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By Leslie Parrilla / Aug. 22, 2008 <br />A San Luis Obispo teenager accused of killing a woman in a car wreck has pleaded not <br />guilty...... The teenager was driving east on Price Canyon Road around 5 p.m. on June 13 <br />when the Audi sedan he was driving slammed head -on into a Toyota Avalon driven by <br />58- year -old Francheska Rubin, who died in the wreck. Forster allegedly tested positive <br />for marijuana..... <br />http: / /www.sanluisobispo.com /178 /story /447963.html <br />Man takes plea deal in pot killing case <br />By John Canalis, Staff Writer / 09/10/2008 <br />BELLFLOWER - A Bellflower resident who shot and killed a teenager taking marijuana <br />plants from his backyard in 2007 has pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter, <br />authorities confirmed Wednesday..... Cress shot Jacob T. Walker, 15, twice at 6 a.m. on <br />Jan. 21, 2007, with a .22- caliber weapon. The Paramount High School freshman died the <br />same day at Lakewood Regional Medical Center of shoulder and back wounds ..... He <br />probably would have gotten five or six years on the felon- with -a -gun charge," Brown said <br />of Cress' 1989 conviction for marijuana cultivation that prevented him from legally <br />owning a firearm. ".....Cress initially told investigators that he fired a pellet gun at the <br />intruders. He later told the Press - Telegram that he regretted lying about the type of gun <br />used - he didn't believe anyone had been shot and did not want to reveal that he owned a <br />gun - but maintained the statement about the dogs being attacked..... <br />http://www.contracostatimes.com/califomia/ci 10433284 check= l <br />Men report shooting, theft of medical marijuana <br />By ANITA STACKHOUSE -HITE / September 12, 2008 / THE PORTERVILLE <br />RECORDER <br />Two Porterville men were reportedly shot at by three suspects who forcibly took medical <br />marijuana plants from a yard located at an undisclosed residence. The shooting and theft <br />took place at abut 7:50 a.m. Thursday, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department reports. <br />Alfonso Avila Jr. and Alfonso Avila Sr. were not injured during the shooting. <br />http: / /www.recorderonline.com /news /porterville_37895 article.html/ <br />yard_marijuana.html <br />3 slain in unrelated S.F. attacks <br />Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer / September 16, 2008 <br />SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco police are looking for suspects in unrelated attacks <br />over the weekend that left three people dead, including a young mother shot and killed <br />outside her housing project on Potrero Hill and a man slain as he left a medical- marijuana <br />club...... The bloodshed continued Sunday evening, when Royshawn Holden, 23, who <br />lived in the Western Addition, was shot and killed at 9:30 p. m. after what police said <br />was a robbery outside Mr. Nice Guy, a medical marijuana dispensary at Duboce Avenue <br />and Valencia Street. The gunman approached Holden and another man after they came <br />out of the club, robbed them and, after shooting Holden, sped off in a green minivan. The <br />club had no comment...... <br />4 <br />