Details on Forestville Triple Murder Over Marijuana Outlined

By Bay City News Service                

One of the three men who was murdered during an alleged marijuana deal at a Forestville cabin last month was selling the pot to the three  suspects who have been arrested and charged with the murders, according to  the criminal complaint filed by the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office.                 

All three murder victims packaged the marijuana for transportation out of California, according to the complaint.                  

The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office initially said Raleigh Butler,  26, a former Sonoma County resident who recently was living in Truckee,  Richard Lewin, 46, of Huntington, N.Y. and Todd Klarkowski, 42, of Boulder,  Colo., were at Butler's mother's cabin to buy marijuana on Feb. 5.             

Their bodies were found by Butler's brother in a bedroom at the  cabin on Ross Station Road on Feb. 5. An autopsy determined they died of  gunshot wounds.

In its complaint, the district attorney's office is alleging  Butler was selling the marijuana to the Mark William  Capello, 46, of Central City, Colo., Odin Dwyer, 38, of the Denver, Colo.  area and Francis Dwyer, 65, of Truth or Consequences, N.M.        

Capello and the Dwyers are charged with three homicides, burglary  and conspiracy to possess marijuana for sale and sell or transport marijuana.        

Capello is the only suspect who is charged with personally and  intentionally discharging a .45 caliber semi-automatic firearm.                    

The Dwyers also are charged with being accessories who harbored,  concealed or aided Capello to avoid and escape arrest, trial and conviction,  according to the complaint.                 

Capello and Odin Dwyer are scheduled to appear in Sonoma County Superior Court Tuesday morning. They have not yet entered pleas to the  charges.    

Francis Dwyer had not yet been extradited to Sonoma County this  morning.

According to the complaint, Capello and the Dwyers made  arrangements in Colorado to obtain marijuana in California, and one of them  obtained plastic bins to transport it.               

The three men drove in two vehicles from Colorado to California,  and Capello met Butler, Klarkowski and Lewin in Sebastopol on Feb. 4 to view  a sample of the marijuana for purchase, according to the complaint.              

It is alleged Capello armed himself with a .45-caliber pistol and  drove with Odin Dwyer to Sebastopol on Feb. 5 to meet with Klarkowski and  Lewin.         

Capello and Odin Dwyer followed Klarkowski and Lewin to the cabin  in Forestville to buy marijuana from Butler, and Odin Dwyer, Klarkowski,  Lewin and Butler packaged the marijuana for transportation, according to the  complaint.        

Capello and Odin Dwyer put the packaged marijuana inside Capello's  Ford Bronco for transportation, and Capello and Odin Dwyer met Francis Dwyer  in Santa Rosa to discuss transferring the marijuana out of California, the  complaint states.         

Capello and the Dwyers then drove to Colorado and New Mexico with  the pot obtained in Forestville, according to the complaint.             

Capello was arrested in Mobile, Ala. after a traffic stop on Feb.  14, and the Dwyers were arrested in Colorado and New Mexico on March 1.