{"id":1106,"date":"2011-06-19T20:09:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T01:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2013-02-03T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:00:34","slug":"santa-cruz-ca-miguel-balderos-sentenced-to-10-5-years-for-prosecutor-office-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz, CA: Miguel Balderos sentenced to 10.5 years for prosecutor office arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Sl6RybzW81w\/TfkBFKgBgyI\/AAAAAAAAAB8\/GowiRayCHqo\/s1600\/balderos_miguel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"400\" \/>Reposted from <del>the bourgeois press<\/del> and <a href=\"http:\/\/surfcityrevolt.blogspot.com\/\">Surf City Revolt<\/a>: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><cite>SANTA CRUZ &#8211; A 53-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to more  than 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to setting fire to the  Santa Cruz city attorney&#8217;s office.<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>Miguel William Balderos started a fire at the city attorney&#8217;s office  on the 300 block of Church Street on July 2, 2010, and he told police  that he was an anarchist protesting the city&#8217;s camping ban.<\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt in the fire &#8212; which began in a recycling bin &#8212; but  the blaze caused about $50,000 in damage and sent smoke through the  office. The fire was started about 4:15 a.m. at the office of Atchison,  Barisone, Condotti and Kovacevich, a private law firm that is contracted  to work for the city.<\/p>\n<p>Balderos has been imprisoned at least four times for convictions that  include residential burglary and robbery, District Attorney Bob Lee  said in a statement. Balderos pleaded guilty in April to three felony  counts including arson and threatening a public official in the recent  case, Lee said.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of 12 years and eight months in  state prison. Tuesday, Judge Paul Marigonda sentenced Balderos to 10  years and 8 months prison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community will not tolerate Mr. Balderos&#8217; outrageous and  threatening conduct,&#8221; prosecutor Nicole Ellen Jones said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/inmatelocator.co.santa-cruz.ca.us\/\">Santa Cruz County Inmate Locator<\/a> Balderos is still in custody in the downtown Santa Cruz jail.<\/p>\n<p>Send him letters and reading material at:<\/p>\n<p><em>Miguel Balderos, S# 126145<br \/>\nSanta Cruz Main Jail<br \/>\n259 Water Street<br \/>\nSanta Cruz, CA 95060<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scsheriff.com\/jail_main.html\">guidelines for mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Solidarity means attack, and also prisoner support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reposted from the bourgeois press and Surf City Revolt: SANTA CRUZ &#8211; A 53-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to more than 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to setting fire to the Santa Cruz city attorney&#8217;s office. Miguel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=1106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[882],"tags":[199,30,59],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-miguel-balderos","tag-santa-cruz","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}