Two Addresses and a Name

The Paper Trail, Part 3 of 7

This fall, I asked Carlos Adams a question on Facebook.

I asked if he knew a man named in bankruptcy reporting about a ranch in eastern San Diego County. His campaign account answered with four words:

"why such a question"

So I told him exactly why. I'd found his 2014 business filing on that ranch road, and the ranch company was in bankruptcy at the time. "I'm trying to understand what your connection to that property was."

He never answered. The next reply in the thread came from another account, and it called me retarded.

That's how it goes with him. I've been asking Adams straight questions since April. He's been dodging them just as long.

So start with that ranch road. Then the other address, the one that turned out to matter a lot more.

Address one: the ranch road

Adams's first business filing, in 2014, gave an address on Ivanhoe Ranch Road, a rural road outside El Cajon. He used it again on his 2015 trademark application.

That road had a story. In 2013 and 2014, a company called Ivanhoe Ranch Partners LLC went through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Trade reporting named a creditor who ran it. A federal trustee's motion in the case alleged, among other things, "use of the property for third parties." That's an accusation in a court filing, and I only have it secondhand. Nobody ruled on it.

So a young businessman lists his first business on a road where a bankrupt ranch company was fighting in court. I wanted to know if there was a connection.

What I found: the house number on Adams's notice shows up in a consultant's list of ranch buildings, but not in the county's current address map. A neighboring number was tied to the bankrupt company in 2012. And no record ties Adams to the company, its manager or its land. No lease, no payment, no shared filing.

That one's a dead end, as far as the records go. I'll tell you that straight. Adams could've told me the same thing in one sentence, and he didn't.

Address two: the house

Now the one that matters.

When Adams filed his V and V ADAMS trademarks in 2020, he gave a Yuma mailing address. The company website gives a Yuma contact address. The shipping listings for his business give a Yuma address. It's a house on a residential street. I'm not printing the street.

That house's history, from county records:

• March 2000: A deed puts it in the names of a Carlos G. Adams and his wife, as husband and wife.
• 2004: The same two names take out a home-equity loan against it, signed in Bonita, California.
• Today: The county still lists them as owners, with tax bills going to a post office box in Bonita.
• April 2026: Adams's campaign treasurer lists the same house as an address on his committee paperwork.

The candidate's trademarks are in the name Carlos Gil Adams. His campaign signature reads "Carlos G. Adams." His business mail goes to a house owned since 2000 by a Carlos G. Adams.

At first I figured that was him. Then I did the math. If Adams was 33 this June, he was 6 or 7 when that deed was signed, and the deed calls that Carlos G. Adams somebody's husband.

So it isn't him.

My opinion: the Carlos G. Adams on that deed is his father, and the woman named with him is most likely his mother. It's the family home. His business runs its mail through it. His campaign treasurer lists it. That's about as clear as it gets without a birth certificate.

I don't have a birth certificate, and I don't have a single record that names his parents. Adams does. He's been asked who his parents are. You saw his answer in Part 1: a joke about Obama and "I'm just a private citizen."

If there's nothing in his family's past worth worrying about, why not just name them?

A couple that went nowhere

A Better Business Bureau listing puts Adams Boxing at a Yuma UPS Store that rents private mailboxes, with a start date of Feb. 6, 2020. That's a directory listing. It doesn't show he rented a box there.

Somebody also pointed me to another Yuma house as a possible family address from around 2000. No Adams name shows up in its records. Dropped.

The name doesn't stop at the border

Look where that 2004 loan got signed. Bonita, just outside San Diego, half an hour from the border.

So I crossed it, on paper. In Tecate's property and court records, I found a man whose first and middle names match the trademark owner's exactly, with two last names that match a former mayor of Tecate.

That's Part 4.

The scorecard

Verified

• Adams's 2014 business notice and 2015 trademark used an Ivanhoe Ranch Road address.
• I asked Adams about it; his campaign account replied "why such a question" and didn't answer after I explained.
• Ivanhoe Ranch Partners LLC went through bankruptcy, per trade reporting.
• The 2000 deed, the 2004 loan and the current county listing for the Yuma house.
• Adams's trademarks, website and shipping listings all use Yuma addresses tied to his business, and his treasurer lists that house.
• The candidate was 6 or 7 when the deed was signed, if KAWC's age is right.

Not verified

• Any connection between Adams and the bankrupt ranch company.
• That the Carlos G. Adams on the deed is his father.
• Who his parents are.

My opinion

• The man on the deed is Adams's father, and the woman with him is most likely his mother.
• Adams knows exactly who they are and has chosen not to say.

Ask him yourself

I've asked Adams these. He dodged or didn't answer. Ask him yourself, in public, and if he answers, I'll print it.

• Who are your parents?
• Is the Carlos G. Adams who bought your trademark address in 2000 your father?
• Why does your business mail go to that house?
• Did you or your business have anything to do with Ivanhoe Ranch Partners LLC?

Next: The same name turns up in Tecate, next to a former mayor's. The Family Tree That Wouldn't Behave

Where this comes from

• Facebook exchange with Adams's campaign account, screenshot saved Oct. 2, 2026, in our research archive. It shows what was posted; it doesn't independently prove who runs each account. (The recovered file's digital fingerprint doesn't match the one our earlier notes recorded. The words on screen match those notes exactly.)
• East County Gazette notice and San Diego County index. See Part 2.
• Troubled Company Reporter, Sept. 16 and Nov. 7, 2014. Sept. 16, Nov. 7. Reporting.
• San Diego County tax-sale list (2012), a 2021 county board packet and the county's current address map. Official records.
• USPTO trademark records. See Part 2.
• Yuma County Recorder, deed 2000-07040 and deed of trust 2004-41514. Deed, deed of trust. Official records, read from copies in our archive.
• Yuma County Assessor owner and tax records. Portal. Official records.
• City of Yuma, Adams for Yuma Mayor statement of organization. PDF. Official record.
• KAWC, June 2, 2026 episode page with his age. Episode.
• BBB listing and The UPS Store Yuma page. Directory listings.
• Full details: source guide.