still a long shot to make the reunion

The Pioneer High School (San Jose) class of '92 had some characters. Ronnie Ledesma was a good friend; we played basketball together (he was good, I was not) and spent many an evening drinking beer that he bought from the only liquor store that would sell to someone w/o an ID. I don't remember if he ever graduated, but pretty much anyone can graduate from public school, so he probably did. Then he moved on to bigger and better things, as shown in the video above. This is not the first time I've posted about Ronnie and his crimes, and I'm surprised he was out of jail after his previous arrest.

Fast forward to 1:48 into the video to see the footage of Ronnie cuffed and stuffed. Except for the soul patch he looks the same as ever.

probably not going to make it to the 20 year reunion...

it's been kind of a slow week in case-land. there was that whole business w/ the IRS (still unresolved, if you must know), plus chores and house and blah. It happens to people. into each life some rain must fall, etc. and so forth.

Then I get an email from a good friend about a guy that flunked out of his fancy-pants high school, only to enroll at my high school. Back in the day Ronnie was well-known around my high school for a) being good at basketball; b) being funny; c) scoring beers at the local quickie mart because he never got carded. Times have changed. You can Google the (in)famous Ronnie Ledesma yourself, but I'll save you the trouble and give you some highlights right here:

• here's a link to the news story about him being arrested w/ a "transient" in manteca, including video from News10 action local connected news, covering Sacramento, Stockton, and Modesto. this is by far the best resource for this awesome story. They have an interview and mugshots of the accused. I tried to get captures of the mugshots but action10NEWS was too clever for me.
  
• Here's a link to an article on some sort of online record keeping thing, probably a paper in manteca or maybe modesto, about the same thing.
  

I can't make this stuff up.

More info: Ronnie's dad was a police officer. For real. What's really bugging me is that this happened two months ago and I just heard about it today. Can I set some kind of alert for when Ronnie's rap sheet gets longer?

More superbness: In addition to the several charges pending for the recent arrest, "Ledesma also is being held on three outstanding warrants in Placer County for domestic violence and one for burglary."

He's a long shot to make the 20 year reunion, then.