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2014 Summary & Additional Details

On January 20, 2014 I discovered undeniable evidence that some kind of surveillance devices were present in and around the home where I lived with my then-fiancée, Chris Newman, and my daughter who, in December 2013, had just turned 18, and that visual and auditory data from these surveillance devices was being widely disseminated and consumed. My social media accounts also had all been compromised (hacked). I called Portland Police Department and met with Police Officer Zach DeLong who asked me to speak with a doctor prior to filing a report. I agreed to do so, not understanding that he - and this doctor - had colluded to create false records and place me on a psychiatric hold. I was able to convince the doctor to release the psychiatric hold, but I was not able to convince the police to investigate - or even make note of - the evidence that unlawful surveillance was occurring, and had been occurring in this home with a minor child.

After this, I began to experience people around town following me aggressively, both on foot and by car, and I noticed a number of other strange behaviors by people who were friends, or with whom I had professional relationships (such as Attorney Peter Vaughn Shaver), as well as behavior which, while not strange in and of themselves, seemed to cluster in a strange way. For example, during the month of January, many people had suddenly decided to take 1-2 week vacations or had other activities which caused them to leave town for 1-2 weeks. In addition, I was unable to gather information on my own about how the surveillance was being conducted and by whom, but I continually received information that such surveillance was ongoing, and it was clearly related to both sexual exploitation and intellectual property theft.

Since the police were unwilling to investigate this issue, and since it involved intellectual property theft, including by some very lucrative musical acts, I thought that I could hire a music rights attorney to help me investigate and address the issue. Based on what I had seen, I believed that there was a pattern of corruption specific to Portland and Seattle, and so I believed that in California I would be able to hire such an attorney who would be willing to represent me, to examine and investigate my evidence of surveillance, and to seek a settlement from some of the California-based music labels that had clearly been involved in this activity.

On January 25, 2014 I began to drive to California, intending to spend the weekend traveling, preparing my computer hard drive, and getting ready to find an attorney first thing on Monday morning (January 27, 2014). However, from the moment I left my driveway at about 7am on Saturday, January 25, I was followed aggressively and theatrically by swarms of people in cars and in trucks, tag teaming me until I stopped in Anderson (north of Sacramento). Much more went on after this, but in the end, I sought refuge in the home of an old family friend, only to have police and then sheriffs and the Sacramento County Fire Department show up at her door. Against my request, she allowed them to come in, and they basically told her that she needed to let them take me. I refused to go, and so they handcuffed me and carried me off to a hospital on a mental health hold, all based on fabricated records, and I later learned, false reports. This initiated a long saga of continuing, persistent, and increasingly severe crimes that have culminated in biomedical murders of several of my family members.

Somewhere around May 2014 one of my teeth - a molar, tooth 14, began to hurt. The following August, a dentist told me that the tooth was cracked and that I needed an extraction, or a root canal and crown. I opted for the latter, and the following November was given a porcelain-fused metal (PFM) crown, which never felt comfortable, but which I later learned was in fact a wireless receiver, used to aim weapons at my head.

In June 2014 my daughter graduated high school. In August, my mother sold the house were we had all been living, and my daughter moved to an apartment on campus, while Chris and I were moved to a tiny studio apartment. I believed that this move would be temporary, and that we would soon find justice and financial restitution. I believed that President Obama and the federal government would assist in this, as by fall of 2014 I knew that Obama and the federal government generally speaking were aware of what we were going through. Of course they would know it is wrong, and that it is a serious crime, and they would try to help us, I thought.

Meanwhile, I made several attempts to get the local authorities to address this crime. These are documented here, along with some of my attempts to seek legal representation. I had also sought representation from an attorney in Sacramento, but they simply returned my letters unopened.

My previous music rights attorney, Peter Vaughn Shaver, sent a refusal letter in which he falsely accused me of "insulting and absurd accusations." I believe that this was a deliberate attempt to smear me. Years later, in 2023, I served Mr Shaver with a Subpoena Duces Tecum to try to find out what kind of records he had kept of this time, but he said that he had no records, and that his hard drive crashed, and that he could not remember what he meant by "insulting and absurd accusations."

A critical anomaly of 2014's correspondence is the response received from the City of Portland dated 2014-10-28. Although apparently emailed, this response did not appear in your email inbox and was only discovered years later through a public records request. This incident highlights an early pattern of information suppression or diversion, where official communications crucial to understanding the situation were seemingly intercepted or concealed. What is particularly striking about this particular incident is that I had specifically told the City that my email was unreliable. On September 24, 2014 I wrote an email to the City, following up on my letters which so far had received no response, saying:

My email is severely compromised and very unreliable due to all the intense hacking I have experienced. I don't feel I can trust Google Gmail to keep my accounts secure, and I haven't found a good replacement for them. If you need to contact me, the best way is by mail, or phone.

In other words, after multiple unsuccessful attempts to get police to investigate unlawful, intrusive surveillance in a home with a child, I had written to the city once in August and twice in September, expressing the seriousness and urgency of the situation, and telling them that my email is not reliable, only to have them send and email of denial and "passing the buck" at the end of October. An email I never received. It's clear that the City of Portland either was not taking me seriously, or, far more likely, was and is, invested in and benefiting from the crimes about which I was complaining.