Gloria Romero is running for Lt Governor

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Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wings in Culver City.

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Speaker 2: John in his sit down interview with Ashley Zavala, Tom Steyer was asked to prove that he's such a cheap bastard.

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Speaker 3: Give me an example of how you're the cheapest person.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I gotta hear this answer.

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Speaker 3: Give me an example of how you're the cheapest person.

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Speaker 4: Well, I have one pair of sneaks.

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Speaker 5: Wait, he's a billionaire and he has one pair of shoes. How bad do those shoes smell?

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Speaker 1: So he works out in the same shoes that he walks through the airport in.

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Speaker 6: You can smell it right here.

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Speaker 3: Give me an example of how you're the cheapest person.

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Speaker 4: Well, I have one pair of sneaks.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, he calls them sneaks here, but he told real ninety two to three calls him kicks.

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Speaker 5: So which one is it? Tom, That's a very good question.

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Speaker 1: It's these, Yes, I try, I try an American.

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Speaker 3: Uh, these are sorry just for people who can't see their h Are they Nike Nike air Force ones?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay, this guy is arguably of all of the billionaires who have run for office in the state of California, whether it's Al Checkee or Meg Whitman or any of the others, he might be the most inseferable one of them all.

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Speaker 4: We're a big Ass Crisis.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is jellphone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. She is the former Majority leader in the California Senate and currently a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor here in California. You can get her online at Gloria Romero the number four ltgov dot com. That's Gloria Romero for Lieutenantgovernor dot com. You can follow her on x at Gloria J. Romero. Senator Gloria Romero.

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Speaker 6: Welcome, good to be with you, John, Thank you well.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for stopping by. So the big news lately here in California surrounds what CBS News and citizen journalists Nick Shirley have uncovered, primarily in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, where you had any number of hospice facilities that were headquartered in one building. I guess there is a checklist that is used to determine which ones are fraudulent and which ones are not, and many of them checked all of the fraudulent boxes. When Nick Shirley was there, he was harassed by people who owned the building. I guess the landlord telling him to get out of there, stop recording. Certainly they don't want to be exposed if there's fraud that's going on in that particular building, in that particular neighborhood. And this is news that was not just news here in California, but went national and international. In response, California Governor Gavin Newsom and his press office attacked Nick Shirley, essentially mocking him for showing up with a bunch of cameras and asking for verification. It's odd to me that given the fact that the state of California is relatively broke, with our budget upside down. Certainly we don't have money for our crumbling infrastructure. We don't have money to complete the bullet Train, we don't have money for any number of projects. You would think that the governor of the state of California would welcome this information and would want to root out waste fraud and abuse so that money wouldn't be stolen from taxpayers and could go to programs that are more worthy of the money. However, his impulse was to attack the person who was exposing the fraud instead of attacking the people who were committing the fraud. What do you make of all that?

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Speaker 6: I think, as a taxpayer, as a Californian, as somebody who has been in public office and running again, it really is just, I mean, an absolute disgrace as to how this missing in action governor and his so called press corps have treated the very serious allegations and findings of corruption in California. But the way that I look at it is that his hands are dirty. I mean, if you are upset that Nick Shirley, and thank God for the independent journalism and the ethics and the research of Nick Shirley, if he's finding this fraud and he's not the only one there, or for them to attack the person who has discovered the fraud, it means this runs deep, and I think at the end of the day, what it really means is that this governor is grifting off the state of California. He's checked out, and he's basically on his worldwide delusional campaign for the presidency. So he really doesn't care, and that's the response. It's a cover up. It's a giant cya. Unfortunately at our expense.

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Speaker 1: The focus of the Shirley investigation and the focus of CBS News were the hospice facilities. But if you look at other spending in California that has produced negligible results, Let's take homeless services. Money that's been spent on these homeless services organizations where you know that the people that run them are politically connected. Frequently they go back and forth from these organizations to elected government. We know that Katie Hill, the former congresswomen from the Attel Valley, came from that world. Nthia Rahman, the DSA councilwoman in Los Angeles who's running for mayor against La Mayor Karen Bass, came from these organizations. These organizations get a lot of money coming from the state, coming from the federal government, coming from the county, coming from the city, various layers, and the problem just keeps getting worse. But it seems like the people who work there are doing just fine. They're driving nice cars, they're living in nice homes, they are filing nice w two's with the government now that we're knocking on the door of tax day. That's not what's supposed to happen. These organizations are supposed to make the problem go away and not enrich themselves. Can you imagine what we would find if there was some real audit of how we spent our homeless money in the state of California. I would imagine you'd find more waste, fraud, and abuse than they did in Minnesota.

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Speaker 6: Oh, you're absolutely right, and I believe that's one of the reasons why a very sensible bill that was sent to the governor, bipartisan actually in the legislature, which is quite rare these days, to conduct an audit of homelessness spending and money that was vetoed by the governor of California. So you know, we always say you follow the money. What's interesting is that I've done a quick perusal looking at the names of all the people running for office in California, and I'm surprised if how many say nonprofit director, or I'm a housing advocate, or I'm an anti poverty nonprofit advocate. And honestly, I think the message that we've learned today is anybody who is a so called advocate or a so called nonprofit director. I think we should be wary of them because of anything. These money that are supposed to be going to leave and take care of the people that with great compassion and care, the voters of California have wanted to direct funds. Basically, the money's been diverted into the pockets of these guys that run the system, as well as invested into mansions and fancy cars and worldwide trips and saunas, which the voters never intended to happen. So it's a giant game and sadly it is being discovered now. It's unfortunate that it's not California. It's not the agency. The controller is asleep at the wheel, the treasurer is asleep at the wheel. All of the state constitutional officers and the super Party in Sacramento appear to just be asleep at the wheel. Wink, wink, not nod, look the other way because they have to know what is going on.

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Speaker 1: You are running for a lieutenant governor on the same ticket as Steve Hilton, who is a guy who comes from Silicon Valley. There are any number of individuals in Silicon Valley who support you, who support Steve Hilton, both financially and politically. They are behind your campaigns, and it's always been I guess a question to me as to why here in the state of California, where we are the home to Silicon Valley, we do not have a computer system that will allow the state to easily determine which business license requests are fraudulent, which EDD requests are fraudulent, and make sure how we get the money and the licenses to the people who truly deserve them, as opposed to the criminals who are looking to exploit the system. Because whenever one of these stories makes the news, the answer was, well, we have a really old computer system that didn't catch all of the ways the fraud, the abuse, the lies that were put in there. And Shirley Weber, who is the California Secretary of State, in the CBS news piece that talked about the hospices because she was the one that gave them the business licenses, said that it's not on her to verify the information that they provide to her, so stop asking questions to her. Yet, whenever I go to the dermatologist for an appointment, I feel like I have to fil to take the SATs where you just fill out form after form after form after form. How is it that the dermatologist can verify more information electronically than the State of California when Silicon Valley is in our shadow.

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Speaker 6: You're exactly right. And it's been a long time on many issues. You know, I last left Sacramento in twenty ten, and at that point there was a big you know, that crisis at that point was the lack of a computer system within the department and motor vehicles. Well, it's only gotten worse. But I think ultimately it's not even about the technology, although it is so ironic the heart of Silicon Valley and here we have these antiquated, allegedly systems that nobody wants to fix. But he really is not the character I mean individuals in these positions who should take a responsibility and the accountability and the interest. I mean, I think exhibit number one is actually the insurance commissioner. I'm not even going to say his name, but he's running around the world, he's collecting money, he's going to all these places. In the meantime, most of the state of California has burned down. Insurance companies are leaving. The two victims of the fire cannot get insurance even they can't get their their properties if they're still standing, even fixed. So I go back to that to take a look at It's almost as though we need to have a character tist in order to get on the ballot in the first place. But I think that it's so maddening when you start digging away and seeing how invested in fraud, waste and abuse generational. This has occurred in California, and you know, like when you go someplace. Oftentimes I will go to, like say, maybe a furniture store, and I want to make it normally a bigger than usual purchase. So I go there. What do I get on my phone right away? A text message from my credit card? Is this really you? You know? Are you buying this? Is this fraud? Well? I think, well, then if I can get it on my little text message and my furniture purchase is not that big, that's overall. Why can't we have an alert system, something more systemic whereby we can follow the money and suspicious purchases or just make it transparent. Part of the Golden ticket is Herb Morgan as well, who's running with our team. He's running in the controller position, and he talks about having radical transparency that Steve Hillson and I have endorsed as well, so that we can basically, like you know, when you go online, you can see exactly right away the posting of a bill, and if we're interested in it, or curious about it or skeptical of it, we can follow that purchase, follow that money. We should be able to do it. It's you know, it's we are in the heart of Silicon Valley. But if there's no will, if there's no interest, if there's still CYA, if there still is an understanding that it's been a giant gain and the taxpayer is the one that's being fooled, we're going to continue to basically say, oh, we don't know where the money is, and Bill's trying to just do an audit of where the money went. Are being detoed by a gristine governor.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think there's no offense that's being taken at this money being stolen? Because if your car were to be stolen, you'd be pissed. If my car were to be stolen, I'd be pissed. And billions of dollars are being stolen from the state of California, and the people who are in charge of spending your money don't seem to care at all.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think that again to who is really angry about this? You know, Steve and I on the Golden Ticket have been doing town halls up and down the state of California, and people are angry. But the best revenge, the best action, is really then let's go out and vote. Let's make it too big to rig. We have to use our voices. We basically have to save ourselves because those in power right now are not going to change the system. It has worked for them. And then you take a look at, for example, the homeless agency, and we're learning more about the hospice industry. It's basically becomes this cycle where it appears that you know, money is shifted from the government, or not the government, it's the people, it's we the people where it's the money's been shifted from. And then it get it gets banked into one of these alleged nonprofits, and then the money gets siphoned off and lo and behold, where does it show up? Probably into the pockets and the campaign coppers of too many politicians within the system who are part of the game, and so they're the ones who are are not happy because the boat hasn't been rocked. But I think with the rise of social media, and really I give a lot of credit to Elon Musk in the purchase of Twitter now X, because imagine if we didn't have that, I think we'd still be in the dark. We would be unaware because the legacy media, not you. Of course you've been fabulous over all these years, but the traditional legacy media, they haven't exactly been doing hard hitting investigative journalism. You know, there are some really good reporters like Ashley Zavalla in Sacramento, but she's a rare person who actually will follow and ask questions and not let them get away with it. But I think for too often Sacramento has been shrouded in silence. People don't really watch a lot of news publications are also slipping away, so there's not as much attention on what comes out of Sacramento. So whenever you allow for power work to access money and use money in the dark, there's going to be corruption. So that's why Steve and I say this year twenty twenty six. It's the golden opportunity to shine the brightest light, aided by everything we've learned and seen, and to basically blow this place open and reveal the truth. And the best way to deal with being unhappy and dissatisfied is to go out and use our vote to throw the bums and the gristers and the cheaters out of office once and for all.

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Speaker 1: I keep telling people that if you complain about something and you post about it on social media and you're upset at how dirty your city is or how many homeless people are living on the streets or the crime in your neighborhood, that's not good enough. You can complain about it until you're blue in the face, unlessen, until you start voting differently, nothing is going.

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Speaker 6: To change exactly. That's it I mean. And you know, I was a Democrat for a long time, and I kept fighting, especially on school reform, transitioning our schools, making sure that we get a charter schools, an independent you know, homeschool and look at reforms. And essentially I just got drummed out of the party and finally I left. As we say, I didn't leave the party, the party left me. I finally realized I can try all the reforms, but there is a bigger power that's blocking any type of looking out for for kids trapped in a failing I don't even call it a public education system, it's a public works system because basically it's more about the adults in the system and pensions and perks and privileges rather than just getting basic literacy and proficiency and reading and mathematics that we don't see. Mississippi has advanced over California, So you're exactly right. I think there really needs to be, you know, a people's revolt. We've got to stand up. We have a you know, a constitutional republic, so called democracy. It's our opportunity to go out and vote, and if we don't, it's just basically allowing those who do to continue the system. So we can't complain. Roll up, oursleeves, do the best we can against very strong odds. But I think this year there are so many people, and not just Republicans and Independents, but Democrats as well, who are just sick and tired. I mean, this party doesn't represent you know, the average Joe or Joan anymore, and so we have an opportunity, and I think we have to use it. We have to try.

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Speaker 1: Gloria Romero, former majority leader in the California Senate, current candidate for Lieutenant governor here in the Golden State. You can get her online at Gloria Romero the number four lt gov dot com. That's Gloria Romero for Lieutenantgovernor dot com. And you can follow her on x at Gloria J. Romero, Senator Gloria Romero, thanks so much for stop buy Thank you. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number. What eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. And Randy if you missed an episode from last week, if you want to find out what you missed out on, that's easy to do.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number. And right now it's time to open up the California crime blater.

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Speaker 5: It's happened yet again.

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Speaker 4: Nice see, time for the California crime blodder.

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Speaker 1: And we know the price of gasoline is going up, up, up, and now the thieves are stealing your very expensive gasoline.

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Speaker 2: Somebody got busted in Lodie for trying to steal five hundred gallons of diesel.

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Speaker 1: Where do you even store that?

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Speaker 5: You start in.

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Speaker 2: The flatbed of a truck that's just got a whole bunch of barrels in it.

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Speaker 1: That sounds safe.

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Speaker 2: For more on this, we got to ABC ten in Sacramento.

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Speaker 7: But first, ABC ten's Gabrielle Porus has a warning denied from a local gas station owner after a suspected thief nearly made off with four hundred gallons of diesel.

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Speaker 8: With prices at the pump so high. Right now, the family that owns this Lode gas station tells me margins are slim.

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Speaker 1: Every cent counts.

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Speaker 8: It's why they're so grateful they were able to recover those hundreds of gallons of stolen diesel. But the crime, they say, still came at an expensive cost.

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Speaker 9: Michael Clute was getting ready to call it at night on March ninth, but at the pumps of his family's Low Dyke gas station, one man was just getting started.

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Speaker 10: They opened up our locks, and the locks they couldn't get opened. They got a cry bar in here and pulled it up enough and damaged inside. And then once they opened up this door panel, they got in and had access to all the electrical and probably took five minutes at most between the two times they're here to spice on the wires and beyond the.

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Speaker 2: They we're gonna have to rig this thing like you're dismantling a bomb to get it to spit out free gas.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like the cashier was right on top of this one.

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Speaker 5: If the cash his dummy.

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Speaker 2: By the way, in case you're new to this show, that drop from twenty twenty two was about a bunch of people stealing gasoline at a gas station in Long Beach.

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Speaker 10: And beyond their way and start getting fuel, more than five hundred gallons of fuel, all of it diesel.

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Speaker 11: Michael says, according to officers.

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Speaker 5: Why that truck's been there a long time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't exactly do this lickety split, can you.

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Speaker 9: According to officers, the thief was pumping it to hidden tanks on the truck's bed until an alert customer called police.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't even the cashier that called the cops. It was just someone that noticed somebody using the pump. The machines all busted, and he's taking the pump and instead of putting it in his truck, he's putting it in barrels in the bed.

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Speaker 1: Well, maybe the alert customer is a cashier, as their job. Alert and cashier don't really go hand in hand.

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Speaker 10: If the cashier's dummy and he goes, I've been here a while and this guy's been here quiet before I was here, So it just didn't add up to him, you know. As the cops showed up, the individual was trying to get out of the vehicle and pulled the nozle out, which he spilled fuel, which kind of was also a red flag to them.

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Speaker 1: I wondered if he was smoking a cigarette too.

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Speaker 11: Hopefully not LOADI.

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Speaker 9: Police arrested Antonio Cherno of Las Vegas and charged him with grand theft.

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Speaker 2: Wait, it's a who comes to La from Vegas? Or excuse me, not la load ie from Vegas to Steel Gas.

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Speaker 1: Probably someone who's gotten away with it before.

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Speaker 9: LOADI police arrested Antonio Cherno of Las Vegas and charged him with grand theft.

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Speaker 5: What was the plan here?

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Speaker 2: He was going to go back to Vegas and sell that gas for three dollars a gallon.

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Speaker 1: Here's what they should do. Make him walk the plank over a treasure island.

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Speaker 10: Were able to get oliver fuelback the toad that trucks in the m pound yard we're looking at right now, with the damage they did, probably about ten thousand dollars less.

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Speaker 11: Some more money spent on security upgrades, and with these numbers only.

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Speaker 10: Going up, you know, I just had to raise them over twenty cents.

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Speaker 11: Michael worries it could happen.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, how much.

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Speaker 2: You know, we talk about all the hidden costs in the gallon of gasoline, and you've seen the breakdown. Here's your federal excise tax, here's your state excise tax, here's cap and trade. How much is built into that cost per gallon of security improvements? Because the gas stations are getting robbed.

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Speaker 1: They should call those ahole taxes.

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Speaker 10: You know, I just had to raise them over twenty cents.

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Speaker 11: Michael worries it could happen again.

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Speaker 10: They're they're hitting a lot of businesses and a lot of gas stations in the Central Valley. So when fuel prices are high, it's always gonna drive theft up. So if it's not me, it's gonna be other businesses. It affects everyone in.

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Speaker 11: Load Ike, Gibril Porous, ABC ten.

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Speaker 2: There you go, a diesel thief and load eye. I got caught when someone noticed that he was trying to fill a whole bunch of barrels in the back of his truck with stolen gasoline and Randy, it's time to reopen the California Crime Blodder's to catch it's dummy.

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Speaker 4: We shouldn't make this stuff up. If we tried, I.

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Speaker 5: Said, hell no, baby boy, let me get up one out of.

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Speaker 4: He it's the California Crime Bloater.

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Speaker 1: A bunch of jackass teens took over a convenience store, this time.

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Speaker 5: In Sacramento for Mare. Here's Fox forty tonight.

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Speaker 12: On Fox forty, we're getting a look at chaotic security footage from power in Chevron along fulsome boulevard. The store's manager tells us this all went down Thursday night when dozens of kids rushed to the small shop, ransacking the goods and terrifying an employee who was working all alone.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for joining us for again.

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Speaker 2: I know the job market is tight right now, but what is the benefit of working as a cashier at a gas station?

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Speaker 1: Not much when you can get paid more than that working in an in and out burger.

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Speaker 12: Thank you for joining us for Fox forty News at ten, I'm Dennis Shanahan. Fox Forty's Sierra Krug is taking us inside the shop, and she has the store's message to these unruly young people.

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Speaker 5: Here's what We're gonna have a no kids policy.

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Speaker 1: What are the parents doing?

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Speaker 5: What parents?

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Speaker 13: That's true, Here's what an employee working alone at a gas station convenience store might want to see through security devices. But within a second, things can turn from peace and quiet to shear, chaos and destruction. This is what the inside of Power in Chevron along Fulsome Boulevard looked like Thursday night.

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Speaker 14: They have they can just walk in any store and pick up things and throw things and do whatever they can do and run away storm.

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Speaker 5: Well because usually they can.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well, in Los Angeles County they can.

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Speaker 13: Store manager Solu Shan showing Fox forty this security footage from the teen takeover. It starts with some apparent students heading into the store, but things rapidly escalate and peace was just.

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Speaker 14: One employee out here. Can they all do their hard work and try to also survive while working here?

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Speaker 13: Dozens of you?

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Speaker 4: Do you pay him?

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Speaker 5: Hazard?

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Speaker 11: Pay?

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Speaker 1: They should? By the way, did you see a video that's going viral on social media where a teenager I think he might be eighteen, I'm not sure, went in with two of his buddies to a convenience store with guns, and I guess they gave the cashier a really hard time and they robbed them at gunpoint. I think they beat him up. It was ugly, and they caught the guy and he went before the judge and he was convicted and the judge gave him something like twenty five years to life. And the judge said, you terrorized that cashier. That cashier is probably going to have nightmares for the rest of their life because of you. You show no remorse. You're going to jail for a really long time because we don't put up with that here. And then the kid's family went nuts. In the Peanut Gallery, because they were under the impression that it was California and he was going to get a slap on the wrist. They don't play those games in Texas, and that went everywhere. And if you are a teenager who's thinking about committing armed robbery in the state of Texas, I'm sure you're now aware that they don't put up with that there. So you know what that means, Randy, what's that they're all gonna move here? It's also not a.

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Speaker 2: Good idea to rob a gas station in Texas because chances are the cashier as a gun, probably.

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Speaker 13: Dozens of young people taking claim over the business. Sean tells us the cashier was frightened, not knowing how far the turbulence would go, he tried to remain calm and called nine one one.

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Speaker 14: If he was trying to reach or something, he would have been in a process of getting head. Also, because the crowd was frank to throw candy suheman.

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Speaker 13: Bags of chips flying through the air, a thunderstorm of candies and slim gems.

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Speaker 5: They always, of course have to make a giant mess.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and apparently they're great big fans of the macho man. Randy Savage who endorsed the slim.

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Speaker 13: Gems bags of chips flying through the air, a thunderstorm of candies and slim gems. Sean says these incidents happen all too often, adding the shop has had to replace their door twice within the past six months.

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Speaker 14: People who do all your Citi shafe tend to be hostile.

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Speaker 2: You know, I know this is not the point, but with the conversation around ultra processed food that everyone's discussing in the Maha movement, there is nothing more unnatural than the grease coming off a slim gym Oh no kidding.

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Speaker 4: People who do.

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Speaker 14: All your c shafe tend to be hostile, also aggressive.

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Speaker 13: Warsaw Now he's ready for people who target small shops to be held accountable.

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Speaker 5: It's California, that's not happening.

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Speaker 1: Maybe in that county, not in LA.

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Speaker 13: The store manager says. With gas prices still on the rise, working at the shop and making a living is hard enough without adding trouble.

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Speaker 14: With recurrent fluctuations or guest price is kind of hard to survive in these business We are suffering Losso already because people are not watching guest prices. And I'm moving there so.

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Speaker 2: Hell yeah, people are already not driving as much, and they're not going to the gas station as much. And the people that are going to the gas station, well they're going to do some stealing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not paying full price.

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Speaker 2: There you go, yet another example of jackass teens destroying a convenience store.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is your telephone number?

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Speaker 15: What?

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny, don't like show at gmail dot com. All right, Randy, it's time to reopen the California crime Blodder.

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Speaker 4: It's happened yet again.

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Speaker 14: This wow, wow, what's up here?

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Speaker 4: Dundun dun dunn dundun dun reached the Califonia crime Blodder.

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Speaker 1: With John, Randy and Randy. This would involve yet more problems on bikes.

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Speaker 2: This time it was a serial burglar who tried to get away from the police on a bicycle, but he found out the hard way that car faster than bike. Et He's not for mar Here is Fox forty in Sacramento.

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Speaker 16: Turning to our other.

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Speaker 15: Top story, New video showing Sacramento police arresting a suspect accused of a series of burglaries across the city over the past month. Thanks for joining us tonight for Fox forty News at ten. I'm Riley Carroll in tonight for Niki Lorenzo, and I'm Marekkerryman.

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Speaker 17: Police say that the arrest is coming after a shifting resources to track down that suspect. Fox Shorty's no Anderson joining us live at ten with more on the arrest and how officers ended up identifying that suspect.

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Speaker 1: Noah, Yeah, that's right, Eric.

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Speaker 16: Police say the suspect in this case allegedly burglarized eleven businesses between February twenty seventh and March tenth.

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Speaker 1: He's been busy, Okay. So here's a couple of red flags. If you see an adult on a bicycle at nine right, they're doing something they shouldn't be doing. If you see someone on a bicycle with a backpack and they don't look like they're taking chemistry class, that's a red flag. And if you see someone who doesn't live in your neighborhood pedaling around your neighborhood on a bicycle over and over and over again. That's a red flag too.

00:32:28
Speaker 16: Officers then made an arrest on March fourteenth, after the suspect led them on a two wheel to pursuit.

00:32:35
Speaker 18: They wanted to get away from the police. He thought he could beat us, and he didn't. Our officers were quicker.

00:32:39
Speaker 16: This video shows a Sacramento police pursuit in East Sacramento, moments before officers arrested a burglary suspect trying to flee on a bike. Officer Anthony Gamble.

00:32:49
Speaker 5: Says, Okay, he might not be the smartest one.

00:32:51
Speaker 1: Okay, we're very grateful that the police were able to get this guy into custody. But I don't pat yourself on the back too much for catching a guy on a bicycle if you're at a car.

00:33:08
Speaker 16: Officer Anthony Gamble says. After receiving reports of eleven business burglaries over twelve days, officers shifted into direct enforcement to track down the suspect.

00:33:17
Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, wait wait wait wait, you had to shift into direct enforcement.

00:33:22
Speaker 5: What were you doing before indirect enforcement?

00:33:25
Speaker 16: Wait and see burglaries over twelve days, officers shifted into direct enforcement to track down the suspect.

00:33:33
Speaker 18: Those officer rout they located a suspect they matched the description based on some video surveils that we had from some of those burglaries.

00:33:38
Speaker 16: You can see police chase the suspect into a parking lot where officers take him into custody for the alleged crimes. At businesses across the Sacramento area.

00:33:46
Speaker 18: There were some like of the Fulsome Boulevard corridor. There was a couple that looked like it was in like the Broadway Freeport Boulevard corridor as well.

00:33:54
Speaker 16: Police identified the suspect as twenty three year old Arthur Jasper of Sacramento. Investigators say he acted alone in the series of burglaries and was found with burglary tools, gloves, shoes, and a backpack matching item scene in surveillance video.

00:34:08
Speaker 5: I think they got their guy.

00:34:10
Speaker 1: I think so too. And I'll tell you what, it's not like half the population just suddenly turned into deadbeat criminals. There's a handful of people who commit all of these crimes. So I'm sure if you arrest I don't know, the thirty worst people in Sacramento, you're gonna solve a lot of these problems related to retail theft. Because it's not like new people suddenly are swooned into the profession. Day after day. It's the same people who do it over and over and over again. It's their profession.

00:34:46
Speaker 16: He's now facing charges related to eleven commercial burglaries along with five outstanding felony burglary warrants.

00:34:53
Speaker 5: This is oh boy, this guy's been busy.

00:34:56
Speaker 1: Yep. Now we have to put them in prison and keep them there.

00:35:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not going to do that. Burglary is a nonviolent crime, even a felony. Burglary is a nonviolent crime, which means if he is convicted, he will be spending his time in the county jail. Do you remember the story of the snake burglar in Riverside County. They called him the snake burglar because he would slither in under the building and do all this damage he would steal. They were over eighty cases that they had on this guy. He'd cook put together a deal where he'd pled guilty to fifty seven different burglaries. Because it's a nonviolent crime, he was demoted from prison to jail, and because the Riverside County jail was overcrowded, he was let off with time served.

00:35:48
Speaker 18: California Justice this is a prolific offender. He thinks he's good at what he does, but he got caught. Our officer detectives are a little bit.

00:35:55
Speaker 4: Better than he is.

00:35:55
Speaker 16: Officer Gamble says the arrest is the result of reallocating department resources to focus on this case, something he says is critical to protect local businesses.

00:36:04
Speaker 2: These are people's that's right, direct enforcement, as opposed to well we'll take a report.

00:36:10
Speaker 1: Well that's what the cities who've been telling the cops that they want. They want the cops to just sit back and wait for the crime to happen and then go right a report, because if the cops are injecting themselves into a situation as the crime is occurring, you're going to have a negative interaction between the cops and the bad guy. And they don't want that.

00:36:30
Speaker 18: These are people's businesses, they're livelihoods, right. This is how they put food on their family's table, and so we're extremely grateful to bring this person. Take this person off the street now.

00:36:40
Speaker 16: To deter a future of burglar's, Officer Gamble is also reminding business owners to install lighting, use security cameras, and to avoid leaving cash in the register overnight. He's also urging anyone that might be a victim of a burglary to report it to police because it helps them track patterns and identify suspects.

00:36:58
Speaker 2: Not only that, if you don't support the crime, the politicians will say that because of the statistics, crime is down, you have to report a crime, even the small ones.

00:37:08
Speaker 1: They all do that, and they give themselves credit for it too, just like it.

00:37:13
Speaker 4: Did in this case.

00:37:14
Speaker 16: Live in Sacramento, cathering local news that matters, snow Anderson, Fox forty News.

00:37:18
Speaker 5: There you go.

00:37:19
Speaker 2: The burglary suspect, after eleven different burglaries in less than two weeks, got busted after trying to run away from cops on a bicycle.

00:37:29
Speaker 1: I would love to know. I would love to know if the state of California were to just arrest Oh, I don't know the two hundred worse people in terms of retail theft, how noticeable it would be in terms of the drop in crime.

00:37:48
Speaker 2: Oh, I think you'd see that pretty quickly. Maybe two thousand, two two thousand.

00:37:53
Speaker 5: It's a big state.

00:37:55
Speaker 1: I take two hundred two thousand would be great, but looking to accept two hundred