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INSTEAD OF SERVING 8 MONTHS IN JAIL, A CONVICTED MARIJUANA DEALER HAS AGREED TO SERVE 2 YEARS IN AMERICORPS, (WORKING IN A CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK). 24 YEAR-OLD BRIAN BARR WAS CHARGED WITH FELONY POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA FOR SALE, AND AN ENHANCEMENT FOR ADMITTED USE OF A FIREARM. THE NIGHT HE WAS ARRESTED (ON THE DRUG-RELATED CHARGES), BARR SHOT AND KILLED A HOME-INVASION ROBBER. THAT SHOOTING WAS RULED TO BE A JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE. THE JUDGE REMINDED BARR YESTERDAY, THAT UNTIL HE COMPLETES HIS 4 YEARS OF FORMAL PROBATION, BARR WILL HAVE A 12-YEAR SUSPENDED SENTENCE HANGING OVER HIS HEAD.

WILSHUSEN RETIRES S.S.

AFTER BEING THE HEAD OF TRANSPORTATION IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY FOR 19 YEARS, LINDA WISLHUSEN IS RETIRING. SAYING THAT HER PRIORITIES HAVE CHANGED, WILSHUSEN SAID IT?S TIME FOR HER TO TAKE A BREAK. SHE LEAVES BEHIND A LEGACY OF A COMMISSION POISED TO BUY A 32-MILE RAIL LINE, THE PLANS TO IMPROVE THE INTERCHANGE AT HIGHWAYS 1 AND 17, AND CALL BOXES ON HIGHWAY 17.

GANGSTER GETS LIFE VS

A SALINAS GANGSTER WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON ON WEDNESDAY FOR HIS PART IN THE NUESTRA FAMILIA PRISON GANG. GANG MEMBER RICO GARCIA WAS CONVICTED IN FEDERAL COURT FROM EVIDENCE DEVELOPED IN OPERATION BLACK WIDOW. HIS OFFENSES INCLUDE HOMICIDE, AND CRIMINAL RACKETEERING. OPERATION BLACK WIDOW WAS A MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR LAW ENFORCEMENT INVESTIGATION OF THE NUESTRA FAMILIA GANG, AND ITS STREET OPERATIONS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. AT LEAST 75 PEOPLE WERE PROSECUTED AS PART OF OPERATION BLACK WIDOW, INCLUDING SPIN-OFF STATE AND FEDERAL PROSECUTIONS.

PRISONER FOUND WITH HEROIN VS

A INMATE AT SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON WAS CONVICTED WEDNESDAY FOR POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. INMATE RUDY RAMOS WAS IN JAIL FOR AN ARMED ROBBERY CONVICTION. TESTS CONDUCTED BY THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CONFIRMED THAT THE SUBSTANCE FOUND IN RAMOS' CELL, WAS 1.16 GRAMS OF HEROIN. THE MAXIMUM PENALTY FOR THE CONVICTION IS 8 YEARS IN PRISON. SENTENCING IS SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 17TH.

EARTHQUAKE RESEARCHERS SAY PATTERN IS FOUND vs

RESEARCHERS, USING DATA COLLECTED FROM PARKFIELD CALIFORNIA, SAY THEY DISCOVERED A PATTERN IN THE TREMORS. THE 2 SCIENTISTS ARE ROBERT NADEAU AND DAVID DOLENC FROM U.C. BERKELEY. OVER A HUNDRED TREMORS WERE RECORDED BY PARK FIELD'S HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC NETWORK, WHICH IS CENTERED 20 MILES UNDERGROUND. IT IS HOPED THE PATTERN OF THE EARTHQUAKES FOUND IN THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT DATA, MAY SOMEDAY AIDE IN UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF EARTHQUAKES.

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