The Anatomy of Public Corruption

Case CIVMSC14-01974 - DODGE VS. RRS VENTURES

The Buchanan Family Murders and theft of Trust Documents



Case CIVMSC14-01974 - DODGE VS. RRS VENTURES
Complaint Number:
1
Complaint Type:
COMPLAINT
Filing Date:
10/28/2014
Complaint Status:
ACTIVE

Party Number
Party Type
Party Name
Attorney
Party Status
PLAINTIFF 
MICHAEL DODGE  
First Paper Fee Paid 
PLAINTIFF 
GWYNNETH DODGE  
First Paper Fee Paid 
DEFENDANT 
RRS VENTURES, LLC 
Answer 02/17/2015 
DEFENDANT 
BUCHANAN CONSTRUCTION   SONS, INC. 
Answer 01/06/2015 
DEFENDANT 
S&J STADTLER INC. 
Served 01/13/2015 
DEFENDANT 
Served 01/13/2015 
DEFENDANT 
J. ROCKCLIFF, INC. 
Served 01/13/2015 
DEFENDANT 
ROBERT W GIBBS  
Served 01/13/2015 
DEFENDANT 
DEBBIE M GIBBS  
Served 01/13/2015 

Complaint Number:
2
Complaint Type:
CROSS COMPLAINT
Filing Date:
02/17/2015
Complaint Status:
ACTIVE

Party Number
Party Type
Party Name
Attorney
Party Status
CROSS COMPLAINANT 
RRS VENTURES, LLC 
First Paper Fee Paid 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
BUCHANAN CONSTRUCTION & SONS, INC. 
Answer 03/19/2015 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
S&J STADTLER INC. 
Served 03/31/2015 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
RUSSELL K DARBY  
Serve Required (WaitS) 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
J. ROCKCLIFF, INC. 
Served 03/31/2015 
10 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
ROCKCLIFF REALTORS 
Serve Required (WaitS) 
11 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
ROBERT W GIBBS  
Served 03/31/2015 
12 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
DEBBIE M GIBBS  
Served 03/31/2015 

Complaint Number:
3
Complaint Type:
CROSS COMPLAINT
Filing Date:
03/19/2015
Complaint Status:
ACTIVE

Party Number
Party Type
Party Name
Attorney
Party Status
CROSS COMPLAINANT 
BUCHANAN CONSTRUCTION & SONS, INC. 
First Paper Fee Paid 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
RRS VENTURES, LLC 
Answer 04/22/2015 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
S&J STADTLER INC. 
Serve Required (WaitS) 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
RUSSELL K DARBY  
Serve Required (WaitS) 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
J. ROCKCLIFF, INC. 
Serve Required (WaitS) 
11 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
ROBERT W GIBBS  
Serve Required (WaitS) 
12 
CROSS DEFENDANT 
DEBBIE M GIBBS  
Serve Required (WaitS

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Pete Speaks Publicly - People Die September 23rd 2014

The Irony of Public Law 
I am sitting just out of view.  On Tuesday she was speaking about suicide prevention feeding another lame presentation. Sitting my right is Lt. Jeff Muell who interceded on July 4th, 2011 at the Danville Parade. I shared with a sworn peace officer while Mayor Newell Arnerich looked on about the endless attacks linked to March 2011 FBI arrests.  They did nothing and two weeks later my car was totaled.

About ten minutes later I shared with the Supervisors.  I have two minutes to make points on forty years of murders, arson and about the many suicides, assaults and murder suicides.  Here I am bearing all for the public to hear.

Four days later my relatives are dead from Murder Suicide.


Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (The Irony)
On September 23rd, 2014 I took the podium at the Contra Costa Board of Supervisor where I spoke passionately about Gas Pipeline Explosions, Arson, Murder Suicides and Murders of my clients.
Four days later fate strikes Bennett again.
Over in Springville UT just four short days later the Strack Family, a family of five was discovered by family members and the mother. my relatives were murdered and the irony is the woman was speaking about Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.


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Killer REITS–dying for Developers

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#H1bVisaMurders - AllNurses.com - The National Murder Suicide Network

Police officers checking the welfare of residents at a home in the west metro city of Greenwood on Thursday came upon a scene their chief called “unspeakable” — the bodies of five family members, including three teenagers.
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The five bodies bore traumatic injuries and were scattered throughout the large house on Channel Drive. The deaths appeared to be a multiple murder-suicide, said South Lake Minnetonka interim Police Chief Mike Siitari.
 
The family — a father, mother and three teenagers — had not been seen for a couple of days at work or school, and the father’s co-workers had asked police to check on them, he said.
“This is a complex crime scene” that will take several days to sort through, Siitari said.
 
He declined to release the victims’ names, ages, or manner of death, or to say who might have been the killer. But a notice on the father’s work website said that the victims were the home’s owners, Brian and Karen Short, and their three children.
 
The home, built in 1998, is near Lake Minnetonka’s St. Albans Bay. It last sold in September 2011 for $2 million to the Shorts, according to Hennepin County property records. The couple’s three children, Cole, 17; Madison, 15, and Brooklyn, 14, all attended Minnetonka High School.
Brian Short, a nurse, founded the website AllNurses.com, which provides information and resources for and about the nursing profession. His business is headquartered in Excelsior.
An administrator of the AllNurses.com website posted this message Thursday night:
“It is with great regret and a very heavy heart that I have to share some very sad news with you. There is no easy way to say this. … Brian and his family have been killed. The news is calling it an apparent murder-suicide. … No matter what the details are, the results are still the same … a very tragic loss for the extended families, friends, co-workers and this nursing community.”
Comments poured into the site, including one that said: “Brian created something with allnurses.com that has left a positive impact on the nursing profession and the future of nursing. He will be remembered with deep respect for his role in that.”
Karen Short’s brother and Brian Short’s older brother said the family wasn’t ready to talk about the tragedy, while friends wrestled with the shock.
They will all be missed
“I can’t even fathom it,” said Kathy Lausche, who became friends with the family when they lived in Lakeville. “They were just your normal, typical family,” she said. “Their lives revolved around their kids.”
Brian and Karen Short were “at every single soccer game,” said Toni Plante.
So it seemed odd Tuesday when she didn’t see Brooklyn Short on the field or her parents on the sidelines for the soccer game on the first day of school. She later learned from her daughter, Ana, that Brooklyn, a high school freshman, wasn’t at school.
“Brooklyn is a really good student, and it wouldn’t be like her to miss the first day of school,” Plante said.
On Wednesday evening, Plante said she texted Karen Short to ask if Brooklyn was all right. She never heard back.
“This is just too sad,” she said. “They were the nicest people in the world. There was nothing snooty about them at all. They were just down to earth.”
Brooklyn was just the “sweetest girl. So inquisitive. A darling girl,” Plante said. She and her daughter were talking last week about how neither girl liked to dress up. “They figured they should wear grubby clothes and go to homecoming together.”
Plante realized she would have to break the awful news to her daughter. “This is going to be tough.”
“It’s just shocking,” said Jeff Bergsten, a neighbor of the Shorts when they lived in Lakeville. The family sometimes returned to their old neighborhood for parties and graduations.
“[Brian Short] was a real generous guy with his time and conversation,” Bergsten said. Short was a Green Bay Packers fan who had a successful Internet business and could talk about any subject.
Karen Short was “a lovely lady,” said former Lakeville neighbor Tami Scribner. “She was just laid back and her smile was always there.”
Neighbor Doug Plocek found police cars blocking his street when he came home Thursday and heard that there was a death in the Shorts’ house, then an update that it was the whole family.
“The neighbors went into shock,” he said. “To me, there was no indication whatsoever how that could have happened.”
He said Brian Short always appeared happy, easily greeting neighbors and sharing his love of cars, particularly Teslas. Plocek said he often saw Short clearing snow in the winter or saw the children walking with friends on their quiet street, which has only nine houses on it.
“They were good neighbors,” he said. “This whole thing, we’re trying to wrap our heads around it.”
Of the neighborhood, Plocek said, “We’ve never even had a break-in. To have something of this magnitude and it involves children — it just tears me apart.”
As evening fell, investigators from the South Lake Minnetonka police and Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office continued their work at the scene. The Hennepin County medical examiner’s office will conduct autopsies.
Scanner conversations between police and dispatchers indicated that all the victims appeared to have died of severe injuries.
After entering the home, officers found a small dog, then began a search and discovered the bodies, one by one, in different areas of the house.
The extent of the horror unfolded over several minutes as officers went from room to room.
One victim was found in a bedroom, a second in the basement garage, two others in the basement and the last in a lower-level bedroom.
Siitari said he had never seen a scene so grim in his three decades of police work, and that it was extremely difficult for the officers involved.
“There are no words to describe it. … It’s a tragedy,” he said. “This is a tough one to handle.”
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From PG&E, Southern Pacific, San Onofre to Domestic Terrorism sponsored by the City of Lafayette CA Police


The Risk Pool is at Risk


April 12, 2012: a pipe-bomb found on Iron Horse Trail - e.g. the Southern Pacific Tracks.
April 18, 2012: Nate Greenan killed in car accident on WB-24 in Orinda CA


Mr. Christensen obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Financial Planning from Brigham Young University in 1980 and an MBA from the Yale School of Management in 1985. He has served as trustee of multiple trusts since 1997. Currently, Mr. Christensen serves on the National Advisory Council for the Marriott School of Management, the International Advisory Council of the International Center for Law & Religion at the J. Reuben Clark School of Law, and the President's Leadership Council at Brigham Young University. He also serves on the Policy Advisory Board of the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics at University of California, Berkeley.


Dave Christensen is a Co-founder and Managing Principal of Milestone. Prior to Milestone, Mr. Christensen served as Co-President of Nearon Enterprises for over 20 years, from 1993 until June 2014. From 1985 until 1992, he was with Bechtel Investments Realty in San Francisco.
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On July 4th, 2011, I bumped into David Christian and Danville Mayor Newell Arnerich who each deflected my inquiries, Arnerich was keenly aware of unfolding CNET or Dirty DUI Scandal where Danville Officer Stephen Tanabe had been recently arrested.

I first met Dave at the Alamo 1st Ward where my ex-wife was baptized into the Mormon Faith in 1975. That connection binds her to Rick Kopf, James Greenan and Chris Ivory. That also binds them to who knows who rigged my truck to explode in 2004.

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Connecting The Safeway Murders - My personal 30 year story

Background: During the 1980's I operated a large commercial casework cabinet shop.

Clients: Mace Rich, Simon Stores, Contra Costa College District, Safeway, Wendy's, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and City of Walnut Creek plus PG&E, Chevron and AT&T.


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California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom former Mayor of SF - Appor

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The Christensen Clan - A Panoply Of Fraudsters connected to Convicted Felons in Federal Prison

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Calera Capital - SterlingBackcheck painting the link to Explosions, Murder and Coverups

Calera Capital Completes Sale of SterlingBackcheck to Goldman Sachs and CDPQ

BOSTON & SAN FRANCISCO--()--Calera Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm, today announced that it has completed the sale of its majority interest in SterlingBackcheck, one of the largest background screening companies in the world, to Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division and La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ).
“Our company has benefitted immeasurably from Calera’s guidance and experience. We look forward to building on the strong foundation our partnership with Calera has created as we embark on the next phase of the company’s evolution with Goldman Sachs and CDPQ.”
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Calera Capital acquired a majority interest in SterlingBackcheck in December 2010.
“Our strategy is to invest in companies which have developed strong and unique business models, but have substantial untapped potential,” stated Mark Williamson, a managing partner of Calera Capital. “Through active involvement, and a strong partnership with management, we seek to help our portfolio companies attain the highest level of operating performance. SterlingBackcheck’s transformational ascent to the leadership position it commands today is a clear demonstration of the successful execution of this strategy.”
“We were very fortunate to have had the opportunity to partner with Calera Capital for the past four and a half years,” said Clare Hart, CEO of SterlingBackcheck. “Our company has benefitted immeasurably from Calera’s guidance and experience. We look forward to building on the strong foundation our partnership with Calera has created as we embark on the next phase of the company’s evolution with Goldman Sachs and CDPQ.”
“A key element of our strategy is to invest with founders seeking a partner to help take their businesses to the next level,” stated Paul Walsh, operating partner of Calera Capital. “Billy Greenblatt, SterlingBackcheck’s founder and an ongoing shareholder in the business, is an extraordinary entrepreneur and our relationship with him, as well as with the entire SterlingBackcheck management team, could not have been more successful and personally satisfying. We wish the team well and are confident they will continue to thrive with their new partners.”
Mark Williamson, Paul Walsh and Michael Moon, managing director, represented Calera on the board of SterlingBackcheck. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed.
About SterlingBackcheck
SterlingBackcheck is one of the largest background screening companies in the world. Established in 1975, SterlingBackcheck is chosen by more than 25% of the Fortune 100, 20% of the FTSE 100 and more than 20,000 organizations to help them hire and retain the right people. As a global background screening leader, SterlingBackcheck employs almost 3,000 people in five countries and its team offers expertise in compliance, client experience and applicant experience. Connected by the world’s most advanced background check technology platform, SterlingBackcheck continuously reinvests in its business and its customers to ensure it remains a global leader. To learn more about SterlingBackcheck, please visit:www.sterlingbackcheck.com
SterlingBackcheck is a trademark of Sterling Infosystems, Inc.
About Calera Capital
Founded in 1991, Calera Capital is a private investment firm which has invested over $2.8 billion. With offices in San Francisco and Boston, Calera focuses its activities in two industry sectors: Business Services and Specialty Industrials. Calera Capital makes substantial equity investments in middle-market businesses, typically with enterprise values in the range of $100 million to $750 million, and seeks to build long-term sustainable value by working with management teams to implement strategic and operating initiatives. For more information, visit: www.caleracapital.com.

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Muirfield Partners
(310) 785-0810
Mickey Mandelbaum
mickey@muirfieldpartners.com
Maya Pogoda
maya@muirfieldpartners.com
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Voodo Investigators- The Murder of San Franciso Police Officer Lester Garnier



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9/11 Links: Fremont Group Board of Advisors

Connecting the Mission Bay Fire

Pete Bennett knows parties in this organization connect to the matter of Bennett vs. Southern Pacific

Fremont Group Board of Advisors

We bring the credibility and global network of relationships from one of the largest family-owned businesses in the world.
Riley Bechtel – Chairman of the Board of Bechtel Group, Inc.; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers; Honorary Lifetime member of the American Society of Safety Engineers.
Stephen Bechtel, Jr. – Chairman Emeritus, Fremont Group and Chairman Emeritus and Director, Bechtel Group, Inc.; Fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and Eagle Scout and Silver Buffalo – Boy Scouts of America.
Richard Cavanagh – Former President and CEO of The Conference Board.; Former Executive Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Director of Black Rock Mutual Funds and Guardian Life Insurance Company.
Ernest Cockrell – Chairman of Cockrell Interests, Inc.; Former Chairman of Cockrell Oil Company; Director of Amegy Bank of Texas.
Alan Dachs – President and CEO of Fremont Group; Director of Bechtel Group, Inc.; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Trustee of the Brookings Institution; Chairman of The Conference Board.
Deborah Duncan – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Fremont Group; Former Executive Vice President for J.P. Morgan Chase Bank’s Global Asset Management and Mutual Funds Division; Director of Guardian Life Insurance Company.
David O’Reilly – Former Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation; Director of Bechtel Group, Inc. and Ocean Exploration Trust.
Bob Peck – Managing Director of FPR Partners, Fremont Group; Formerly head of public equities with Perot Investments.
George Shultz (Retired) – Former U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, U.S. Secretary of Labor.; Former Director and President, Bechtel Group, Inc.; Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
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OBIT: Patricia Perry just another Murder Suicide?

Updated: Mon, Jul 6, 2015, 9:36 pm

Danville police investigate apparent murder-suicide in Crow Canyon

Former San Ramon poet laureate allegedly killed by husband, who then shot himself



Danville police chief Steve Simpkins speaks about the apparent murder-suicide during a press conference early Monday evening. (Photo by Jeremy Walsh)
Town police are investigating the deaths of a Danville couple in a suspected murder-suicide in the Crow Canyon Country Club community Monday morning, according to department officials. 

The preliminary investigation indicates 77-year-old Edward Perry shot and killed his wife, Patricia "Pat" Perry, and then killed himself, Danville police chief Steve Simpkins said during a press conference early Monday evening. 

Pat Perry, 67, was a retired San Ramon city employee and served as the city's first-ever poet laureate. 

"Patricia Perry's willingness to provide exemplary, prompt and efficient assistance to internal and external customers earned her the title 'GOA' -- Goddess of All. She will be missed greatly by those she touched in the city family," San Ramon assistant city manager Eric Figueroa said in a statement.
The San Ramon city flag will be flown at half-staff on Tuesday in remembrance of Pat Perry, according to Figueroa. 

The incident inside the Perrys' home in the 700 block of Glen Eagle Court was discovered soon after Danville police arrived at the residence within the Crow Canyon Country Club gates around 7:45 a.m. Monday, according to Simpkins. 

Emergency dispatch had received a 9-1-1 hangup call several minutes earlier, he said. 

After arriving on scene, officers heard what sounded like a gunshot, and after deeming it safe to enter, they made their way into the home, Simpkins said.
Once inside, officers found Edward Perry dead in the front doorway from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Simpkins. 

Police carried on their search of the home and discovered Pat Perry deceased in the kitchen, having sustained two gunshots, the police chief said. No other people were found in the home and there were no signs forced entry, Simpkins added. 

Detectives are continuing to investigate the case but have not yet found a potential cause for the apparent murder-suicide, according to Simpkins. 

"It was obvious to us when we did our investigation that it was a murder and then a suicide, but we don't know what the factors leading up to that are," the police chief said. 

Danville police had responded to a domestic disturbance call at the residence in 2011, but no arrests were made, Simpkins said, noting that investigators will review that case. 

Pat Perry's death has been deemed the town's first murder since 2009, according to Simpkins.
"This is certainly a tragedy. It's not something we often respond to. And our hearts go out to all the involved families and the city employees of our neighbors to the south," Simpkins added,
Pat Perry worked for more than two decades as a San Ramon city employee, according to Figueroa.
She started in 1989 as city clerk/redevelopment secretary and over her career was promoted various times, ending her career as a division manager in 2010. In retirement, Pat Perry continued to support San Ramon as a special project consultant for four years for the city manager and executive team. 

She also held the distinction of being named San Ramon's first poet laureate in 2006, serving in that position for three years. She contributed more than 40 poems for civic events such as Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Sept. 11, Figueroa noted. 

It was not immediately clear what Edward Perry's profession was, according to Simpkins
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PG&E Sniper - International/Domestic/Insider/Lobbyist Terrorism

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The Braddock & Logan Eviction of Forrest Lupo - Evicting the Elderly Friends with Board of Supervisors

4155 Blackhawk Plaza Circle Suite 201 Danville, CA 94526 Telephone: (925) 736-4000 Email: sales@braddockandlogan.com
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Ivory Consulting Walnut Creek - The connection #Catepillar #MormonMurders and Mitt Romney

In 2004 I was drawn into the Mormon Church at Alamo 1st, by summer my truck exploded.  By Sept 27th, 2014 my Mormon relatives the Strack's were dead.

There is a link between that 2004 Arson, the PG&E Explosions in San Bruno, Fresno and the 2004 Walnut Creek Explosion which happens to lead to former Judge Golub whose brother strongly connects to Nixon Peabody Energy lobby as Howard v. Golub is former PG&E General Counsel for for Regulatory affairs.

Howard you're friends are Rick Kopf who is friends with the Saudi's via the Bin Laden Family



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CBS 48 Hours: The Country Club Murders

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Murder Suicide #4

First these relatives connected to friends and family, by definition cousins once removed. My brother Alex Bennett, my sister-in-law Kathy Hak are related to Mary Hak Strack and Ernie Strack.

We share the same hometown,

The Fremont Group Connection to Witness Murder
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CBS 48 Hours: The Country Club Murders

In 2010, persons in my offices I know suspect are behind many arson fires in Contra Costa County plus Bay Area. Right around the time of San Bruno Explosion two individuals were in my offices. Just before my business was shattered by suspects the Scherer's were murdered allegedly by their son but in 2012, a person of interest and solid connector to this case turned up with a pretty good match to the alleged murder weapon.
Like the Kinder Morgan explosion suddenly it was Clam Shell Investigations.  We can get on 48 Hours but we won't talk about newly developed information. 
  • Suspect A: Ernie Scherer III  (represented by Mormon Attorney) 
  • Suspect B: None
  • Witness A: Sister
  • Witness B: Ex-wife
  • Connectors: Alamo 1st Ward, Danville Stake, 
  • Known to Parties: Walnut Creek Bishop Matthew Lyons 
The Death Of Accenture Employee Murder

Murder Victims: Ernie and Ardoth Scherer

  • Devout t Mormon's where all members are assigned Wards configured in Stakes under Temples.
  • The Golub Conspiracy :
  • Howard V. Golub ~ Former General Counsel for PG&E CPUC and Regulatory Affairs 

Murder Victims: The Judge lacked but the execution was completed

  • Superior Court Judge Joel Golub who connects to the CNET Scandal involving CAL Department of justice Commander Norman Wielsch but also connects Judges, Attorneys, Deputy's and DDA to the same story.
  • Suspect E:Attorney Lisa Trapani former associate of Atty. Dick Grossman (C), retired Walnut Creek PD, Former Bomb Squad Leader, tampered with known Federal Witness, strong connections to the

The Golub Conspiracy
CNET Conspiracy 

Suspect D: Contra Costa County Deputy Vince Jimenez (Sus/Vic) places Armando Ibarra in Bennett's cell, Ibarra taken off meds, planned arrest timed and premeditated intent to harm or kill, Bennett even stronger connection to the CNET Conspiracy

Suspect E: Walnut Creek Officer Vessor (F) who arrested Bennett at Safeway parking lot at 600 S. Broadway Walnut Creek CA, site of many Bennett incidents, work location of Suicide Victim Jamie Sheets then embroiled in the Bacteria case with Doc's Pharmacy Walnut Creek WC1-2001 ,
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US Airways Flight 1549

 US Airways Flight 1549


On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 piloted by Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles, made an unpowered emergency water landing in the Hudson River after multiple bird strikes caused both jet engines to fail. All 155 occupants, the passengers and crew, successfully evacuated from the partially submerged airframe as it sank into the river; they were rescued by nearby watercraft. Several occupants suffered injuries, a few of them serious, but only one required hospitalization overnight. The incident came to be known as the "Miracle on the Hudson", and Captain Sullenberger was soon regarded as a hero by some accounts.[4][5][6]
The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200, registered N106US, operating as a US Airways scheduled domestic commercial passenger flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York City to Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina. About three minutes into the flight, at 3:27 p.m. EST, the plane struck a flock of Canada geese during its initial climb out from LaGuardia, just northeast of the George Washington Bridge. The bird strike caused both jet engines to quickly lose power.
As the aircraft lost altitude, the flight deck crew decided that the plane could not reach the closest airfield. They turned southbound and glided over the Hudson, finally ditching the airliner off midtown Manhattan near the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, about three minutes after losing power.
The entire crew of Flight 1549 was awarded the Master's Medal of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators. The award citation read, "This emergency ditching and evacuation, with the loss of no lives, is a heroic and unique aviation achievement."[7] National Transportation Safety Board member Kitty Higgins described the feat as "the most successful ditching in aviation history."[8][9]
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