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The hotel has been a good home, Balu said he is confident that its managers would be reluctant to ask him to leave if they ever learned of his criminal past.
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Maps from the state’s sex offender Web site show clusters of blue dots in downtrodden neighborhoods, while the same dots merely pepper more exclusive ZIP codes.īut in Balu’s case, his family can afford the luxuries of the Marriott, complete with room-service club sandwiches, late-afternoon dips in the heated pool, and free DSL for his laptop. Most parolees find quarter only in the pitiful environs they typically can afford - flophouses, trailer parks, run-down motels. It’s uncommon for newly released sex offenders to live so high on the hog. In the meantime, he moved into the Courtyard Marriott at 988 Broadway and registered it as his new address, as required by state law. While residents didn’t exactly picket outside his parents’ home, Balu said the neighbors harassed the state’s Department of Corrections until the agency agreed to investigate the dilemma. While he awaits a retrial that he believes will fully exonerate him - his original rape conviction already was overturned - news of his move into Montclair shook the hillside hamlet nonetheless.
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That earned his mugshot a place on the Megan’s Law Web site. He was on the lam, he said, taking cover from his deep-pocketed neighbors in the Montclair district.įive months ago, Balu was released from prison on a charge of forced oral copulation. As of last Thursday, the 34-year-old former Cal student had been living in the kingsize pad overlooking Broadway for sixteen days at $170 a night. Such is life at the Courtyard Marriott, one of downtown Oakland’s swankier hotels. “When I come back from the swimming pool, it’ll be cleaned up and taken care of,” he said. The move was not deliberate, but still, Balu declined to clean the mess. Arvind Balu flicked ash from his filterless Camel cigarette onto the carpeted floor of his hotel room.