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TexasTowelie

(117,050 posts)
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 02:49 AM Jun 2018

Business owner says he spread chemicals in one of Anchorage's gathering places for homeless people.

Anchorage police said Friday that they've opened an investigation after a longtime critic of city homelessness policy claimed responsibility for spreading potentially hazardous chemicals in one of the city's most popular gathering places for homeless people.

The discovery of the chemical — a type of pool cleaner, calcium hypochlorite — prompted a major response that involved at least three city agencies. Officials said that the incident generated fear and unneeded stress among the already-vulnerable people who frequent the area, as well as for workers at the nearby soup kitchen and homeless shelter that support them.

The critic, area business owner Ron Alleva, was undeterred.

Alleva said he got permission from a city employee, whom he wouldn't name, to spread the chemicals as a disinfectant, after police swept through the block Wednesday to clear out campers and loiterers.

"All that was was bleach," he said, adding: "You're not handling uranium."

Read more: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2018/06/09/a-man-says-he-spread-chemicals-in-one-of-the-citys-gathering-places-for-homeless-people-now-police-are-investigating/


Ron Alleva looks down Karluk Street on Thursday as the fire department responded to the chemicals he claimed to have spread near Bean’s Cafe and Brother Francis Shelter. (Bob Hallinen / ADN)

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Business owner says he spread chemicals in one of Anchorage's gathering places for homeless people. (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2018 OP
One of the more intelligible nazis, then. Gots vocabularty. Nice fella. byronius Jun 2018 #1
Wow, just wow irisblue Jun 2018 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #3
Wiki says: flotsam Jun 2018 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #5
He left powdered bleach flotsam Jun 2018 #6
You are right then, my bad. Deleted ... & yeah, throw the dickhead in jail ... (nt) mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #7
No need to delete flotsam Jun 2018 #8
Thanks, I appreciate your rational/informative responses as well ... already done though ... (nt) mr_lebowski Jun 2018 #9

byronius

(7,619 posts)
1. One of the more intelligible nazis, then. Gots vocabularty. Nice fella.
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 02:56 AM
Jun 2018

I'm sure he's got his reasons. And Heinrich Himmler already thought of all of them, I'll bet.

But Ron doesn't read. Sad.

irisblue

(34,326 posts)
2. Wow, just wow
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 02:57 AM
Jun 2018

From the article "Alleva, the business owner who claimed responsibility for spreading the chemicals, said it was the "best thing that happened to that area." A police investigation, he added, is a "waste of resources."

He added: "Get out there and arrest some criminals."


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flotsam

(3,268 posts)
4. Wiki says:
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 08:40 AM
Jun 2018

Short exposure could cause serious temporary or moderate residual injury

Oxidizer, allows chemicals to burn without an air supply

Danger from contact or inhalation-and here is an important point, treatment is to flush copiously with running water. Needless to say homeless people in general lack running water...

Response to flotsam (Reply #4)

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
6. He left powdered bleach
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 11:25 AM
Jun 2018

There's a photo in the story at the link. Turns out this clown is a serial harasser of the homeless-from the story:

Alleva owns a business, Grubstake Auction Co., next door. He's waged a yearslong campaign against the shelter and soup kitchen, saying they coddle homeless people who desecrate the neighborhood.

In September, Alleva and his wife and daughter staged a demonstration, standing across the street from the shelter. They erected a sign falsely claiming that the shelter was closing and sounded train horns, alarm bells and sirens."

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
9. Thanks, I appreciate your rational/informative responses as well ... already done though ... (nt)
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 12:53 PM
Jun 2018
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