The Murderer's Daughter

Your Alternative Berkeley-Oakland Weekly

March 14, 2015

Double Murder Linked to Meth

by Fatima Card, Messenger Staff Writer

The fatal shootings, ten days ago, of two men in the posh Claremont district have been linked to a business dispute among methamphetamine traffickers, according to Berkeley PD sources. While withholding the bulk of the details, the cops are letting on that an anonymous tip led them to discover that both victims were “active participants” in the speed biz and that the murders bore the hallmarks of professional executions, possibly by Mexican gangs.

The homicides, to which there were no witnesses, went down in the guest house of a mansion on Avalina Street, a turf where violence is rare, taking the lives of the house’s registered owner, Dion Larue, 38, a building contractor whose outfit DRL-Earthmove, Inc., is rumored to have profited from hand-in-glove relationships with several politicos, including at least three Berkeley city council members. The second victim, Walter Sporn, also 38, worked for Larue as an on-site building supervisor and had been observed entering and exiting one of Larue’s current projects, an eco-rehab on Center Street, where a “significant” cache of meth was found.

None of our glorious elected officials have chosen to comment.

What a shock.