Year: 2018

It’s been another busy week covering the news and views of Santa Cruz. This week, we discuss the new Hobonip, Prop 57 is the gift that keeps on giving, the Reducing Crime and Keeping California Safe Act of 2018, suspected Modesto child killer arrested in Santa Cruz, progressive compassion at SCPD, dead man slumping, Coral street gets scrubbed, Sunday morning overdose, the Hobonip is hiring, stolen motorcycle chase along levee, fight at the Hitching Post, bum arrested with stolen credit card, Hugh’s News, the county’s response to the city’s criticism over lousy mental health treatment options, the city’s solution to its budget crisis is more taxes, and more!

There aren’t many things you can count on locally but I can think of at least 2 things you can count on every week. Camp Coonerty still polluting San Lorenzo Park and the Weekly Dump keeping Santa Cruz “vibrantly honest” every Friday. This week, ICE sweeps through Watsonville, Mr. Mills’ neighborhoods, another Santa Cruz Probation success story, bring in the dog, possible Machete sighting in Watsonville, knife pulled at local church, and it would be ok on any other day, mint condition for a fight, Cowells Beach bathroom drama, weekly overdose at Camp Coonerty, wrong way car chase down Ocean, Aptos drunk crashes on Fair, Nevada couple arrested for local burglary, free showers for the homeless in Aptos, West Cliff protest march, and more!

Time for the latest Weekly Dump! This week, we’re stuck on stupid, the revolving turnstile at the county jail, Watsonville man arrested for gang shooting in Santa Cruz, Rambo goes down in Live Oak, Atlas shrugged, motorcyclist killed on Soquel, poster kids for county probation, knife fight at the Red Room, Public Safety Committee gets an earful, city calls out dubious county spending on mental health, and more!

This week, we’ve got no Brent so let’s keep it that way! The city covers it’s assets at the city council meeting, Camp Coonerty is full of stolen stuff, Down Works thief taken down, ICE ramps up threats, man shot in the chest off La Fonda, shootings near the Buttery and off Bixby, blame the tourists, toys r stolen, unhappy meals, van hits kid on bike, man jumps off the end of the wharf, head butts drive me nuts, weekly fight at Denny’s, and more!

This is not a drill. This is the Weekly Dump. This week, we have the inmates thinking they run the asylum, the Field of Broken Dreams plods on for another week, this is what happens when you’re not nice to ICE, appearances can be deceiving, truck burns at Walgreens, surfer rescued from the toilet bowl, road rage and a baseball bat, asleep at the wheel, home burns down in Boulder Creek, weekly fight at the Safeway, probation in Santa Cruz, stolen vehicles recovered, Public Storage does not mean public parking, women’s march this Saturday downtown, and more!

Another week of misfits, misappropriation, and misunderstandings. This week we’re talking about the bum who led SCPD on an all night chase Thursday morning, the bank robbery on Soquel, the dead body found on the downtown median, the city manager continues to disappoint us, autopsy confirms mom was murdered, another pedestrian killed at 1 and 9, another former felon behaving badly locally, another felon on probation behaving badly locally, someone really wanted a shower, pair arrested for storage theft, breaking into the wrong truck, man arrested in child porn case, car on 17 rolls and catches fire, it’s that time of the year, Hugh’s News, MLK March downtown, crime statistics for November and December, CPA taking applications, and more!

It’s the first Weekly Dump of 2018 and of course, it’s a big one! We’re wondering about the armed robbery at Capitola Mall nobody’s talking about, we’ve got more on the Santa Cruz man arrested in South Dakota with his mom’s body in the back of her SUV he was driving, relatively quiet NYE downtown, “released on his own recognizance” is the new black, junkie fight at Louden Nelson, high risk stop right in front of SCPD, wrong turns and repercussions, the wonders of clam chowder, out through the in door, fire in homeless squat house downtown, fire ties up traffic on west side, bottoms up, it’s the batman, body found near local car wash, late night chase on Highway 1, arsonist nabbed at 7/11, Saint Merde, more problems for downtown parking garage, candidate information night, and more!