September 9, 2026 • 35 mins
Bob talks about Genesee Crossroads Park, an arrest in the murder of a Congo man, and the Monroe County Legislature passing a tax exemption for disabled veterans, Bob takes calls, talks about disabled veterans benefits, and the sentencing of the murders of Sam Nordquist.
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Thanks, Doug.
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I appreciate that. And troops, like always, I appreciate you
showing up for muster. Hope all is cool and copacetic.
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On your end.
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Yesterday, they had the Secretary of State of New York in.
I guess that's a job or something, or you're someone's cousin.
I'm not exactly sure, but high up Democrat. Some fellow
came out, no, I'm sure Governor Hochul sent him because
she loves us that much and because we're that important
to her.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
All right.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
So anyway, Secretary of State comes for, you know, one
of those fake groundbreakings for something called the Genesee Crossroads Park.
8.2 million tax dollars about to be pissed away. The
Secretary of State, the gentleman said this will, quote, give
a financial boost to the area, close quote. with respect
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and not trying to be a naysayer, but it won't
do any such thing. If you were to come downtown
Rochester and you were to go to the Main Street Bridge, okay,
and look to the north. So we're on the Main
Street Bridge, which is a wonderful piece of history, and
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we're going to look north. On your right hand would
be this hulking, empty, ravaged derelict of a former hotel,
all right? On your left would be the back of
a couple of buildings, including that one with the round
flying saucer on top. And if you went just a
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little bit more to the north, you'd notice there's this
pedestrian bridge that goes kind of diagonally across the river,
makes something of a Y.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It used to be called.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
The Sister Cities Bridge because in the 60s or 70s,
some prior dumbass governor said, why don't we give Rochester
a lot of money to develop its riverfront and then
everything will be swell. So they put in the sister
cities bridge. It leads on the west side of the
Genesee to this large plaza that's kind of behind the
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federal building, kind of behind another large, hulking, empty derelict
of a former hotel.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And it's just all been concrete and steps and supposedly
a place of social gathering. Largely, it's where homeless people
go to take a leak. At any rate, this Rock
the River way, which is going to bring new life
and vitality to Rochester, has essentially had the bridge redone.
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And that big expanse of nothing where the concrete plaza
was has been replaced by a large expanse.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Of nothing concrete.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
We have merely taken the misguided, never turned into anything
riverfront development of a few decades back and replaced it
with the large, never going to do anything, barren concrete
riverfront development of today. There is a functional matter. There
is no utility which has been added. There is no
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new cool thing to see. And it's just a preposterous,
you know, the emperor has new clothes kind of thing. Where, again,
years ago, they said, oh, if we put, like, we'll
put some tiered steps in here and people will gather
here for music and it'll be really swell. Only it
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never happened. They built it. The people cashed the checks
and walked away. And now a new generation arises and says,
they're simply rebuilding the failed projects which were there already.
And it is astounding that, like, is there no way
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that City Hall could recognize this, maybe lean over to
the state and say, hey, it's so thoughtful of you to,
you know, have us on your list, and we're very,
very grateful, but I wonder if we could use this
money instead for and then suggest something that might actually
be useful. So the Secretary of State of New York,
came for the groundbreaking and big smiles and all sorts
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of politicians were there. But with respect and not trying
to be negative, nothing will come of this because it
is nothing new and that which it is replacing and
redoing never worked in the first place. But anyway, as
a state taxpayer, you just keep doing what you're doing.
You keep putting money in and they'll keep finding ways
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to piss it away. We, what, a couple of three
weeks ago talked about this situation where a young man
from Congo ended up dead in the gorge here in Rochester.
And the question was, man, how can you survive Congo
and then die in Rochester, right? How is it more
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dangerous here than it was over there? Well, a great
arrest made by the major crimes investigators. And it turns
out that the victim in this matter, Munga Alocho, 22
years of age, he unfortunately shortly after midnight on August
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16th found himself in a drug house in a dispute
with a drug dealer. And that's not going to go
very well for you. The allegation is that there was
this altercation at the drug house. Now, when, you know,
God bless this young man, Mr. Alocho, I, we were
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grateful to see his family interviewed and we learned what
a wonderful young man he was and how he led
the choir at church. Um, and maybe it was choir
practice at midnight at the drug house or maybe something
else was going on.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Um, but, uh, and in the photographs of him on TV, um,
it's interesting. He's been wearing very expensive clothes. One of
them in front of a very expensive looking car that
may have been like a fake backdrop or something.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Um, And there's just a little bit of the appearance.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Of aspiration to having great means. And who knows? But
he's in the drug house, and it's alleged that a
43-year-old probationer by the name of Milton Simmons... By the way,
Milton Simmons.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Age 43, already a pretty good criminal career. Three prior
felony convictions, four prior misdemeanor convictions.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
At any rate.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
So there you are on probation running your drug house,
a dispute with the.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Young gentleman newly from Congo.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And the allegation is that Milton Simmons opens fire on
Emungo Olocho. And sadly, Mr. Olocho, 22, passes away. He's
shot repeatedly in the upper body. He's then put in
a garbage tote, which is apparently wheeled to the Genesee
River Trail. where Milton Simmons attempts to set it and
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its contents, the sadly deceased Mr. Locho, on fire. This,
of course, does nothing. That is an obscure evidence or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And he's discovered later that day.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And when Mr. Milton Simmons, the alleged gunman, was taken
into custody, I think day before yesterday, he was in
possession of a 40-caliber Glock with a switch that makes
it fire fully automatic, and it was loaded with a
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30-round magazine.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Also, he was in possession of cocaine.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Which looked like it was packaged for sale. So apparently
the criminal justice system and the correction system worked very,
very well on Milton Simmons, right? He didn't seem to
have changed his ways, unfortunately. But a probationer with three
felonies and a wildly illegal gun is allegedly the person
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who took the life of this young gentleman newly from Congo.
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Monroe County Legislature last night unanimously passed a county property
tax exemption for fully disabled military veterans. And that's a wonderful,
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generous gesture. It absolutely is. And I'm grateful to both
Republicans and Democrats for supporting it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
There's an interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Kind of deal, though, and that is that the word
disabled in regard to veterans in the military does not
always mean what people presume. Disability is a fairly subjective thing.
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And I realize that those words sound preposterous. Disability is disability, right?
You can't work. You're injured or whatever mentally, emotionally, and.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You're disabled. Except that as a practical.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Matter, over the last generation, the assigning of disability ratings
to veterans of the military is has been carried out
in a fashion that it declares disability in many situations
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where I don't know if most people would see them, right?
And I'm not speaking of folks who have, say, emotional disabilities,
which of course are real and ought to be respected.
But 36% of all living military veterans today in America
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have some degree of disability. Um, you know, the deal
is that many of those folks, um, truly do not
have what most people would consider a, a disability. Now,
total a hundred percent disability is a lot more selective.
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And those are the only individuals who are eligible for
this Monroe County exemption. Um, And again, and I'm not
saying that that's inappropriate. I'm not questioning anybody's degree of
disability or anything else. But one of the realities of
the veterans' world today is that an awful lot of
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people are considered disabled by the federal government and are
receiving disability benefits as a consequence. But these are folks who,
you know, are, for example, one of the leading things
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for which people get disability money, and this is not
the total disability folks. It's the other people who have
less than 100%. But one of the leading things for
which they get disability is sleep apnea, right? And, you know,
I don't understand, neither do I question how they you know,
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these things get awarded. You know, I respect the system
and the process. But, you know, there are an awful
lot of people in society who have sleep apnea. It
would seem, you know, because I think the first half
of the day, a lot of us can look around at,
you know, friends, passersby, people at the store and co-workers
and see the imprint of the, you know, little CPAP
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machine straps on their face. I think that there's a
lot of sleep apnea and it has nothing to do
with being in the military. Anyway, I won't go on
and on about this. I'm grateful for this exemption. It's
a very generous thing. It reflects very well on the
county executive and on the members of the legislature from
both parties.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
But there is.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Sort of a growing concern about if we have allocated,
you know, such a high percentage of disability, or rather
if we have disability among such a high percentage of
our military veterans, is it possible that in sending money
and services to people whose circumstances really aren't related to
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their military service, are we possibly shorting those, like those
with total disabilities or with clear physical or mental challenges
from their service, are we shorting them access to assets, i.e.,
are we, anyway, I'll shut my mouth because I know
that sounds terrible. Absolutely do anything to help those who
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truly deserve it, but make sure that beneficiaries.
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Truly deserve it. Take a break, get news. We'll be
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Don't forget, later on, late afternoon into the evening hour,
there could be some serious thunderstorms, particularly to the regions
south and west of Monroe County. You get down towards
the southern tier counties, it'd be more significant there. maybe
the southern half of Livingston County and Wyoming counties. Bob,
thanks for calling and holding on. Sir, you're on NewsRadio
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Speaker 4 (16:42):
Hey, Bob. I want to start by saying I'm not
a doctor, and I don't claim to know whether or
not people are disabled, but I wanted to give a
good example. There's a 55-year-old gentleman I work out with
at my community center. He can bench, deadlift, squat, clean
and press two and a quarter, and one day he
told me, this is a retired military guy, he said,
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He gets, I want to say, 15% or 20% disability.
I always assumed he was a combat veteran because he
claimed he had hearing damage.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
No, it turns out in.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
The 80s while qualifying on a rifle course, he didn't
have the proper ear protection and took some hearing damage.
And I just, I would never say it, but I
kind of always questioned whether or not maybe he was
entitled to the benefit he was getting. See ya.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
God bless you, buddy.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I appreciate you working out. Um, and here's the thing I,
you know, Bob, the guy just called, he didn't want
to say it out loud. He doesn't want to point
fingers of accusation, but I feel exactly the same way. Um, and, and,
and here's the deal. And I'm not criticizing anybody. I
think I just as I'm, I'm just catching on. Um,
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for example, the hearing loss thing, um, when you are
in the military, and I presume this is true of
all branches of the military, but at a certain point,
you have to learn how to shoot guns, which makes sense, right?
Now it's different degrees for different branches of the service.
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Marines and soldiers are going to spend a lot more
time with rifles than, say, airmen and sailors might be.
Yet they all are going to learn at least rudimentary
skills of how to use a firearm. Because theoretically, any
one of them at any time could be in a
situation where they have to use a firearm as part
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of being a GI. Well, in the 80s when I
was in, we had certain type of earplugs. And when
you were shooting your rifle, you would have these earplugs in.
And they carried a little case that was on a
little chain and you put them on your little button
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for your pocket or the buttonhole for your pocket. And
so you'd always have, oh, look, you got your ear protection.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Okay, good.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
And you put those earplugs in. And we shot a
lot of bullets and made a lot of noise and
stuff like that. And a few decades pass. And for example,
my situation is, You know, I have some hearing loss.
I'm not sure the right word. And, you know, we
have such a wonderful, you know, community in our area
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of people who have deafness and hearing impairment and such.
I don't want to, you know, by some goof accidentally
use the wrong word. But I am a little bit
of what they used to call hard of hearing. Now, um,
I have been told that why I need to go
and you can get a, you can get a check
for this. You can get a disability thing. And, you know,
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I sit there and I say, well, um, I was
in the army a long time ago and for a
little while we shot a lot of guns, but, um,
I'm also 67 years old and old people's hearing gets weak, right? Also,
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I grew up and lived in the rock and roll era,
and while I might have listened to a little more
Boston and Kansas than your Black Sabbath and Ozzy, but.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Still, even when it was John Denver.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
The volume was fairly high, okay?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Back then, we had real headphones.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I run almost every day with little ear things in.
It is true that my hearing is somewhat impaired. Is
that Uncle Sam's fault? You know, I don't think so.
You know, the likelihood is not very great.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
All right.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And in addition to those rounds sent downrange on behalf
of the United States government, you know, I might have
done some other shooting in my life as well.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Okay. Also, you know, I've shot a few deer in
my day.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
And likewise, let me just say this. Every time I
drive down the road and I see you out mowing
your lawn with hearing things on, I think you're a pansy, okay,
which is just a reflection of the culture I was
raised in, which is probably why people my age are
a little hard of hearing.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
But I resolve this issue by.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Turning the radio and the TV up and by leaning
over close to people, and if I have to, I
put my hand behind my ear. I think that I'm
a little hard of hearing, not because Uncle Sam misused me,
but because the Lord's blessed me with a few decades
of life, and I've gotten some pretty good mileage over
out of these ears and maybe the tread is wearing
a little thin. It's just part of life. Jeff, glad
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you called up, sir. Welcome to News Radio YM 1180. Hello, Bob.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Oh, hi. This is Jeff. Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I was in the Navy in the late 70s and
the mid 80s. And I got a hearing loss. I'm
getting a disability from the Navy for that. And the
reason I got hearing loss is because I slept behind
the number... And it was run by two jet engines, turbines,
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that power DC-10. And when I was sleeping at night,
that wine was constantly there.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And my hearing loss was... um, recorded throughout my Navy career.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah. That's a hundred percent legit.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
And also like, I can think just off the top
of my head, like I imagine if you're in the
Navy and say, if you were on an aircraft carrier,
there's a lot of noise there. If you're on back
when we still had them, a battleship and you're firing
off those big guns, there are a lot of, uh,
insults to the hearing that can occur in the military.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Just none of them happened to me.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Right. And, um, The other thing is the Navy, when
I was in, actually had a really good hearing protection program.
We were ordered to put hearing protection in. We had
the little hearing plug things that you're talking about. But
I just wanted to say that just because you're not...
in the war or something like that doesn't mean your
disability isn't real.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
A hundred percent. That's all I got to say. 100%. Jeff,
thanks for your service. I appreciate you. Uh, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Um, training and living, uh, in a military environment, um,
carries with it constant risk. And, uh, like, and here's
the thing in the military, like your physical body, your structural,
like your bones and your muscles and your joints and
stuff like that. Um, It's a very rigorous situation, right?
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they push you really, really hard. You have to lift
very heavy things. You have to jump off stuff and
roll around and do hard things, right? You can't just
go for a walk in the woods. You have to
have this damn 85-pound pack on your back. And those things,
though they might happen, who knows, down at Fort Dix
or you're at Fort Leonard Wood or wherever you might be,
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Lackland Air Force Base or Great Lakes in Chicago, you're
out doing those things. That's putting stress and strain on
your body, and absolutely people can receive injuries and even
impairments from that. And that is 100% legitimate military disability,
and you never have to leave your country for it.
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Just a couple of stats on that. 36% of all
living military veterans get some degree of disability payment today. 29%
of those 36% are listed as 100% disabled. There are
1.8 million military veterans in the United States who are
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listed as 100% disabled by the federal government. That works
out to approximately 10% of all the living men and
women who have ever served in our military being on 100% disability.
These just are large numbers, and that's why.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I bring it up.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yesterday, those guilty pleas relative to... the murder of, not
guilty pleas, but sentencings, rather, relative to the murder of
Sam Norquist. I'm grateful that Judge Kitty Carl has allowed
a camera in that courtroom. I'm grateful that we could see, one,
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if it's okay to say, how friggin' disgusting the convicts
are in this case, how wonderfully decent Sam's mother and
sister have been And also, I think, how strong and
human the judge has been. Seeing people helps us understand
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them better. And you had yesterday these people, the two defendants,
Precious Arzuaga, Jennifer Quijano. Arzuaga is the ringleader of this
entire scam. It initially began as a manipulation scheme. of
Sam Nordquist, presumably for sexual gratification and for welfare fraud,
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like getting his welfare money. And then, in the words
of James Nobles, who's the first assistant district attorney out there,
to the TV reporters yesterday, it became self-protection. After they
had so misused Sam.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
This.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Precious Arzuaga in the lead decided that they could not
let him go or leave because they would get in
trouble for the evil they had done him. James Noble
said that there was a text message from Precious Arzuaga
wherein she said that Sam can't be allowed to leave
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New York State alive. The sister, forgive me, I didn't
get her name, of the The gentleman killed Sam Norquist.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
The sister talked about.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
The need in the courtroom to be the adult, to
be responsible, to be measured. And I believe that she
and her mother were. And she offered a wonderful quote,
did the sister. It was hard to be next to
the devil and not turn into a demon. And yet
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she did not, neither she nor her mother. They maintained
poison dignity. They absolutely spoke powerfully about the evil done.
They accurately described what sort of total wastes these two
murderers were. But they did so with, again, a dignity
that impressed me. It seemed that Judge Kitty Carley was brought,
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if not two tears, almost two tears by what transpired here.
She spoke forcefully about the evil that these perpetrators represented
and engaged in. It was, yeah. And then you had
this Precious Arzuaga. And the deal was Precious Arzuaga seemingly
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sets up this scam, lie to Sam Nordquist came to
come here from Minnesota and then started exploiting him.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Again, I think it was a welfare thing.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
And then the deal with Jennifer Quijano is that Jennifer
Quijano had been Precious Arzuaga's lover, I think, prior to this.
And Jennifer Quijano ends up jealous of Sam Nordquist, calls
him a two-legged dog. In that, it's interesting because at
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a certain point, Sam Marcus was kept in a dog crate.
He sustained brain injuries. He had broken ribs from the
beatings that were inflicted upon him, the torture. And at
any rate, I'll shut my mouth on this except for
one last thing. Precious Arzuaga said before the court, I
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can't take back what happened. Well, the first half of
that sentence is obvious. The second half of that sentence
pisses me off, right? I can't take back. I understand that, yes,
we understand reality and the function of time and that
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things cannot be undone. Time cannot be undone. I understand
you cannot take back. But then the phrase, what happened?
Something didn't happen, you murdering bitch. You tortured him and
killed him. Right?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Something didn't happen. You did it. You are the verb.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Right? An apology is, I'm sorry for what I did.
A dodge by a monster is talking about what happened.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
What happened is a set of circumstances over which I
have no control whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
The universe doing what the universe does.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
But that's not what took place here. Something didn't happen,
you frigging fat cow. You did it. You tortured this
young person, a person who you're old enough to be
the mother of and who just as a human being
you should have had compassion for.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Instead, you are predatory. You lied to get this.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Young person out here. And then once here, you manipulated
him And then broke the heart of Sam Nordquist, broke
the body of Sam Nordquist, all for your gratification and enrichment.
That didn't happen, which you did it. And you deserve
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to burn in hell for it.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Right?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
And then here's over here, your jealous girlfriend is going
to help you out, hoping to get it back in
your good graces and your panties. So just take the
whole frigging disgusting mess and go off to the state prisons.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
I feel bad for the correctional officers who will have
to deal with either of these, Arzuaga or Kehano. And
I feel bad, to be honest with you, for the
other inmates who, listen, if these two people have acted
in this predatory and sadistic fashion against Sam Nordquist, they're
going into prison. They're going to be surrounded by people
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who I bet you dollars to donuts, they will do
nothing other than see as potential new victims. Anyway, I'll
shut my mouth. It angers me tremendously. This didn't just happen.
You did it. You're responsible for it. And here's the deal.
Usually outbursts in court are immediately gaveled down and the deputies, oh, hush, hush, hush.
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There's a lot of, we don't go for that here.
But as these two prizes unfold, were in handcuffs let
out of Kitty Carly's courtroom over there in Canandaigua, the gallery,
the people there in attendance, broke out in applause. And
I don't think they were gaveled down. I don't think
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the deputies gave them a glower. I think that that
applause that justice was being done, that these monsters were
being locked up, that applause was on behalf of everybody.
all of us in this region. At any rate, that's
the story on that. There are still cases that are open.
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Hopefully they'll be resolved shortly. One would hope that they
could be resolved likewise through plea agreements. Let's hope that
these people actually do spend the rest of their lives
in prison without parole. Dave Debo's newscast is next on
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Thanks, Doug.
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I appreciate that. And troops, like always, I appreciate you
showing up for muster. Hope all is cool and copacetic.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
On your end.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yesterday, they had the Secretary of State of New York in.
I guess that's a job or something, or you're someone's cousin.
I'm not exactly sure, but high up Democrat. Some fellow
came out, no, I'm sure Governor Hochul sent him because
she loves us that much and because we're that important
to her.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
All right.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
So anyway, Secretary of State comes for, you know, one
of those fake groundbreakings for something called the Genesee Crossroads Park.
8.2 million tax dollars about to be pissed away. The
Secretary of State, the gentleman said this will, quote, give
a financial boost to the area, close quote. with respect
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and not trying to be a naysayer, but it won't
do any such thing. If you were to come downtown
Rochester and you were to go to the Main Street Bridge, okay,
and look to the north. So we're on the Main
Street Bridge, which is a wonderful piece of history, and
(01:20):
we're going to look north. On your right hand would
be this hulking, empty, ravaged derelict of a former hotel,
all right? On your left would be the back of
a couple of buildings, including that one with the round
flying saucer on top. And if you went just a
(01:41):
little bit more to the north, you'd notice there's this
pedestrian bridge that goes kind of diagonally across the river,
makes something of a Y.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It used to be called.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
The Sister Cities Bridge because in the 60s or 70s,
some prior dumbass governor said, why don't we give Rochester
a lot of money to develop its riverfront and then
everything will be swell. So they put in the sister
cities bridge. It leads on the west side of the
Genesee to this large plaza that's kind of behind the
(02:16):
federal building, kind of behind another large, hulking, empty derelict
of a former hotel.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And it's just all been concrete and steps and supposedly
a place of social gathering. Largely, it's where homeless people
go to take a leak. At any rate, this Rock
the River way, which is going to bring new life
and vitality to Rochester, has essentially had the bridge redone.
(02:49):
And that big expanse of nothing where the concrete plaza
was has been replaced by a large expanse.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Of nothing concrete.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
We have merely taken the misguided, never turned into anything
riverfront development of a few decades back and replaced it
with the large, never going to do anything, barren concrete
riverfront development of today. There is a functional matter. There
is no utility which has been added. There is no
(03:22):
new cool thing to see. And it's just a preposterous,
you know, the emperor has new clothes kind of thing. Where, again,
years ago, they said, oh, if we put, like, we'll
put some tiered steps in here and people will gather
here for music and it'll be really swell. Only it
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never happened. They built it. The people cashed the checks
and walked away. And now a new generation arises and says,
they're simply rebuilding the failed projects which were there already.
And it is astounding that, like, is there no way
(04:04):
that City Hall could recognize this, maybe lean over to
the state and say, hey, it's so thoughtful of you to,
you know, have us on your list, and we're very,
very grateful, but I wonder if we could use this
money instead for and then suggest something that might actually
be useful. So the Secretary of State of New York,
came for the groundbreaking and big smiles and all sorts
(04:27):
of politicians were there. But with respect and not trying
to be negative, nothing will come of this because it
is nothing new and that which it is replacing and
redoing never worked in the first place. But anyway, as
a state taxpayer, you just keep doing what you're doing.
You keep putting money in and they'll keep finding ways
(04:49):
to piss it away. We, what, a couple of three
weeks ago talked about this situation where a young man
from Congo ended up dead in the gorge here in Rochester.
And the question was, man, how can you survive Congo
and then die in Rochester, right? How is it more
(05:13):
dangerous here than it was over there? Well, a great
arrest made by the major crimes investigators. And it turns
out that the victim in this matter, Munga Alocho, 22
years of age, he unfortunately shortly after midnight on August
(05:33):
16th found himself in a drug house in a dispute
with a drug dealer. And that's not going to go
very well for you. The allegation is that there was
this altercation at the drug house. Now, when, you know,
God bless this young man, Mr. Alocho, I, we were
(05:53):
grateful to see his family interviewed and we learned what
a wonderful young man he was and how he led
the choir at church. Um, and maybe it was choir
practice at midnight at the drug house or maybe something
else was going on.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Um, but, uh, and in the photographs of him on TV, um,
it's interesting. He's been wearing very expensive clothes. One of
them in front of a very expensive looking car that
may have been like a fake backdrop or something.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Um, And there's just a little bit of the appearance.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Of aspiration to having great means. And who knows? But
he's in the drug house, and it's alleged that a
43-year-old probationer by the name of Milton Simmons... By the way,
Milton Simmons.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Age 43, already a pretty good criminal career. Three prior
felony convictions, four prior misdemeanor convictions.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
At any rate.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
So there you are on probation running your drug house,
a dispute with the.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Young gentleman newly from Congo.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And the allegation is that Milton Simmons opens fire on
Emungo Olocho. And sadly, Mr. Olocho, 22, passes away. He's
shot repeatedly in the upper body. He's then put in
a garbage tote, which is apparently wheeled to the Genesee
River Trail. where Milton Simmons attempts to set it and
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its contents, the sadly deceased Mr. Locho, on fire. This,
of course, does nothing. That is an obscure evidence or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And he's discovered later that day.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And when Mr. Milton Simmons, the alleged gunman, was taken
into custody, I think day before yesterday, he was in
possession of a 40-caliber Glock with a switch that makes
it fire fully automatic, and it was loaded with a
(07:55):
30-round magazine.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Also, he was in possession of cocaine.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Which looked like it was packaged for sale. So apparently
the criminal justice system and the correction system worked very,
very well on Milton Simmons, right? He didn't seem to
have changed his ways, unfortunately. But a probationer with three
felonies and a wildly illegal gun is allegedly the person
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who took the life of this young gentleman newly from Congo.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Take a break. Back with you in a moment on
NewsRadio WHAM 1180. The midterms.
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As November nears.
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No, I don't think so. Elections do have consequences.
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County Legislature last night, you're going to hate me for this,
Monroe County Legislature last night unanimously passed a county property
tax exemption for fully disabled military veterans. And that's a wonderful,
(10:17):
generous gesture. It absolutely is. And I'm grateful to both
Republicans and Democrats for supporting it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
There's an interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Kind of deal, though, and that is that the word
disabled in regard to veterans in the military does not
always mean what people presume. Disability is a fairly subjective thing.
(10:49):
And I realize that those words sound preposterous. Disability is disability, right?
You can't work. You're injured or whatever mentally, emotionally, and.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You're disabled. Except that as a practical.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Matter, over the last generation, the assigning of disability ratings
to veterans of the military is has been carried out
in a fashion that it declares disability in many situations
(11:29):
where I don't know if most people would see them, right?
And I'm not speaking of folks who have, say, emotional disabilities,
which of course are real and ought to be respected.
But 36% of all living military veterans today in America
(11:52):
have some degree of disability. Um, you know, the deal
is that many of those folks, um, truly do not
have what most people would consider a, a disability. Now,
total a hundred percent disability is a lot more selective.
(12:12):
And those are the only individuals who are eligible for
this Monroe County exemption. Um, And again, and I'm not
saying that that's inappropriate. I'm not questioning anybody's degree of
disability or anything else. But one of the realities of
the veterans' world today is that an awful lot of
(12:36):
people are considered disabled by the federal government and are
receiving disability benefits as a consequence. But these are folks who,
you know, are, for example, one of the leading things
(12:56):
for which people get disability money, and this is not
the total disability folks. It's the other people who have
less than 100%. But one of the leading things for
which they get disability is sleep apnea, right? And, you know,
I don't understand, neither do I question how they you know,
(13:16):
these things get awarded. You know, I respect the system
and the process. But, you know, there are an awful
lot of people in society who have sleep apnea. It
would seem, you know, because I think the first half
of the day, a lot of us can look around at,
you know, friends, passersby, people at the store and co-workers
and see the imprint of the, you know, little CPAP
(13:38):
machine straps on their face. I think that there's a
lot of sleep apnea and it has nothing to do
with being in the military. Anyway, I won't go on
and on about this. I'm grateful for this exemption. It's
a very generous thing. It reflects very well on the
county executive and on the members of the legislature from
both parties.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
But there is.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Sort of a growing concern about if we have allocated,
you know, such a high percentage of disability, or rather
if we have disability among such a high percentage of
our military veterans, is it possible that in sending money
and services to people whose circumstances really aren't related to
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their military service, are we possibly shorting those, like those
with total disabilities or with clear physical or mental challenges
from their service, are we shorting them access to assets, i.e.,
are we, anyway, I'll shut my mouth because I know
that sounds terrible. Absolutely do anything to help those who
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truly deserve it, but make sure that beneficiaries.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Truly deserve it. Take a break, get news. We'll be
back after on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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The San Francisco 49ers.
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The Los Angeles Rams. Tomorrow at 8 on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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The Electric Car Corner is an automobile dealership on Route
96 just west of 332 over.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
There in Farmington. And it's very unique.
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It specializes in used electric vehicles from all manufacturers. On
its lot, they have some of everything. And on its lot,
it has a wonderful primer or entree, if you will,
to what are electric vehicles and might one be a
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a question you ought to ask yourself. The operational cost
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Football is... Hope you're having a great day.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Don't forget, later on, late afternoon into the evening hour,
there could be some serious thunderstorms, particularly to the regions
south and west of Monroe County. You get down towards
the southern tier counties, it'd be more significant there. maybe
the southern half of Livingston County and Wyoming counties. Bob,
thanks for calling and holding on. Sir, you're on NewsRadio
(16:41):
WHAM 1180.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Hey, Bob. I want to start by saying I'm not
a doctor, and I don't claim to know whether or
not people are disabled, but I wanted to give a
good example. There's a 55-year-old gentleman I work out with
at my community center. He can bench, deadlift, squat, clean
and press two and a quarter, and one day he
told me, this is a retired military guy, he said,
(17:05):
He gets, I want to say, 15% or 20% disability.
I always assumed he was a combat veteran because he
claimed he had hearing damage.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
No, it turns out in.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
The 80s while qualifying on a rifle course, he didn't
have the proper ear protection and took some hearing damage.
And I just, I would never say it, but I
kind of always questioned whether or not maybe he was
entitled to the benefit he was getting. See ya.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
God bless you, buddy.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I appreciate you working out. Um, and here's the thing I,
you know, Bob, the guy just called, he didn't want
to say it out loud. He doesn't want to point
fingers of accusation, but I feel exactly the same way. Um, and, and,
and here's the deal. And I'm not criticizing anybody. I
think I just as I'm, I'm just catching on. Um,
(17:55):
for example, the hearing loss thing, um, when you are
in the military, and I presume this is true of
all branches of the military, but at a certain point,
you have to learn how to shoot guns, which makes sense, right?
Now it's different degrees for different branches of the service.
(18:18):
Marines and soldiers are going to spend a lot more
time with rifles than, say, airmen and sailors might be.
Yet they all are going to learn at least rudimentary
skills of how to use a firearm. Because theoretically, any
one of them at any time could be in a
situation where they have to use a firearm as part
(18:40):
of being a GI. Well, in the 80s when I
was in, we had certain type of earplugs. And when
you were shooting your rifle, you would have these earplugs in.
And they carried a little case that was on a
little chain and you put them on your little button
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for your pocket or the buttonhole for your pocket. And
so you'd always have, oh, look, you got your ear protection.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Okay, good.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
And you put those earplugs in. And we shot a
lot of bullets and made a lot of noise and
stuff like that. And a few decades pass. And for example,
my situation is, You know, I have some hearing loss.
I'm not sure the right word. And, you know, we
have such a wonderful, you know, community in our area
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of people who have deafness and hearing impairment and such.
I don't want to, you know, by some goof accidentally
use the wrong word. But I am a little bit
of what they used to call hard of hearing. Now, um,
I have been told that why I need to go
and you can get a, you can get a check
for this. You can get a disability thing. And, you know,
(19:55):
I sit there and I say, well, um, I was
in the army a long time ago and for a
little while we shot a lot of guns, but, um,
I'm also 67 years old and old people's hearing gets weak, right? Also,
(20:18):
I grew up and lived in the rock and roll era,
and while I might have listened to a little more
Boston and Kansas than your Black Sabbath and Ozzy, but.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Still, even when it was John Denver.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
The volume was fairly high, okay?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Back then, we had real headphones.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I run almost every day with little ear things in.
It is true that my hearing is somewhat impaired. Is
that Uncle Sam's fault? You know, I don't think so.
You know, the likelihood is not very great.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
All right.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And in addition to those rounds sent downrange on behalf
of the United States government, you know, I might have
done some other shooting in my life as well.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Okay. Also, you know, I've shot a few deer in
my day.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
And likewise, let me just say this. Every time I
drive down the road and I see you out mowing
your lawn with hearing things on, I think you're a pansy, okay,
which is just a reflection of the culture I was
raised in, which is probably why people my age are
a little hard of hearing.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
But I resolve this issue by.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Turning the radio and the TV up and by leaning
over close to people, and if I have to, I
put my hand behind my ear. I think that I'm
a little hard of hearing, not because Uncle Sam misused me,
but because the Lord's blessed me with a few decades
of life, and I've gotten some pretty good mileage over
out of these ears and maybe the tread is wearing
a little thin. It's just part of life. Jeff, glad
(21:54):
you called up, sir. Welcome to News Radio YM 1180. Hello, Bob.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Oh, hi. This is Jeff. Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I was in the Navy in the late 70s and
the mid 80s. And I got a hearing loss. I'm
getting a disability from the Navy for that. And the
reason I got hearing loss is because I slept behind
the number... And it was run by two jet engines, turbines,
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that power DC-10. And when I was sleeping at night,
that wine was constantly there.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And my hearing loss was... um, recorded throughout my Navy career.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah. That's a hundred percent legit.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
And also like, I can think just off the top
of my head, like I imagine if you're in the
Navy and say, if you were on an aircraft carrier,
there's a lot of noise there. If you're on back
when we still had them, a battleship and you're firing
off those big guns, there are a lot of, uh,
insults to the hearing that can occur in the military.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Just none of them happened to me.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Right. And, um, The other thing is the Navy, when
I was in, actually had a really good hearing protection program.
We were ordered to put hearing protection in. We had
the little hearing plug things that you're talking about. But
I just wanted to say that just because you're not...
in the war or something like that doesn't mean your
disability isn't real.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
A hundred percent. That's all I got to say. 100%. Jeff,
thanks for your service. I appreciate you. Uh, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Um, training and living, uh, in a military environment, um,
carries with it constant risk. And, uh, like, and here's
the thing in the military, like your physical body, your structural,
like your bones and your muscles and your joints and
stuff like that. Um, It's a very rigorous situation, right?
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they push you really, really hard. You have to lift
very heavy things. You have to jump off stuff and
roll around and do hard things, right? You can't just
go for a walk in the woods. You have to
have this damn 85-pound pack on your back. And those things,
though they might happen, who knows, down at Fort Dix
or you're at Fort Leonard Wood or wherever you might be,
(24:19):
Lackland Air Force Base or Great Lakes in Chicago, you're
out doing those things. That's putting stress and strain on
your body, and absolutely people can receive injuries and even
impairments from that. And that is 100% legitimate military disability,
and you never have to leave your country for it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Take a break. Back in a moment, new topic coming
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Just a couple of stats on that. 36% of all
living military veterans get some degree of disability payment today. 29%
of those 36% are listed as 100% disabled. There are
1.8 million military veterans in the United States who are
(26:21):
listed as 100% disabled by the federal government. That works
out to approximately 10% of all the living men and
women who have ever served in our military being on 100% disability.
These just are large numbers, and that's why.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I bring it up.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yesterday, those guilty pleas relative to... the murder of, not
guilty pleas, but sentencings, rather, relative to the murder of
Sam Norquist. I'm grateful that Judge Kitty Carl has allowed
a camera in that courtroom. I'm grateful that we could see, one,
(27:02):
if it's okay to say, how friggin' disgusting the convicts
are in this case, how wonderfully decent Sam's mother and
sister have been And also, I think, how strong and
human the judge has been. Seeing people helps us understand
(27:26):
them better. And you had yesterday these people, the two defendants,
Precious Arzuaga, Jennifer Quijano. Arzuaga is the ringleader of this
entire scam. It initially began as a manipulation scheme. of
Sam Nordquist, presumably for sexual gratification and for welfare fraud,
(27:53):
like getting his welfare money. And then, in the words
of James Nobles, who's the first assistant district attorney out there,
to the TV reporters yesterday, it became self-protection. After they
had so misused Sam.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
This.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Precious Arzuaga in the lead decided that they could not
let him go or leave because they would get in
trouble for the evil they had done him. James Noble
said that there was a text message from Precious Arzuaga
wherein she said that Sam can't be allowed to leave
(28:36):
New York State alive. The sister, forgive me, I didn't
get her name, of the The gentleman killed Sam Norquist.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
The sister talked about.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
The need in the courtroom to be the adult, to
be responsible, to be measured. And I believe that she
and her mother were. And she offered a wonderful quote,
did the sister. It was hard to be next to
the devil and not turn into a demon. And yet
(29:11):
she did not, neither she nor her mother. They maintained
poison dignity. They absolutely spoke powerfully about the evil done.
They accurately described what sort of total wastes these two
murderers were. But they did so with, again, a dignity
that impressed me. It seemed that Judge Kitty Carley was brought,
(29:35):
if not two tears, almost two tears by what transpired here.
She spoke forcefully about the evil that these perpetrators represented
and engaged in. It was, yeah. And then you had
this Precious Arzuaga. And the deal was Precious Arzuaga seemingly
(29:56):
sets up this scam, lie to Sam Nordquist came to
come here from Minnesota and then started exploiting him.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Again, I think it was a welfare thing.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
And then the deal with Jennifer Quijano is that Jennifer
Quijano had been Precious Arzuaga's lover, I think, prior to this.
And Jennifer Quijano ends up jealous of Sam Nordquist, calls
him a two-legged dog. In that, it's interesting because at
(30:32):
a certain point, Sam Marcus was kept in a dog crate.
He sustained brain injuries. He had broken ribs from the
beatings that were inflicted upon him, the torture. And at
any rate, I'll shut my mouth on this except for
one last thing. Precious Arzuaga said before the court, I
(30:57):
can't take back what happened. Well, the first half of
that sentence is obvious. The second half of that sentence
pisses me off, right? I can't take back. I understand that, yes,
we understand reality and the function of time and that
(31:20):
things cannot be undone. Time cannot be undone. I understand
you cannot take back. But then the phrase, what happened?
Something didn't happen, you murdering bitch. You tortured him and
killed him. Right?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Something didn't happen. You did it. You are the verb.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Right? An apology is, I'm sorry for what I did.
A dodge by a monster is talking about what happened.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
What happened is a set of circumstances over which I
have no control whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
The universe doing what the universe does.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
But that's not what took place here. Something didn't happen,
you frigging fat cow. You did it. You tortured this
young person, a person who you're old enough to be
the mother of and who just as a human being
you should have had compassion for.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Instead, you are predatory. You lied to get this.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Young person out here. And then once here, you manipulated
him And then broke the heart of Sam Nordquist, broke
the body of Sam Nordquist, all for your gratification and enrichment.
That didn't happen, which you did it. And you deserve
(32:42):
to burn in hell for it.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Right?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
And then here's over here, your jealous girlfriend is going
to help you out, hoping to get it back in
your good graces and your panties. So just take the
whole frigging disgusting mess and go off to the state prisons.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
I feel bad for the correctional officers who will have
to deal with either of these, Arzuaga or Kehano. And
I feel bad, to be honest with you, for the
other inmates who, listen, if these two people have acted
in this predatory and sadistic fashion against Sam Nordquist, they're
going into prison. They're going to be surrounded by people
(33:20):
who I bet you dollars to donuts, they will do
nothing other than see as potential new victims. Anyway, I'll
shut my mouth. It angers me tremendously. This didn't just happen.
You did it. You're responsible for it. And here's the deal.
Usually outbursts in court are immediately gaveled down and the deputies, oh, hush, hush, hush.
(33:40):
There's a lot of, we don't go for that here.
But as these two prizes unfold, were in handcuffs let
out of Kitty Carly's courtroom over there in Canandaigua, the gallery,
the people there in attendance, broke out in applause. And
I don't think they were gaveled down. I don't think
(34:02):
the deputies gave them a glower. I think that that
applause that justice was being done, that these monsters were
being locked up, that applause was on behalf of everybody.
all of us in this region. At any rate, that's
the story on that. There are still cases that are open.
(34:25):
Hopefully they'll be resolved shortly. One would hope that they
could be resolved likewise through plea agreements. Let's hope that
these people actually do spend the rest of their lives
in prison without parole. Dave Debo's newscast is next on
NewsRadio WHAM 1180. WHAM Rochester. WAIO HD2 Honeyoy Falls. W241
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