X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: <54272D17.2060409@sbcglobal.net> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 14:33:11 -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: frw3consulting@sbcglobal.netFrank Subject: Fwd: Regarding ALAN ATTAR, CDCR#: 504792 References: <53CB3D53.5030204@sbcglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <53CB3D53.5030204@sbcglobal.net> X-Forwarded-Message-Id: <53CB3D53.5030204@sbcglobal.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------020804010002000702070801" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020804010002000702070801 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Frank, It was nice talking to you today. Alan and his brother are fortunate to have you in their lives. Below is the email I sent to the Humboldt County Public Defender. I never received any acknowledgement or reply, and it does not seem as if the county's legal system cares about bedbugs - or justice, for that matter. I have been in communication with the Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services, as well as the Fortuna building inspector. They are interested in the problem but somewhat limited in their ability to do anything without the cooperation of the apartment owners, who live in Southern California - the complex owners moved to California, as "refugees" from Louisiana, after the hurricane and flood a few years ago. (I say 'refugees' because they apparently arrived with enough money to go shopping for apartment complexes, and because I suspect that the revenue from the apartment complex is being invested elsewhere. It's sure not being invested in Humboldt County.) I'd like to talk to Alan, or his brother, about the legal ramifications of this situation. There are indications that the owner and the manager conspired to conceal this infestation from the residents of the apartment, as well as those whom occupied the apartments, later. My apartment, I learned, was empty for eight months while they tried to get rid of the bedbugs, themselves, while concealing it from the exterminator that came on the premises once a month to spray for cockroaches. There's no way an apartment could be empty for eight months and not generating revenue without the owners knowing why. Lawyers in Humboldt County seem to lean away from renters unless they can pony up city quantities of cash, up front. But if we coordinated our efforts, it's likely we could find adequate legal representation, and respond to the tort that has been inflicted upon us. Alan, and my family, as damaged parties, have common cause - if we care to make something of this. Regards, ~richard Richard Childers 707-725-7995 (phone) fscked@sbcglobal.net (email) http://www.linkedin.com/in/fscked (web) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Regarding ALAN ATTAR, CDCR#: 504792 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:53:55 -0700 From: Richard Childers To: krobinson@co.humboldt.ca.us 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 http://www.linkedin.com/in/fscked fscked@sbcglobal.net --------------020804010002000702070801 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Frank,

It was nice talking to you today. Alan and his brother are fortunate to have you in their lives.

Below is the email I sent to the Humboldt County Public Defender.

I never received any acknowledgement or reply, and it does not seem as if the county's legal system cares about bedbugs - or justice, for that matter.

I have been in communication with the Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services, as well as the Fortuna building inspector. They are interested in the problem but somewhat limited in their ability to do anything without the cooperation of the apartment owners, who live in Southern California - the complex owners moved to California, as "refugees" from Louisiana, after the hurricane and flood a few years ago.

(I say 'refugees' because they apparently arrived with enough money to go shopping for apartment complexes, and because I suspect that the revenue from the apartment complex is being invested elsewhere. It's sure not being invested in Humboldt County.)

I'd like to talk to Alan, or his brother, about the legal ramifications of this situation. There are indications that the owner and the manager conspired to conceal this infestation from the residents of the apartment, as well as those whom occupied the apartments, later. My apartment, I learned, was empty for eight months while they tried to get rid of the bedbugs, themselves, while concealing it from the exterminator that came on the premises once a month to spray for cockroaches. There's no way an apartment could be empty for eight months and not generating revenue without the owners knowing why.

Lawyers in Humboldt County seem to lean away from renters unless they can pony up city quantities of cash, up front. But if we coordinated our efforts, it's likely we could find adequate legal representation, and respond to the tort that has been inflicted upon us.

Alan, and my family, as damaged parties, have common cause - if we care to make something of this.


Regards,

~richard

Richard Childers
707-725-7995 (phone)
fscked@sbcglobal.net (email)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/fscked (web)




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


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
http://www.linkedin.com/in/fscked
fscked@sbcglobal.net
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