Posted on 01/19/2006 7:57:26 AM PST by SmithL
Don Bertone is not your usual problem neighbor, San Francisco authorities say. For three years, Bertone, who once worked for the city Housing Authority and ran for the Board of Supervisors in 2000, has wreaked all sorts of havoc in an otherwise quiet community in the southeastern part of the city known as Little Hollywood, officials and his neighbors said Wednesday.
Bertone, 54, doesn't just play loud music, authorities say. At all hours of the day and night, he has blasted police radio broadcasts, shrill oscillating tones, Spanish dance tunes and other noise from speakers he installed on the outside of his home at 336 Lathrop Ave. Police said they could hear the racket from 100 yards away.
Bertone isn't just a nosy neighbor, they add.
Police said he hooked up floodlights and six cameras that swept the block. Inside his home, he could monitor his neighbors' movements on four video screens.
Bertone is not merely unpleasant, authorities say.
Officers who searched his home Tuesday allegedly found a high-powered assault rifle complete with a flash suppressor, two handguns and 3,000 rounds of ammunition as well as an undisclosed "explosive device.''
Prosecutors charged Bertone with 11 felony weapons counts, two felony drug counts and two felony counts of receiving stolen property -- for two city traffic signs found in his home.
Bertone was being held without bail in connection with the alleged explosive device, although he has not yet been charged on that matter. He is to be arraigned Friday.
In a jailhouse interview, Bertone said he was the victim of a harassment campaign being waged by former neighbors, spiteful police and vengeful...
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Wonder what his FReeper name is?
Rambo for governor!
OK, my true identity has been revealed.
Changes are he is just DU'er who finally lost his mind.
Makes more sense when you get to that.
May I borrow your toys while you're in jail?
blau993. You made bail quickly.
So, he thinks if he turns the volume up enough, the "former" neighbors will hear it?
Sounds like most people in my town. What's the problem?
>>Bertone said he was the victim of a harassment campaign being waged by former neighbors<<
That's what our obnoxious neighbor says any time someone calls the police on her wild parties, noise disturbance, lack of animal control, riding her 4-wheeler on the street, or any number of disturbances.
It's always "harrassment" - never her fault for being a pain-in-the-ass neighbor.
Does anyone know what this neighborhood is actually like? Crime stats or country club?
Please stay in Sham Francisco. Please don't leave and move in next to me. Amen.
Freaking paranoid! I used to have one living in the house behind mine. Aluminum foil on all the windows, some Bible-screamer at level 10 on his stereo. He rented there for about six months, but screwed up when he poisoned his next door neighbor's dog and threatened to kill the neighbor's wife.
Rickey-tickey-tickey...off to the funny hospital he went.
Yeah, most neighbors like it better when you poison the wife and just threaten the dog.
I don't think there is a DU'er in the world who has a mind in the first place.
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