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News Articles about my Morongo Valley bust.
KESQ News, Local medical marijuana patient evicted, 4 Dec 03
the d, Medical Marijuana raises questions, 29 Dec 03
San Bernardino Sun, Medical pot user files claim, 18 May 04 Rent
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I moved into Bonita Millard's inlaw apartment in Morongo Valley, California July 10, 2002. I told her when I moved in I was disabled, with bi-polar condition, and a medical marijuana patient. I showed her my recommendation and gave her a 'care-givers' certificate in case anything should happen.
Then she called the sheriffs, who proceeded to bust me (she was a confidential informant) and then she tried to throw me out in the street. I had no computer, no medicine and spent the next nine months fighting to stay out of jail and keep a roof over my head. While the criminal charges were dismissed and the first unlawful detainer, and Inland Counties Legal Services represented me in the 2nd unlawful detainer hoping to set a precedent because I had such a good case, I wasn't able to find anywhere else to live and was brutally and maliciously harassed by Bonita and the Sheriffs for nine months. A fuller account of this is provided on my About Me page. My contention was, and is, that I was entitled to 60-days-notice just like any other tenant if she didn't want me there, and that her actions were premeditated, malicious, and in violation of The Compassionate Use Act, The Unruh Civil Rights act, and SB420 (which at that time had been enacted but would not become law until January), and that she and the San Bernardino sheriffs conspired to forceably detain me from my apartment in violation of California Civil Code. I hoped that by bringing Civil suits against San Bernardino County and, perhaps, Bonita, I could end the persecution of medical marijuana patients in San Bernardino and establish that medical marijuana patients cannot be quickly and cheaply evicted by California landlords in such a manner with impunity. I filed a claim against the County of San Bernardino but couldn't find a lawyer that would represent me pro bono in a civil suit, and now the deadline has passed and I am homeless and have lost everything. Several people supposedly tried to help me but their idea of helping me was to ask me to move in with them and then make it impossible for me to do anything on the civil suits, and then force me to move and spend all my time looking for a place to live. Timeline November 25th, 2003 When I realized I was getting busted, I sent out emails, called friends and began a thread about it in www.overgrow.com forums
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Personal Accounts Official Documents
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December 1, 2003 After I returned home from jail Thanksgiving morning I took inventory and then left to stay with friends for 5 days, until December 1st. When I returned Bonita had put a 3-day notice on my door and was beating on my windows and screaming at me. She even unlocked my door and tried to force her way into my apartment. December 4, 2003
December 10, 2003 December 11, 2003
December 29, 2003
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January 16, 2004 January 17, 2004
January 23, 2004 January 27, 2004 January 29, 2004
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March 9, 2004 March 10, 2004
On March 10th I attempted to pay Bonita rent with a check for $385. She refused stating it wasn't enough, that the agreement was $485 for rent and utilites. At that point I asked her to put the agreement in writing, indicating that I would pay on that condition. She refused and gave me the check back. Within 5 minutes she had a 60-day notice posted. Two days later I attempted to pay again, with a witness, with 2 checks; 1 for $385 for rent, and 1 for $100 for utilites. I also included a letter outlining the verbal agreement. At first she refused saying it wasn't enough. I asked her if she looked at the checks. She did, saw they totalled $485 and took them and the letter. I and my friend returned to my apartment. A few minutes later she was at my door screaming. She tore up the checks and the letter.... ...and I suspect she's telling everyone I'm not paying rent. I suspect she's been doing this all along - first costing me every cent I have with this harassment and then refusing to accept rent while telling the sheriffs and everyone else I'm not paying. April 1, 2004
The day after the dismissal the electrical system on my car shorted out. So I spent a week homebound, unable to go anywhere. When I got home after having it fixed, and discovered my power had been turned off, I left for 5 days to stay with friends. I simply couldn't take it here anymore. April 22, 2004
Bonita taped the following on my window, next to my door; a letter entitled "Californians duped on Medical Marijuana Law" with a yellow stickem on it on which was written "This is only the begining", and a 7-page printout from the National Institute of Drug Abuse. 
April 23, 2004 May 6, 2004 May 7, 2004
I was told this motion accidentally got into the judge's basket prematurely, and he signed it and the order in error. It was vacated May 18th and the same motion was heard and granted on May 26th, and the order signed on May 27th. May 11, 2004
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June 10, 2004 July 7, 2004
July 20, 2004 April 4, 2005 April 19, 2005 April 28, 2005 July 7, 2005
January 4, 2006 About July 20, 2005 Bonita's nephew chased me off the place as I was coming back from the store and I went to stay with the Victors, where I slept on the couch for 6 weeks before staying with another friend. I answered an ad on Craig's List for a roommate and found myself living with a Bonita Millard copycat with the result that I am now homeless and have lost everything...and am out of medicine. The past month is the first time in over two years (and it may be the last) that I have been able to sit at a computer in peace and quiet and actually go over the documents, or do anything else. Much of my website hasn't been touched in two years. I slept under bushes and on church floors for 9 months to have the wherewithal to purchase a laptop and stay in a motel for a few weeks to organize some of the documents and present them in searchable format on my website. It will be a miracle if the laptop survives the rain. February 23, 2006 |
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