Prosecutors are brushing up on their Bible stories now that the SCPD has identified the man who left a suspicious package outside District Attorney Bob Lee’s home.
Prosecutors are brushing up on their Bible stories now that the SCPD has identified the man who left a suspicious package outside District Attorney Bob Lee’s home. The suspect was identified as Peter Spiro Ballas, 51, of Live Oak, and he has a history of allegedly harassing public prosecutors. One public prosecutor said that in November, Ballas asked her in court whether she was familiar with the biblical story of Samuel. Later that day, when she returned to her desk, she found a book open to the story he had referenced.
She obtained a restraining order against Ballas, as did DA Bob Lee. Then on Tuesday, the bomb squad was called after Lee found a suspicious package on his car. The package turned out to be a book. That book was the Bible.
While there is no indication as to what the specific story was, it was not likely to be: “Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul.” After all, the quote continues: “But the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling” (1 Samuel 25:29). More likely it was along the lines of, “How the mighty are fallen” (2 Samuel 1:27). Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
