Suspect in beating of Bryan Stow was a gang member on parole

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CNN reports that 31-year-old Giovanni Ramirez, who was arrested Sunday morning and charged with beating Giants fan Bryan Stow at a Dodgers baseball game, was a member of the Varrio Nuevo Estrada street gang and was on parole. Varrio Nuevo Estrada is "one of 34 gangs in a 15-square-mile area east of downtown Los Angeles, said Jose Carrillo, the lead detective in the case." Also according to Carrillo, "Ramirez was convicted of attempted robbery in 1998, robbery in 1999, and firing a weapon in public in 2005."

Wow. Had this fool served a lengthy prison sentence over the 1999 robbery or 2005 shooting conviction, he wouldn't have been around to beat up Bryan Stow.

Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn also had to post $1 million in bail after being arrested for raping a hotel maid in New York City. This gets me thinking: what kind of crimes necessitate that kind of amount? From this one charge of assault with a deadly weapon, the judge set bail at one million dollars.
- Arthur Lee Clark, Jr. has been in jail since December 2009 for vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run charges totaling a milli.
- Since December 2010, Thomas Jewell was held on $5.8 million bail for 49 felony counts of child molestation and child pornography possession. That's about $100k per count - hmm, why would sexual crimes be worth less in bail than violent crimes?

There are still two more suspects on the run in the Stow case.