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Weekend SPORTS entertainment Thursday Local sports digest ...................................Page 6 .............Page 3 Oct. 30, 2008 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Friday: Rain H 62º L 54º 7 58551 69301 0 Saturday: Rain H 61º L 51º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 150 Number 204 email: [email protected] CLOUDS ROLL IN Demitrio Rubino, 7, right, and Cedar, Heavy rain PLOWSHARES’ 4, pay close atten- tion to the story during the reading on its way session Tuesday. STORY HOUR to local area By ROB BURGESS The Daily Journal Adding an umbrella to this year’s Halloween costume might prove advanta- geous this weekend. That’s because the National Weather Service is predicting several inches of rain and high winds over the next few days. “A series of low pressure systems moving across the Pacific Northwest will bring rain and blustery winds to Northwest California Thursday night through Sunday,” stated a portion of a release issued Wednesday. “The first rain event Thursday night and Friday will bring average rain amounts between a quarter- and three-quarters-of-an-inch. A second and stronger system will bring one to two inches Saturday. Another one to two inches is possible Sunday as another wave brings in plentiful Pacific moisture and unsettled weather.” Arlena Moses, a meteorologist for the NWS in Eureka, said the storms were See RAIN, Page 13 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS County won’t take control of Talmage Rd. Planned replacement of Sarah Baldik/The Daily Journal Jini Reynolds reads “The Dream Stealer” by Stephen E. Cosgrove to a group of local children at the first Plowshares Talmage bridge appreciated reading program Tuesday afternoon. By ROB BURGESS The Daily Journal On Tuesday, the Mendocino County Volunteers bring new addition to children’s activities at Plowshares Board of Supervisors thanked Caltrans for By DANIEL LAZARUS Vice President Jini Reynolds, the imagina- segment of the homeless population. About the upcoming replacement of the Talmage for The Daily Journal tive tale of fantasy held the small group of 40 percent of the nation’s total homeless are bridge, but blocked a request to assume con- The first offering on Tuesday afternoon’s 3-6-year-olds in rapt attention. now under 18, and somewhere around 42 trol over the roadway. inaugural session of the monthly “Story Unfortunately, homelessness for children is percent of all children who are homeless, “Route 222 was adopted into the State Hour” for local homeless children and oth- far from a fantasy. are under 5 years old. Highway System in 1925 to serve the ers, at Ukiah’s Plowshares, was appropri- While current and reliable statistics are What has been happening recently at Mendocino State Hospital at Talmage,” ately titled, “The Dream Stealer.” Read hard to come by, all sources indicate that stated a portion of the attached agenda sum- with gusto by Saturday Afternoon Club families with kids are the fastest growing See STORY, Page 2 mary. “The mental hospital facility closed in See COUNTY, Page 13 Off-duty Pot grower sues over alleged rights violations TOP 5 ONLINE By ZACK CINEK The lawsuit focuses on ‘illegal morality. By pleading as he did, all other deputy rolls The Daily Journal charges against him were dropped. A Ukiah man has filed a lawsuit for interrogations of suspects who are The most recent event involving Parker pickup truck alleged civil rights violations he says he prior to when the complaint was filed was sustained during his second arrest in a represented by counsel,’ Parker’s when he entered Mendocino County Jail Tuesday Suspected of DUI two-year-long series of marijuana events attorney said. in mid-August to begin serving a 180-day 1. Drug agents seize The Daily Journal in Ukiah. sentence. A Mendocino County The attorneys of Memo Parker filed a ing a location for the production of a con- In a press release last week from one of plane loaded with Sheriff’s Office deputy rolled Parker’s attorneys, J. David Nick, Nick his personal truck while dri- complaint Oct. 15 with U.S. District Court trolled substance. He was also acquitted of pot; Ukiah pilot under Clerk Richard W. Wieking, San Francisco, all other charges. stated that the lawsuit focuses on a prac- ving south on Highway 101 that names seven defendants. The same jury that let Mark Parker tice of questioning those arrested “without arrest near Black Bart Drive south Robert Nishiyama, Peter Hoyle, walk then voted 10-2 to convict Memo informed consent under the Miranda rights of Willits at 8:30 p.m. Thomas Allman, the Mendocino County Parker. Because jury members said that and illegal interrogations of suspects who 2. 6 Willits residents Tuesday. Sheriff’s Office, the county of Mendocino more deliberating would not yield a unan- are represented by counsel.” In the press arrested in marijuana Deputy Tim Goss lost con- and 100 “Does” are the defendants, as imous decision, a mistrial was declared. release, Nick also states that the Sheriff’s trol of his pickup, which over- stated in the complaint filed by Parker’s On Sept. 5, Deputy District Attorney Office uses the term ‘illegal commercial raids turned; he was arrested on growers’ and the idea that ‘all marijuana attorneys J. David Nick and E.D. Lerman. James Nerli said that the Mendocino 3. Willits man killed in suspicion of driving under the The history of events leading up to the County District Attorney’s Office would sales are illegal’ to take away rights from influence by the California filing dates to several years ago. retry Mark and Memo Parker. medical marijuana growers. head-on crash Highway Patrol, the CHP On Oct. 16, 2006, brothers Memo Then, in February 2008, authorities Nick stated that the second arrest of stated Wednesday. Parker and Mark Parker were arrested on a returned to the Gardens Avenue locations Parker in February is when Parker was 4. The Daily Digest Goss is now on paid leave, search warrant served at two Gardens of Memo Parker and in a raid took 297 allegedly interrogated unlawfully by the 10/26/2008 a routine action for such an Avenue locations. At that time, officers marijuana plants and 34 pounds of Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force. event, Mendocino County seized 190 marijuana plants, 262 smaller processed marijuana, police reports stated. According to Nick, the Sixth and 5. One dead after Sheriff Tom Allman said “clone” plants and 170 pounds of Memo Parker was arrested at that time on Fourteenth Amendments of the United dispute at marijuana Wednesday afternoon. processed marijuana. It was stated at the suspicion of cultivation of marijuana for States Constitution grant Parker rights Goss has been a member of time that both Memo and Mark Parker had sale and possession of marijuana for sale. which were violated during the second operation the Sheriff’s Office for about medical marijuana recommendations. Following the second arrest, Parker arrest. ukiahdailyjournal.com seven to eight years, Allman In August of 2007, a jury voted 11-1 pleaded no contest to conspiracy to com- Zack Cinek can be reached at udjzc@pacif- said. 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