Speaker 1: And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon
Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wanings in Culver City.
Speaker 2: John, residents in a neighborhood in Resita are being terrorized
Speaker 2: by a naked man. Uh oh, we'll have more on
Speaker 2: that when we open up the crime blodder later on
Speaker 2: in the show. The Fruits out of the Loam.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 1: the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 1: two two two. It is a pleasure to welcome our
Speaker 1: next guest to the program. She was a columnist for
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Chronicle for many years, also the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Review Journal. She is now a creator over at
Speaker 1: the North of sixty five Substack. You can get her
Speaker 1: online at Deborahjsanders dot substack dot com and follow her
Speaker 1: on X at Deborah Jsunders Deborah Sounders.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Hello, John Phillips.
Speaker 3: How are you today?
Speaker 2: I'm good. Thank you so much for stopping.
Speaker 3: My pleasure, my pleasure, big day today, poets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on the insurance crisis here in California.
Speaker 3: I know, I know. Good for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they've been bringing a lot of stories, not
Speaker 1: just that, but they of course had the first story
Speaker 1: on Eric Swalwell. When that story broke, and we're learning
Speaker 1: more information about what a creep Eric Swalwell was where
Speaker 1: I guess it's now been reported that he used to
Speaker 1: have his campaign meetings at Hooters, and he used to
Speaker 1: try to get the young female staffers all liquored up
Speaker 1: at Hooters on a regular basis. And Randy reported earlier
Speaker 1: today that there are allegations that he is continuing to
Speaker 1: intimidate some of the women on Snapchat. He's continuing to
Speaker 1: communicate with them, trying to get them to zip it
Speaker 1: so they don't tell whatever story it is that they
Speaker 1: have to tell. And their unconfirmed reports, I guess that
Speaker 1: there are going to be more videos with more lud
Speaker 1: acts coming out. What a mess this guy was, who
Speaker 1: operated in plain sight for so long.
Speaker 3: It really irritates me. So I left California in January
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen, so basically he'd been in office for about
Speaker 3: a term, little more than a term. I never saw
Speaker 3: any behavior like that from Eric Slowell. It just blows
Speaker 3: my mind that so many people came out later and
Speaker 3: said yes, he was so blatant about it, and he
Speaker 3: could have gone on like that for years and years
Speaker 3: if he didn't run for governor, and people realized, no,
Speaker 3: he's a liability for the party. We've got to get
Speaker 3: this story out now.
Speaker 1: It's wild to me that it didn't come out when
Speaker 1: he ran for president. I guess there were stories out
Speaker 1: saying that some of the women were prepared to come
Speaker 1: forward and tell their stories when he was a candidate
Speaker 1: for president, but he lasted for about a cup of coffee,
Speaker 1: and I guess they assumed that there wouldn't be any
Speaker 1: interest in it.
Speaker 2: But he was still a powerful guy.
Speaker 1: He was still a member of Congress, which is you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of power. You write the
Speaker 1: laws for the entire government. And he wasn't just a backbencher.
Speaker 1: He was someone who was close to the speaker. He
Speaker 1: was put on the impeachment committee. He was part of
Speaker 1: the Russia collusion investigation. He was a fixture on cable news.
Speaker 1: He was a guy who traveled around the country campaigning
Speaker 1: for other people. And he was able to do that
Speaker 1: because no one blew the whistle, and.
Speaker 3: Because all he did was mash Trump. He was a
Speaker 3: reliable person on CNN to bash Trump. That was his
Speaker 3: whole stick, and he was going to try to ride
Speaker 3: bashing Trump to the horseshoe and Sacramento right to be governor,
Speaker 3: which is amazing to me. You think that people would
Speaker 3: want to have more of a you'd want to have
Speaker 3: a workhorse for governor. You don't want to have somebody
Speaker 3: who throws out a few good quotes on CNN, bash Trump.
Speaker 3: You want somebody who wants to get things done. It
Speaker 3: blows my mind.
Speaker 1: That is such a good point because that is what
Speaker 1: that crowd regarded as relevant, and everything else they regarded
Speaker 1: as noise. And the fact that he hated Trump more
Speaker 1: than all the others hated Trump, and the fact that
Speaker 1: he was so out there in that regard they were
Speaker 1: willing to overlook all of the other problems that he
Speaker 1: brought with him, and.
Speaker 2: It almost worked out.
Speaker 1: I mean, if this story didn't come out exactly when
Speaker 1: it did, I think this guy was on track to
Speaker 1: be the next governor of California.
Speaker 2: And maybe you disagree with me.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this story were to have broken
Speaker 1: after the primary, when he would have real estate on
Speaker 1: that November ballot with a Republican, let's say him and
Speaker 1: Steve Hilton, I don't I think their reaction to the
Speaker 1: story would have been very different.
Speaker 3: They would hold their nose and vote for him, There's
Speaker 3: no question, because I mean, after all, it's your guy
Speaker 3: or the other guy, and we know that that's worked
Speaker 3: before so many times. When the story gets out late enough,
Speaker 3: it is. It is amazing, though, that there weren't more
Speaker 3: people in the party that tried to stand up for
Speaker 3: the woman who had to deal with him. I'm disappointed
Speaker 3: about that. It just when people started going on Twitter
Speaker 3: when the story came out, saying, well, we all knew this.
Speaker 3: Well I said, I didn't know it. But if you
Speaker 3: knew that, there might have been people taking him aside
Speaker 3: and saying, hey, you can't do this anymore. Maybe a
Speaker 3: committee assignment, taken away, something like that. But as long
Speaker 3: as he got on CNN trashing and Trump, he was golden.
Speaker 1: It's sad it seems like that is a common denominator
Speaker 1: among a lot of the politicians who I guess there
Speaker 1: are open rumors about of having serious ethical problems to
Speaker 1: one degree or another, where they try to make up
Speaker 1: for it with their own side by going after Trump
Speaker 1: as much as possible. We know we have an attorney
Speaker 1: general here in California Rob Bonta, who is ethically challenged
Speaker 1: to say the least. We know that Javier Bessera, who's
Speaker 1: running for governor. I mean, Dana Williamson is on trial
Speaker 1: right now and his name appears in those documents. I
Speaker 1: think Michael Treheel of the via Gosa strategies put out
Speaker 1: a tweet saying something like five thousand times, and it's
Speaker 1: like they just figure if they just don't talk about it,
Speaker 1: and they just spend all of their time talking about
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, which in a state office is not really
Speaker 1: that relevant. I mean, if you're the attorney general of California,
Speaker 1: you should have other problems that you're dealing with, not
Speaker 1: participating in talking head sort of chatter about what's going
Speaker 1: on in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: But I do think that that is a.
Speaker 1: Way that they can deflect all of the criticism and
Speaker 1: try to prevent these stories from coming out that expose
Speaker 1: their own sins.
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right, and it's just sort of ironic because
Speaker 3: again we're talking about California governor. This is a big jobs.
Speaker 3: You need to be a good administrator, you need to
Speaker 3: know how to handle programs. And by the way, Javia
Speaker 3: the Sarah has a background in that that's something I
Speaker 3: know that he's pushing and I understand why. But elected congressman, governor,
Speaker 3: somebody who wasn't a big presence in Sacramento, somebody who
Speaker 3: didn't seem to have interest in what was going on
Speaker 3: in the state, somebody baptized speed rail, right. I mean,
Speaker 3: I understand California voters have been for it, but it's
Speaker 3: just not going to happen. You and I both know that, right, Oh.
Speaker 2: It's never going to happen.
Speaker 1: And they keep giving updates telling us how much longer
Speaker 1: it's going to be and how much more it's going
Speaker 1: to cost. And I always tell people to figure that
Speaker 1: in bananas, because apes will be controlling the earth by
Speaker 1: the time that gets finished.
Speaker 3: I know, I don't know what the budget for that.
Speaker 3: What country could have supported itself on that for ten years?
Speaker 3: I mean, how many, how many countries. It's it's just
Speaker 3: it's it's astonishing to me that it's so clear that
Speaker 3: high speed roll isn't going to make it, and yet
Speaker 3: it's I would assume that if you know, obviously the
Speaker 3: Sarah Winds or if another Democrat wins, they're going to
Speaker 3: push this through, and this should be an issue that
Speaker 3: I would imagine that, you know, the Republican candidates can
Speaker 3: use against them if they make it to the final two.
Speaker 3: So tell me what's going to happen. I'm not there.
Speaker 3: Who's going to be Who's going to be in the
Speaker 3: top two?
Speaker 1: Well, right now, the problem is you have about four
Speaker 1: candidates maybe five, who are pulling within the margin of
Speaker 1: air of the top two slot us. So if those
Speaker 1: polls are accurate, which I assume that they are, that
Speaker 1: means there are any number of permutations that you could
Speaker 1: see on the November ballot. You could have a situation
Speaker 1: where the Democrats are locked off the November ballot and
Speaker 1: you have a choice between two Republicans. You could have
Speaker 1: a scenario where you have two Democrats on the November
Speaker 1: ballot and no Republicans. You could have a Republican versus
Speaker 1: a Democrat. Right now, I don't know. I can tell
Speaker 1: you what I'm going to do as a voter, as
Speaker 1: a Republican voter in California, and that is I'm going
Speaker 1: to vote for whichever Republican is polling second, because which
Speaker 1: right now is Chad Bianco.
Speaker 2: Even though I.
Speaker 1: Prefer Hilton, I'm going to vote for Bianco. Because the
Speaker 1: Democrats have wrecked the state. There's been one party rule
Speaker 1: in this state for a very long time, and what
Speaker 1: did one party rule get us. You have to buy
Speaker 1: shampoo from behind bulletproof glass. There are homeless people, not
Speaker 1: just on skid Row but all over the place. We
Speaker 1: have this idiotic train that is never going to be built,
Speaker 1: but we all have to pretend like it is. We
Speaker 1: have a budget that's upside down. None of us can
Speaker 1: buy insurance. I could go on until three o'clock when
Speaker 1: they cut me off and Guy Benson takes over. But
Speaker 1: the state government and the state services that we receive
Speaker 1: is appalling. So I'm going to vote. I want a
Speaker 1: Republican lockout. I want Republicans on the November ballot. And
Speaker 1: because Trump got behind Hilton, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: the casual Republicans are going to do what Trump wants
Speaker 1: them to do and vote for Hilton, which means the
Speaker 1: people who are paying attention I think should be voting
Speaker 1: for Bianco. Because for Republicans, the best case scenario is
Speaker 1: to come as close as possible to splitting the vote.
Speaker 2: Fifty to fifty.
Speaker 1: That gives you your best shot at having a lockout
Speaker 1: in November.
Speaker 3: Okay, I will see what happens. I remember when Top
Speaker 3: two first came out, there were a lot of question
Speaker 3: marks about how it would work. No one ever imagined
Speaker 3: could have two Republicans, you know, facing off against each other,
Speaker 3: which is you know, I don't know. I guess really
Speaker 3: not a possibility.
Speaker 1: Like in dream, as someone who had a front row
Speaker 1: seat to California politics, California government, where you did at
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Chronicle, one of the biggest newspapers in
Speaker 1: the state, and you saw a lot of these titans
Speaker 1: up close and personal. You covered Willie Brown, you covered
Speaker 1: Pete Wilson, You covered a lot of these people who
Speaker 1: are in charge. When the state actually functioned before them,
Speaker 1: you had a different crowd. You had George Duke Magen
Speaker 1: and you had the Burtons in San Francisco and that
Speaker 1: legacy and Leo McCarthy and the rest.
Speaker 2: What do you think went wrong?
Speaker 1: When do you think California went off the rails and
Speaker 1: all of these smart people that used to run the
Speaker 1: state have now been replaced by flakes who have the
Speaker 1: ability to get likes on Twitter and to get bookings
Speaker 1: on MSNBC, but know nothing.
Speaker 3: So when California was arguably as two party states. When
Speaker 3: a Republican Pete Wilson Arnold Schwartzenegger could win and have
Speaker 3: some leavening influence, that was great. But once you'd become
Speaker 3: a one party state completely, that's when the nuts come out.
Speaker 3: That's when the extremists, when when the primary and you
Speaker 3: get and and and let's face it, we're in an
Speaker 3: era all over the country where cable TV is influencing
Speaker 3: who wins, not necessarily who can govern, and so anyway,
Speaker 3: but I look at I look at a different time
Speaker 3: and but but it's the numbers. You just can't. If
Speaker 3: Republicans are going to be completely in the minority in
Speaker 3: redistrict into you know, oblivion practically, then that's what you're
Speaker 3: going to Yet and once it's all Democrats, that's when people.
Speaker 3: I look at Wiener, right, Scott Wiener, he was at
Speaker 3: one time a really reasonable San Francisco supervisor, and he
Speaker 3: was in favor of banning naked people in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: That was considered a very conservative position. But were the
Speaker 3: rewards for that kind of position, And now we know
Speaker 3: all of these wopie positions that these taken on social
Speaker 3: issues because that's what pays, and I just think that's
Speaker 3: that's the time we're in right now. I don't like it,
Speaker 3: I have to say. And I'm sure that there are
Speaker 3: plenty of people who are listening who don't like Donald
Speaker 3: Trump and feel that that's happened with the Republican Party,
Speaker 3: that the extremes have taken over too much. I can't
Speaker 3: say they don't have a point. And so here we are,
Speaker 3: there's nobody who really wants to come out. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think Javeabsarah is going to try to take that role,
Speaker 3: is a person who can get things done, and maybe
Speaker 3: that will get uh, maybe that will get him what
Speaker 3: he wants. I think I can't see Tom Stier going anywhere.
Speaker 3: I feel like I've been watching that guy forever talking
Speaker 3: about how he's going to go after billionaires and it
Speaker 3: just doesn't work. He just wants he just wants the glory.
Speaker 3: I don't see anyone going for that. Katie Porter, any
Speaker 3: chance she somehow comes through.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I was looking at favorability numbers a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: and this is a deep blue state, and her unfavorables
Speaker 1: and stiers were so much higher than even the Republican candidates.
Speaker 1: Her being bipolar has cut through the noise, and people
Speaker 1: seem to understand that she's not a nice person.
Speaker 3: See, I thought, if you had asked me this six
Speaker 3: weeks ago, I thought Katie Porter could really break through
Speaker 3: because I think California Democrats in California voters hate Trump
Speaker 3: so much that they want this whole idea of I'm
Speaker 3: going to be the one who stands up to him.
Speaker 3: Now swallwell is not the person who's on CNN all
Speaker 3: the time. I thought she could sort of naturally walk
Speaker 3: into that. That's we'll see what happens in tomorrow night's debate.
Speaker 3: But I thought she would be more confrontational, but she
Speaker 3: seemed she's to do okay.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, though the debate, Julie Watts of CBS
Speaker 1: Sacramento was the one that she snapped at on the
Speaker 1: video that went viral. She was one of the moderators
Speaker 1: of the debates of that last debate in Claremont. So
Speaker 1: I think Katie had to mind her p's and q's
Speaker 1: because if she went off on the same person twice,
Speaker 1: that would be a real bad luck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and a woman too. Yeah, I mean, I I
Speaker 3: thought that again, I just thought she would. I thought
Speaker 3: that she might really capture the anger in a way. Well,
Speaker 3: but Tom Steyer is trying to I don't know. We'll
Speaker 3: see what happens. You know, you're talking about the people
Speaker 3: who've had governing in California. Gray Davis was someone there
Speaker 3: was a time when Californians were looking for boring. Do
Speaker 3: you remember that?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, Pete Wilson was boring too, That's right.
Speaker 3: So Gray Davis and Pete Wilson were considered great governors
Speaker 3: because they were boring. And I just sort of wonder
Speaker 3: if that's going to be something that the candidates pull out.
Speaker 3: I mean, Steve Hilton is very good at communicating, so
Speaker 3: I think that's his biggest strength. But it is and
Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to say he's boring, but
Speaker 3: I do think that that is an attack that somebody
Speaker 3: might want to do. And again, I think that there
Speaker 3: have to be some voters who are really angry about
Speaker 3: Swallwell and the fact that he got as close as
Speaker 3: he did, who may want boring. They may be something
Speaker 3: that they decide they want it.
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Speaker 3: She can be rolling around our city like a chola.
Speaker 1: All right, it's time to open up the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 4: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 5: Nice see. Time for the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 1: And today's first edition of the Blotterer involves a naked.
Speaker 2: Man, a crazy naked man terrorizing people in a neighborhood
Speaker 2: in Resita. For more, here is KTLA, and yes, there's
Speaker 2: going to be a lot of naked puns.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 6: Residents in a Resina neighborhood say that they feel terrorized
Speaker 6: by a man they claim has been exposing himself and
Speaker 6: also making threats.
Speaker 2: Wait, that's not a crime. Yeah, it used to be.
Speaker 1: That could get you on the tex Offenders Registry list.
Speaker 1: Making criminal threats no longer a crime, Flashing your you
Speaker 1: know what no longer a crime.
Speaker 6: And some residents say the behavior appears to be escalating.
Speaker 6: KTLA's Chris Wolf has more now from Risida.
Speaker 7: Racial slurs, death threats, obscene language and gestures, and NonStop nudity.
Speaker 1: Now, wait a minute, I thought Spirit went out of business.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's why this guy's so upset.
Speaker 7: Racial slurs, death threats, obscene language and gestures, and NonStop nudity.
Speaker 2: That sounds like the departure's gated Spirit to me.
Speaker 7: Neighbors say it's all coming from one man who lives
Speaker 7: in a hell house, and now they feel absolutely helpless.
Speaker 4: There he goes, there goes, exposing himself.
Speaker 7: Naked and most certainly not afraid to them.
Speaker 2: I mean, you knew it was coming.
Speaker 4: There he goes, There he goes, exposing.
Speaker 7: Himself naked and most certainly not afraid to flash a
Speaker 7: full frontel for all who pass by his house along
Speaker 7: Garden Grove Avenue in Resita. Neighbors reached out to KTLA
Speaker 7: to explain they've been dealing with a living nightmare for
Speaker 7: the last three or four years.
Speaker 2: Wait, they've been dealing with naked man for four years.
Speaker 1: What do you do if you're a realtor and you're
Speaker 1: trying to sell a house in that neighborhood and you
Speaker 1: have a showing, Well, they're gonna have a showing.
Speaker 7: All right, because of one neighbor who is often combative, loud, naked,
Speaker 7: and beyond offensive. Many have home surveillance footage and cell
Speaker 7: phone footage of the bizarre behavior often exhibited in the buff.
Speaker 2: What are the chances that the neighbors all have a
Speaker 2: group thread on their phones where they're just constantly sharing
Speaker 2: with each other pictures of naked guy.
Speaker 1: Well, usually, if you're going to be naked in this context,
Speaker 1: you're not someone that anyone wants to look at.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 7: Many have home surveillance footage and cell phone footage of
Speaker 7: the bizarre behavior often exhibited in the buff, but they're
Speaker 7: too concerned about potential retaliation to share the material for
Speaker 7: this story. Ron Vito has no problem speaking out telling
Speaker 7: us about the neighbor they know as Greg launching all
Speaker 7: night tie rates.
Speaker 8: The guy goes off sometimes two o'clock in the afternoon
Speaker 8: until two three o'clock.
Speaker 4: In the morning.
Speaker 8: And by that, what do you mean he's screaming? He's
Speaker 8: hanging out in the window naked.
Speaker 1: Well, he's not trying to be discreet, will he's naked?
Speaker 1: I guess we know that much.
Speaker 4: Shaking his penis and everybody whoa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this guy is either on drugs or he is.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it would be skitz frenig, but
Speaker 1: he definitely has something.
Speaker 4: Everybody here is terrorized about this guy. He laughs. The
Speaker 4: cops come, what is.
Speaker 2: He the joker? Well, apparently he's not afraid of going
Speaker 2: to jail. You want to know why it's so hard
Speaker 2: to hire and retain LAPD officers because they get two
Speaker 2: hundred calls about one guy and they're not allowed to
Speaker 2: do anything about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you do if you know every single
Speaker 1: time you clock in at the plant, your shift is
Speaker 1: going to involve dealing with laughing naked man.
Speaker 8: We've heard they had over two hundred calls. He has
Speaker 8: no power in the house, so he sets fires to
Speaker 8: the property inside. That's how he gets warmth and light.
Speaker 2: Neighbor so what is going on here? Is this a
Speaker 2: squatter situation? Yeah, I don't know if i'd set my
Speaker 2: own home.
Speaker 7: One neighbors tell us there have been drifters living in
Speaker 7: sheds in the backyard and that the house has no plumbing, electricity,
Speaker 7: or gas. They believe it's a public safety hazard for
Speaker 7: all involved and don't understand why city officials are not
Speaker 7: doing more to crack down on the property and occupants.
Speaker 2: Because the city does not care.
Speaker 1: This is why you need Spencer Pratt Los Angeles. Because
Speaker 1: the fish rots from the head and Karen Bass does
Speaker 1: not believe that people like this should be arrested. And
Speaker 1: because they're not arrested for breaking the law in front
Speaker 1: of everyone, for all eyes and cameras to see, this
Speaker 1: chaos is allowed to go on in this neighborhood NonStop.
Speaker 4: We're told that it's a neighborhood dispute. It is hell.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely hell.
Speaker 2: I think it's a little more than a neighborhood dispute.
Speaker 2: This ain't no hat fields in McCoy's.
Speaker 1: No no, And to allow this to go on as
Speaker 1: long as it has what normal person could live under
Speaker 1: those conditions.
Speaker 4: We're told that it's a neighborhood dispute. It is hell.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely hell.
Speaker 8: We very upset and scare from this guy, and they
Speaker 8: don't do nothing.
Speaker 2: Dot he's not wrong and they don't do nothing.
Speaker 4: Duck.
Speaker 7: Accurate documentation provided to KTLA shows the homeowner has been
Speaker 7: cited for various violations within the last year, with charges
Speaker 7: including use of land for unzoned purposes.
Speaker 2: Online Really nothing on the uh, the naked stuff or
Speaker 2: the threats.
Speaker 1: How do you not get in trouble for that? Because
Speaker 1: it's a neighborhood. So my guess is it's not just
Speaker 1: adults who live there, it's also children. If you expose
Speaker 1: yourself to child, how do you not get in trouble?
Speaker 1: Welcome to La.
Speaker 7: Unlawfully altering the interior of a building and having electrical
Speaker 7: wires without compliance.
Speaker 2: That's what you're going after him for.
Speaker 1: Of course, that's what the city of La is concerned about.
Speaker 1: He's violating some code.
Speaker 2: Code enforcement can go after him, but the LAPD cannot.
Speaker 7: Paperwork also shows a plea of not guilty to the complaint.
Speaker 7: Whatever is happening with zoning and land use issues, neighbors
Speaker 7: tell us day to day life in this community is unbearable.
Speaker 7: As one man continues to bear all.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's what two puns. We're at like five
Speaker 2: or six now.
Speaker 7: As one man continues to bear all, there he goes.
Speaker 2: He sounds totally sane, doesn't he.
Speaker 4: The man at the.
Speaker 7: Center of this controversy appeared briefly at his.
Speaker 2: This is why interest rates got to come down. There
Speaker 2: are so many people in that neighborhood that would move,
Speaker 2: but they have to weigh living next to a crazy
Speaker 2: person or seven percent interest.
Speaker 7: The man at the center of this controversy appeared briefly
Speaker 7: at his bedroom window this Saturday evening. He said that
Speaker 7: we are bearing false witness and that's why God kills journalists.
Speaker 2: Whoa We got an old testament on him.
Speaker 7: I went up to the window and asked if he
Speaker 7: would like to speak with us, but he declined. In Resita,
Speaker 7: I'm Chris Wolfe KTLA five News.
Speaker 2: There you go. Residents in Resita have been dealing with
Speaker 2: crazy naked man for over four years in this city.
Speaker 2: Won't do squat.
Speaker 1: I've said it before and I'll say it again. Just
Speaker 1: another totally normal day here in the insane asylum. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred two two two five two two two is a
Speaker 1: telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 1: two two. Let's go to Stephen in Tustin.
Speaker 2: Stephen, Hello, why can you hear me? Yes? Sir?
Speaker 5: Okay, cool?
Speaker 3: I just have a question.
Speaker 2: So, how do you think this guy who's been doing
Speaker 2: this for four years actually.
Speaker 4: Owns a hope?
Speaker 5: How does that happen?
Speaker 3: Because he's obviously nuts.
Speaker 1: Well, if I had to guess, I would say he
Speaker 1: inherited the home. Either his parents lived there, or his
Speaker 1: grandmother lived there, or someone lived there who probably figured,
Speaker 1: all right, Junior is a little office rocker. Why don't
Speaker 1: we give him a stable place to live so that
Speaker 1: way he doesn't have to worry about covering the rent
Speaker 1: And the best of intentions some kind of times lead
Speaker 1: to a naked man.
Speaker 2: Doing what he's doing.
Speaker 4: Wow, that is wild?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't imagine him being gainfully employed. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine him showing up to an interviewed naked?
Speaker 5: Well, what if he's going to h can't they do
Speaker 5: something about him?
Speaker 2: This is Resida. There's no hoas. Oh man, that's just brutal,
Speaker 2: absolutely brutal. Good. Well, thanks guys, all right, thanks for
Speaker 2: the call, sirp all right, here's your latest scruple. Everybody communist,
Speaker 2: dictator hoa or neighborhood with naked man.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I haven't had to deal with naked man before.
Speaker 1: But the Karens are a pill to deal with.
Speaker 4: And they don't do nothing.
Speaker 1: All right, it's time to reopen the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 4: It's happened yet again. This wow, wow, what's not weird?
Speaker 5: Dun dun dun, dun dunk dunk rereads the Califonia Crime
Speaker 5: Bladder with John and.
Speaker 2: Randy.
Speaker 1: This edition takes us to Santa Rosa, where they busted
Speaker 1: a serial tire slasher.
Speaker 2: Yes, he doesn't like rubber. For more, here is kron four.
Speaker 9: All right, Laurence sex a lot, a suspected serial tire
Speaker 9: slasher off the streets tonight in the North Bay.
Speaker 2: Santa Rosa.
Speaker 9: Police say at least fifty cars were targeted in a
Speaker 9: string of overnight vandalism.
Speaker 2: There's no chance he has connections to a tire shop,
Speaker 2: is there.
Speaker 1: What does this guy have against rubber because it seems
Speaker 1: to me like he hates it more than Elon musk Crawd.
Speaker 9: Fourth Sarah Stinson brings us the details on how police
Speaker 9: tracked him down so quickly and why they think there
Speaker 9: could be more victims.
Speaker 10: You can still see some of the cars with their
Speaker 10: tires slash here on Third Street. Police say many of
Speaker 10: the dozens of cars targeted. We're in the parking lot
Speaker 10: across the street at the Marriott Hotel. People who own
Speaker 10: businesses in the area say this has never happened. A
Speaker 10: string of vandalism left dozens of Santa Rosa drivers waking
Speaker 10: up to slash tires on Monday morning. Police say it
Speaker 10: happened during the pre dawn hours in the historic Railroad
Speaker 10: Square district.
Speaker 4: We haven't seen anything like that.
Speaker 2: Maybe a car window, you know, broken at night, you know.
Speaker 4: Maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not a high crime corridor. This is
Speaker 2: Sonoma County.
Speaker 1: Imagine calling Triple A. Yeah, I'm gonna need you guys
Speaker 1: to come down here. I have a flat, all right,
Speaker 1: we can put the donut on whichever tire it was
Speaker 1: it blew out. No, I only have one donut. I
Speaker 1: have four flats.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe once every couple of years, but that's
Speaker 2: about it. But this is really unusual.
Speaker 10: Mike Montague, the president of the Railroad Square Association, says
Speaker 10: he was shocked when he saw the aftermath.
Speaker 3: We saw some tow trucks toe some of the cars
Speaker 3: away on one of the build.
Speaker 2: Do we have any evidence that this guy's connected to
Speaker 2: a telling company?
Speaker 1: Those are the shadiest companies on planet Earth. It's them
Speaker 1: in the trash collectors.
Speaker 4: On one of the buildings our family owns, we have cameras.
Speaker 2: If business is slow, you just take out a knife
Speaker 2: and you'll get a whole bunch of new customers. Business
Speaker 2: is good.
Speaker 4: On one of the buildings our family owns, we have cameras,
Speaker 4: and we looked at the cameras. We didn't see anything.
Speaker 10: Police say surveillance video helped them zero in on a suspect,
Speaker 10: a man wearing dark clothing and carrying a bright red bag.
Speaker 10: While officers were investigating, they got a call about a
Speaker 10: man matching that description allegedly popping tires with a knife
Speaker 10: inside their parking garage. This actively happening in a gated
Speaker 10: neighborhood off Sebastopool Road.
Speaker 11: Officers brush efford of that, and they were able to
Speaker 11: detain the suspect.
Speaker 2: You know, we're so used to doing southern California stories
Speaker 2: or Oakland stories. There's just something interesting about, Hey, an
Speaker 2: arrest was made. I'm just not used to that with
Speaker 2: all the la stories we do in t Sanama County.
Speaker 2: You go slash in attire, they're going to find you.
Speaker 2: That is true.
Speaker 1: Whenever you hear about an arrest being made, it kind
Speaker 1: of turns into a man bites dog story.
Speaker 11: Officers rushed over to that house and they were able
Speaker 11: to detain the suspect right there. After further investigation, they
Speaker 11: determined he was the one responsible for the spree of
Speaker 11: tire slashings throughout downtown and he was.
Speaker 2: Wearing this what was the giveaway? Was it the knife?
Speaker 2: They call that incriminating evidence.
Speaker 11: And he was wearing the same clothing, carrying the same
Speaker 11: bag and upon further inspection, several knives and some drug
Speaker 11: paraphernalia with him as well.
Speaker 2: Oh you don't say, what do you know? The guy's
Speaker 2: entire life is a mess.
Speaker 10: Investigators believe the man is also responsible for a broken
Speaker 10: window out of business over the weekend on Jennings Avenue,
Speaker 10: thirty two year old Keith Johnson, who police described as
Speaker 10: a transient from Santa Rosa.
Speaker 2: As soon as they get arrested, there no longer are
Speaker 2: unhoused neighbors. They're transients. What do they have to do
Speaker 2: to go back to being a bum?
Speaker 10: Thirty two year old Keith Johnson, who police described as
Speaker 10: a transient from Santa Rosa, is now facing multiple charges
Speaker 10: including felony, vandalism.
Speaker 11: And burglary.
Speaker 10: Investigators say a total of fifty cars were damaged, but
Speaker 10: there could be more.
Speaker 2: That's like two hundred tires. Say I could do math.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a good quarter for goodyear.
Speaker 11: Try to find every possible victim, whether it was reported
Speaker 11: or not, but it's possible. We didn't get everybody. So
Speaker 11: if any one of our residents or visitors discovers that
Speaker 11: their tires were slashed, just call our non emergency number is.
Speaker 2: And don't take advantage of this. Don't because you've got
Speaker 2: bald tires that you've been too cheap to a place,
Speaker 2: go and slash your own tires and blame it on
Speaker 2: this guy. That's not cool. Imagine doing that. You have
Speaker 2: these bald ass tires on your car, you go out
Speaker 2: you slash all four of them, You call the cops.
Speaker 2: You go, look what sub psycho did.
Speaker 11: Just call our non emergency number at seven oh seven
Speaker 11: five two eight five two two two.
Speaker 10: If you believe you are a victim in this string
Speaker 10: of vandalisms, or if you have video that's relevant to
Speaker 10: the investigation, you're asked to contact Santa Rosa Police. I'm
Speaker 10: Sarah Stinson, reporting fron for News.
Speaker 2: There you go. They took down a serial tire slasher
Speaker 2: in Santa Rosa.
Speaker 1: And surprise, surprise, he was a crazy homeless person.
Speaker 2: Transient Bob. I do like that word me too. My
Speaker 2: grandparents used to call them whino's and if they were female,
Speaker 2: they were bag ladies. The greatest generation. They call them
Speaker 2: that for a reason.
Speaker 1: All Right, we've got one more hour coming up on
Speaker 1: the John Phillips Show.
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