Something tells me the land lord below may stop renting to college kids altogether:
SANTA CRUZ – The owner of a Riverside Avenue home raided in connection with last weekend’s animal-rights firebombings targeting UC Santa Cruz scientists said Friday he suspects two college students who resided there may have some involvement in the case.
Frank Male, who has owned the yellow, three-bedroom Victorian for 11 years, said he rented the house in January 2007 to four students, but only two of them, a young man and his girlfriend, have been living there during the past couple weeks. The other two, both female UCSC students, left after the summer break started.
Male said he has no direct evidence that the man and woman – who told him they attended UCSC and Cabrillo College – are involved in animal-rights activities or were the target of a search warrant executed by the FBI and Santa Cruz police Thursday.
The Sentinel is not identifying the students because they have not been named as suspects. Attempts to reach them have been unsuccessful.
Police reported early in the week that the residents of the house at 724 Riverside Avenue – which was also raided in February after an attempted home invasion at a scientist’s residence – were not the focus of the probe but remained “persons of interest.”
That “home invasion” was a violent attack on a child’s birthday party by six masked thugs which ended with the woman’s husband being assaulted as he bravely chased the scum off his property. This new attack, which was really an attempted murder, is obviously thought by authorities to have been perpetrated by the same people they served a warrant on before.
So understand the situation here. There are a bunch of moonbats who attacked a scientist’s family and they lucked out by not getting arrested after the cops raided their house. They then plan more heinous crimes to celebrate their good fortune, like burning a family alive, before taking off. Sounds like someone dropped the ball on this one because these people are extremely dangerous and should have been in jail after the first attack.
And they have support from the local radicals who came out in force in an attempt to intimidate law enforcement:
About a dozen masked college-age people gathered as plainclothes officers wearing latex gloves took boxes and bags of evidence out of the house and put them into two Suburbans. Some of the onlookers took photos or videos while officers worked.
The message clearly being we’re going to find out who you are and target you next. Why they weren’t detained and questioned I’ll never understand, but if you think they won’t attempt to burn somebody alive in solidarity you just don’t know your hippies.
Michelle Malkin has more.