02-15-2015, 02:47 PM
(02-14-2015, 08:26 PM)RedCloud Wrote: Well, Here in Toledo tonight, the weather forecast promises a windchill of -25 to -35 (!) and hopefully a 'high' of 2 degrees on Sunday. Most people are hunkering down.
The few people that I've talked with about Ramirez were all wondering what was he doing associating with the clarkes. The common asdsumption was that he was somehow related to maytee. "Blood is thicker than water"-type thing.
Shoot, that's miserably cold. We're having the opposite weather here -- warmest days on record for these dates in northern California and worrying about droughts again.
Anyway, if Ramirez is somehow related to Maytee (or maybe if they've known each other since childhood), that sure could explain him risking everything to help the Clarkes plot the shooting.
I haven't seen any statements from his lawyer other than he plans to fully cooperate as part of the investigation; no declarations of innocence or anything like that. If he was part of an undercover sting against the Clarkes, I doubt he would have been arrested, but the thought briefly crossed my mind.
Ramirez's preliminary hearing is set for Thursday, 2/19. Unless he waives it and the case is pushed directly to the grand jury, we should learn a little more about the charges against him next week.