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as we said in yesterday's show in august of 2018 officials from five different law enforcement agencies held a town
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meeting this is where they publicly acknowledged that they had no theory no suspect or no answers regarding the
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murder of Tristan Beaudette that same month The Hollywood Reporter stated that quote to sources with connections to the
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Malibu Lost Hills sheriff's station tell The Hollywood Reporter that detectives are working to assemble a
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physical composite of the Tristan Beaudette shooter and are compiling a list of persons of interest this of
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course is news to everyone news that the LA Sheriff's Department had anything to
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go on at all it seems perhaps that the Sheriff's Department started to put some things together here is a weird thing a
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really weird thing in my opinion we have not only these strange weird shootings going on in the area that had been going
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on for two years now there has also been an uptick in burglaries on October 9th 2018 the Sheriff's Department issued an
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official update on recent burglaries in the unincorporated Calabasas Malibu areas it read on Tuesday October 9th
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2018 at approximately 3:00 a.m. a burglary occurred at the Agora Calabasas community center located at the 27,000
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block of Malibu Hills Road in Calabasas detectives believe that the same suspect
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who is possibly involved in eight other burglaries use a rock to break the front
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glass door a vending machine inside the location was broken into with a rock and numerous food items were stolen the
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suspect then walked away in an unknown direction major crimes detectives along with other department resources are at
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the location today conducting a follow-up investigation the most recent burglaries have occurred
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over a three month period the suspect is described as a male adult slender build
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and wearing dark clothing there were eight other recent burglaries that were laid out in this press release we won't
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go through all of them as they it's quite a boring portion of the story but I'll give you the dates there were two
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in October of 2018 there were two in September of 2018 one in July of 2018 and then we had one in March of 2017 and
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then two in October of 2016 none of these break-ins involved residents they were all professional
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buildings and commercial structures police stated that they felt that the burglaries were all connected but why
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did the police feel the need to issue a press release about some minor burglaries well probably because there's
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a bunch of shootings that they didn't tell the public about so since they got a bunch of back lash on that they
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probably thought we need to come clean about these break-ins well yeah and people were starting to wonder could the
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there be a suspected connection could law enforcement be thinking that there's a connection between the burglaries and
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the shootings yeah so speaking to the media Sheriff Jim McDonald said investigators
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weren't yet ready to link the two together he said but we won't rule anything out he said but it would be
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premature to connect these cases nonetheless the media had already jumped to this conclusion that the hunt for the
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burglary suspect in the hunt for the shooter were in fact one in the same articles and TV news stories appearing
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during the first week of October 2018 reported a massive the massive searches were being
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conducted by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in Malibu County a dozen officers on ATVs and their like decked
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out and tactical gear they were riding through the park aided by helicopters and bloodhounds
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they were pulling out all of the stops for this vending machine robber who stole Doritos yeah it's pretty pathetic
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when you think about the lack of attention and the lack of effort that they gave to mitrice richardson it
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emerged that indeed the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department wanted to question the armed burglar about Tristan's murder
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there appeared to be two reasons for law enforcement interest in this thief one was that a surveillance
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footage that was found from the September 30th break-in at Malibu Valley Farms construction office showed that
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the burglar who stole nothing but food again was dressed in tactical gear was wearing a headlamp and a mask and was
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carrying a rifle the burglary location was less than a quarter of a mile from the campground where Tristan Beaudette
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was killed the other reason is that a park maintenance worker reported talking to a man who quote fit the description
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of the armed burglar it's not clear whether this man was actually carrying a weapon when he approached the park
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worker but apparently the man asked for a ride out of the canyon he wanted to go
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to a different area a mile or so south of the campground and he says this is because there's so many police in the
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area the worker refused to drive this man anywhere and actually his report the workers report triggered these these big
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time searches that were now seeing rain so even where we have quote we haven't linked it to Beau debts killing but we
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certainly haven't ruled it out sergeant Matthew Dunn saying but Dunn went on to say
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that the suspect meaning the shooting suspect the murder suspect might be a transient living in the park it seems
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that in each of these burglaries we should point out all these occurred between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. roughly
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this is the same timeframe as most of the shootings yeah it's almost like they're sleeping during the day and
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doing their crimes at night and it turns out that the Sheriff's Department had suspected this transient actually for
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some time and even knew the name of the man that they were looking for on October 10th 2018 repeated
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law-enforcement searches of the Malibu Hills area paid off police got their man on the 10th in a press conference held
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at the Sheriff's Department they described the arrests as earlier today at approximately ten hundred hours Major
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Crimes personnel Lost Hills sheriff's station personnel members of the Sheriff's Department members of the
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Malibu search-and-rescue team deployed resources in the Malibu Canyon area to conduct a detailed search for the
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suspect and for evidence related to the crimes the plan included a coordinated comprehensive search of a vast area
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located in the heart of Malibu Canyon after several hours investigators observed fresh boot prints in the ground
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leading up to a steep ravine approximately a mile north of Moe Holland highway and west of Los
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Virginia's Road with the assistance of air support detectives followed the boot prints approximately 50 yards shortly
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after they heard movement amongst the brush followed by observing an adult male wearing black clothing walking
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quickly who resembled the suspect in the burglaries right now air support confirmed the
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individuals location and it was learned that he was armed with a rifle investigators contain the suspect in a
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heavy brush area and ordered him to drop the rifle and surrender after a few tense moments of communicating with the
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suspect he opted to surrender and was taken into custody without incident at 3:20 p.m. it turned out the detectives
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identified Anthony Reata age 42 by name several months before but had not been able to find him
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right in fact NBC Los Angeles reported that quote a variety of law enforcement sources told NBC News in July that
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Anthony errata was also wanted for questioning in the shooting death of camper tristan
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Beaudette it seems that the sources the the new sources for NBC this was stating
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that law enforcement was looking for a drifter who had a criminal record in Texas and Florida and who was thought to
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be living in the Malibu Hills area as a transient the video showing a suspect resembling Anthony armed with a rifle
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robbing the vending machine solidified law enforcement suspicions this wasn't revealed until later but detectives
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compared the security video with firearms catalog photos and confirmed that the rifle visible in the video was
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a nine millimeter carbine a weapon capable of firing the same caliber bullet that killed
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Tristan Beaudette so who is this guy well Anthony errata was born on July 30th 1976 in Tampa Florida he moved
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around a lot and is known to have lived in Texas Maryland and another of another
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of other different locations in California it's not really known what his family life was like or really
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anything about his early life but according to a LinkedIn profile he has stated he's an artist and a musician at
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Crazy Horse on LinkedIn he wrote and crazy' was write write quote I am on my third musical project and released my
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first two albums are on itunes google play etc apologizes typings a little weird on there I try to
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make unique songs with strong content letting the lyrics do most of the work I have been sketching and writing most of
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my life I have never been able to dedicate enough time though he also lists his employment as a sketch artist
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or portraits at Tony's final touch his skills are listed as write drawl rap hmm he has made references to service in the
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army but I couldn't confirm if he had actually served in the Army there seems to be some thought that he did but could
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be the story he's making up in his head right right with you know this this guy is a piece of work it's true it's tough
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to believe a lot of what he says uh-huh well I mean first of all anybody that's a musician is a little untrustworthy
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I'm joking cuckoo who's gonna say there are a little bit of whack a dues so if that was not enough like someone on on
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web salutes managed to find an e-book supposedly written by this man this guy's proficient you know it's available
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online the publication information for the book states that it is 6,000 words over 6,000 words and was published on
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April 9th in 2018 it costs 99 cents to download the title is the Luciferian theory it's categorized under philosophy
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about good and evil a short description of the book says this is a short writing
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in which the author tries to use the book of Genesis and other documents to prove the story of creation really gives
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clue to a secret knowledge that has been passed down through ancient times to the
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present and how the chosen select have used this knowledge for money and power now we featured some of the bizarre
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highlights in the trailer to this case right so this guy's are a writer he music we're gonna say musician did we
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hear any of his music I didn't hear any of the music he claims that he's a rapper
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he kept well so he claims that his first two have been released on iTunes in Google Play I don't know what those
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would be or because it doesn't say what the title would be correct correct this is what I was able to pull from
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what a great job promoting yourself what I could do but also he says he's a sketch artist right well that was the
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well his skills are listed as write drawl rap alright okay so with the whole rap thing there's a you know the the rap
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world as far as conspiracy theories go it's heavily drenched in the Illuminati and so that's what it seems like his
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book is about people using these old-time secret powers to get money and fame and power well yeah and and I'm
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look I'm not gonna claim to have read the book I didn't want to bother with it I didn't want to pay for it I didn't
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want anything to do with it other than I found Sully $0.99 right but I found some some portions of it online
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and that's what we used for the telling of this case but I didn't want to give money to somebody that I I mean I don't
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know what this I certainly have my beliefs about what this man has done and right I'm not giving him a penny so
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after his arrest a family member of his told la's KABC 7 it's a news channel the
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Anthony had lived in Malibu Hills for 10 years saying he doesn't talk to people he is a loner when asked if they
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believed that if Anthony was the shooter the family member said I don't think Anthony would do that I don't know
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him to be a violent person I know that the only weapon that he would carry was a knife which he uses to camp out his
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family said that they did not know that Anthony had weapons charges on his record and said that most of his
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offenses to their knowledge were simply petty offenses and that he steered clear
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of conflict well maybe that was true at one point but we have we have video evidence that he's carrying a gun well
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like you said he has these weapon charges we see often when we cover these cases that not always does the family
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know what everybody is up to right right so let's take a look at Anthony rodda's
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criminal history the Los Angeles Daily News reports that according to online records he has six convictions for
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illegal weapons and ammunition possession charges in California this is both in Los Angeles and Ventura counties
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he also has criminal convictions in Texas and the state of Florida he was convicted of disorderly conduct in 1999
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this was in Hillsborough County Florida later 99 he was convicted of assault causing bodily injury in El Paso Texas
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in 2003 prosecuted in LA County California for commercial burglary and was sentenced to a few months in jail
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then in 2004 arrested again and prosecuted for being a felon in possession of a gun and explosives this
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time he was sentenced to more than four years in state prison in 2006 he was convicted of what previously was listed
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in the california penal code as possessing materials with the intent to make destructive devices and explosives
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right so he wanted to make bombs correct now his more recent convictions these take place in 2014 one in Ventura and
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Los Angeles counties were for being a felon in possession of a firearm and am munition and for carrying a loaded
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firearm without registration and then he was last in jail in September of 2016 when he was arrested by deputies at the
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Lost Hills station this explains how he was known to the Sheriff's Department and how they possibly figured out that
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he was their burglar upon this arrest he was sentenced to serve a 30-day sentence
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on a misdemeanor charge and a 10-day sentence for a probation violation this is according to court records then four
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months before Tristan's murder Anthony was again arrested this time for trespassing but was released quoted in
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multiple publications was a comment from a detective on the case regarding Anthony's rap sheet says quote it's a
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ten year crime spree that could make a Hollywood movie Anthony's most recent address was a
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condo in Canoga Park that address dates back to 2012 however as we know and as his family says he was living in the
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hills yeah law enforcement sources who spoke to the media referred to Anthony as a survivalist who lived primarily
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outdoors and had no fixed address this seems like in a bit of an exaggerated term or title as me and my friend Jess
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were talking about the Malibu Creek State Park is not exactly the Alaskan wilderness yes us think it's a state
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park he's out living in the state art Alexander Supertramp he did have extended family that is reported to live
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in the area in that area somewhere now after the arrest Anthony was booked on a felony charge one for parole violations
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and was held without bail while prosecutors built their case he appeared in court on November 29th 2018 where he
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was found guilty see of violating the terms of his probation this is because he was in
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possession of a firearm and failed to check in with his parole officer the judge sentenced him to a hundred and
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sixty days he was also required to appear on a separate weapons charge in December this seems like a design to
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keep him in prison pending more serious charges being brought the district attorney likely wants to keep him locked
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up because he's been deemed dangerous and I mean think about this if Anthony relati is the killer and is the shooter
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this is not only murder but it's also a form of domestic terrorism when he appeared in court he was rolled into
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court restrained to a chair wearing what is called a spit hood this so that you can see photos of of Anthony from this
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court appearance yeah he's deranged looking really and he's he's almost appears somewhat happy to be there
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leering from under the hood this hood as the the name would indicate is designed
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to prevent prisoners from spitting and biting yeah they used to use something that looked more like the Hannibal
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Lecter mask right but now they I think they use this net more more often now he almost looks like a beat catcher yeah
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it's like yeah like a giant hairnet /be catcher thing the restraint was used because in a previous court appearance
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from November 1st Anthony went on and you know he's cussing everybody out he's ranting and raving he slammed the walls
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of the courtroom holding cell apparently he also tried to bite spit on and attack
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members of the court in this earlier court appearance well sometimes his face and these pictures look like he's a baby
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that just pooped himself and he's smiling about and then there's other pictures same
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same date I assumed where he looks like he's staring somebody down as if he wants to you know murder them and eat
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them yeah that that's the one where he's wearing the spit hood at the later court
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date but all stemming from his crazy outburst at the previous court appearance right we're at one point he
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was yelling things like I'm not going to cooperate with the public defender's office objecting to his court-appointed
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attorney right now because of this outburst and because of his behavior it was the hearing was adjourned and the
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shears yeah so let's get into some of the evidence here captain or at least the the charges and what evidence has
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been presented yeah the the Sheriff's Department said that they were investigating whether he could be
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responsible for some or all of the shootings that took place in that Park area now preliminary ballistics analysis
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showed more than one type of gun was used in these shootings sources told the media so it's it's not immediately clear
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how many if any incidents might be linked to the rifle scene in the security video that he was carrying in
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the security video this makes sense because as we know James Rogers was shot with a different caliber bullet than the
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bullet that was that hit Melisa's car so we have the car shooting and we have James Rodgers who was in the hammock we
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know that different caliber bullets were used in those two shootings on January 7th of this year the Los Angeles
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County's DEA office issued a press release stating that Anthony relati was being charged with the murder in
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connection with Tristan beau deaths death further Mirada was also charged with 10 counts of attempted murder and
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charged with five counts of second-degree burglary all of these incidents occurred within the time frame
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from November of 2016 to October of 2018 hmm the specifics of such is released in a
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statement that says Rada is accused of opening fire on unsuspecting campers or motorists dating back to November 2016
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when he allegedly wounded a man who was sleeping in a hammock in the Malibu state park area less than a week later
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he allegedly fired into the sleeping area of a vehicle Rada also is accused of shooting into
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vehicles on three different occasions in 2017 no one was injured the defendant allegedly shot at
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Tesla on los Virginia's Road on June 18 2018 four days later he is accused of killing Tristan Beaudette aged 35 who
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was shot and killed while in a tent with his two daughters in Malibu Creek State
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Park his children were not injured the prosecutors also said that evidence showed that Radha is responsible for
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even more additional shootings and even more additional burglaries which there's
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just not enough evidence that has been found for a prosecution to to actually even bring forth charges on that rain
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this I mean this is just terrifying when you think of it but this this includes the until now unsolved unresolved
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shooting a woman driving on Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Ventura County in 2010 so he's charged with eight shootings now
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the complaint also maintained that one person besides James Rogers was injured in these shootings so this is new
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information we don't know who that person was right at the January seventh arraignment anthony's bail was set at
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one point 1 million dollars now he did not enter a plea at this hearing but he did so at another hearing which took
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place on January 22nd after his arrest police conducted ballistic tests on Anthony's rifle and confirmed it was
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used in several of the Malibu Creek State Park shootings including the murder of Tristan beau death this is
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from the LA Times citing anonymous sources within law enforcement these officials also told the Times the
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Anthony's weapon of choice changed during the two years from a shotgun to a rifle but it's not clear how he obtained
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those weapons as we have seen he has a felony criminal record and he is not allowed to be purchasing or possessing
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firearms the Daily News reported that the filed against Anthony rata specified that he used a shotgun in the first six
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shootings but in the final two shootings he used the rifle it was not clear whether any other weapon other than the
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rifle were found in his possession when he was arrested and law enforcement didn't believe that he knew any of the
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victims he was shooting at ya they publicly state that they believe all of these were all random targets of
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opportunity and but what we didn't see during the court appearances is we don't have prosecutors setting forth a motive
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in the charging documents so where does this case stand today where where are we
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at in this whole thing yeah we know that Anthony entered a not guilty plea at a court hearing that took place in January
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of this year he is due back in court this month and remains in jail this is he's got ten million dollar bail to to
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post here no the arrest in the impending murder trial is not the end of this story
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the Malibu patch reported in January of this year that quote the shooting death of Tristan Beaudette and Irvine father
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camping with his two young daughters revealed that authorities had long known of the string of random sniper shootings
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targeting campers in the area but had not publicized the threat until after his tragic death and quote this
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obviously is a big deal allegations made in the media that the Sheriff's Department knew about the shootings in
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the area dating all the way back to 2016 and avoided publicizing them so as not to alarm the public as we know the
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Sheriff's Department acknowledged that there were several shootings but only after Tristan was killed these shootings
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were all reported to law enforcement when they occur sometimes by multiple people
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yet the camp Brown was open for business the park was open to everyone all of this came about
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without warning to the public so rightfully so captain in December of last year Erika who filed a ninety
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million dollar lawsuit against the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and the California State Park Police and
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the Department of Parks and Recreation accusing them of failing to warn the public about the shootings the complaint
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stated that these agencies neglected Lee failed to care and provide a safe space
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for Beaudette and his children instead causing his death the lawsuit is pending Scott mccurdy Tristan's brother-in-law
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told GQ magazine at some point I feel like there has to be some accountability there are reports of people shooting and
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doing things that put the public in danger and the fact that we didn't know about it because if we had we wouldn't
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have gone right even if we got to the front gate if we realized that there were incidents of people being shot at
00:38:22
or just hearing gunshots we wouldn't have gone we wouldn't have had taken our kids there right it's not so I don't
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think it's so much about them protecting themselves as as much as it would be protecting your children right and I
00:38:36
think it's important that we have his brother-in-law standing out and very publicly stating had we known any of
00:38:44
this was going on we wouldn't have gone in there yeah just just plain simple fact if this all would have been avoided
00:38:51
well it's it's a lot of horseshit don't you think I mean maybe one shooting maybe a couple reports of gunshots
00:39:02
because it is a park even though you're not supposed to hunt there I could see not reporting some of that stuff not not
00:39:10
trying to roll up the community it is it is a rich area it's there's money right
00:39:17
we don't want to alarm the we don't want to the the community up in arms over something that's done that big of a deal
00:39:28
but these are multiple shootings right right and in multiple accounts 20 a shooting that was maybe 20 feet away now
00:39:35
we got cars being shot out on the roads I mean this is that's something you need
00:39:41
to be reporting that's where my head goes to as well captain it's like it's a it's a really difficult and tragic story
00:39:50
to tell because in my humble garage opinion what we have here is is a crazy dangerous person on the loose in a very
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public space but the thing that gets me at the end of the day is just what you said there's so many reports of this
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there's so many different occurrences of the same thing over and over again you can't prevent crazy
00:40:19
you can't stop some random thing like this from happening all of the time but when you have multiple reports of the
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same thing it seems like you've really done a disservice to everyone to not do something well like you said there's 63
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spots and 60 of them them were filled possibly none of them would be filled if if there was these reports out there and
00:40:45
and and we know that the the term crazy is kind of frowned upon this guy is definitely mentally ill this guy is
00:40:57
definitely he needs some help number one and number two he's far too dangerous to live in society right I I
00:41:09
totally agree and hopefully they can combine all these charges it's it's very strange though to that he'd be shooting
00:41:17
at people or shooting in areas and so those are just the reports that we know I wonder how many ports reports didn't
00:41:28
go you know how many people got shot out I had their campsite and they just didn't see a bullet hole right or didn't
00:41:34
you know or didn't hear it or how many times did people in the area hear gunshots from this individual and
00:41:42
dismiss it as something else right and just went all outs or again because it's at night they were sleeping and didn't
00:41:50
hear it what's strange to me though is this guy which I think it's pretty clear he has some mental illness that he is
00:42:01
breaking and not to residential areas but to to commercial spots and and he didn't seem like he was trying to steal
00:42:12
much other than to survive survive and so it's it seemed like he was going in the wrong direction though because now
00:42:23
he's wearing all the SWAT tactical gears what they were right and then it's like
00:42:29
what would have happened if this killing didn't happen where where would he have
00:42:37
ramped this up - because if you know well that's the whole thing why I think the lawsuit is so important because it
00:42:45
seems to me like these shootings were going to continue to occur until he shot and killed somebody it was only then
00:42:53
that they made it public knowledge that hey these shootings have been going on for a while it was only then that
00:43:00
they truly made strong efforts to seek out this this individual yeah what if he would have that night why people were
00:43:08
sleeping he attacked all 60 campsites right yeah I mean and like went on on a spree so this is why law enforcement
00:43:17
look just do your job and well and he was deranged enough I believed to have been capable of of just that and so a
00:43:29
Late Late Late update on this it appears that his preliminary court appearance is
00:43:38
now pushed back to March of 2020 so the DA is saying that they need everybody all involved need more time to prepare
00:43:48
for this trial to move forward yeah but if you I think if you look at the evidence it's pretty clear what
00:43:59
happened here and who's responsible for it yeah and we did mention a man named Zack Barron earlier he's the one who
00:44:10
wrote the GQ long-form article about this case yeah and I I want to repeat what he says here he says the facts of
00:44:20
the case all seem to point to a crime of recklessness which isn't to say it wasn't murder someone fired a weapon
00:44:28
into a crowded campground and a man died because of it but the story effectively is that there
00:44:35
is no story no cause in effect no logic to it at all if he had been lying down in even a slightly different position he
00:44:46
likely would still be alive well this is why talking about mental illness is very important because this
00:44:55
guy's family and friends knew something wasn't right I agree with that too and and I think the thing is is some people
00:45:02
go well he's not hurting himself but that doesn't mean it's not gonna turn into him taking these kids father's life
00:45:11
and and and when there's not a million amazing dads out there and here's this guy trying to take his daughters and and
00:45:19
raise them right and give them you know love and affection and all that stuff and and now he's gone and it's and and
00:45:30
maybe this guy is not some evil human being maybe this guy is just hit with some mental illness but at the end of
00:45:41
the day he took somebody's life mm-hmm so this stuff needs to be talked about and when you see your loved ones having
00:45:50
issues not only to try to get them help but to get them help so they don't hurt somebody else
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