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Fairfax Activist Finds Love Doesn't Heal Citation and Bench Warrant

Blogger Sierra Tunafish George Salin turned himself in on $5000 bench warrant issued by El Dorado County for allegedly failing to appear for a citation and signing his name as "Love Heals."

True to his word on a blog post sent out the night before, a Fairfax activist turned himself into police Wednesday morning on a $5000 bench warrant issued by El Dorado County.

Fairfax Police Chief Chris Morin confirmed that Sierra Tunafish George Salin, turned himself in when a warrant was issued for failure to appear on a citation for expired registration stickers. He also allegedly signed a false name — "Love Heals" — on the citation.

On his San Anselmo-Fairfax Patch blog post entitled, “I’m on my way to Jail? What a lack of 1st Amendment rights and a waste of taxpayer $,” Salin argued the name he signed was legal.

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Salin also said he was aware that the warrant included extradition to El Dorado County and called the extradition a waste of taxpayer money.

“I refused to be bullied by an overzealous judicial system,” Salin wrote.

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Morin said that the options were for El Dorado County to retrieve Salin and extradite him back to that county or that Salin could make bail and get another court date.

As of Wednesday night, it appeared that Salin was no longer being held at the Marin County Jail but he did not respond to an email from Patch.

In a Marin IJ article, the El Dorado County prosecutor said that even if the signature “Love Heals” is real then the issue is why Salin didn’t show up in court. "We'll have some fun," said the prosecutor.

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