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Saturday, August 24, 2013 – Daily News 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. Daniel Horner Daniel Horner, of Chico, died Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 in Chico. He was 76. Affordable Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. CITY Continued from page 1A the General Fund would be around $120,000 at that point. The General Fund will take an additional $44,619 hit for the next three years following the council approving the police department vehicle leases. Planning Director Scot Timboe said additional General Fund revenues should be on their way in the coming years as a new Auto Zone is being built and Walmart continues to submit site improvement plans for its SuperCenter project. Timboe said the new Walmart could be open by as early as late 2014 and that estimates are the city would receive a tax revenue bump that it is losing to shoppers who use the store's Anderson location. The council also approved a department reorganization that is expected to save the city around $80,000 annually. The City Council did take one step toward acknowledging a larger reserve is needed. It approved an updated policy that calls for the city to maintain a minimum general fund reserve for contingencies equal to PAIR Continued from page 1A jumped into the getaway vehicle and drove off, defying orders from the police. Officers put out a vehicle description, direction of travel and a partial license plate over the radio. 2 charged with growing pot in Lassen SACRAMENTO — A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Cathedral City residents Antonio Perez-Cardenas, 35, and Jose Luis BarriosRodriguez, 25, with conspiring to cultivate marijuana and cultivating marijuana, US Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced. According to court documents, Perez-Cardenas and BarriosRodriguez were working in a mari10 percent of total general fund annual expenditures and another 5 percent for economic uncertainties. Ryan said that combined 15 percent would close to the 2-month recommendation and could act as a realistic goal for the city to achieve. Railroad work The council authorized a supplemental budget appropriation of $8,000 to fund repair work at a series of railroad crossings across the city. The funding will come out of the city's Transportation Fund. The work is similar in scope to that being done at various railroad crossings The vehicle was then stopped at USA Gas on Antelope Boulevard. At that point Brewer and Coleman were arrested. During a search of the vehicle officers found narcotic paraphernalia and a small amount of heroin. Walmart employees recovered all of the stolen property that Brewer had left at the store. It was determined he had used juana garden in the Biscar Wildlife Area that is administered by the Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management. More than 12,000 plants were identified and eradicated. This case is the product of an investigation by the Bureau of Land Management, California Department of Fish and Game, Lassen County Sheriff's Office, and North State Marijuana Investigative Team. across the county with the past month. Union Pacific Railroad is upgrading the rail bed, rails and crossing area at six locations within the city. Those locations are Oak, Walnut, Cedar, Crittenden, Breckenridge and Walton streets. It's the city's responsibility to smooth the roadway following the railroad's work. Public Works Director Bruce Henz said he did not have a schedule of when the work will be done, but anticipated it will likely be in September. the knife to remove merchandise from its packaging and never threatened anybody with it. Brewer was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of narcotic paraphernalia, resisting a police investigation and petty theft. Coleman was charged with misdemeanor obstruction. Her bail was $5,000. Mental hospitals exec investigated LOS ANGELES (AP) — An executive hired to overhaul California's troubled state mental hospitals is under investigation for alleged sexual harassment, it was reported. Two subordinates filed complaints of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination against Kathy Gaither last month, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday, citing two independent persons with firsthand knowledge of the matter. They asked not to be identified because they said they feared retribution, the Times said. According to them, Gaither is under investigation by Shaw Valenza, a Northern California law firm that says it has conducted probes for state agencies in the past. Gaither was hired two years ago as chief deputy director of the Department of State Hospitals. She was placed on paid administrative leave on July 15, shortly after the state Senate confirmed her permanent appointment. The department's acting director, Cliff Allenby, has said only that the extended leave was prompted by ''unforeseen circumstances.'' Department spokesman Ken Paglia had no immediate comment Friday but said one might be issued later. A call to a phone number listed for a Kathryn Gaither in suburban Sacramento was not immediately returned. The paper said that shortly after her Senate confirmation, the hospital department relayed a subordinate's complaint to the Health and Human Services Agency. The second complaint followed soon after, the Times said. Gaither handled dayto-day operations of the state's mental hospitals at a time when employee morale was low because of attacks by patients, one of them fatal. The department also is dealing with budget problems and emerging from years of federal oversight of some hospitals. She slashed jobs and programs to deal with a nearly $200 million budget gap and has been criticized for an aggressive management style, the Times said. A high-level staff member filed a complaint to Allenby and other officials last December contending that Gaither had ''disrespectful bullying communication'' with key department leaders and had a pattern of rude, disrespectful and punitive treatment of subordinates, according to a copy reviewed by the Times. More than a dozen members of Gaither's management team have left since Gaither arrived, the paper said. Vegas case seen to show 'sovereign citizen' threat LAS VEGAS (AP) — A foiled plot by two selfproclaimed adherents of a sovereign citizen movement to kidnap and execute Las Vegas police officers shows the potential for violence from a growing group that renounces government and is considered a domestic terror group at its extremes, experts and investigators said Friday. Allegations that David Allen Brutsche, 42, and Devon Campbell Newman, 67, planned to confront police officers during traffic stops and kill them if they resisted illustrated the volatility of official interactions with people committed to the idea of fighting governmental authority, they said. ''You look at their motivation being that the government that gives the officer authority isn't viable, and if they get a following, it's a threat to be reckoned with,'' said Kory Flowers, a Greensboro, N.C., police detective who studies sovereign citizen groups and teaches police about them. ''Even if it's a crackpot idea, four or five guys can be a tactical assault team,'' he said. Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., counted seven killings of law enforcement officers by alleged sovereign citizen members in the past 10 years in South Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas and last year in Alamo, Calif. Other officers have been served with ''paper terrorism'' arrest documents and bills for millions of dollars, Beirich said, or discovered liens filed against their personal property. ''It becomes, at the end of the day, 'We hate the government, and the government has no right to tell us what to do,''' Beirich said. The center estimates there are 300,000 adherents to the sovereign citizen anti-government philosophy around the country. Former West Memphis, Ark., Police Chief Bob Paudert thinks there may be twice that number. Paudert blames the 2010 death of his son, West Memphis Police Sgt. Brandon Paudert, on a sovereign citizens confrontation during a traffic stop in their hometown. Another officer also died in that shooting, before suspected sovereign citizen followers Jerry Kane and his 16-year-old son, Joe Kane, were killed a short time later in a separate police shootout in 9A West Memphis. ''They're willing to die for their beliefs,'' said Paudert, who now travels the country talking about the group. Brutsche is an ex-felon child sex offender who sometimes sold water to tourists on the Las Vegas Strip, while Newman has only speeding, parking and vehicle registration tickets in her background. The two stood before a judge Friday and told him they didn't recognize his authority to keep them in jail. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Conrad Hafen had none of it. ''So noted,'' he responded. The judge made sure Brutsche and Newman read the criminal complaints against them, then sent them back to jail pending a Sept. 9 preliminary hearing on charges of felony conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and attempted kidnapping. Over Brutsche's rambling objections, the judge appointed the county public defender's office to represent him and set bail at $600,000. Hafen named a lawyer to represent Newman and scheduled her bail hearing for Monday. Newman's lawyer didn't immediately respond Friday to messages. Police allege Brutsche and Newman held training sessions about sovereign citizen philosophy, shopped for guns, found a vacant house to serve as a ''jail,'' and drilled bolts into wall studs to hold cross-beams on which captives could be bound during interrogation. A police report alleges Brutsche and Newman recorded and planned to post videos about their actions and sovereign citizen ideology following the first abduction. Brutsche said he expected to draw a large following once they started because of the publicity, the report said. Police began investigating Brutsche after he insisted to police and judges that he wasn't subject to their authority and the laws and regulations of the United States, Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Jones said. Jones characterized Newman as an acquaintance and roommate of Brutsche who shared his ideology. Assistant United States Attorney Todd Pickles is prosecuting the case. If convicted, the defendants face a maximum statutory penalty of life in prison. Any sentence, however, would be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. Judge: Calif. atheist parolee needs compensation SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a Northern California atheist parolee who went back to prison after refusing to participate in a religiously-tinged inpatient treatment program is entitled to monetary compensation. U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote in an opinion Friday that a jury must award Barry Hazle Jr. of Redding compensatory damages. A district court ruled in 2010 that Hazle's First Amendment rights had been violated. But a jury tasked with assessing monetary damages awarded Hazle nothing. Hazle had served a year in prison on a drug charge. After being released in 2007, he was ordered to take part in the program but refused, saying he's an atheist. He was arrested and jailed again. After serving three more months, Hazle sued state corrections officials. Lawsuit: accused molester was fired from camp job SAN JOSE (AP) — A lawsuit says a man suspected of molesting nine girls at a San Jose afterschool program received a positive recommendation from a church summer camp that fired him three times for allegedly touching young girls inappropriately. The San Jose Mercury News says Friday that the suit filed in Santa Clara County by the parents of a girl accuses 28-year-old Keith Woodhouse of molesting her while he worked as a camp counselor in 2007. The lawsuit claims that when the afterschool program asked about Woodhouse, a church official said he was a dependable worker who ''loves kids'' and would hire him again. The church and its attorney declined comment. Woodhouse has been charged with 30 felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14 and is due back in court Monday. Body found in shallow backyard grave in Fresno FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a body has been found in a shallow backyard grave at a Fresno home where a woman claims she was held captive for seven days, tortured and raped. The Fresno Bee says police found the body Thursday. They arrested a man and woman on suspicion of murder. Police Chief Jerry Dyer says a 35-year-old woman told police she'd gone to the downtown home a week ago to look for her stolen bicycle but was held, stabbed, burned with a chemical and raped before escaping Wednesday. Police returned and found the body of a man in his 20s who'd been stabbed. A man who claims to be the woman's fiancee told the Bee that someone else in the home killed the man because he'd raped her. Union City burglars posed as pest inspectors UNION CITY (AP) — Police say a pair of burglars duped two elderly people when one posed as a city pest inspector who appeared at their home to investigate an alleged snake infestation while the other burglarized the residence. The Oakland Tribune reports that the burglars took cash, jewelry and other items from the elderly roommates' home in Union City on Wednesday. Union City police Cmdr. Ben Horner told the paper that a woman knocked on the roommates' door and said she was from the city. The woman was wearing a uniform with a ''CITY'' logo on it, and said she was there to check a snake infestation. Police say the woman distracted the victim while someone else entered the home and burglarized it. Horner said city workers always carry photo identification. The staff at Red Bluff Simple Cremations would like to thank all of the families who trust us with their loved ones needs. 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