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pending the resolution of his criminal case, according to the Times-Standard. Crabs management did not return calls seeking comment. ● ART / BY JENNIFER FUMIKO CAHILL / SATURDAY, FEB. 1 AT 9:50 A.M.
Done Fishing
Nutter was arrested shortly after the end of last year’s baseball season on suspicion of growing and possessing marijuana for sale — though he appears to have reached a deal with prosecutors that could see the arrest and charges wiped from his record. The deal, a diversion possible through section 1000 of the California Penal Code, is awaiting approval from a judge. Nutter had no prior convictions for drug offenses involving violence, or threatened violence, according to his attorney, Patrik Griego. And while police reported finding 265 marijuana plants at Nutter’s rural Blue Lake home in August, Griego said diversion was allowed if the plants were being cultivated for personal use. “If you’re growing for purposes of selling you don’t qualify for PC 1000 diversion,” Griego said. If Nutter completes a court ordered treatment — most likely drug education courses — and doesn’t get arrested again for 18 months, “it’s as if, legally, it never happened,” Griego said. It’s an opportunity for those who “really don’t belong” in the criminal justice system, he said, “something that can be dealt with more informally.” Nutter — the popular and winning former manager — was with the Crabs for 21 seasons as a player, board member and manager. Griego said it’s unlikely for an employer to fire someone if a diversion is completed successfully — after all, in 18 months Nutter’s record of legal woes could, essentially, cease to exist. “It’s very clear you’re not convicted,” Griego said of the diversion. “Most employers don’t use something like this against [an employee] because there’s nothing to use.” Nutter was placed on paid administrative leave by the team following his arrest,
Next time you’re on Fourth and I streets in Eureka, look up. Turns out those Escher-esque fish on the side of Scrapper’s Edge weren’t all there before. Kati Texas, director of the Rural Burl Mural Bureau (like a mouthful of marshmallows) and her team of teen artists have completed the “Fishstellation” on the side of Scrapper’s Edge. The dozen or so students cut out each of the 50 wooden fish, painted them and slapped them on the building at 728 Fourth St. Texas thinks projects like this one reduce graffiti, “sometimes because vandals are less likely to tag artwork, and sometimes because it is the taggers themselves who are helping paint our murals.” The more easily enunciated Ink People’s DreamMaker program is behind the project, which was formerly funded by the defunct Eureka Redevelopment Agency. Now it depends on donations, grants and money from businesses, like US Bank, which ponied up for the fish. Take a tour of the (deep breath) Rural Burl Mural Bureau’s greatest hits around Old Town, including “Attack of the Humboldt Squid” (First and F streets), “Inharmonious,” (520 F St.) and “Animals Are People, Too” (905 Fourth St.).
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Pedestrian Killed
Eighty-year-old Eureka resident Robert Mitchell died Jan. 28 after being struck by a truck while trying to cross Broadway on foot. Coroner Dave Parris said it appears that Mitchell was at fault in the accident, and was crossing outside of a crosswalk, though the crash is still under investigation. EPD Traffic Officer Gary Whitmer said he doesn’t anticipate charges will be filed against the 60-year-old Arcata resident who was driving the College of the Redwoods truck that hit Mitchell. The accident was the second of two that morning, which saw the first rain in some-time on the North Coast. Drive careful out there, folks. ●
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