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...That is what you call bait," says Spotter with a laugh, looking down the sights of the rifle. He whistles a warning to his homeboys on the street. A black-and-white comes into view, doing a slow lap around four or five blocks, up Pico, across Mariposa, down and back around. Then it leaves. The Playboys laugh at the departing cops. Two years ago, CRASH teams were all over them, jumping out of their patrol cars to search them for weapons and drugs, getting them to pull up their shirts to show their tattoos, pumping them for information about...
...have named no suspects. But in connection with their investigation, they have questioned Billy Joe Strange, 39, a night janitor at the Cedar Lodge restaurant who was arrested on March 5 for violating parole. Having twice been convicted of assaulting women, he is being held without bail in the Mariposa County jail. According to local newspaper reports, the FBI has searched Strange's home, impounded his borrowed van and seized his payroll records. A roommate, Darrell Stephens, 55, told the Fresno Bee, "The FBI has been harassing us for two weeks now... The only reason they got [Strange] is because...
BORN: June 20, 1955, Mariposa EDUCATION: California State Polytechnic U, B.S., 1978 FAMILY: Single RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Vintner POLITICAL CAREER: Mariposa County Board of Supervisors, 1989-92; sought Republican nomination for U.S. House, 1992; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: 2037 West Bullard, No. 240, Fresno...
Though Thom took a lot of teasing about his paramilitary pursuits, he fascinated some kids at Mariposa County High School with tales about a secret cave called Havoc, where he claimed to have stored a cache of weapons. Thom could identify knives and guns with uncanny precision, and his military obsession gave rise to a nickname, "G.I. Jenkins." Another was "Indiana Jenkins," since Thom often sported a hat like Indiana Jones' in Raiders of the Lost Ark, his favorite movie. Says his cousin Ed Jenkins: "He was always a dreamer, dreaming of exciting places." His high school yearbook announced, "Expect...
...some buildings were leveled while neighboring structures survived intact. In San Juan Bautista the 125-year-old home of restaurant consultant Becky McGovern is situated only 100 ft. from the San Andreas fault. Although it bounced "from one side to the other," the house did not fall down. At Mariposa House Restaurant in the same town, owner Barbara Kuhl said her building "did the Shimmy, Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop, but we didn't lose a thing." Her porch, however, had "gone out to meet two little old ladies" arriving for dinner...