Word: ukiah
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...Government has accused various Order members of a $3.6 million armored- car robbery in Ukiah, Calif., last year; the machine-gun slaying last year of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio talk-show host in Denver; and other crimes ranging from bank robberies to counterfeiting. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Ward launched the Government's case by stating that he would prove, with testimony and documents, that Jean Craig, the only woman defendant, did reconnaissance for the Berg shooting and that Bruce Carroll Pierce acted as triggerman. Ward also asserted that Order members received tax-free "salaries" of $20,000 annually...
...state authorities say that members of a 30to-40-person gang calling itself The Order, apparently named for the revolutionaries in Pierce's book, were responsible for a $500,000 armored-car robbery last April in Seattle; a $3.6 million Brink's armored-car holdup last July in Ukiah, Calif.; and three shootouts with the police and FBI since October in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Eighteen people linked to the group have been arrested, including two Brink's managers charged last month with conspiring to rob Brink's main storage vault in San Francisco...
...Ukiah, Calif...
...ended one of the most bizarre kidnaping cases in California history. Timothy White, the five-year-old, had been abducted in Ukiah on Valentine's Day, while on his way home from kindergarten. Police charged that he was taken by a drifter named Kenneth Parnell, 48, who cropped the boy's blond hair and dyed it a darker color, then brought him home to his one-room cabin near Manchester. The boy's parents never received a ransom note. Parnell did not want money: he allegedly had stolen Timmy to provide a "brother" for Steve Stayner, whom...
...calling his kidnaper "Dad." They ended up in the cabin without water or electricity on an isolated ranch near Manchester. Stayner attended local schools sporadically but led a solitary life. He later told the police: "It was boring." Parnell worked as a night clerk at the Palace Hotel in Ukiah. "He was a quiet man who seemed a little lonely," says Carol Lee, a coworker. "Kids-that's what we talked about...