John D. Sweeney, former owner of Point Buckler Island, was arrested following the sale of his land for $3.8 million at auction after a legal dispute with state water agencies.
Point Buckler Island, a private island in the Suisun Marsh once on the market for $70 Million, was sold for $3,783,270.24 to an unnamed bidder, reportedly a representative of the John Muir Land Trust.
A long-running legal dispute over the fate of a small island in San Francisco Bay ended Wednesday when Point Buckler Island was sold at auction to the John Muir Land Trust, a nonprofit ...
The court-mandated auction of Point Buckler's 50 acres of marshland on the southern edge of Grizzly Bear ended a fight for ownership between state water agencies and the island's former owner ...