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VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral who was erstwhile a certified General Motors autotech is present moving to get his beingness backmost connected way aft helium served clip successful situation following his apprehension successful Hanford 3 years ago.
Justin Nordine was arrested successful 2021 aft stealing from a CVS successful Hanford. Following his release, Justin told YourCentralValley.com helium is looking to beryllium a amended person.
"I wanted to scope retired to amusement who I truly am," helium said. "I'm a truly compassionate, generous person."
Nordine, who is primitively from Seattle successful Washington state, was connected his mode location to get surgery. At the time, helium was struggling aft being addicted to heroin for 3 years and had started utilizing methadone to footwear his heroin addiction.
Following a sojourn to Los Angeles, Nordine says helium wanted to sojourn Yosemite National Park connected the mode backmost to Seattle. That resulted successful a detour into the Central Valley - and yet being arrested successful Hanford.
Nordine says helium was deed by a conveyance and injured his ankle. That led to him stealing a conveyance to beryllium capable to get around.
"It was a mediocre decision," said Nordine.
He says his full travel to California was based connected a whim; his impromptu travel passim the authorities led to him reforming his life.
Nordine says aft his apprehension helium was successful a fewer region jails crossed the Central Valley and Northern California. He was released and paroled successful Crescent City and helium is present surviving successful Visalia, wherever his Postrelease Community Supervision is.
He says situation helped him crook his beingness around.
"It got maine healthy. I gained a clump of weight. I'm similar 185 pounds now, and I gained 40 oregon 50 pounds," helium said. "I was struggling a batch before, and I benignant of got my intelligence authorities backmost together."
Nordine is present staying astatine a sober surviving installation successful Visalia and wants to get his driver's license. After his ankle has afloat recovered, Nordine says helium wants to spell backmost to his enactment arsenic a work technician with General Motors - aft spending 4 years doing the aforesaid occupation successful Washington state.
"I utilized to enactment astatine a Cadillac dealership and I person an AA successful automotive technology. So my program is to get backmost into that field."
After being successful a rut, Nordine says he's moving to execute a steadfast equilibrium and hopes to instrumentality to his "old mean self."
