His mom must be so proud
This is 22-year-old convicted killer Benjamin Gonzalez, who came into a Long Beach courtroom yesterday with his fingers all ablaze with a message for the media. It's hard to see in the picture, but his eyebrows are replaced with tattoos that say "Long" and "Beach."
Our colleague, Tracy Manzer at the Long Beach Press-Telegram, has the full story on the sentencing hearing for Gonzalez and three others. Her report is accompanied by video and multiple photographs. The whole package can be found by clicking here.
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Larry Altman has covered crime in the South Bay since 1990. He's seen it all - the missing model who turned up dead in the desert, the wives found dead in trunks, the high-school coaches who get a little too close to their players. He drives his young colleagues nuts with his "I remember when" stories. He welcomes your tips and observations about the present, and you can mix in a little Lakers basketball talk if you like.
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Denise Nix knew as young as grade school, when she spent every summer working on the camp newspaper, that she wanted to be a journalist. Denise has spent most of the last 12 years of her career in the courtroom. She joined the Daily Breeze in 2001, where she tracks and reports on hundreds of cases at every level of the justice system. And she's never, ever, seen a judge use a gavel.
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The worst thing about this is that this waste of skin will have an army of advocates and watch-dog groups fighting for hs comfort and civil rights for the rest of his miserable existence.
He knows the court will protect him from harm, the deputies will ensure his safety - and when he gets to prison he will be an idol to an entire population of sociopaths.
If there was ever a poster-boy for birth control - he is it.