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@veggie64_leslie He is. He was dating a 911 dispatcher and not telling his wife he was fired by the Sheriff and criminally charged. I was talking with a @MontereyHerald reporter about it casually (@grlreporter) and she ends up calling the local DA who was sitting on it. Now they are worried about

@veggie64_leslie @MontereyHerald @grlreporter how it looks because the Herald is going to write about it and, back in the day, of their is a local reporter I love more than @Calkins_Royal, it's Julie Reynolds. She is the most honest reporter I have ever met. The most honest.

So Berk Brannon, a Deputy DA, runs out to the

@veggie64_leslie @MontereyHerald @grlreporter @Calkins_Royal .@MCoSheriff department and pulls the file on Banuelos. Brannon goes back to his office and ADDS a felony to the complaint and tells Sheriff Miller that there is so much proof that two felonies took place he added another.

Then the case sits. Miller is defeated by this crook

@veggie64_leslie @MontereyHerald @grlreporter @Calkins_Royal @MCoSheriff Sheriff Bernal and the disgustingly corrupt Board of Supervisors (except for @supervisoraskew, and @AdamsSupervisor) @PhillipsForSupe gets the County to work Banuelos' rehire as a settlement of a civil action the slime bag brought for being fired.

BUT, before than the felonies.

@veggie64_leslie @MontereyHerald @grlreporter @Calkins_Royal @MCoSheriff @supervisoraskew @AdamsSupervisor @PhillipsForSupe Banuelos goes to court and it's the usual multiple hearings (sort of like @RepJimmyPanetta's cousin) and the case is being heard by, this man:

@veggie64_leslie @MontereyHerald @grlreporter @Calkins_Royal @MCoSheriff @supervisoraskew @AdamsSupervisor @PhillipsForSupe @RepJimmyPanetta Judge Russ Scott has near zero integrity, in my opinion, has spiked a number of cases, again in my opinion and based on interviews I've conducted and was a key figure in the bouncing of another local judge, Mike Fields. They were all allegedly abusing a court clerk, sexually and

@veggie64_leslie @MontereyHerald @grlreporter @Calkins_Royal @MCoSheriff @supervisoraskew @AdamsSupervisor @PhillipsForSupe @RepJimmyPanetta reputationally (and local media went with the judges essentially calling the female clerk "a slut"). How's that for a #MeToo moment in all this?

So Russ Scott kills the Banuelos case without much opposition (read zero) from our local DA. And the people were being represented

@veggie64_leslie @MontereyHerald @grlreporter @Calkins_Royal @MCoSheriff @supervisoraskew @AdamsSupervisor @PhillipsForSupe @RepJimmyPanetta by Gary Thelander who shortly thereafter left the DA and opened up his own Better Call Saul shop in a house next to the courthouse.

We have problems in Monterey County.

Our press is asleep at the wheel.

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