WEAPONS CACHE SHOULD KEEP THIS MAN IN JAIL

 

…Just one of the automatic weapons that the police found in the possession of Wesley Martines

 

If this man is what we will be dealing with in the future, we are is serious trouble.

 

Many people are asking “Just what is going on today with these people randomly killing people where they shop?”

Such as, there was the man in Texas that drove 600 miles to a city near the Mexican border where he killed 26 people in a Walmart.  He purposely went after as many Mexicans as he could.

Then locally, a man that had a grievance against some co-workers that walked into his work place and killed 8 of his co-workers, then turning the gun on himself.

We also hear about the many school shootings, of which there are too many to list.

In fact, 2020 was the worst year ever for gun deaths in the United States.  There were 19,380 gun deaths in the United States in 2020, and 2021 is starting out to be even worse.

The following is a local story located in Campbell, CA.  Because of the cache of weapons found in his vehicle and his home, prosecutors say that he will most assuredly not be released on a bail request.

The following will tell you why that is the case, and as happens many times, this man was found out as a potential future killer, and this was found accidentally.

This local man was arrested last month with a cache of firearms in his vehicle and his home.  He also had personally inscribed bullets with message: “Cop Killer”.  The prosecutors are saying that he should not be released, just because of his proficiency with weapons.  This, combined with his journal writings describing elaborate robbery and kidnapping plots at specific South Bay locations.  The prosecutors argued this in a bail motion filed this week.

The motion reveals new details about what was found in Wesley Charles Martines’ pickup truck after he was stopped recently by Campbell police.  This included armor-piercing rifle rounds and a handwritten journal, which was one of two manifestos recovered by authorities.  The journals contained detailed plans for highly violent robberies of: banks, armored trucks, liquor stores, gas stations, sporting goods stores and other businesses in a region stretching from his home to Monterey, CA.

Actually, some of the journal entries were written under the bogus heading of “ ideas for a book/movie,” and they included hand- drawn maps related to assorted robbery schemes.  This is according to images of the journal included with the bail-denial motion.  Martines also wrote Islamophobic and anti-Semitic remarks, and his desire to stop the “intermingling” of different races, and he also described himself as a psychopath and an acolyte of the Antichrist.

“The journals contain plans to commit various shootings, robberies, burglaries, thefts, kidnappings, blackmail, and even imprisonment.”  The county’s Deputy District Attorney wrote in the motion: “These plans often include specific locations throughout the Bay Area and Northern California, hand- drawn maps depicting locations and escape routes, lists of possible accomplices that could be recruited, step-by- step plans to commit various crimes, and plans to use high-powered firearms, ammunition, and explosives in the commission of these crimes.”

The Deputy DA concludes in the filing that “there is clear and convincing evidence that if released there is a substantial likelihood that Martines will inflict great bodily harm and death on the people of this community.”

Of course, Martines’ defense attorneys refuted prosecutors’ characterization and accused them of using the specter of the recent May mass shooting in San Jose, to overcharge their client.  Also of trying to skew public opinion on the case.

“Wesley Martines is not a violent person, let alone the person the District Attorney and law enforcement make him out to be,” reads a statement from the attorneys. “ The District Attorney’s office is in violation of its ethical duties by disclosing their bail motion and included discovery to the media.”

It's amazing that Martines’ lawyers tried to get away with that kind of statement, after all the evidence found in Martines’ vehicle and home.

The bail motion filed by prosecutors is publicly accessible to anyone through the county Superior Court.

Martines is only 32, and he has been held on $300,000 bail in the local men’s jail since his arrest.  He was initially charged with seven felonies encompassing possession of assault weapons, a silencer, illegal drugs and the makings of a pipe bomb.  This is in the motion submitted this week to the Superior Court.  This is ahead of Martines’ scheduled Aug. bail hearing.  The District Attorney’s Office announced intentions to add an eighth felony count alleging possession of a short-barreled rifle.

Campbell police say Martines attracted suspicion just after midnight July 9 after a business owner on a Campbell street saw a man peering into vehicles at a car lot and looking inside a storage shed. Officers stopped Martines’ white Ford F-250 pickup truck in the area.

One of the officers who conducted the vehicle stop soon spotted what looked like a rifle in the backseat, and Martines claimed it was an Air Rifle.  This is according to a police report, which added that Martines was ordered out of his truck and a pat down search turned up a loaded handgun magazine in his pants pocket.

Besides two rifles outfitted with silencers and advanced scopes and sights, a search of the truck turned up body armor with rifle-resistant plating and pockets stuffed with loaded rifle magazines and throwing knives, and several high- capacity rifle magazines.  This is according to the motion and a police report. Police obtained a gun-violence restraining order to temporarily seize Martines’ guns and also searched his home, where the short-barreled rifle was recovered. A fourth rifle registered to Martines was not found, authorities said.

In journal entries detailing the robbery plots, Martines also described a “ death pact in which he and his crew “ will go out shooting, either killing any cops in their way or die trying. “Fuck prison. No surrender.” He also described casing local locations and studying police patrol patterns, and how certain cities in the local Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey area were “ ideal locations to commit these crimes because they are small towns with small police departments.” 

If this is an example of what we have to be worried about going forward, we are in a world of hurt, and we should expect many more mass shooting in the coming years.

Copyright G. Ater 2021