By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
April 3, 2013
According to the CHP (who clearly got it wrong) parolee Gerardo Lopez, 36, of Stockton, was driving on Hwy 26 at about 110 mph a couple of days ago and refused to yield. When they nailed him with spike strips the jumped out of the car carrying an AR-15, dropped the weapon, and fled into an orchard where he was captured. What actually happened was quite different.
According to a press release from Governor Brown’s office Mr. Lopez was in fact out collecting for the Red Cross when the accelerator of his car stuck. Once he finally got the car under control and stopped he got out, dropped the rifle that somebody else must have placed in his car so the cops could have it, and wandered into the orchard to see if any of the migrant workers who may (or may not) have been there needed his assistance.
The poor misunderstood Lopez was most unfairly booked into the county hospitality center for felony evasion, resisting arrest, auto theft, possession of stolen property, illegal possession of an “assault weapon”, illegal possession of high-capacity magazines, illegal possession of ammunition and felonious mopery.
(OK, I made that last charge up. Also, pretty much all of the second paragraph. I was bored this morning, and missed not having my third can of Green Death for breakfast.)
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