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FREE DAVE REEVES!

Chris ZieglerTue. January 08
 

Alert to all remaining Americans: damn strong Arthur columnist, ranking Little Joy bartender and ferociously righteous good man Dave Reeves has just gone in for 23 days of jail in L.A. for a stunningly bullshit charge of “not reporting a traffic accident” in which he was the victimized party. Jay @ Arthur reports:

After a series of bizarro events and idiocies that were farcical at first but now seem almost tragic, Dave Reeves has been sentenced to 23 days in County by Judge Kirkland Nyby (ofc 818.557.3454) for the City of Burbank. He turned himself in last Friday, January 4 at 830am. He is currently in MEN’S CENTRAL JAIL which, according to the LACSD website, “houses the majority of Los Angeles County’s high risk, high security inmates, and ranks as the largest jail in the free world.” We don’t know when he’ll get out, although his current projected release date is January 15.

Here’s what happened: Dave Reeves was convicted of not reporting a traffic accident. The other driver was an SUV on his cell phone who inadvertently hit Reeves (who was driving a weak motorcycle) and knocked him over; the driver then swore and gestured aggressively at Dave. Dave got up and drove away with crazy SUV guy charging/yelling after him, trying to run him over. Finally Dave loses him. Dave doesn’t call it in because there’s no damage to his bike, he was the one who was hit, there were no witnesses, and he didn’t have license plate, year or make of the other driver. And also you don’t call in stuff like this from where he comes from (Echo Park–it’s a gang area where LAPD response time is slow to never, and bothering cops with trifling matters like this is a bad-to-stupid thing to do).

Anyways other dude calls Burbank PD and says HE has been victim of hit and run. Etc etc. Actually goes to trial, prosecuted by the City of Burbank (Dennis A. Barlow, Burbank City Attorney -Telephone: (818) 238-5700 -Fax: (818) 238-5724), even though there are no witnesses. Damage to guy’s SUV is a pencil mark-sized scratch on front of SUV guy’s mirror, obviously caused by the SUV’s forward motion against Dave’s motorcycle. $200 in “repair.” Jury can’t believe this is a trial. Reeves admits he didn’t call Burbank PD. Jury has to convict, given judge’s instructions. Judge Kirkland Nyby gives max sentence. Reeves gets 30 days of community service which is 240 hours of picking up trash and abating graf. Reeves did 7 days by the deadline to complete the service. Nyby has now sentenced Dave Reeves to jail for the remainder of his sentence.

Dave Reeves should not be in high-security jail with high-risk inmates for this trifling offense–and nor should anyone else.

You can follow Dave’s blissful journey of joy through L.A. County’s correctional facilities by going to the LASD Inmate Information Center:

http://app4.lasd.org/iic/ajis_search.cfm

and entering

LAST NAME: Reeves
FIRST NAME: David

Then, click on the booking number: 1118810. Voila! It’s almost like you’re there with him. Okay, not really. Last we checked he had been moved to the MEN’S CENTRAL JAIL at 441 BAUCHET STREET, which, according to the LACSD website, “currently houses the majority of Los Angeles County’s high risk, high security inmates, and ranks as the largest jail in the free world. The average housing cost per inmate is $53.45 per day.”

Dave Reeves needs money to pay all the exorbitant fines and make up for lost work hours fighting this Burstank crap for the last 15 (!) months. If you’re able, buy stuff from him at defendbrooklyn.com. And remember: when you defend Dave Reeves, you defend yourself.

That C.A.R. flag hanging above is (if it’s the same one) folded in my bedroom right now, given to me by Dave after a DJ set at Little Joy and waiting now to unfurl and greet him upon his triumphant release. Some Dave columns collected by Jay below:

“Blank in the Fill” (Arthur No. 26/Sept 2007)
“The Blaster of Choice” (Arthur 25/Dec 02006)
“Mission Creeps: One of Us Is Not as Dumb as All of Us” (Arthur 24/Sept 02006)
“Trigger Hippies” (Arthur 23/July 02006)
“Close the Borders” (Arthur 22/May 02006)
“Trust the Government” (Arthur 21/March 2006)

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