Crime logs

FairField

THURSDAY, MARCH 30

1:00 a.m. — Battery, 1600 block of VICKSBURG DRIVE

4:25 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 900 block of NIGHTINGALE DRIVE

6:08 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 3700 block of LYON ROAD

6:56 a.m. — Vandalism, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER

DRIVE

8:04 a.m. — Battery, 1500 block of MEADOWLARK DRIVE

8:26 a.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, DOVER AVENUE

8:49 a.m. — Reckless driver, TRAVIS BOULEVARD

9:16 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 4400 block of CENTRAL

PLACE

9:22 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2800 block of SUNDOWN

CIRCLE

9:52 a.m. — Brandishing a weapon, FIFTH STREET

11:12 a.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1100 block of KEN-

TUCKY STREET

12:39 p.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND HIGHWAY 12

1:43 p.m. — Vandalism, 300 block of PACIFIC AVENUE

2:02 p.m. — Battery, 1300 block of GOLD HILL ROAD

2:51 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1000 block of OLIVER

ROAD

3:02 p.m. — Trespassing, 2700 block of MAXWELL WAY

3:09 p.m. — Drunken driving, DICKSON HILL ROAD

3:26 p.m. — Reckless driver, FIELDCREST AVENUE

3:31 p.m. — Grand theft, 300 block of MANZANITA AVENUE

3:51 p.m. — Grand theft, 2000 block of CLAY BANK ROAD

4:03 p.m. — Trespassing, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS

STREET

4:25 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1400 block of

WEST TEXAS STREET

5:51 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 2200 block of NORTH

TEXAS STREET

5:56 p.m. — Grand theft, 4900 block of VANDEN ROAD

6 p.m. — Reckless driver, DOVER AVENUE

6:16 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 5100 block of BUSINESS

CENTER DRIVE

7:31 p.m. — Battery, 2000 block of CLAY BANK ROAD

7:44 p.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of BECK AVENUE

7:58 p.m. — Trespassing, 800 block of OHIO STREET

8:13 p.m. — Commercial burglary, 100 block of COMMERCE

COURT

8:20 p.m. — Drunken driving, 1300 block of CROWLEY LANE

8:49 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 300 block of SAN

ANDREAS STREET

9:15 p.m. — Grand theft, 600 block of UNION AVENUE

9:40 p.m. — Reckless driver, 1300 block of WOOLNER

AVENUE

11:01 p.m. — Battery, 500 block of DAKOTA STREET

FRIDAY, MARCH 31

4:07 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1000 block of HAYES STREET

4:11 a.m. — Shots fired, 300 block of EAST WYOMING

STREET

5:47 a.m. — Vandalism, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE

8:13 a.m. — Reckless driver, 2000 block of WINSTON DRIVE

8:26 a.m. — Battery, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET

9:34 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 2300 block of BALDWIN

COURT

9:46 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1600 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

11:43 a.m. — Battery, 1600 block of KIDDER AVENUE

12:26 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 900 block of NIGHTINGALE

DRIVE

12:52 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2500 block of AUTO MALL

PARKWAY

1:23 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2100 block of

CADENASSO DRIVE

2:19 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, LOPES ROAD

2:24 p.m. — Trespassing, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS

STREET

2:36 p.m. — Battery, 100 block of BEL AIR CIRCLE

3:05 p.m. — Grand theft, 1500 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

3:18 p.m. — Battery, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

3:22 p.m. — Vehicle theft, VANDEN ROAD

3:43 p.m. — Trespassing, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

3:51 p.m. — Battery, 5100 block of BICKFORD CIRCLE

5:29 p.m. — Drunken driving, FAIRFIELD AVENUE

5:57 p.m. — Residential burglary, 700 block of APPALOOSA

COURT

6:38 p.m. — Grand theft, 2600 block of CARNATION DRIVE

6:56 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

7:16 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, EAST TABOR

AVENUE

7:21 p.m. — Trespassing, 2900 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

8:27 p.m. — Battery, 1200 block of WILLET

SuiSun City

unprecedented moment in American history – the first ex-president, ever, charged with a crime – is one that, for him at least, has become almost routine. Since first positing – incor rectly – on his social media platform almost exactly two weeks ago that he would be arrested in a few days, Trump has cycled through a range of emotions and postures, both public and private.

He has been angry and even threatening, attacking Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on his Truth Social site and warning of “potential death & destruction” if he was charged. He has been both resigned to and disbelieving of a potential indictment, at points behaving as if he could single-handedly disappear the ongoing investigation through some combination of magical thinking and public pressure.

And he has become, eventually, defiant – portraying himself as a hunted victim and leveraging the controversy as a political weapon.

Trump – a former reality TV host who is seeking to win a second term in the White House in 2024 - has already begun privately musing about the indelible images that will likely emerge from his day in court Tuesday, talking about everything from his mug shot to possible perp walk and how he can use the moment to convey defiance.

This portrait of Trump facing down a historic indictment is the result of interviews with 15 Trump advisers, lawyers, confidants and other officials, many of whom spoke anonymously to candidly share details of private conversations.

“He initially was shocked,” said Joe Tacopina, a Trump lawyer, on NBC’s “The Today Show” Friday. “After he got over that, he put a notch on his belt and he decided we have to fight now, and he got into a typical Donald Trump posture where he’s ready to be combative on something he believes is an injustice.”

“His knees don’t buckle,” Tacopina added,

“so he’s now in the posture that he’s ready to fight this.”

Another longtime Trump adviser was blunter, describing the view among Trump advisers that the indictment is “political gold in a primary” and “definitely political gold for fundraising.”

“No one wants to get indicted, but if you are going to get indicted, do you know how much that picture is worth in a primary, for ads and for fundraising?” this person said.

Trump’s legal and campaign team had spent weeks preparing for an expected indictment. They had researched lines of attack against Bragg and Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney and fixer who is believed to be one of Bragg’s key witnesses. They had drafted possible statements and fundraising appeals to push out, as well as a broad plan for Trump’s allies, both legal and political, to blanket television and radio airwaves.

Yet Trump’s lawyers were nonetheless caught off-guard when the news actually came. Some had become so certain that there would be no movement on the investigation in the short term that they had been preparing to take time off, while others – including adviser Boris Epshteyn, who is playing a lead role on Trump’s legal team –had advised Trump that he would not be indicted at all.

Trump’s legal team broke the news to him by phone Thursday, and then began scrambling to prepare for the coming days.

The former president asked about the logistics of being arraigned, and spoke with his lawyers about what the proceedings would look like.

When initially preparing for Trump’s possible indictment, Secret Service agents had expressed concern that Trump might opt to be arrested; they disliked the safety issues raised by him being handcuffed by police rather than being accompanied by Secret Service agents, said a law enforcement official familiar with the planning. Since then, the Secret Service has been comforted to learn that Trump plans to surrender rather than be arrested.

Trump also huddled with his political advisers and talked to members of Congress about how the charges might help him in a Republican primary.

Trump’s advisers and lawyers, however, have also viewed some of Trump’s more extreme posts on Truth Social to be problematic, including one last month in which he shared an image of him wielding a baseball bat next to a photo of Bragg. (Trump later claimed to Fox News’s Sean Hannity that he wasn’t aware of the image he’d shared).

The political downside is likely to come in a general election, many strategists say, where the electorate – including some more moderate Republicans and independents – has long signaled it is exhausted by the chaos and controversy in which Trump thrives. But for now, he remains unbowed, unconcerned that endless news cycles about paying hush money to an adult-film star could harm him politically.

“He has never been concerned about any story that paints him as a moral reprobate,” one Trump ally said. “His whole life and career have been full of those stories and they’ve never harmed him, in his mind.”

On Friday, the Trump campaign distributed an email collecting statements from six governors, 26 senators, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and 63 other House Republicans, and 10 state attorneys general, proclaiming “united support” from the party. Trump’s super PAC released a poll showing overwhelming support among Republican primary voters and posted a video that received more than 1 million views on Twitter.

His team also immediately began using the news to fundraise. In one email to supporters Friday, Trump warned that “our justice system has utterly COLLAPSED.” He went on to ask for a $1 contribution “to cement your place in history and accept YOUR membership as a FOUNDING DEFENDER OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP AGAINST THIS WITCH HUNT.”

Friday evening, the campaign sent out a press release claiming Trump had raised more than $4 million in the 24 hours after the indictment, including more than 25 percent of donations from first-time donors.

In addition to the Manhattan district attorney’s case agai nst Trump, the former president is facing three other ongoing investigations – one in Fulton County, Ga., and two under the direction of special counsel Jack Smith. Trump’s allies and advisers believe the Manhattan case against him is especially weak, and will backfire both politically and legally. But some of his lawyers privately view the other cases as stronger –and fear a situation where they are battling multiple indictments in multiple jurisdictions.

“This is the lowest point in history for our criminal justice system,” said Chris Kise, one of Trump’s lawyers. “What was once the most respected and revered district attorney’s office in the nation has been fully bastardized by an opportunistic politician seeking, like many others, to cash in on the Trump brand.” the first time after years in captivity.

“It was cool, I got to shake their hands,” Carr said.

A video shown during the terminal dedication included the memories of a woman whose father had gone to Vietnam when she was 6 years old. He was taken prisoner. He returned when she was 13.

All the POWs attending the ceremony remarked on the importance of remembering the families of the prisoners – parents and wives and children and siblings who were “imprisoned themselves.”

Mike O’Connor, an Army chief warrant officer, was captured when his UH-1B, model C, Huey helicopter was shot down during the Battle of Hué. He said as soon as he was reunited with his family he could see the toll his seven years away had taken on them.

O’Connor said he was the only survivor among the chopper crew, which included his best friend and aircraft commander, Ron Fields.

He dedicated his gray prisoner garb – quick to note it was not a uniform – to the Travis Heritage Center where the second half of the day’s ceremonies took place.

A banner made by James “Tom” Burnett at his shop just outside the air base, now run by his son, and signed by Vietnam Era and combat veterans, and by some, like Nancy Vigil, who lost family members to the war. Her brother, Marine

Corps. Pfc.Robert Strahn, was killed on Nov. 16, 1966. The POWs and other Vietnam veterans attending the event were encouraged to add their names to the banner.

Don Wyllie, who spent 20 years in the Air Force, also attended the event.

Fifty years earlier he was at the controls of one of the C-141 planes that brought the prisoners home. But it was pure coincidence that he was ever part of Operation Homecoming.

Stationed at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, Wyllie was set to go home the next day when he was tapped to replace a pilot who could not make the mission.

So he landed at the airport in Hanoi, loaded both military and civilian prisoners, and headed back to Clark. After medical checkups, it was off to Hawaii, and then finally to Travis, where he was the second plane to set down.

“We were supposed to talk to the guys like they were basket cases, or not even speak to them,” Wyllie recalls being told. After all, they had been prisoners for a very long time. “But it was like an 18-hour party (coming home).”

As he approached the West Coast, Wyllie got permission to circle the Golden Gate Bridge, which came to be a symbol of their freedom. They also encountered a Boeing 747, and one of the freed prisoners remarked it was the first passenger jet he had ever seen.

They landed at Travis on Feb. 16, 1973.

“Without question, in my entire life, it is the highest point of my career,” the 78-year-old Wyllie said.

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Bill Tschudy was released during Operation Homecoming on Feb. 12, 1973. The Fairfield resident also attended the ceremony. He spent 2,767 days in captivity, having been forced to eject July 18, 1965, from the A-6 Intruder on which he was a bombardier navigator.

In a prior interview with the Daily Republic, he described the harsh conditions of the camps, and the putrid food that was often served. And they were tortured.

The news they were being tortured reached the outside world because of Cmdr. Jerry Denton Jr., who was put front and center at a press conference held by the North Vietnamese.

“He sat back, and it looked like he had light in his eyes. But what he was doing was signaling ‘TORTURE’ with his eyes,” Tschudy said.

The prisoners also developed their own way to communicate with each other by tapping, or even sniffing the code, based on a 5-by-5 alphabetical columns of squares that included all the letters but “J.” Each square had its own coordinate.

When it was time to go home, the prisoners were not convinced. It would not have been the first time the North Vietnamese had made such a promise, even taking the prisoners out to the airport, only to bring them back.

This time, the ranking POW officer, Robbie Risner, told “the Rat” that no one was leaving until the sick and injured prisoners were tended to first.

The act of defiance earned him yet another beating, but the junior officers followed his example, and also refused to leave. It took a letter from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to convince them, Plumb said.

Thinking back, though, Plumb said there were clues this time it would be different. He said the prisoners had their feet traced on wrapping paper days earlier, and he came to realize they were going to get shoes. Later they were delivered some pants, the first time in six years, he said, that he had seen a zipper.

Eventually, they were all loaded onto the C-141 –which came to be known as the Hanoi Taxis – and taken to freedom.

“Every one of us walked up (to the plane) and said, ‘reporting for duty, sir,’” Lt. Col. Richard “Dog” Brenneman said as part of the video.

In all, 325 members of the Air Force, 138 from the Navy, 77 from the Army, 26 Marines and 25 civilians were brought home from Feb. 12 to April 4, 1973. Of the 660 prisoners of war that were eventually returned, 80% stayed in the military.

But it was not until they were out over open water – clear of the Vietnamese mainland – that they allowed themselves to celebrate.

Tschudy said during the flight to the Philippines, the pilot relayed a message from the crews of the USS Hornet and the USS Enterprise: “Welcome home.”

Gordon Kirk, who celebrated his 100th birthday last week,