Police Complaints regarding Ed Black
I was forced to move to my cabin in
Cedar Slope due to financial problems in October of 2005. I had
previously paid Ed Black, recommended by the Cedar Slope Mutual Water
Company, to watch my cabin. (See police report, 02-6094 on burglary,
2002). Black had a key to my cabin as part of the services offered
for security.
I am the full time caretaker for my
son, who suffered two major brain injuries. He is entirely blind in
one eye, partially blind in the other, has cognitive issues and
walked only with the aid of a walker or cane.
I work on line and especially when on
deadline will work through the night. In early 2006, in April, I was
sleeping in having worked late when Black used the key provided to
him and entered my home without knocking. I screamed and he left.
My car was parked out front. There could have been no doubt that I
was in residence. I demanded the return of the key. Black brought
it to my door. We did not speak.
Soon thereafter Black began lingering
in his truck near my lot. I tried to avoid and ignore him.
During the winter of 2007, Black
changed his manner of plowing the snow. Until the winter of 2007,
Black cleared all snow from the road so I could access the road and
my driveway.
In early spring, 2007 Black began to
stop in the road below my cabin and park, staying in his truck. I
could see him staring up into my windows.
I have on three occasions seen him
masturbating while sitting in his truck and staring up into my
windows. These incidents are frightening. He knew I could see him
and this did not alter his behavior. I became afraid to walk by
myself.
In the summer of 2007 Arthur, without
telling me his intention, decided to walk down to Pierpoint.
Discovering he had not returned from what was to be a walk to the
store at the top of the hill I started looking for him. I called the
sheriff. A short time later the sheriff drove up with Arthur in the
car.
Arthur told me while walking back from
Pierpoint he became exhausted and stopped to rest. Black drove by and
paused when Arthur asked for a ride. Black gunned his engine and left
him at the side of the road to be found by the Sheriff a few minutes
later. A few minutes after Arthur was returned by the Sheriff, Black
called me to tell me he had not seen Arthur.
This lie, which placed my son at risk,
caused me to feel threatened by Black's pattern of devious behavior.
In December of 2007, while I was
taking a walk, Black told me I was not permitted to park my car on
the flat area above the house though the area is used in just that
way by multiple owners. He was abrupt and hostile. I parked there
anyway because it made it easier for my son to get into the car. The
next time I used my car, just as I got to the top of the hill onto
Highway 190 the next day, my brakes failed. The pedal went all the
way to the floor and the brakes failed.. I had the car towed into my
repairman in Porterville, Kevin at 360 Degree Auto on Olive, and he
said the brakes could have been cut. A deputy went by to take
pictures and agreed it looked intentional. I filed a police report
(Case No. 08-0091 )
Subsequently Deputy Sheriff Winters
arranged to come to my house and was unable to get down the road
because of the build up of ice there. I mentioned some part of what
is here to him but made no formal report at that time. I found that
I was having trouble sleeping for fear of what might happen next.
A few months later, June of 2008, my
car had an electrical problem and I borrowed another car for
transportation. My car remained in my driveway. In January I
decided to get my car fixed and renew the registration. A friend of
mine, Courtney Gillespie, a tow truck driver, towed my car to the
top of the hill, around 4 yards off the road so AAA will not pick up
in the subdivision. The car was parked well off the road on private
property.
Milborn Ellis, a member of my church
said he would come by while it was there to look it over and let me
know if he could fix it. Milborn is a master mechanic. Milborn
identified the problem as one he could not fix and I began
arrangements to have it towed.
The day AAA was to be moved a tow truck
came and, without my knowledge, impounded. I believe Black was
responsible for complaining and having my car impounded.
Due to the severity of the snow fall in
late February I went to stay with friends in Springville for a few
days. When I returned my satellite dish receiver had been
vandalized, the coaxial lines connected to my satellite dish receiver
had been ripped out. Deputy Winters came out, took photographs, and
filed it as vandalism. There was no damage to the roof, which there
would have been if it had been caused by falling branches. The
repairman, Jakob Phillips from Porterville, cut out the damaged lines
and repaired them. He is prepared to testify it was done by a big
man with a lot of muscle power. Because of the damage on the line he
also believed the individual had nearly fallen and off the roof also
bent the staff. Few owners are here when it is storming and to get
at the satellite the individual had to climb up on a two story roof.
(See Case No. 09-2374 )
I am now frightened to take walks on
the roads around my own home even when that is possible, due to the
none clearing of snow.
Recently I contacted the Attorney
General's Office regarding Black's license to provide security
services. They had no record of an issued license for those services
to anyone named Ed Black I was told to contact the licensing office
in Tulare and am so doing. I have been unable to obtain from Black
his bonding information, though he would have been required to have
bonding to hold such a license. I am asking that this matter be
followed up by authorities in Tulare County.
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