This thread is somewhat parallel to our Bad Day for Samurai Wannabes thread but about nunchuks. We'll see where this goes...

Bankrupt man says his life is threatened
The Press
Last updated 07:45 20/01/2010

Bankrupt moneylender Darryn Hunt treats his home like a fortress, convinced his life is threatened by investors who claim he owes them millions of dollars.

At noon on Monday, the curtains in his Rangiora home were drawn. The only view outside was through two screens linked to security cameras monitoring the back and front of the house.

The cameras were installed this month, two days after four men approached Mr Hunt's home seeking money he allegedly owed.

His wife, Ruth, called the police, who arrested two of the men for offensive language.

He said he did not sleep at night and watched the security cameras constantly, fearing for his life.

"It's been arranged and it's going to happen [an attack]," he said. "I'm worried sick about it. I can't move because I'm on bail."

Mr Hunt said four hooded figures in a white Honda Civic had made short stops outside his house, but drove away when he went to confront them, armed with his nunchaku.

Two nunchakus sit on the couple's bed, and Mr Hunt said he had a samurai sword.

"I'd do whatever I have to do to defend myself."

Mr Hunt was adjudicated bankrupt in October 2007, for the third time, on petition from an Australia- based investor claiming he was owed $4.1 million. Mr Hunt's investors included former All Blacks, Black Caps and Crusaders.

Both of his moneylending business were wound up soon after the bankruptcy, but almost no money was recovered.

In November last year, the Serious Fraud Office charged him with one count of obtaining investors' funds by deception and two of obstructing an investigation.

Since being made bankrupt, Mr Hunt said, he had moved house several times to avoid aggressive investors.

Death threats against him and his family had been made by email, post and on notes left on his car's windscreen.

He said he had been told he would be killed in prison and, in a separate threat, that his family would be chopped up and put in bodybags.

Mr Hunt and his wife are unemployed and rent their Rangiora house, living with their 16-year-old son and seven cats.
Manslaughter plea nets homeless man 25 months
By Laura McVicker
Columbian Staff Writer
Thursday, January 7, 2010

A transient was sentenced Wednesday to 25 months in prison for second-degree manslaughter.

Jeffrey R. Marshall, 31, was sentenced by Clark County Superior Court Judge John Nichols. Marshall had pleaded guilty to the charge at a Dec. 18 hearing.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed by the Vancouver Police Department, Marshall attacked an acquaintance, Benjamin J. Hernandez, at Waterworks Park on May 13, 2006, with an object, described as a lead pipe or a type of homemade nunchaku.

Hernandez suffered a jaw fracture and underwent surgery at Portland’s Legacy Emanuel Medical Center. Following the procedure, swelling in his throat caused Hernandez to suffocate.

Deputy Prosecutor Tony Golik contended his death was caused by a combination of the assault, the surgery and pain medication, and that Marshall recklessly caused his death.

Witnesses told police that Marshall, upset over a previous altercation, approached Hernandez at the park at Fourth Plain Boulevard and Fort Vancouver Way. Marshall reportedly had slung a sock filled with rocks or weights in the fashion of a nunchaku, and had knocked Hernandez to the ground, according to the affidavit.

Then, two weeks after the incident, Marshall provided details about the alleged assault to a friend. Marshall said “he got in a fight with a guy and just freaked out.” He told the friend he had used a lead pipe in the fight, the affidavit said.

Though the incident happened more than three years ago, Marshall wasn’t arrested until October because he was homeless and, therefore, difficult to track down, prosecutors said.

Marshall’s court-appointed attorney, Clark Fridley, said Wednesday his client wanted to plead guilty because “he realized that he was in an altercation with somebody and (that) they died and he wanted to take responsibility for it.”
Police Blotter is fruitful
FELONY ARRESTS • Merle Ray Ellis, 46, of Citrus Heights, was arrested by Yuba County Sheriff's Department at 6:33 p.m. Friday at North Beale Road and Woodland Drive on suspicion of possession of nunchaku. He was booked into Yuba County Jail.
FELONY ARRESTS • Daniel Lee Hatz, 41, of the 700 block of Evergreen Drive, Wheatland, was arrested by the Wheatland Police Department at 7:51 p.m. Dec. 30 at Highway 65 and Second Street on suspicion of possession of nunchaku. He was booked into Yuba County Jail.
FELONY ARRESTS • Gerardo Gonzalez, 27, of the 1800 block of Berry Road, Rio Oso, was arrested by the California Highway Patrol at 10:45 a.m. Jan. 13 at North Beale Road and Feather River Boulevard on suspicion of possession of a nunchaku. He was booked into Yuba County Jail.