watchpaul: Man arrested in death of 4-year-old child UPDATED

Monday, July 26, 2010

Man arrested in death of 4-year-old child UPDATED

◼ Man arrested in death of 4-year-old child 7/26/2010

A Humboldt County man was arrested on suspicion of murder Sunday after a 4-year-old child was brought to a hospital over the weekend and pronounced dead.

The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office reported that detectives were called to an unidentified local hospital late Saturday after his caregiver discovered the child wasn't breathing. The child was transported to the hospital and pronounced dead at 11 p.m. The child's body showed evidence of ongoing abuse, the Sheriff's Office reported, with extreme bruising over much of his body.

Detectives interviewed family members and learned that the child had been in the care of Leon Alyious Bigleggins, 25, in the days leading up to his death, the Sheriff's Office reported.

Bigleggins was arrested on suspicion of murder and booked into the Humboldt County jail. Bail has not been set, the Sheriff's Office said.

Bigleggins is scheduled to be arraigned by Wednesday. An autopsy of the child will be scheduled by the Humboldt County Coroner's Office, the Sheriff's Office said.

Officials did not release any further information.

◼ Subject: Murder Arrest Sheriff's Office Press Release

◼ UPDATE: Humboldt County Sheriff investigating death of 4-year-old boy; Blue Lake man in custody 7/27/2010
The TS has details - A Blue Lake man is in custody on suspicion of murdering 4-year-old Dylan Blount-Chambers -- the grandson of the woman he is dating, according to the boy's mother.

The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office arrested Leon Alyious Bigleggins, 25, after detectives served a search warrant at a house on Sabertooth Road near Titlow Hill on Sunday afternoon.
Blount-Chambers' grandmother reportedly found the child having difficulty breathing late Saturday night. Donna Ray Blount called an ambulance and the boy was transported to Mad River Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11 p.m.

The child's body had signs of ongoing abuse, the Sheriff's Office reported, with severe bruises that prompted detectives to investigate further.

Neither the Sheriff's Office nor the Coroner's Office would confirm the identity of the child, citing the ongoing investigation, but the Times-Standard spoke with the boy's mother, Tracy Blount.

Tracy Blount said her son was staying at his grandmother's house for the summer, and that she'd dropped him off on July 3, the last time she'd seen him.

”I'm still in shock,” Tracy Blount said. “I really don't know anything at this point.”

Tracy Blount said that Bigleggins was dating her mother, Donna Ray Blount, who works cleaning homes and doing yard work during the day. Bigleggins -- a beginning mixed martial arts fighter -- would watch Blount-Chambers when Donna Blount was away, something that Tracy Blount said she had no reason to be uncomfortable with.

”Dylan loved him,” Tracy Blount said. “I don't want to believe that he (Bigleggins) is involved, but they think he is.”

Tracy Blount said that Dylan is believed to have died of internal injuries, but she still hasn't been able to see him.

The Coroner's Office said that the grandmother identified the child's body. No other acquaintance or family members have been allowed to view the body at this point in the investigation, Coroner Dave Parris said, as it is uncertain who may have been abusing the child.

Parris said that an autopsy is scheduled for this morning in Eureka. Detectives working on the case said that Bigleggins is the only suspect in the case at this point, and that interviews with the family would continue later this week.

The Humboldt County District Attorney's Office said that charges cannot be filed until they receive a report from the sheriff's office, which could be as soon as today.

Bigleggins is scheduled to be arraigned by Wednesday, and his bail has yet to be set.

Bigleggins fought and lost his first official mixed martial arts bout at Blue Lake Casino in the light heavyweight division in May.

UPDATE: ◼ Suspect in Humboldt County child murder to be arraigned in court today; autopsy for boy underway 7/28/2010

COVERAGE:
◼ Man arrested in death of 4-year-old child 7/26/2010
◼ Subject: Murder Arrest Sheriff's Office Press Release
◼ Four-year-old boy murdered
◼ Humboldt County Sheriff investigating death of 4-year-old boy; Blue Lake man in custody 7/27/2010
◼ Suspect in Humboldt County child murder to be arraigned in court today; autopsy for boy underway 7/28/2010
◼ Autopsy complete, but investigation continues in 4-year-old child's death 8/01/2010

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Paul Gallegos

The Humboldt County Grand Jury found that "Weak leadership and poor managerial practices" have undermined the office... Implicit in all evidence gathered by the Grand Jury - including interviews with the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) - is the unfortunate truth that the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) exhibits a limited understanding of how things are done in the department" Gallegos "lacks the global perspective needed to keep the department operating efficiently," and quotes an unnamed staff member as saying, "The D.A. (Paul Gallegos) does not fully understand the functionality of many of the things we do here" - Years later, in his own words: "I’m not an administrator, they didn’t elect me to be an administrator, they elected me to make sure this office runs..."

Douglas & Zanotti

CASE TOSSED The district attorney misrepresented the law and failed to provide evidence of former Eureka Police Chief David Douglas' and Lt. Tony Zanotti's innocence during a criminal grand jury inquiry into the 2006 shooting death of Cheri Lyn Moore, defense attorneys argued in court documents filed Thursday... ”Our judicial system stands as a real and necessary check on the grand jury indictment process,” one of the documents states. “This court has the authority and the means by which to halt this prosecution, which is justified neither by the undisputed facts, nor by the law.”

Gallegos has taken what was "arguably the state's best small DA's office, with a cutting edge CAST program that "trained the trainers"... into a bunch of time serving bureaucratic wannabee brown nosers, lightly sprinkled with a couple of earnest learners who are sure to split as soon as possible.

One weeps for Max Cardoza who won Angellel, and for Maggie Fleming who won so many impossible victories. Mired in Humboldt for personal reasons, they have to suffer the ignominy of working for Paul, with Yougo, yes, yougo who has freed more people as a prosecutor than he did as a defense attorney. As has Paul. Anonymous comment

Gallegos has answers for everything. I’ve never met anyone whose answers came so quickly, with such polish - except about his law school(s). He likely sounded the same way when promising to get prosecutors off their anachronistic “at will” status and onto civil service status. It never happened. Indeed, he told them, “Disloyalty will not be tolerated” – a real morale builder.

He sounds great. What progressive doesn’t want to believe in him? But it’s a myth. He’s an intellectual lightweight and self-aggrandizer who tries to please everybody with glib answers. Jim Fahey for The Arcata Eye

The Humboldt County DA's office is one of the most exciting prosecutorial
offices in California.

Its District Attorney, Paul Gallegos, is willing to charge anyone who commits
wrongdoing--no matter how wealthy, sacrosanct, or ruthless. He believes in total equality before the law. He also plans to be innovative in promoting programs of prevention and treatment. He wants to make it the best prosecutorial office of its size in the nation.... Gallegos' Help Wanted ad

Gallegos' OWN Quotes

★ ...District Attorney Paul Gallegos said he believes the statute of limitations clock, even on misdemeanors, doesn't start running until law enforcement knows or reasonably should have known of the offense. In this case, Gallegos said, that means the statute of limitations would not run out at least until Feb. 8, 2009, or one year after Gundersen's arrest and the discovery of the photographs in question...

★ "...some people actually molest out of different feelings, some times out of feelings of love....” DA Gallegos explaining why Child Abuse prosecutions were down

★ “I never said that the information was not available under the Freedom of Information Act. Quite the contrary, I informed you that our use of force policy is not a public record.” Paul Gallegos to the Times Standard 5/25/07

★ ...“One is that I do everything to make people happy which means I don’t stand for anything except for just something,” he said. “The other is I stand for something and I try to be a leader and take some people, a group of people, a community someplace and I say guess what folks, this is who I am. I stand for your beliefs. We share these beliefs or we don’t. You get the option to judge that. This is who I am and I am committed to leading us this place, wherever it is...." Eureka Reporter Gallegos defends record, looks ahead 7/3/2005

★ Note the difference between what he SAID, and what he DOES..."...So what are these issues? Top on Gallegos' list is the proliferation of "garbage cases," small-time crimes and overcharged cases that he said are clogging up the court system.

Garbage cases, said Gallegos, come in two forms: Cases that would lose if actually brought to trial and cases that are overcharged for the crimes committed. The idea behind filing both kinds of garbage, he said, is to get the defendant to plead guilty, netting a conviction without having to go into court.

Again, the IRONY is astounding! Look at what he SAYS, and then think about what he DOES! "Probably 95 percent of the cases that are filed plead guilty. In fact, there are a lot of cases that are filed on the assumption they will plead guilty, because of the time and expense involved in defending them. But these cases shouldn't even be filed in the first place, because if they were challenged, they would lose," Gallegos said. Better yet: If they weren't filed at all, it would save the county time and money...." North Coast Journal 2/21/02 Too bad he didn't take his own advice.

★ “Tim’s a stud,” he said. “He really is; anyone would be stoked to have him.” Gallegos on his second in command right hand man Assistant District Attorney Tim Stoen. (Former second in command right hand man to Jim Jones/People's Temple.)

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