is serving a year in a residential treatment program for violating his probation for the seventh time court documents show that a county superior court judge robert tammie eddie sentence got he thomas thirty four years old you and salvation army's drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in healdsburg earlier this month the decision was frustrated has frustrated law enforcement officials grass valley police have arrested thomas nine times within the last seven years for a variety of offenses including domestic violence and drug possession according to court and police records but others argue that residential treatment programs help that thomas has not received in the past  more hope for changing thomas behavior than prison west valley police captain dave remillard said thomas has not responded to probation in the past and should go to prison for constantly dealing with these repeat offenders  mullard said this guy has been a thorn in our side for a long time local judges are too lenient with people like thomas he said everyone deserves a second chance and no one is a lost cause but how many chances do we need to give these people but prison doesn't address the underlying drug and alcohol problems that cause criminal behavior and only makes them worse said gregory klein a lawyer who represents many criminal defendants  courthouse i don't think prison does anything for the defendant said nevada city lawyer who represents thomas in an earlier phase in a case with the humanity issue klein said when you send someone to prison you're telling them  you're human garbage i think judge him yet he believed thomas is a safe a ball human meanwhile thomas has told the court he is ready to run the race of life in an attempt to overcome his addictions to sheriff's deputies arrested thomas in january fourth two thousand and three for assaulting his ex girlfriend thomas used his fists and set of kitchen knives to break the woman's collarbone punctured her lung and break her nose according to court records for crime former nevada county superior court judge ursule edwards sentenced thomas in april two thousand and three to one year in wayne brown correctional facility and three years probation after his release from jail thomas hearing tests tested positive for methamphetamine in may of two thousand and four court records show he failed to show up for an appointment with his probation officer and notify the probation department of a change of address in august of two thousand and four court records also showed the district attorney's office charged thomas in september two thousand and four of violating probation former counter spirit court judge albert dover sentenced thomas to thirty days in jail some time after thomas was released from jail his blood tested positive for alcohol of quoting to court records as part of the terms of his probation thomas was not allowed to possess or consume alcohol beverages the d a s office also charged thomas with a second probation violation in february of two thousand and five sentenced thomas again to thirty days in jail at this point the mullard said society would have been better served if thomas had been sentenced to a treatment program maybe after the second violation he could have gone to treatment he said but we could have believed all of his all of this earlier in june two thousand and five grass valley police to grass valley police arrested thomas on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance course records show the days off was charged him later in june with a third probation violation this time former superior court judge john darlington sentenced thomas to sixty days in jail police arrested thomas again in december of two thousand and five on suspicion of disturbing the peace by peeping into an inhabited building the d a charged thomas with his fourth probation violation later that december please repeat offenders aren't taking judges seriously and the judges don't realize that remedy so how many times does this need to happen thomas didn't show up for his arraignment for the alleged p p according to court records so d issued a warrant for his arrest on feb fourteenth two thousand and six darlington postponed sentencing agreed to release thomas from jail on a condition that he attend a program on february twenty first two thousand and six thomas provided a letter to court from the program's coordinator that he had enrolled in anger management sessions darlington sentenced thomas to ninety days in jail in march two thousand and six for the latest and fourth probation violation which he was supposed to begin serving april second five days before he was to start serving his jail term grass valley police arrested thomas on suspicion of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or co habiting based on the arrest the d office charged thomas with the fifth probation violation march twenty ninth of two thousand and six and thomas was released from jail on his own recognizance in may two thousand and six judged reinstated thomas probation and ordered him to  batterer's program three days later the california highway patrol arrested thomas on suspicion of drunken driving and he pleaded guilty in june two thousand and six former nevada county superior court judge carl  the second granted thomas an extension to provide proof of roman and the batterers program in july of two thousand and six a da charged us with his sixth probation violation for the dui arrest thomas provided  batterers program to the court later in july and tammy idea loud him to be released from jail on his own recognizance with the condition that he stay away from alcohol in august of two thousand and six then we had he ordered thomas to bring another letter from his anger management counselor which he did go to court records submitted by the probation department thomas failed to report to his probation officer in september of two thousand and six but by november two thousand and six thomas was attending a batterer's program court document show court into the march two thousand and seven probation report thomas apparently had stopped the vile violence counseling classes the probation department recommended to the court the thomas remained jailed until he was sentenced for his seventh parole violation record show the d a s office also denied thomas a place in adult drug court superior court judge treatment instead of prison your honor i'm ready to run the risk of life i have faith in myself through god the letter reads god is where i am going to through my insurance in addition to his sentence for a year at the salvation army judges understand and to dissipate some people will fail one or two times not only do offenders have to decide to quit abusing drugs but they have to move and get all new friends it's a complete overhaul every county has its unspoken rules when it comes to sentencing klein said and the vatican is judges will often sentence someone to probation or treatment a few times before sending them to jail or prison depending on the offense but in current county  judges are known for much harsher sentencing he said someone like thomas would most likely be headed for prison i think tammy id still has some hope in the human spirit he said maybe he's sensitive to prison overcrowding maybe he shouldn't be but he actually thinks about these things and in another story local murder suspect inform the placer county sheriff's deputy paul carver sitch jr accused of killing his wife ja mother of their two children then aged five and eight genic over such then twenty seven reporter lee was preparing to end the couple's rocky marriage and confronted her as one about a divorce on the morning she vanished according to documents filed by the firearm during the murder now for the police blotter the pictures in the blo three zero one pm a man called from business some south church street and reported a man and a woman were on his property earlier today he wanted police to tell them not to return police told them to move along at eight empire street reported a possible drug driver in a blue grand marquis police arrested is thirty seven year old man on drunken driving driving with this is spent of license and violation of probation monday at three o four two women were involved in the fight they had been drinking and the heavy man possibly win three hundred pounds pushed the woman up against a tree and was verbal abuse deputies were unable to locate the police officer monday at eight thirty seven a call from the town road reported mailboxes were knocked down a california highway patrol determined vandals were responsible and a forty seven a woman from the eleven thousand block of bailed road reported a person came at her boyfriend with a knife and they were also reported to law verbal disturbance deputies mediated the situation no rest for me is that a city police department on sunday us war commanders have prepared detailed plans for a significant american at least two thousand and nine according to the new york times the plan envisions two phases the near term goal is to achieve localized security in baghdad and the other area no later than next to intermediate goal is to establish a broader sense of security on a nationwide basis no later than june two thousand and nine the classif plan was written in part by general david petraeus and ambassador ryan crocker in other news from iraq at least twenty six people died earlier today one at suicide car bomb exploded outside a children's hospital and shit ton of this picture is not from that event about seventy people were injured in the blast in campaigned in the state democratic presidential candidates took part in a debate last night at the citadel military academy in south carolina candidates responded to questions posted by voters in a video sharing web site you tube ohio congressman dennis kucinich criticizing his opponents for refusing to call for an immediate withdrawal from iraq to say you're opposed the war from the start when you voted to fund it one hundred percent at that time seventy percent five percent of the time well let's get real about this war but it's good deeds troops home and let's take a what did all these people die for what are they dying for right now in iraq every single day let me tell you there's only one thing worse than a soul to dine in vain it's more soldiers die in washington lawsuit against the part a veterans affair the lawsuit claims the v a and the former v a secretary jim nicholson have illegally denied disability pay and mental health treatment to thousands of veterans the suit also alleges that v a worked with the pentagon to misclassified post traumatic stress disorder claims in order to avoid paying out benefits much of the central and southern remains underwater following the worst flooding in modern thousands of people are without water and drinking water massive floods have been reported recently across the globe in china monsoon rains have displaced three million people on the left more than one hundred fifty people dead in india hundreds of homes have collapsed after being inundated with floodwaters in the north eastern state of texas as many as three hundred people were evacuated in san antonio after seventeen inches of rainfall meanwhile a new study in the journal of nature has confirmed that global warming is already affecting the world's rainfall patterns authors of the study say global warming is bringing more precipitation to northern europe canada and northern russia but less t saharan africa southern india and south east asia and another story pakistani authorities are one of the bush administration not to carry out attacks inside pakistan want to touch for osama bin laden foreign office spokesman tasman him said any attack inside pakistan would be unacceptable tasnim aslam said we do not want our efforts to be undermined by any ill conceived action from any quarter that is inconsistent with the percival's of the international law and would be deeply resent centered in the tribal areas and generally and pakistan such actions as we have already stated will be irresponsible and dangerous on sunday white house homeland security adviser frances townsend refused to rule out u s attacks into pakistan well in afghanistan the taliban is continuing to hold twenty three south korean hostages in a german man the taliban is threatening to begin executing the hostages if seoul and berlin don't pull their troops out of afghanistan most of south korean hostages are young and manly female christian aid workers and news from africa the nigerian government has reached a six point five billion dollars lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company pfizer for allegedly carrying out fraudulent drug tests on  slurred speech pfizer has said that it conducted a test in full knowledge of the government and irresponsible and ethical way and other pharmaceutical neuros to manufacture the painkiller oxycontin have been ordered to pay six hundred thirty four roberta our work is humanitarian and we say yes to the humanitarian agreement and we believe that it is a step the colombian government has to take if they don't want to the colombian people to have pressure because we cannot britain sold its stake in k b r the largest military contractor in iraq meanwhile the first minimum wage increase and increase in the decade goes into effect today the new minimum wage of five dollars ninety five cents an hour up from five fifteen according to the economic policy institute the change will affect about thirteen million workers at ten percent of the nation's workforce when adjusted for inflation the minimum wage is still lower than any time in the last fifty years upper ninety's hot and mostly sunny for the rest of the week and the weekend with highs in the ninety's and they are under that's it for today thanks a lot for watching and we'll 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