Within minutes, Santiago was at my house, and I saw a cruiser from Orange County sitting at the end of my driveway. In a brief flash of levity, I thought of installing a coffee bar there since I seemed to need police protection a lot. Coffee was the least I could do. Maybe I’d invest in a thermal carafe I could hand deliver on demand.
The wisp of humor died away when Saul and four of his guys showed up just moments later. Two of them took up posts on each of my two porches with Saul setting up shop by the back door. They didn’t have rifles propped across their laps, but that was the only thing missing from making my house the second vision of the Wild West I’d seen that day. If this weren’t all so serious, I’d probably have made a t****k video about it all.
But it was serious, and when I
