Jeffrey Alan Lash

[Luther Blissett]

July 1998 quotes from Nebron and ex-husband Phillip Gorin. They owned 14 storefronts along East Main Street in Ventura at the time.

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jul/29/local/me-8168

[Hunter]

The only heads or tails I can make off it is she was rich and a dumbass and he swindled her and spent her money to horde all sorts of shit and conned her with his cia stories, OR he was telling the truth. The one thing I want to know was how much money she made and was she paying for everything. Its possible he used her money to buy himself all those guns, one at a time here and there at gunshows, they were together 17 years.

[Wombaticus Rex]

Its possible he used her money to buy himself all those guns, one at a time here and there at gunshows, they were together 17 years.

That's at least one gun purchase every 5 days, though, innit?

17 x 365 = 6205 ... 6205 / 1200 = 5.2

Scale. I'm unattached to the assumption that the inventory was even his.

[Luther Blissett]

A websleuth made a good point - in a litigious city like LA, a property owner like Nebron would ping at least a few times in some kind of public record for at least something, but after '98, after meeting Lash, there is nothing.

Plus, shaving off one's own fingerprints and having your academic records scrubbed is fairly extreme.

[Hunter]

Who shaved off their fingerprints, she did?? I missed that.

[Hunter]

Its possible he used her money to buy himself all those guns, one at a time here and there at gunshows, they were together 17 years.

That's at least one gun purchase every 5 days, though, innit?

17 x 365 = 6205 ... 6205 / 1200 = 5.2

Scale. I'm unattached to the assumption that the inventory was even his.

Yes good point, I am of course grasping at straws here.


It is probably safe not to be too attached to any theory right now with these characters.

How did Dawn Marie get this family to ADOPT HER at 39 YEARS OLD? That is awfully strange too. She sounds like a real con artist HERSELF.

[Hunter]

She manages 14 properties in LA and there is no public record of her anywhere, yea, that is unusual.

[Hunter]

Do we know Lash or her ages, how old are they?

[Luther Blissett]

Lash shaved off his own fingerprints, or some agency did. Or he's an extraterrestrial and doesn't have them.

Dawn Marie was adopted by the VadBunkers at age 39. Laura VadBunker is her stepmother. It's speculated that this was done for inheritance reasons, and adult adoption is on the rise in the U.S. Laura VadBunker is the SOLE SOURCE of the human-extraterrestrial hypothesis, we cannot forget that. No one else has said that, though I believe Braun may have discussed it with the media or detectives.

Lash was 60, I believe Nebron is 54.

[8bitagent]

We need Ray, Ani and Paul from the new True Detective season on this case.

Or 2016 Mulder and Scully

[PufPuf93]

Dawn Vadbunker was Dawn Marie Hannon before the 2014 adult adoption.

Despite contrary reports, I am not totally convinced that Dawn and Ms. Nebron are separate people. Note the again 17 years in her bio as a surf ambassador. Jim Curry could have been fooled about having met Ms. Nebron, Dawn could have introduced anyone as Nebron. Dawn Vadbunker seems pretty skilled at compartmentalizing her life and manipulating folks to suspend normal accepted reality.

I kind of hope that Smith / Lash is a hybrid. Coast to Coast would make more sense then.

Recall Dawn is surf gypsy on facebook.

From Newfsurfboardnet:

Dawn spent 17 years in California always at the beach, camping, swimming and kayaking. On her 35th birthday she received her first 8’0” foamy from Costco, borrowed a wet suit from a friend and she was hooked.

She then sold all her kayaks and got her first “real board” a 9’0” Clayde Beaty Junior. Then later went on to collect over 30 surfboards. She started going to Dawn Patrol and studied under a long board champ. A Vietnam War Veteran loaned her a 9’6” custom classic “Wayne Rich”.surfboard. She rode her first wave on the board and she knew she had to have the board.

In December 2012, she had some life changes and knew she had to think outside of the box. She went and bought a 1978 Jamberee (AKA: Surf Shack), donated almost all her boards to charity but two (9’6” Wayne Rich & 6’0” Hoyte Fish) and moved into her RV. Now she is enjoying being a California State Park Camp Host camping, surfing and visiting with friends. Everyday is a camping/surfing blessing and expresses that “anything is possible if you try hard enough”.

http://newfsurfboardnet.com/ambassadors/dawn-hannon/

Dawn Hannon has a still valid CA Real Estate License and was with a Ventura Real Estate Firm (Homes by Cecil).

STATE OF CALIFORNIA
BUREAU OF REAL ESTATE

The license information shown below represents public information taken from the Bureau of Real Estate(CalBRE) database at the time of your inquiry. It will not reflect pending changes which are being reviewed for subsequent database updating. Also, the license information provided includes formal administrative actions that have been taken against licensees pursuant to the Business and Professions Code and/or the Administrative Procedure Act. All of the information displayed is public information. Although the business and mailing addresses of real estate licensees are included, this information is not intended for mass mailing purposes.

License information taken from records of the Bureau of Real Estate on 7/24/2015 4:00:11 PM

License Type:
SALESPERSON


Name:
Hannon, Dawn Marie


Mailing Address:
2659 E HARBOR BLVD
VENTURA, CA 93001


License ID:
01829222


Expiration Date:
10/14/15


License Status:
LICENSED NBA


Salesperson License Issued:
10/15/07


Former Name(s):
NO FORMER NAMES


Employing Broker:
NO CURRENT EMPLOYING BROKER


Comment:
NO DISCIPLINARY ACTION


NO OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS


>>>> Public information request complete <<<<

http://www2.dre.ca.gov/PublicASP/pplinf ... d=01829222

[divideandconquer]

Joseph Jerry Lash's Obituary:

Lash, Joseph Jerry May 9, 1922 - September 11, 2010

Joseph Jerry Lash was born on May 9, 1922 in Chicago, Ill. He passed away on Sept. 11, 2010 in Venice, CA. He is predeceased by his wife Mary. He is survived by his life partner Shirley Anderson, her family and son Jeff. Jerry graduated from Manual Arts High School in 1939. During WWII Jerry served in the US Navy as an Aviation Cadet. He attended UCLA studying microbiology and chemistry and earned his AB degree in 1948. While working on his PHD, Jerry also worked as a senior research associate and technologist for the Urologist Dr. Elmer Belt. His research during this time resulted in many published articles. Jerry established Research Associates Laboratories in 1951 and functioned as its Board-Certified (ABB) High Complexity Laboratory Director for the next 30 years. Jerry's passion for his field of work led him to continue his career when most others would have retired. He spent his final years working as an Examiner for the State of CA Dept. of Public Health: Laboratory Field Services in Los Angeles. Jerry particularly loved serving as an expert witness for the Dept. of Justice administrative hearings into fraudulent activity. Jerry was a member of many professional organizations including the California Association of Bioanalysts. We wish all friends and family to celebrate Jerry's love of family, friends, colleagues and his passion for his career.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latime ... 145736085&

[elfismiles]

Local (VIDEO)
Mystery Surrounding Man’s Body, Weapons Cache, Missing Fiancee Stuff Of Movie Plot
July 23, 2015 11:00 PM

LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — The body of a mystery man was decomposing in his car in the ritzy Pacific Palisades neighborhood for nearly two weeks before he was found by authorities, an attorney said.
Inside his home, detectives discovered more than 1,200 guns, scopes, 6.5 tons of ammunition, bows and arrows, knives, machetes and $230,000 in cash after he was found on Friday. Residents of the townhome complex where the man lived were evacuated Saturday as investigators removed the weapons and ammunition.
They also located eight of the 14 vehicles stashed around Los Angeles registered to the man, including an SUV designed to drive underwater.
Who he was and how he came to accumulate the arsenal and vehicles are questions authorities are still trying to answer.
Veteran defense attorney Harland Braun represents the man’s fiancee Catherine Nebron and identified him as Jeffrey Alan Lash.
attorney Mystery Surrounding Mans Body, Weapons Cache, Missing Fiancee Stuff Of Movie Plot
That’s also the name authorities are working with and they’re in touch with a relative to try to officially identify the body, said Craig Harvey, the coroner’s chief of investigations.
Lash and Nebron were together for 17 years and she believed him when he told her that he worked as an undercover operative for unnamed government agencies, Braun said Wednesday.
“The story itself sounds totally crazy but then how do you explain all this?” Braun said. “There’s no evidence he was a drug dealer or he stole these weapons, or had any criminal source of income, no stolen property, all the stuff you’d look for.”
There’s no indication the man was doing anything illegal with the weapons, LAPD Deputy Chief of Detectives Kirk Albanese said. Detectives were reviewing everything, but so far the guns appeared to be registered to him. Many were still in boxes or had price tags.
Braun said Nebron and two friends were in a car at a supermarket early July 4, when Lash felt hot and had trouble breathing.
“He wouldn’t go to a hospital and didn’t want any 911 call,” Braun said. When he died, Nebron parked him in a car down the street from the condo they shared, the lawyer said.
Authorities don’t believe there was any foul play involved, but won’t give a cause until there is more investigation.
Lash told Nebron the government agencies would take care of his body and the items in the home.
“He knew he was dying, he had been dying for a year, so he told her: ‘The body will be taken care of by my people … ‘ ” according to Braun.
Meanwhile, Nebron took off on a road trip to Oregon with a woman, Dawn VadBunker, whose family reporter he missing a couple weeks ago. Police have confirmed VadBunker was found in Oregon and is safe.
When Nebron returned 10 days after leaving for her trip she was shocked to still see Lash’s body in the car.
She contacted Braun, and together they called police, who found the body, guns and other belongings: “There’s no charges. She just didn’t know how to approach the police and so she came to me and we reported it to the police…”
Neighbors thought Lash was dying of cancer because his health appeared to be degenerating over the past year, but Lash told Nebron that he had been exposed to nerve-damaging chemicals on a mission and his condition was worsening.
Braun says his client will be speaking with the LAPD next week.
As for Lash’s cash, Braun says he still has no idea where it came from.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/07/ ... f-weapons/

[PufPuf93]

‘He Could Have Been Working for Anyone,’ Attorney Says of Mystery Man With Palisades Weapons Cache


Photos and videos at link.


http://ktla.com/2015/07/23/jeffrey-alan ... ons-cache/



The mystery around a Los Angeles man whose decomposing body was found in an SUV near a home filled with 1,200 guns, tons of ammunition and $230,000 in cash was only deepening Thursday.

Attorney Robert Rentzer provided KTLA with this photo, which he said showed Jeffrey Lash in driver's license issued in 1996.
Attorney Robert Rentzer provided KTLA with this photo, which he said showed Jeffrey Lash in a driver’s license issued in 1996.

Identified by an attorney for his fiancée as Jeffrey Alan Lash, 60, the man apparently acted secretively for years, never explaining to those around him exactly what he did for a living.

When he died in early July after collapsing in a Santa Monica grocery store parking lot, Lash refused to go to a hospital or let anyone call 911, celebrity defense attorney Harlan Braun said in an interview with KTLA Wednesday evening.

Braun represents Lash’s fiancée, Catherine Nebron, who fled to Oregon with an employee after leaving Lash’s body parked in an SUV outside her home in the Palisades Highlands development of upscale Pacific Palisades. The disappearance of that employee, 39-year-old Dawn VadBunker, in turn prompted a missing person investigation from Oxnard police. VadBunker was found safe in Oregon, but has not contacted her family, her mother said.

VadBunker believes that Lash is an alien-human hybrid who was sent to Earth to protect the world, her mother told KTLA.

Dawn VadBunker hadn't been seen or heard from since July 4, 2015, her family said. She was found in Oregon July 15, 2015.
Dawn VadBunker hadn’t been seen or heard from since July 4, 2015, her family said. She was found in Oregon July 15, 2015.

“It’s worse than a ‘Twilight Zone’ movie, and we’ve lived through hell,” Laura VadBunker said.

Meanwhile, Nebron returned to her home and was horrified to find the body of a man she had been with for 17 years still in the parked vehicle, Braun said. She contacted Braun with her story, asking him to call police on her behalf.

Lash had told Nebron that the “undercover government agencies” he worked for would take care of his body after he died, according to Braun.

“It’s a very strange situation. She still believes it, to her core, that he was working for some government agency,” Braun said. “These stories sound so crazy, and every time we turn around, we get corroboration for it.”

Braun called police, who found the body. Then, in Nebron’s home, they found a weapons cache she had described: more than 1,200 firearms and about 6 1/2 tons of ammunition, according to Braun.

A SUV is at the scene where a dead body was found July 17, 2015, in a vehicle in Pacific Palisades. (Credit: Peter Branch/Palisadian-Post)
A SUV is at the scene where a dead body was found July 17, 2015, in a vehicle in Pacific Palisades. (Credit: Peter Branch/Palisadian-Post)

The guns were worth $5 million, Braun said. Some $230,000 in cash was also found in the home, according to the attorney.

The Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed finding the body, weapons and ammunition on July 17. The county coroner’s office was still not able to provide the identity of the deceased man as of Thursday.

Lash’s father’s domestic partner, 93-year-old Shirley Anderson, told KTLA that she and her partner never knew where Lash lived or had any way to get in touch with him. When Lash’s father was dying, Anderson said she was unable to contact Lash, who never came to the funeral.

Lash’s father and Anderson only saw Lash when he randomly appeared at their home. They last saw him in 2010, Anderson said.

Anderson told the Los Angeles Times that Lash had grown up in a modest neighborhood in Westchester with a pianist mother and microbiologist father who owned a medical laboratory. Lash dropped out of UCLA in the mid-1980s and had was a “loner,” Anderson told the newspaper.

Peter Branch of the Palisadian-Post provided this image of authorities searching the Pacific Palisades home of Jeffery Lash.
Peter Branch of the Palisadian-Post provided this image of authorities searching the Pacific Palisades home of Jeffery Lash.

Anderson said she was unaware of any independent wealth that would allow Lash to purchase millions of dollars in weaponry.

An attorney who represented Lash in 2009 also called his client’s behavior strange. Lash was charged with misdemeanor possession of a concealed weapon after being stopped by Culver City police, according to court documents. Because Lash had the ammunition and firearms in his vehicle properly stowed, the case was dropped, the attorney said.

Lash refused to give any contact information to the law firm, and would call once per day to get an update on the case, according to the lawyer.

A third lawyer, Robert Rentzer, told KTLA he had represented Lash for nearly 20 years, often in connection with his client’s firearms. Lash was simply a gun collector and very private man, Rentzer said.

“A lot of people would call him odd because of his overwhelming desire for privacy,” Rentzer said at his Tarzana office. “Some people considered him a little weird.”

A closeup shows a list attorney Robert Rentzer said was written by Jeffrey Lash in 1991, itemizing guns that were stolen from him. (Credit: KTLA)
A closeup shows a list attorney Robert Rentzer said was written by Jeffrey Lash in 1991, itemizing guns that were stolen from him. (Credit: KTLA)

But Rentzer called the belief that Lash was a secret agent or an alien “laughable.”

Nonetheless, he said he didn’t know what Lash did for a living or how he afforded his extensive gun collection.

“I knew him to have this … fetish for guns, to an excess. I don’t know anybody who would have that inordinate number of weapons,” Rentzer said. “And the collection only increased and increased.”

Rentzer was surprised by the cash that was found in the home, as well as by the massive amount of ammunition.

“I do not know that he ever, ever, ever fired any of his guns. Never,” Rentzer said. “He took pride in how they were maintained.”

The attorney showed a note Lash had hand-written listing many of his guns and provided a grainy, black-and-white photo of Lash that he said was from a driver’s license issued in 1996.

He would have been 42 when the license was issued, and Lash looks rather young in the photo. Nonetheless, the image “looks very much like I remember Jeff to look like,” Rentzer said.

Attorney Robert Rentzer on July 23, 2015, holds a list he said was written by Jeffrey Lash itemizing his stolen guns. (Credit: KTLA)
Attorney Robert Rentzer on July 23, 2015, holds a list he said was written by Jeffrey Lash itemizing his stolen guns. (Credit: KTLA)

Braun said he too didn’t know who Lash actually worked for. He said there was no evidence the man was selling guns or drugs.

“He could have been working for anyone,” Braun said. “It’s hard to imagine, however, that it’s a total figment of his imagination because there is so much money involved. There’s almost $5 million worth of guns that were taken by the police.”

Photos from the scene of the police search show dozens and dozens of boxes of ammunition, a cash counter with thousands of dollars stacked nearby, and many piles of rifles and specialized firearms.

Several storage units remained to be searched, Braun said. He had heard that there were at least four heavily modified Toyota SUVs ready for combat and able to operate in various types of terrain, including in the desert and even underwater.

“If we find a car designed to go underwater, that’s really bizarre,” Braun said. “The real problem is if he was working for a government agency, American or foreign, they would never corroborate it.”

[PufPuf93]

Mystery deepens around Los Angeles man found decomposing in SUV

Photos and video at link:

http://pix11.com/2015/07/23/mystery-dee ... ng-in-suv/

The mystery around a Los Angeles man whose decomposing body was found in an SUV near a home filled with 1,200 guns, tons of ammunition and $230,000 in cash was only deepening Thursday, KTLA reports.

Identified by an attorney for his fiancée as Jeffrey Alan Lash, 60, the man apparently acted secretively for years, never explaining to those around him exactly what he did for a living.

When he died in early July after collapsing in a Santa Monica grocery store parking lot, Lash refused to go to a hospital or let anyone call 911, celebrity defense attorney Harlan Braun said in an interview with KTLA Wednesday evening.

Braun represents Lash’s fiancée, Catherine Nebron, who fled to Oregon with an employee after leaving Lash’s body parked in an SUV outside her home in the Palisades Highlands development of upscale Pacific Palisades. The disappearance of that employee, 39-year-old Dawn VadBunker, in turn prompted a missing person investigation from Oxnard police. VadBunker was found safe in Oregon, but has not contacted her family, her mother said.

VadBunker believes that Lash is an alien-human hybrid who was sent to Earth to protect the world, her mother told KTLA.

“It’s worse than a ‘Twilight Zone’ movie, and we’ve lived through hell,” Laura VadBunker said.

Meanwhile, Nebron returned to her home and was horrified to find the body of a man she had been with for 17 years still in the parked vehicle, Braun said. She contacted Braun with her story, asking him to call police on her behalf.

Lash had told Nebron that the “undercover government agencies” he worked for would take care of his body after he died, according to Braun.

“It’s a very strange situation. She still believes it, to her core, that he was working for some government agency,” Braun said. “These stories sound so crazy, and every time we turn around, we get corroboration for it.”

Braun called police, who found the body. Then, in Nebron’s home, they found a weapons cache she had described: more than 1,200 firearms and about 6 1/2 tons of ammunition, according to Braun.

The guns were worth $5 million, Braun said. Some $230,000 in cash was also found in the home, according to the attorney.

The Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed finding the body, weapons and ammunition on July 17. The county coroner’s office was still not able to provide the identity of the deceased man as of Thursday.

Lash’s father’s domestic partner, 93-year-old Shirley Anderson, told KTLA that she and her partner never knew where Lash lived or had any way to get in touch with him. When Lash’s father was dying, Anderson said she was unable to contact Lash, who never came to the funeral.

Anderson told the Los Angeles Times that Lash had grown up in a modest neighborhood in Westchester with a pianist mother and microbiologist father who owned a medical laboratory. Lash dropped out of UCLA in the mid-1980s and was a “loner,” Anderson told the newspaper.

Anderson said she was unaware of any independent wealth that would allow Lash to purchase millions of dollars in weaponry.

An attorney who represented Lash in 2009 also called his client’s behavior strange. Lash was charged with misdemeanor possession of a concealed weapon after being stopped by Culver City police, according to court documents. Because Lash had the ammunition and firearms in his vehicle properly stowed, the case was dropped, the attorney said.

Lash refused to give any contact information to the law firm, and would call once per day to get an update on the case, according to the lawyer.

Braun said he didn’t know who Lash actually worked for. He said there was no evidence the man was selling guns or drugs.

“He could have been working for anyone,” Braun said. “It’s hard to imagine, however, that it’s a total figment of his imagination because there is so much money involved. There’s almost $5 million worth of guns that were taken by the police.”

Photos from the scene of the police search show dozens and dozens of boxes of ammunition, a cash counter with thousands of dollars stacked nearby, and many piles of rifles and specialized firearms.

Several storage units remained to be searched, Braun said. He had heard that there were at least four heavily modified Toyota SUVs ready for combat and able to operate in various types of terrain, including in the desert and even underwater.

“If we find a car designed to go underwater, that’s really bizarre,” Braun said. “The real problem is if he was working for a government agency, American or foreign, they would never corroborate it.”