa County Supervisor Dist 5 Federal Glover (as of 2013)

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


President Trump we need real help
These protesters trampled memorials for Fallen Soldiers 



Brief Purpose 

http://contracostawatch.blogspot.com/2013/10/bynum-v-city-of-pittsburg.html?q=bynum

In 1982 Pierre Bynum worked at my cabinet shop.  The minute I hired a minority the Irish / Italian families sent the Pittsburg Police after me, then went after my employees by killing one of them.  By 1986 one of my customers was murdered in Dublin CA then m good friend Cynthia Kempf in 1986.

After forty years of mayhem near Supervisor Federal Glover this Public Official has likely seen at least three persons of color he knew or grew up with have been killed by white police officers.  A sad statistic of what sure looks like the Western Division of the KKK - Contra Costa.


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Fatal blast bringing tight new rules or Better Investigators - Three persons near this fire deceased.

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WALNUT CREEK / Fatal blast bringing tight new rules / Lawmaker says buried utility lines need better marking

Published 4:00 am, Saturday, June 11, 2005






After a Senate committee hearing Friday into November's fuel-line blast in Walnut Creek that killed five workers, state Sen. Tom Torlakson said he will push for tighter laws regulating how hazardous underground utilities are marked and how construction crews can avoid them.
Current methods of protecting utilities are "very ad hoc, and that's not right. That's not safe," Torlakson, D-Antioch, said after the two-hour meeting at Walnut Creek City Hall.
Workers who mark utilities may require special certification and should employ more advanced technology than they currently use, Torlakson said, echoing suggestions made by some speakers. He also suggested that fines levied for accidents may need to be heftier.
It was the first public hearing since the Nov. 9 blast, in which a backhoe operator installing an East Bay Municipal Utility District water main hit a buried fuel line, releasing a stream of gas ignited by nearby welders.
The catastrophe has prompted several investigations, a raft of lawsuits and calls for new laws. Officials from workplace safety regulator Cal/OSHA appearing at Friday's hearing said they would consider new laws and regulations after consulting a panel of state and industry experts next month.
"The thing that stands out about this incident is its disturbing simplicity," said Len Welsh, acting director of Cal/OSHA. "We need a system that is resilient to human performance errors."
Cal/OSHA last month blamed Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, saying it failed to mark a bend in its fuel line. It issued the firm two "willful" violations -- the stiffest possible penalty -- and fined it $140,000, while the utility district, the contractor and a mapping firm received "serious" citations.
Kinder Morgan officials, who say they properly marked the line and provided maps showing the bend that was struck, are appealing the ruling. Company officials did not attend the hearing, but sent a letter saying the firm -- which operates 10,000 miles of pipelines in 21 states -- is "retaining additional third-party expertise concerning line marking practices, " providing more training and education and buying "state of the art line locating equipment."
Currently, state law requires Bay Area excavators, before digging, to call a nonprofit service that in turn contacts the owners of any nearby underground pipelines and utilities. Those owners must locate and mark their lines or advise workers of their location. Should those workers approach the line, they must dig by hand to expose it and protect it.
But Torlakson, EBMUD General Manager Dennis Diemer and others asked why there are no rules specifying exactly when utility owners should, for example, use paint to mark the path of a line or dig "potholes" that expose the line from the surface.
Mark Breslin, executive director of the Engineering and Utility Contractors Association, which represents about 400 companies, said the Walnut Creek explosion was "only a symptom of a recurring and pervasive problem in marking utilities in the state."
Also at the meeting, state Fire Marshal Ruben Grijalva said his pipeline safety division was within two weeks of issuing its report on the Walnut Creek blast. He said his investigators also believe it was caused by "the line not being properly marked" and could seek fines up to $500,000.
"There was enough regulation and legislation in place so that this should not have happened," Grijalva said. "It just wasn't followed."
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Bennett's Litigation Score Card - If you've ever lost a case in Contra Costa County

The Contra Costa District Attorney
Murder for Hire 

Updated: Nov. 11, 2017 

Around 1979 I got my first dose of litigation.  
After a few court room losses I got better at running my business and by 1985 things were better.  

In a nutshell my litigation history four murders near me and/my case or my attorneys
 


Litigation Scorecard



  1. Bennett V. Southern Pacific - Forced Adverse Settlement 
    1. Bennett's cabinet shop attacked with break-ins, shootings and arson - Bennett loses business 
  2. Fang v. Bennett 1987 - down the middle losses over $35,000 
    1. Fang Murdered in 2000 
    2. Bennett as Witness suppressed by Lt. Lawrence  refused to take statement  
  3. Bennett V. Collins - Danville Police and Town of Danville hid Collins from service 
    1. Documents handed to Chief Bryden on Nov 1st 2011 incriminating police officers, attorneys, and investigators plus Collins 
    2. Weeks Later CNET Witness Collins is dead plus two other divorces - Collins knows Butler, and Tanabe from Danville PD  Murder By Accident 
  4. Tarrant v. Bennett - Counsel Dax Craven - lied that he knew my ex-wife (Mormon)
  5. Charter Collections v. Authentic Technologies - Don Moats - disbarred but Moats offices burned down in 2001 - FBI investigated case too bad for Walnut Creek Police 
  6. Bennett hit with restraining orders by San Ramon Unified School District 
  7. Bennett's attorney in Collins matter beaten, threatened and left the area 
  8. Bennett's Attorney Moats wife murdered in Walnut Creek 1989
  9. Bennett's Attorney Dax Craven brother in-law Nate Greenan murdered on April 18th 2012 in Orinda

Other cases known to Bennett 
  1. Portue v. Dan Terry Contra Costa County Sheriff - Attorney Stu Stafine forced into adverse settlement loses case - Stafine dead within days. 
  2. Attorney Daniel Horowitz wife murdered in 2005 
  3. Attorney suing Seeno killed in car crash 
  4. Department of Elections two suicides connected to this department- with widows permission Bennett asks questions - you bet they didn't like those questions - The Head of the DOE suddenly announces retirement (very suddenly)
Check out "The Superior Court Murders" 


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California Bus Crash Sends Nine Disabled Adults To Hospital

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch E

This victim was Danville resident Chad Cordon, his family is Mormon who attended Alamo 1st, Alamo CA,  Across the street just a month earlier was the deadly Kinder Morgan explosion where 10 years later super investor Warren Buffett arrives with 250 million dollar investment.



California Bus Crash Sends Nine Disabled Adults To Hospital

Some of the clients can't speak and firefighters had difficulty communicating with them.


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California (AP) -- Inattentive driving may be to blame for a Friday morning bus crash that sent nine developmentally disabled adults to area hospitals, Walnut Creek police said.
About 9 a.m. a small bus operated by San Francisco-based Trans-Metro Express carrying nine passengers with various disabilities crashed head-on into a concrete pile on Lilac Drive under Interstate 680, behind Kaiser Hospital.
All nine passengers and the driver were taken to three different hospitals. The driver and one passenger had serious injuries but were stabilized at John Muir Medical Center, Lt. Loren Cattolico said.
The driver may have been talking to passengers when he veered left onto an island and crashed into the large concrete pillar, Cattolico said.
Cattolico did not release names of the driver or passengers, saying the reports would not be completed until Monday or Tuesday.
Buses from several companies contracted by the Regional Center of the East Bay pick up about 2,500 developmentally disabled adults every day and take them to hundreds of centers and programs in Contra Costa and Alameda counties, said Jim Burton, executive director of the center. The Regional Center coordinates the programs and transportation for each of the participants in the East Bay.
The bus that crashed Friday morning was on its way to Christmas parties at two vocational centers in Lafayette.
"They're not capable of traveling independently so they're picked up by this bus company," said Jacquie Allen, program director at Futures Explored, one of the centers.
Allen hurried to Kaiser to help identify the passengers and contact family members when she heard about the crash.
"They just looked like they were scared," she said.
Allen brought two of the passengers back to Futures in time for part of the Christmas festivities.
Some of the clients at Futures can't speak and firefighters had difficulty communicating with them.
Six of the moderately injured people were taken into Kaiser for evaluation, in case they were not able to alert rescue workers to an injury, a fire official said.
Neither Allen nor Burton could recall a traffic accident in the program in recent history.
"This will be thoroughly investigated," Burton said.
The Regional Center began working with Trans-Metro Express for busing about a year ago, Burton said. The California Highway Patrol had no record of citations or accidents for the company.
A company spokeswoman referred all questions to the Regional Center.



Caltrans inspectors said the crash did not damage the support pillar, Walnut Creek police reported.
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Eustacio Torres "It's impossible," sobbed their mother, Rafaela Torres of Martinez.

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 12/26/2012


Second tragedy hits family in Martinez

Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, August 5, 2009
  • Catalina Torres, a 44-year-old mother of two grown sons,  was killed on Saturday by Felix Sandoval. Torres was the cousin of Sandoval's estranged wife, Margarita Sandoval. Photo: Courtesy Of Torres Family
    Catalina Torres, a 44-year-old mother of two grown sons, was killed on Saturday by Felix Sandoval. Torres was the cousin of Sandoval's estranged wife, Margarita Sandoval. Photo: Courtesy Of Torres Family

It's been nearly a year since Catalina Torres, a volunteer for a battered women's group, was killed during a terrifying domestic violence attack at a Martinez beauty salon. At the time, her brother Eustacio Torres told relatives he couldn't believe such violence existed.
Now Eustacio Torres, a former star wrestler at San Francisco State who paid for much of his sister's burial and welcomed one of her adult sons into his home, is dead under similar circumstances. And a Martinez family that already had too much experience with domestic violence is reeling from it once again.
"It's impossible," sobbed their mother, Rafaela Torres of Martinez.
Catalina Torres, who did outreach to women at Concord's Stand Against Domestic Violence, was slain by her cousin's estranged husband, who may have resented her efforts to help his wife get away from him.
Eustacio Torres, a 41-year-old contractor from San Diego, was fatally shot July 19 by his ex-girlfriend, who then turned her gun on herself, according to police. It was Catalina Torres' son who discovered the bodies.
Eustacio Torres was mourned a week later at the same Catholic church in Martinez that held his sister's service. And their bodies now rest side by side in a Lafayette cemetery.
"I can't believe this is happening again," said Silvia Torres-Limón, speaking from her mother's Martinez home, which her brother rebuilt at age 17 after consulting books from the library. "You wish it was a nightmare, but it's not."
"Unbelievable," said Martinez Police Chief Tom Simonetti. "Catalina was an advocate for changes in the system to protect innocent victims. It's ironic as can be that her brother would fall."
Strong and capable, Eustacio Torres was like a surrogate father to his family as a boy, relatives said. At San Francisco State, he was a Division II All-American and still ranks fifth in career wins for the university.
"My brother was big and stocky and wouldn't smile much, so some were afraid of him," said sister Patricia Bustamante of Santa Ana. "But he was very humble and generous, and you knew that when you got to know him."
She recalled that after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, her brother stayed out all night looking for survivors. He moved to San Diego in the late 1990s and launched a construction firm.

First tragedy

The family was shattered last Sept. 6, when Felix Sandoval, 49, stormed into the Martinez beauty salon owned by his estranged wife. She had obtained a restraining order against him and was receiving support from Catalina Torres, who worked in her cousin's shop.
Unable to find his wife, Sandoval followed Torres to an apartment behind the salon. As Torres shielded one of her customers in the kitchen, Sandoval shot her in the head.
He then took a blind shot out of the apartment's front door and twice struck Sgt. Paul Starzyk, 47, who was about to bust in. Though mortally wounded, Starzyk returned fire and killed Sandoval.
Eustacio Torres took his sister's death hard, relatives said, and considered not traveling north for her burial.
But he ended up standing on the steps of Martinez's police station with two of his sisters and asking why authorities had not arrested Sandoval after he made earlier threats against his wife.
Contra Costa County prosecutors said that Sandoval had been the subject of three police reports but that in each case there was not enough evidence to file charges.

Second attack

While Eustacio Torres was mourning his sister in Martinez, his ex-girlfriend - 52-year-oldBernadette Agustin - attempted suicide. His sisters now see that as a warning sign that something was awry in San Diego.
He had met Agustin five years ago while renovating her house. They became partners, buying and flipping houses that he fixed up, said San Diego police Lt. Terry McManus. But when the market crumbled, they lost money and lost properties to foreclosure, prompting tension.
At one time the couple lived together, but their romance fizzled, Torres' sisters said. They said he realized she was unstable and perhaps dangerous, but never got a restraining order.
Sometime after 5 p.m. on July 19, Agustin went to see Torres in the converted garage of a home he was renovating, police said. She shot him with a pistol she had bought.
"He was trying to handle it on his own," Bustamante said. "You have to understand, his favorite line was, 'Everything's going to be all right.' "

How to help

Family members have set up the Eustacio Torres Memorial Fund at Wells
Fargo Bank (account No. 2629533015) to pay for funeral expenses and to provide scholarships to Diablo Valley College students.



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