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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:53:55 -0700
From: Richard Childers <fscked@sbcglobal.net>
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To: krobinson@co.humboldt.ca.us
Subject: Regarding ALAN ATTAR, CDCR#: 504792
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To whom it may concern,

I was in the apartment beneath Alan during the past two weeks 
immediately before his arrest.

I have a half a dozen text messages from him that are pretty crazy.

They mention cockroaches. I think he was referring to bedbugs.

I think the bedbugs drove him crazy.

I thought you'd appreciate knowing this, seeing as you will be handling 
his defense.

Over the past two or three weeks I have been fiercely agitating for the 
management of the apartment to do something after my wife and I 
diagnosed bedbugs in our apartment and a little questioning finally, 
grudgingly, revealed that there had recently been an infestation of 
bedbugs in our apartment.

The management has been sloooowly responding but it's mostly been 
protecting themselves from blame - and so I can see how someone less 
stable and less solidly connected to the local community and its 
resources might lose it.

Here's a snapshot: Accurate Exterminator, of Fortuna, confirmed they are 
bedbugs. An inspector from the county confirmed they were bedbugs. City 
of Fortuna thinks they are bedbugs. Woods Extermination thinks they are 
bedbugs. Terminex thinks they are bedbugs. The County Department of 
Agriculture thinks they are bedbugs.

Professional Pest Management was seeking a second opinion as of a few 
days ago. By my calculations PPM is approximately 2000 (TWO THOUSAND) 
times less responsive than the county department of agriculture.

I can see how someone might go postal, in circumstances like those.

If you talk to Alan ... tell him I have his jacket. The nice one, from 
Argentina. I'll save it for him. He threw it out the window. As far as I 
know, his apartment is sealed, and nobody is going in or out.

But I'd fumigate the apartment, before I went in there. It's pretty 
dank, from what I saw.

It's likely that the bedbug problem was made much worse by the woman he 
was living with, who was always bringing stuff home. They might have 
fought about it. This may have contributed to the restraining order that 
she got against Alan - that is, she was creating a health and safety 
problem, and it drove him justifiably crazy.

Frankly, the concealment of the bedbug problem has mushroomed into a 
huge issue. The police response to Alan's breakdown involved four FPD, 
three CHP, and two unmarked police vehicles, with at least 10 or 12 
officers, armed with M16s. That was expensive. And it's turning out that 
EVERY SINGLE BUILDING is infested. It's a major failure of public 
health. Someone should be punished.

I'm not sure Alan Attar is that person, though.

Call me if you have any questions.


Regards,

~richard

Richard Childers
707-725-7995
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