Wikipedia is booming with facts about Stevinson, California. Stevinson is located in Merced County, a county that is home to a Federal Prison, where the famous Auburn Calloway is locked up and serving his time for hijacking FedEx Flight 705, where he tried to take make $2.5 million in life insurance by crashing the plane and making it look like an accident, all the while leaving the crew paralyzed and unable to fly professionally.
Another inmate at the Federal Prison in Merced County? You guessed it, James Marcello. The movie Casino tries to portray Marcello's Family Secrets Trial murders (the one in the end with Joe Pesci and his brothers in the fields getting bludgeoned).
