2 Walnut Creek teens drowned in treacherous stream


2 Walnut Creek teens drowned in treacherous stream
Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Powell Family Tragedy 
The father of Gavin suffered a stroke while working for Longs, he's got long term stroke issues and I travel up to his place.  As a project manager for Longs when the big outsourcing machines from Accenture and Protivity tried to get a foot hold Jim ended their contracts.

The business targeting model if you can't take down (kill) the obstacle, then take out the collateral target.
per Jim he's never had a completed police report.  I know how these agencies operate as I've used my IT skills to break their business processes in little segments.
The really strange part is Lt. Hill's comments that he has a son at Los Lomas.

Walnut Creek Police Lt. Jay Hill

 

Along the way I wrote the FBI when Hill pulled his little stunt over in front of Peet's Coffee.  Then I read about Hill being the hero first responder up on Skycrest where of all things Alice Roberts Attorney David Nearon appeared with a revised power of attorney.

Attorney Nearon baptized my ex-wife at Alamo 1st Ward, her father died in the house, i never trusted the story, David knows Nate Greenan (deceased), Nate would know Ernie Scherer Jr. (Murdered by Ernie Scherer III) who would know his father James Greenan, they all know Joan Buchanan, Federal Glover, Eric Nunn, Mark DeSaulnier, Gavin Newsome, and Richard Rainey whose nephew Michael McNutly is deceased.

In my old Cameo Neighborhood I've nicknamed it Burnville - as 1,000 feet in each direction, one suicide in a car, four total losses and one dad me whose truck blew up on 680 and can't find a police report.  I'm betting that CHP officer B. Johnson who appeared in late 2012 at Starbucks Duncan is Mormon - just a hunch as his family could be another Mormon I know.
 
 
A brash attempt by two urban teens to raft an urban stream probably turned quickly into a harrowing plunge through a concrete chute, with 20-foot vertical walls on both sides, churning with rainwater, branches, rocks and trash.
The channel where Matthew Miller, 16, andGavin Powell, 17, of Walnut Creek drowned Saturday may have only been a few feet deep, but its appearance was deceiving. And, officials say, channels like this one can be found all over the Bay Area.
"It looks totally innocent," said Mitch Avalon, deputy director of the Public Works Department of Contra Costa County. "But when it's full (of water) you can't get out once you're in it."
About 100 feet from where the boys entered the water with their two-person inflatable raft was a chute with 20-foot-high walls and no way out. The frigid waters moved swiftly and they were soon pulled underground into a three-quarter-mile-long tunnel beneath downtown Walnut Creek. A few miles downstream, they tumbled two stories into a deep pool designed to slow raging storm runoff.

The boys' bodies were recovered Sunday in Concord, several miles downstream of the pool. Their deflated raft was found upstream, in Walnut Creek, at the waterfall.
Common urban feature
Flood control channels - some visible, some not - are common in cities where a central river or stream has the potential to overrun its banks. But these mundane canals are extremely treacherous when swollen with heavy rains, experts say, because they function to funnel water as quickly as possible from urban areas into larger bodies of water.
The San Ramon bypass the teens tried to navigate was built in the late 1980s to channel storm water from Walnut Creek's parking lots, streets and sidewalks. Downstream, the bypass connects with the namesake Walnut Creek waterway before emptying into Suisun Bay to the north.
During parched summer months, the channel flow shrivels to a trickle. But last week's soaking storms produced a coursing ribbon of water - a vision that proved too enticing for two teens described as funny, smart, outgoing and adventurous.
Amid Saturday's soggy weather, the two juniors from Las Lomas High School donned helmets and launched their blue-and-yellow raft on Sans Crainte Creek in a residential area near Murwood Elementary School and Vanderslice Avenue, authorities said. They did not wear life vests.
Sans Crainte Creek and other upstream brooks that cut through private land are protected only by trees, brush, backyards, open spaces and roads. In some spots, dirt paths wind down to the water.

Just downstream, however, the bracken-covered banks give way to the sheer cement walls of the San Ramon bypass. Beyond the walls and up on the banks, the channel is surrounded by fences adorned with "No Trespassing" signs.

On Tuesday, officials with the Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, which owns and manages the San Ramon bypass, examined the site where Matthew and Gavin embarked to evaluate whether additional fencing or warnings are necessary or feasible - particularly on private property, Avalon said. They are expecting to present a report to the county Board of Supervisors next week.

At least one of the teenagers' classmates said the current warnings and barriers aren't enough.
"The signs say 'No trespassing,' but they should probably communicate the danger ... that there are serious consequences, that people have died," said William Hansel, a Las Lomas senior who ran on the cross-country team with Miller.

Investigators with the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department and Walnut Creek Police Department are uncertain how far the boys traveled aboard their raft. But the deflated raft was found several miles to the north at the 20-foot man-made waterfall near Bancroft Road and Bentley Street at 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
The bodies of Matthew and Gavin were recovered in the waterway near Buchanan Field in Concord. They were reported missing by their families shortly after midnight Sunday after friends said they missed a prearranged pickup appointment Saturday evening.
The tragedy, which many classmates marked Tuesday by wearing bright yellow - Matthew and Gavin often wore yellow bike gear - and leaving flowers and cards at spots along the creek, isn't the first for that stretch of waterway.
In April, a 75-year-old Walnut Creek woman was pulled from the channel in a dramatic helicopter rescue after the car driven by her son crashed through two fences and landed upside down in the rushing water. Janet Hogan survived; but her son, 40-year-old Timothy Hogan, and husband, 79-year-old James Hogan, died.
Other teen drownings
Three other teens who ventured into the creek drowned in two separate instances in the early 1990s and early 1970s, Avalon said.
Granted, many more children and adults may have braved the creeks waters over the years and come away unscathed - they simply haven't come to the attention of authorities, said sheriff's Lt. Eric Navarro, who announced the finding of the boys' bodies Sunday.
"All of us have done things in our lives that you look back on and think, I got away with one," Navarro said.
 
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Superior Court: The Real Dangers of Litigation in Contra Costa County




The Real Danger of Litigation in Contra Costa County

Back in 2001 my attorney was Don Moats who suddenly stopped appearing at hearings and kinda went comatose during the case.  I remember reading that his offices were burned down in Walnut Creek but I called the FBI over that event as I lost over 100,000 on that case and the FBI agreed but I'm suspecting they've placed FBI Agents in several police departments. 


Lost Records Covering 20 years of Bennett Litigation - 2004 

In 2004 during one of my last trips from 161 Valle Vista Danville my records were scooped up in Alamo on Stone Valley Road with the help of Mormon Elders.  It was the weirdest thing when trailer flipped when the trailer ball was suddenly the wrong size ball (switched) and replaced under cover of darkness.  

My next door neighbor worked for Bowles and Verna and he was flying back and forth to JFK filing all kinds of briefs - I always how this attorney with ZERO Aeronautical experience was the same courtroom as TWA Attorneys who were experts at defending those types of cases.  

Disabled Students Bus 

California Bus Crash Sends Nine Disabled Adults To Hospital

Soon I'll have a lot to say about this Mormon whose wife was in my cabinet shop in 2004 then three months later i'm out of business, my truck is on fire so I'm coming really close to be being burned alive but you can't find a police report even though CHP arrived on the scene with San Ramon Fire THERE NO POLICE REPORTS.  


Cameo Acres Mayhem - 


This neighborhood is simply dangerous as this is just one very small neighborhood but the stats are ready to review. 


Cameo Acres


    • A truck Arson 
    • A raging Building Inspector who attempts to kill a resident
    • A resident who survived poison, car accidents and weird medical
    • A flipped Trailer 
    • A resident being accused of drug dealing when he wasn't 
    • A school bus accident 
    • Five fires with two side by side 
    • One Suicide 
    • A Fatal Drug Overdose
    • A father dying from embolism / Teacher from Brentwood CA
    • Another widow near BART Officer John Kelly
    • All of this connects to Chris Butler and Officer Stephen Tanabe 


The Hedge Fund and the Real Estate Fraud case 


At this writing it's been nearly ten years since my 2004 Arson Fire and Beating.  Then one day I discover that Richard S. Kopf is connected to a Hedge Fund and near his Mormon friends are a series of investor fraud cases.  


I have many of the cases posted on this blog lead to Alamo 1st Mormons - this is going to be one of the most god awful in the "Name Of God" stories you've ever read.  

I am highly negative on RIchard S. Kopf as his wife arrived at my cabinet shop in 2004 with Brian Schwalen who died hours after attending services at Alamo 1st.  I remember him panting and practically gasping for air then hours later he's dead.  He was fine coming in but by the end of the service he's heading for the exit.  

I have other cases like Brian who I met many years ago long before he was a card carrying Mormon.  


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Media History for Pete Bennett

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 01/21/2014

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Pete Bennett Truck Explodes and Lou Dobbs' takes a bullet?

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 01/21/2014

Walnut Creek CA:  I was astounded when Lou Dobbs was fired upon as in my own well documented story I've been nearly burned alive in 2004 and my sons were nearly killed 680/580 Dublin and that five Filipino Nurses were burned alive on the San Mateo Bridge, that five Hispanics burned alive in Walnut Creek and that eight were killed in the San Bruno Fire.  

The problem I've got is this poor kid was nearly burned alive at the Concord BART Station 

  I immediately called my respective Senator's Feinstein and Boxer to vehemently protest that Lou Dobbs took a bullet to his house.  For years I've been calling about the targeting I've endured as my truck blew up in 2004 right around the time I was supposed to testify in Congress about the Visas.  

Today I'm dumpster diving for survival while I beg Contra Costa County for my license back, I can't get the counties homeless program to help me so baciscally until I come up with 13,000 I'm fucked and my children will be supported by the state. 

We're all on Welfare now - I've lost over $40,000 in cars, my property all gone but I've got this giant stack of obituaries near me with some clearly connected to the H-1b visa.  My site is down because I've been endlessly targeted by persons unknown and the Contra Costa District Attorneys Offices are doing little to protect me.  









 


Police look into gunshot at Dobbs' home

By Joe Sterling, CNN
October 29, 2009 4:56 p.m. EDT
Lou Dobbs said the gunshot came after "weeks and weeks of threatening phone calls."
Lou Dobbs said the gunshot came after "weeks and weeks of threatening phone calls."
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • New Jersey officials unsure whether bullet was intentionally fired or a stray
  • CNN anchor's wife was outside house during October 5 incident
  • Bullet appears to be from "long gun, not a handgun or shotgun," police official says
RELATED TOPICS
(CNN) -- A gunshot struck the home of CNN anchor Lou Dobbs this month, and police in New Jersey are trying to determine whether the bullet was fired intentionally or was a stray.
State Police Sgt. Steve Jones said Thursday that his department received a call from Dobbs' wife, who heard a shot and said a bullet hit her house. Jones said she had been outside her house with "an employee who worked with Dobbs" at 10:25 a.m. October 5.
There were no injuries in the incident, which occurred in a small community in northern New Jersey.
Jones said a bullet struck the section of the house where the attic is but didn't penetrate the dwelling. He said the bullet fell to the ground and was recovered. Dobbs' wife saw damage to the siding, Jones said.
"The bullet was taken by our detectives and turned over to our ballistics unit for further analysis," Jones said. "At this point, all I can say is that it appears to be a long gun, not a handgun or shotgun."
Dobbs has declined comment because the police investigation is ongoing, his representative said.
Dobbs, who has been a vocal critic of illegal immigration, is the anchor and managing editor of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight." He mentioned the incident on his radio show Monday, saying it comes amid an "atmosphere" of hostility from groups toward his stance on illegal immigration.
On the radio show, aired by United Stations Radio Networks, Dobbssaid that "a shot was fired at my house where I live" and that it followed "weeks and weeks of threatening phone calls."
He said the hostility has "become part of a way of life, the anger, the hate, the vitriol, but it's taken a different tone where they threaten my wife."
"They've now fired a shot at my house while my wife was standing next to the car. It's become something else, and if anybody thinks that we're not engaged in a battle for the soul of this country right now, you're sorely mistaken."
Police aren't saying for now that the shot was fired at the house but only, as Jones said, that it struck the house. A stray shot from a long gun would not be a "totally uncommon occurrence because of the hunters and target shooters" in the region, Jones said.
Jones couldn't give his opinion on what kind of shooting this might be, and he said the incident is being investigated "further past a stray hunter's bullet" because of Dobbs' "public persona." Police have conducted interviews and patrolled the area, Jones said.
When asked whether police would refer the case to federal authorities if it turned out to be an attack, Jones said, "state police work regularly with other officers at local, county and federal levels and draw on any of resources when appropriate."
"The case remains open," he said. "We want to take any incident like this seriously."
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Arson Index - The real truth about Contra Costa County - clearing court calendars by Arson

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 01/21/2014

Walnut Creek CA: As I've stated in this blog many times about the endless go nowhere Police Reports going back to 1980 it was becoming obvious there the County has some type of Golden Hand orchestrated incidents and controlling their outcomes.  

What's missing the Police Report where my truck exploded in flames at 90 mph but what's critical about this missing police report was that five men were burned alive three months later and the key witness in that fire is deceased.  The key witness in my 2004 assault was dead less than 60 days from when documents were handed to Chief Joel Bryden connected Gary Vinson Collins to the CNET Scandal.  


The arson fires have continued along unabated but the most recent case was this poor kid who was set on fire at the Concord BART station on January 16th 2014.  Reading between the lines I noticed the driver left the scene.  This is another of many extraordinary examples of unchecked mayhem.  The way I see this if my Arson Case had been investigated in 2004 then the Serial Arsonist would have faced investigation - but my opinion is the Serial Arsonist is part of rouge badge flashers who burned down Hair By Jim, threw a Molotov cocktail through the window but in 1986 they hung a few blacks near the Concord and Lafayette BART stations.



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CNN.COM: Prominent lawyers keep turning up dead. #deadbankers

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 01/20/2014


Walnut Creek CA -- My experience with the Contra Costa Legal Community hasn't been good.  I know they've had a lock on how the cases are settled.  In my personal experience the litigation history is enough to send them running and the State Bar should be looking at my story. 

I've had million dollar settlements queered by the legal community. My person experience with former Judge Joel Golub and his brother is a clear example legal misconduct.  I'd say it's enough for to be disbarred - I got Don Moats case in front of the State Bar and he withdrew his license voluntarily before disbarment.  

My first letter will be about the failure of Walnut Creek legal department to inform me of events that were a danger to my safety.  


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Update: Cigarette Set Teen Ablaze at Concord BART Station

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 01/19/2014

Re-posted to Protect My Sons

Arson Murder, Murder By Arson


Update: Cigarette Set Teen Ablaze at Concord BART Station

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Update: Thursday at 1:30 p.m.A teenage boy suffered significant burns when his clothing caught fire outside the Concord BART station late Wednesday night.

At about 11:35 p.m. Wednesday, police and fire crews responded to a report of a male on fire at the BART station, located at 1451 Oakland Ave., a Contra Costa County fire dispatcher said. When emergency crews arrived, they found the victim suffering from burns and airlifted him to a hospital.

BART police Lt. Mike Hayes said it appears that a short time earlier, the boy had been working on a car belonging to someone he met at a nearby store. While working on the vehicle, he spilled gasoline on himself.  The boy told police that the driver then dropped him off at the Concord BART station and lit a cigarette before departing, Hayes said.

Based on the initial investigation, Hayes said, it appears that the flame ignited the gasoline vapors coming from boy's clothing.  The boy then jumped out of the vehicle and stripped off his burning clothes, Hayes said.  He suffered significant burns to his arms and chest, according to Hayes.  The driver of the vehicle had left the scene before police and firefighters arrived at the BART station, and police have not been able to identify that person.  BART police Sgt. Tom Smith said no suspects are in custody this morning and that detectives are checking surveillance video from Wednesday night.
During the BART Engineer Accident investigation I met Lt. Hayes where I told him to look to the buildings to the south that the Plaintiff Attorneys winning millions upon millions in jury awards could see the accident scenes.  Taking that further I plotted suicides, shootings, fires (arson) and accidents where this pattern emerged that perch points were evident e.g. my 2004 Arson fire, the deadly Walnut Creek Pipeline fire in 2004 then the Caldecott Tunnel Fires was also the same perch point where Adam Williams and his mother murder suicide up on Lookout Point on Mt. Diablo.  


Original story posted Thursday at 6:14 a.m.:
A man was airlifted to a hospital after he was burned outside of the Concord BART station late Wednesday night, a Contra Costa County fire dispatcher said.

Crews responded to a report of a man on fire at the Concord BART station located at 1451 Oakland Ave. at about 11:35 p.m., the dispatcher said.

When crews arrived, they found a man who had been burned and airlifted him to a hospital. Further details about the incident were not immediately available.
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