| Off the Record |
[05 Sep 2007|02:02pm] |
Logan had meant to shave that morning. Really, he did.
But that was before this huge stink downtown, something about a bomb threat being called in, followed by someone trying to sneak a gun into City Hall. Only it turned out the gun was a SuperSoaker and the threat was called in by some kid with too much time on his hands, so Logan hopped out of bed and chased after a story that didn’t exist.
That happened a lot in his line of work; leads that went nowhere, sources that dried up before giving up really good information. It was really what made his job so stressful at times … and why he often walked around with five days’ worth of stubble.
He didn’t pay much mind to the suspicious glares as he walked over to Detective Starnes’ desk; reporters weren’t exactly the police’s best friends, and he was used to the attitude he would sometimes get. Cops had a job to do, and sometimes the reporter’s job got in the way of that.
But he needed this interview. For reasons he couldn’t exactly divulge.
“Detective Starnes?” he spoke as he reached the desk in question. “Logan Guevera, Clark County Beacon. We spoke on the phone earlier?”
( Hate reporters? Guess what, they're not that fond of you either. )
"I'll have to watch that one," Starnes muttered, slumping back in her chair for another slug of bad coffee and a watch check. If she saw one word of that forgery hit the newspapers, she would have Guevara arrested for interfering with an ongoing police investigation.
He thought he could screw around with her and walk off like nothing happened? Let him try it.
[NPC Detective Starnes was written by Stargazer.]
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| 'FreeVoice' Arrested |
[05 Sep 2007|02:42pm] |
By Logan Guevera | lguevera@ccbeacon.com
LAS VEGAS -- He once claimed to be the only free voice left in Las Vegas. Now, Troy Lockhart isn't even a free man.
Lockhart, mostly known as an independant journalist who used the Editorial pages of The Clark County Beacon to give "the only free and unbiased perspective in this city, if not the entire state of Nevada," was arrested by Las Vegas police Tuesday morning on suspicion of felony heroine possession and underage prostitution.
Las Vegas Police Department spokesman John Luiz said investigators were given an anonymous tip Monday night informing them of drug paraphanalia at Lockhart's suburbian estate. A warrant was issued Tuesday morning, Luiz said, and police raided the mansion, finding well, over nine pounds of heroine and three viles of crack cocaine.
"We're not sure who tipped us off," Luiz said, "or how or why. We're just glad they did."
Luiz said police also found evidence of an international prostitution ring, one in which Lockhart and others allegedly worked to bring 11- and 12-year-old girls into the United States from such countries as Thailand, Honduras, Vietnam and Russia. Lockhart's alleged accomplices are unknown, though one document police found was signed by Daniel Fordman. a local businessman and known client of Wolfram & Hart.
"Mr. Fordman is away on business, and as such is too busy to comment on these outragious and outlandish accusations," his attorney, Rebekah Strossen, said. "If I had my way, these charges will be dropped before my client even gets back to the country."
Lockhart was a beat reporter for The Beacon from 1997 until 2001, when he left to pursue a television career. In his time with the paper, Lockhart covered UNLV basketball, as well as the local circuit courts and the medical beat. His radical views on such matters as drug control and sex laws made him a popular commentator for CNN, where he served from 2003 until 2008, when he abruptly resigned after a disagreement with management.
Lockhart's publicist, Nancy Harbaugh, was not immediately available for comment.
Lockhart drew city-wide and state-wide criticism for his June 11, 2009 letter to the editor, in which he argued that drugs should be made legal and taxable, because "it would benefit our economy for years to come, immediately eliminating the national deficit and making sure we have plenty to spend on what really matters: education and the military."
He also ciritized three presidential administrations, two wars and even suggested in an editorial that Vegas was "amock with all manner of supernatural; creatures you or I cannot fathom and could never hope to deal with. The police cover up so many vampire murders, it's not even funny!"
The city of Las Vegas sued Lockhart for libel over those comments, but the case never made it to court.
A preliminary hearing for Lockhart is set for Nov. 25. Though Lockhart has no attorney of his own, Strossen said her firm would take up his cause and that he would "no doubt" plead not guilty.
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| What you can do today |
[05 Sep 2007|03:24pm] |
The lighthouse was closed and all the lights were off. Julie had finished cleaning after Hannah's ghost, or what she thought was Hannah's ghost, and the werewolf now sat in the light of the waning moon sipping a beer.
In a way, encountering her friend's spirit had made her feel even worse. If she'd been there in that trailer when Hannah had made that choice she could have pulled the blonde away from Whistler, stopped her before she gave up too much of her energy in the attempt to cure him.
She needed to get over that feeling. Julie knew it wasn't healthy to be sitting there brooding, but she couldn't quite bring herself to let go yet.
Connor had made sure that Rhiannon had been all right to drive before she'd left the parking lot of the Lighthouse, then trudged back to the bar. The sunburn was starting to sting a little more, and he wondered if there was something inside that he could put on it. He hoped he still had a job, since this was his first time really being back, but he thought that Jo would be pretty understanding once he explained it to her.
When he came across Julie sitting by herself drinking a beer, he stopped walking and studied the ground in front of his shoes before moving again. He'd left her in such a state before that it occurred to him that he might need her forgiveness over the disappearing act, but all he said was, "Hey. Long day?"
He took a seat close by, feeling loose grains of sand peppering the back of his neck. Tonight he would sleep in his own bed and see if that helped. He did feel a little better, but only a little. It seemed like he would have gotten used to it by now, but some things you never really developed a thick skin over.
( It's been a long time )
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| Conductivity |
[05 Sep 2007|09:23pm] |
One of the first things Corbett learned in the Watchers’ Academy was that when mystical solutions failed, it was never wise to ignore mundane ones.
And considering what little occult library the Watcher had left after Elfleda’s visit – and his visit to Unseen Insight had bore little, if any, fruit – it amazed Corbett how he didn’t immediately start looking into other avenues; specifically books normal, everyday people might use.
Hence the physics books Corbett had spent the past hour combing through, pencil clutched between his teeth as he read chapter after chapter on electricity and currents and the like.
He remembered what Rhiannon told him the day before about the Defiler’s metal being nothing more than a suit of armor, that there was probably something actually alive underneath it. Corbett hadn’t found any text to support that theory, but he didn’t see anything disproving it either, so for the time being, he was operating on that theory.
Which gave the Watcher an idea.
( It's like physics class all over again. )
( Voicemail for Rhiannon )
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