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Tuesday, April 2, 2013 ��� Daily News Obituaries James Gene Meurer Born in Dell Rapids, SD on January 17, 1936; died in Red Bluff, CA March 12, 2013. James was pre-deceased by parents Rudolph and Rosalie Meurer, brothers Richard, Dale and Ramon Meurer and sister Rosa Lee (Galantine) Quinlan. He is survived by brother Robert Meurer and sisters Marie Nixon, Patricia (Gary) Elofson, Verone Reynolds and numerous nieces and nephews. A memorial Mass will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 515 Main St., Red Bluff at 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, April 4th. Following the service, the family will have a private interment while the guests will proceed to the parish hall located at 2355 Monroe for a luncheon. Death Notices Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper���s website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Janice Brummett Janice Brummett died Monday, April 1, 2013, at her residence in Cottonwood. She was 61. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, April 2, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Mildred Trotter Macdonald Mildred Trotter Macdonald of Red Bluff died Thursday, March 28, 2013, at Red Bluff Healthcare Center. She was 87. Red Bluff Simple Cremations is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, April 2, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Jerry Pryatel Jerry Pryatel died Saturday, March 30, 2013, at his residence in Corning. He was 90. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, April 2, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. FIGHT (Continued from page 1A) ing the fight. Michele was treated and released for a contusion on her head. Richard was transported to Mercy Medical Center for further treatment of a large laceration on his arm. He was listed in stable condition. Officers learned during the altercation Lori McFadyen, 53, struck BAT (Continued from page 1A) was arrested he was found to be in possession of several fictitious $100 bills and was also arrested for possession of fictitious money. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Community Michele and at least two men on the head with a rock. Brock Beall, 26, sustained a puncture wound to his leg during the fight. Several more people involved in the fight have not yet been identified. McFadyen was booked into the Tehama County Jail for assault with a deadly weapon. Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact the Red Bluff Police Department at 527-3131. Hospital for medical clearance before being booked into Tehama County Jail on $20,000 bail. The man who struck Haase was not arrested. However the case was referred to the District Attorney���s Office for review of assault with a deadly weapon charges. meeting, which Tehama County Supervisor Burt Bundy is expected to be at, (Continued from page 1A) will also include whether or not the district can oversee boundaries. As the first step, the board the Gerber park and if the approved a $2,000 engineer- district charter will allow it. ing fee PG&E requires to do There will be discussion an official cost estimate. To of whether or not there date, about half of the 24 should be participation street lights are on, said Tom incentives for board memHumphreys, who was elect- bers. ed chairman at the meeting. With two of them coming The board will discuss the project again at its April up for election in 2014, the 18 meeting the latest on the district needs to look into issue involving the redlining ways to get people to run for of the levee by the Army the board, Humphreys said. Corps of Engineers due to Suggestions from the rodent problems. community are welcome The incident caused the and can be dropped off in the district to loose its eligibility suggestion box at the office, for federal funds under the 331 San Benito Ave., or at PL 84-99 Program, which is the meeting. a federal assistance program in case of a levee break and The Gerber-Las Flores flood, Murphy said. Community Service District Among problems identi- meets the third Thursday of fied beyond the squirrels are the month at 5:30 p.m. in the tree removals, building up district office. the side of the levee in a spot ��������� that was deemed too low and protruding pipes, he said. Julie Zeeb can be ���If we can show we���re reached at 527-2153, making an effort we can get extension 115 or back into the federally fund- jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.co ed program,��� Murphy said. m. Follow her on Twitter Discussion at the April 18 @DN_Zeeb. RATE The staff at Red Bluff Simple Cremations would like to thank all of the families who trust us with their loved ones needs. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service 527-1732 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 5A Bill seeks changes to prison realignment law SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� A Democratic state lawmaker on Monday said he wants to alter part of Gov. Jerry Brown���s prison realignment law so serious drug pushers are sent to state prisons instead of county jails. The bill by Assemblyman Ken Cooley of Sacramento would apply to those convicted of selling or transporting more than 2.2 pounds (or 1 kilogram) of heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine. It is one of numerous changes to the 2011 law proposed by lawmakers of both parties. Cooley says about 40 such offenders have begun serving their sentences in county jails statewide since the realignment law championed by the Democratic governor took effect 18 months ago. Many are serving sentences of 10 years or longer. As of last month, the California State Sheriffs��� Association found that counties were housing more than 1,100 inmates serving sentences of five years or more in jails designed for stays of a year or less. ������These county jail facilities were not set up for long-term incarceration,������ Cooley said during a news conference at Sacramento County���s Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center, about 25 miles south of Sacramento. About 43 percent of the jail���s 2,100 inmates are parole violators or convicts sent there because of realignment. The law is sending thousands of socalled lower-level offenders to county jails as a way to comply with a federal court order to reduce the state prison ������There���s a certain point where people need to be punished and their crimes need to be addressed at the state level.��� ��� Sacramento Co. District Attorney Jan Scully population. Critics say it is burdening local jails and letting some hardened criminals walk free if there is no room for them. Cooley and Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully, a Republican, said the law also has benefits, including the chance for offenders to participate in education and rehabilitation programs that are not available to them in prison. Cooley and Scully said the goal of AB222 is to fix one part of the realignment law, not end it. ������There���s a certain point where people need to be punished and their crimes need to be addressed at the state level,������ Scully said. County jails, she said, ������aren���t really able to handle that length of term, and it ends up taking away from people that actually will benefit from the services here.������ Cooley is co-authoring another realignment change with a fellow Democrat, Assemblywoman Susan Eggman of Stockton. That bill, AB601, would require parole violators to be sent back to state prison for up to a year. Under realignment, violators can be sentenced to up to six months in county jail, but many are released within days because of overcrowding. Cooley said lawmakers should also consider sending other long-term inmates to prisons instead of jails, though he stopped short of the harsh criticism leveled by Republican lawmakers who have proposed their own changes. Jeffrey Callison, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said in an email that the department and the administration do not generally comment on pending legislation. ������Any attempts to change realignment that would send more offenders to state prison must be reconciled with the federal court order to reduce prison crowding,������ he said. The realignment law has reduced the population of the state���s 33 adult prisons by about 25,000 inmates. Brown is fighting a court order that would require the state to reduce the population by about another 10,000 inmates by year���s end. California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, which represents criminal defense attorneys, said Cooley���s bill would ������chip away������ at the state���s effort to comply with the federal court ruling and improve conditions at state prisons. STATE BRIEFING Calif. law requires new warning after breast exam SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� Some California women will get more information following their routine breast examinations under a state law that is now in effect. As of Monday, women with dense breast tissue must be notified of that finding after a mammogram. Health professionals say as many as 40 percent of women over the age of 40 have dense tissue, which can make it more difficult to detect cancer. Patients with dense tissue also will be told that their doctor can recommend additional screening options. The new requirements came out of a bill from former state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed an initial proposal in 2011, but signed Simitian���s revised bill in September. Similar notification laws have been enacted in Connecticut, Texas, New York and Virginia. Sacramento high-rise death linked to graffiti SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� A man who was found dead hanging by a rope off an 18-story Sacramento high-rise appears to have been a graffiti tagger, Sacramento police said Monday. Fire Battalion Chief Marc Bentovoja said the man appears to have died accidentally of asphyxiation when he created a harness from the rope and lowered himself down the east side of the office building. ������From everything we can tell, he didn���t have any special rope rappelling equipment on, climbing equipment or anything like that,������ he said. ������He appeared to be looped into the rope.������ A police department dispatch supervisor said Monday afternoon that investigators found a can of spray paint and a tool for etching glass on the part of a balcony where the ropes were anchored. It���s unclear how long the body had been hanging four floors from the top of the nearly 240-foot building. Police and fire crews responded after receiving a call at 7:44 a.m. Monday. Rescue personnel were seen rappelling down the side of the building to check on the man, but he was already dead. The body was retrieved shortly after 9 a.m. The coroner���s office will conduct an autopsy to determine the official cause of death. It is not releasing the man���s identity until his relatives are notified. Bentovoja said the man did not appear to work for the building and investigators were reviewing building security cameras to determine how he got in. Judge rules Stockton to enter bankruptcy SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� The people of Stockton will feel financial fallout for years after a federal judge ruled Monday to let the city become the most populous in the nation to enter bankruptcy. But the case is also being watched closely because it could answer the significant question of who gets paid first by financially strapped cities ��� retirement funds or creditors. ������I don���t know whether spiked pensions can be reeled back in,������ U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein said while making the ruling. ������There are very complex and difficult questions of law that I can see out there on the horizon.������ The potential constitutional question in the Stockton case is whether federal bankruptcy law trumps a California law that says money owed to the state pension fund must be paid. In making his ruling, Klein disagreed with creditors who argued that Stockton failed to pursue all avenues for straightening out its financial affairs. ������It���s apparent to me the city would not be able to perform its obligations to its citizens on fundamental public safety as well as other basic government services without the ability to have the muscle of the contractimpairing power of federal bankruptcy law,������ Klein said. Fontana police dog injured in 2story fall FONTANA (AP) ��� A police dog sent into a home in search of a man who violated parole was thrown out a second-story window and injured, authorities said Monday. The dog landed on his head, suffered a large gash, bled through the nose and was staggering after the incident Sunday afternoon, according to a Fontana Police Department statement. A veterinarian examined the dog, named Jaris, Monday afternoon and said he had no major internal injuries. He���s taking the rest of the week off to recover and is expected to return to work the K-9 unit next week. The incident occurred when officers went to a Mango Avenue home in search of Bryan Bills, 28, who was a wanted parolee considered armed and dangerous, the statement said. After a woman at the home told them she was there alone, officers heard movement upstairs and asked for permission to INCOME TAX PREPARATION Fast, Friendly, Reasonable Fees Fee for Short or Long form includes all the tax credits and E-filing with direct Deposit. Also Bookkeeping, Payroll and Financial Services available P RALPH CAMPBELL, EA Enrolled Agent 855 Walnut St. #2 530-529-9540 search the premises. Police said the man was spotted trying to escape out a second-story window so the dog was sent rushing in. According to police, the suspect used the dog���s momentum to throw him out the open window. After a brief struggle, the man was eventually arrested. Bills was arrested and booked into jail for investigation of intentional injury to a police service dog, resisting an officer with force and parole violations. A telephone listing for him was disconnected. Arrest made in L.A. kidnapping LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A man was arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl who was snatched from her San Fernando Valley home in the middle of the night and abandoned hours later, police said Monday. Daniel Martinez, 29, was taken into custody Sunday in Northridge and booked for investigation of kidnapping. He was being held on $1 million bail. Tobias Dustin Summers, a transient with a long criminal record, was identified by authorities over the weekend as a suspect in the case. Police initially said they were looking for two suspects but noted they were focusing their efforts on Summers. A possible connection between Summers and Martinez wasn���t immediately clear. The girl was abducted around 3 a.m. Wednesday and found about 12 hours later .