X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: <53C1B4CE.3000105@sbcglobal.net> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:21:02 -0700 From: Richard Childers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Eberhardt Subject: Just Found .380 ACP @ 137 12th Street References: <53B5C8C7.2040203@sbcglobal.net> <53C1A409.10600@sbcglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <53C1A409.10600@sbcglobal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I found a single round, .380 ACP - in the parking lot of 137 12th Street, in front of Building 4. I just dropped it off at FPD front desk. Not necessarily related to Alan - there's a birthday party here and there are a few people here who don't live here. The car it was found next to is gone now - large white older SUV, didn't get the license plate. Regards, ~richard On 07/12/14 14:09, Richard Childers wrote: > Officer Eberhardt, > > > I'm writing because things have gotten weird with Mr Attar. > > As of a week or so ago he was accusing everyone in sight of dealing > drugs, and going around, copying down license plate numbers (at 7:30 > in the morning, mind you). > > After that, he went out for a few hours, and when he came back - I was > smoking out front, at the time, reading - he told me he had a .44 magnum. > > (This was a followup to a previous encounter when I had been helping > him and Gwen go somewhere and had handled his briefcase, noticed how > heavy it was, and asked him what he had in there, suggesting, > half-jokingly, that he had a .44 magnum. So it wasn't clear to me if > he was serious or not.) > > I want to emphasize that I have NOT seen any sort of firearm in his > possession. This is only hearsay. > > Our conversation then segued into a discussion about this guy he knew, > in Sacramento, who had given him a knife - which he showed me - that, > he claimed, had been used to kill hundreds of people ... how great the > nation of Israel was ... and the merits of Krav Maga as a martial art > - among other topics. > > I pointed out that the knife in question did not have blood gutters or > a tang - attributes one would expect in a fighting knife - and > suggested it was more likely that the knife in question was a > deer-cleaning knife. He accused me of not believing him. > > (The knife in question had a fixed blade, and a wooden handle, made of > a light-colored wood. No sheath. Blade was about five inches long. > Sharpened on one side only. Chrome finish. The most distinguishing > characteristic would be the presence of four slots on the back of the > blade, at the base of the blade, which I think are designed for > cutting through wire, IE, fencing. Not a city boy knife.) > > He was right - I question his integrity. Due diligence works that way. > I make no apologies for that. > > At that point, Alan was still talking to me. > > > A few days ago the apartment manager told me that Alan had claimed > that I had been pounding on his door the night before, and that all > communications with Alan should go through her. > > My kids (and presumably the neighbors) can vouch that I did not do > this, and nobody has explained why I would do this. > > I asked her if the cameras that Alan was monitoring had captured any > of this. She did not reply to this question. > > > This morning (7/12) Alan texted me: > > 10:05 Alan Attar: > Ha ha you are caught!! Sting sting!! Now you are going to Federal > Prison for illegal wiretapping!! > > > I am perplexed. I have no idea what he is talking about. > > My oldest daughter thought she heard him yelling at himself - > something along the lines of "You're going to be on parole for life! > 'Oh, no! Who's going to take care of my wife, and kids?!'". > > We're starting to think he's, ah, a little unstable. > > And it makes me nervous to know that he's only five or ten feet away > from my kids. > > > I'm assuming you already know he was arrested for some minor dustup, > in Nevada City, across the state line. Next, he showed up in > Sacramento - a hundred miles away, all downhill. Now he's in Humboldt. > > I did a little research and among other things I found that an Alan > Attar was named in a SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission) civil - > NOT criminal - action, back in the 1980s, where, basically, someone > with the same name was involved in a $500K stock transaction - where, > if I read it correctly, this person failed to pony up the $500K to pay > for the stock that the trader had ordered for him, and the seller sued > the buyer, whom was so unlucky as to be acting as Attar's agent. No > proof this is the same guy - but the age is right ... Alan is from New > York ... he's not a happy guy ... and his east-to-west movement, and > behavior, are perhaps indicative of someone fleeing something. > > Alan sent me a short email where he outlined his intention to start up > some sort of a business here in the Humboldt Bay area acting as agent, > selling things on eBay for people in the area. His description of > multiple corporations intended to shield him from liability suggests > that he expects to be sued and is designing a legal infrastructure > intended to protect himself from being held legally liable for the > actions of his subordinate corporations. > > I raise the possibility that he intends to separate old people, so > desperate for money that they are selling their personal heirlooms, > from their possessions, and systematically under-compensate them for > their possessions - all of this being legitimatized by the possession > of a business license, issued by the City of Fortuna. > > I say this because, based on thirty years dealing with dot-com > founders, and dozens and dozens of people whom have incorporated > themselves - the only people I know who shield themselves this way, > are people with criminal intentions. > > I continue to remain concerned. > > > Looking out for Fortuna, I remain, > > ~richard > 707-725-7995 > > > > On 07/03/14 14:19, Richard Childers wrote: >> Dear Officer Eberhardt, >> >> As one of the denizens of 137 12th Street, I have been an >> unenthusiastic observer of most of the recent events related to >> apartment 4C, where Gwen May and Alan Attar made their residence. >> >> Alan told me he loved Gwen and wanted to marry her. However, they >> fought quite a bit. And Alan was always calling 911 after midnight >> and seeing Gwen taken away to the hospital, by ambulance crew. He >> told me she had congestive heart disease. >> >> Some of the neighbors I spoke with questioned his integrity. (Try not >> to laugh too hard.) They smelled a rat. I wouldn't go so far as to >> challenge their experience. I found myself questioning some of the >> things Alan told me, too. Like, wanting to marry someone, after >> knowing them for only a few months. >> >> I found it hard to believe that someone would steal the battery to >> Gwen's powered wheelchair, for instance. The battery was big, heavy, >> and useless for anything else but powering a specific model of >> wheelchair. Who would carry it away? Why? Where would they take it? >> It didn't pass the smell test. >> >> Perhaps it was only a coincidence that Gwen found the powered >> wheelchair let her accelerate away from Alan, when they went for a >> walk, and escape his supervision. But I can't think of anyone else >> who would benefit from the loss of the battery, except Alan. >> >> Alan told me Gwen kept losing her ID and wallet. He said it was >> because of her low blood pressure. Well, that may be true, but it >> also creates a huge, gaping window of opportunity for anyone, close >> to her, whom was inclined to take advantage of her forgetfulness. >> >> And so a lot of people were wondering if this was a case of elder >> abuse, in the making. >> >> >> So, anyway, let me cut to the chase, here. >> >> The ambulance took Gwen away a few days ago. Maybe a week ago. >> >> Alan told me that Gwen had died, at St Joseph's, He said she had died >> at 3:45 AM. >> >> I didn't have any reason to think otherwise. >> >> But then Alan started acting kind of strange. >> >> He put signs up on the windows and his front door saying something >> about everyone being on camera. He borrowed my ladder, then told me >> he had reconnected the cameras (installed by the apartment complex >> owner, for an earlier generation of management, now gone) up to a >> personal DVR. >> >> He started going around and writing down everyone's license late >> numbers, and accusing people of peddling drugs - kind of like >> shooting fish in a barrel, if you ask me - and creating a bit of a >> furor. >> >> One of the neighbors told me that Alan was watching them via the >> camera. That seemed kind of like stalking. >> >> This same neighbor pointed out to me that Alan was washing strips of >> carpet, and hanging them out to dry - he wondered if Alan had torn >> those up, and what Alan was trying to wash out of the carpet. >> >> *These neighbors pointed out to me that there did not appear to be an >> obituary for Gwen Anne May.* >> >> Now, I know that's not evidence of foul play - obituaries are written >> by family, not everyone necessarily gets an obituary. >> >> I did a little research, and was unable to find any sort of notice of >> death, in any paper, anywhere, however. >> >> Death certificates don't seem to be visible over the Internet - fear >> of identity theft has made it virtually impossible for third party >> citizens to do straightforward research without going, in person, to >> Eureka. >> >> * >> And so I ask you: do you know, for a fact, if Gwen Anne May is >> deceased?* >> >> Or has she simply been relocated to some other care facility, where >> her needs are being better taken care of - and is Alan Attar lying, >> when he asserts that Gwen May passed away? >> >> >> It would be nice to know. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> ~richard >> >> >> PS: The 500-character limit on the email form of the department's >> home page is woefully inadequate. >> >> >