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FRIDAY City Manager Visits Club AUGUST 30, 2013 Week Zero Community Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 2A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 95/65 Weather forecast 8A TEHAMA COUNTY DAILY 50¢ T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Deer Fire 100 percent contained at 11,429 acres DN Staff Report The Deer Fire about 10 miles east of Los Molinos has been fully contained, CalFire reported Thursday. The wildfire, which started about 2:15 p.m. Friday, burned 11,429 acres. The blaze also entered a sec- tion of the Ishi Wilderness, where all hiking trails have been closed as a precaution. The trails are expected to be opened Saturday. There are no road closures. Crews now are working on fire suppression repair, which will continue throughout the weekend. Fireline personnel will continue to mop up the fire area until it is fully controlled. The wildfire burned in rugged terrain and hampered fire crews, which had limited ground access to the fire area. Officials relied on helicopters to transport crews in and out of the fire area and used Very Large Air Tankers to drop thousands of pounds of fire retardant. The California National Guard assisted CalFire with Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters throughout the week. The fire once threatened 500-kilovolt transmission lines that provide power to 15 Western states. Officials said protecting those power lines were a 2 hurt by falling limb By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer A tree branch fell at the Wednesday night farmers market injuring two women in attendance. The branch, which fell on the St. Peter's Episcopal Church booth around 7 p.m., injured 77-yearold Betty Stohler and 76year-old Nancy Robison. Stohler was struck in the head and rendered unconscious. She was taken to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital for treatment and later released, according to the Red Bluff Police Department. Robison was struck on her right forearm. The booth was located on Washington Street in front of the historic Tehama County Courthouse. Red Bluff City Manager Richard Crabtree said Thursday afternoon that the public works department is going to inspect trees in the area and remove any suspect branches. Crabtree said the trees in question are the same ones that set off a 2008 protest. At the time a number of trees were being removed near the courthouse as part of a joint city and county sidewalk replacement project. But removal was eventually halted when a group of residents, headed by Fred Richelieu, protested city officials. While city and county officials had warned of the history of tree branches damaging vehicles with falling limbs, Richelieu at the time argued that shade was more valuable. priority, and fire personnel mitigated the threat to those fires earlier in the week. CalFire reports no structures were damaged or destroyed. Five people suffered injuries, and the cause of the fire is under investigation. See FIRE, page 7A Teen stabbed on Red Bluff corner A 17-year-old boy was stabbed Wednesday night at the corner of Vista Way and Jackson Street, according to a report from Red Bluff Police Department. The boy told police he was standing on the corner listening to music and smoking a cigarette when he was approached from behind by a teenage boy, 16-19, wearing black pants and a black hooded sweatshirt. The suspect bumped the victim, uttered a profanity and stabbed the victim with a knife in the lower abdomen. The victim was treated for a 2-inch stab wound and released. Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to call the department at 527-3131. Pair indicted for Trinity pot grow Suspects' dog killed during arrest Daily News photo by Chip Thompson Two women were injured Wednesday evening when a large limb fell from one of these trees along Washington Street in front of the Tehama County Courthouse. The county presented a plan to the city that would have phased out 10 existing trees near the courthouse in favor of eight trees considered more appropriate to be street trees. However the city instead rewrote a decades old ordinance regarding tree removal, granting rights to residents to appeal decisions regarding the removal of trees from public rights-ofSee LIMB, page 7A SACRAMENTO — A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today charging Eric Allan Brown, 27, and Samuel O'Donnell Barton, 24, with conspiring to cultivate marijuana and cultivating marijuana, U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced. According to court documents, on June 12 law enforcement received a report of a marijuana cultivation site in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in the Sharber Creek area. Six days later, officers from multiple agencies went to the site and found a clearing with extensive resource damage that included at least 12 recently cut, largediameter trees. At the edge of a clearing was a tent that appeared to be occupied. Officers ordered the occupants to come out three times without a response except for a large dog that charged out of the tent. When movement inside the tent was still observed, officers entered the tent and found Brown and Barton inside with a loaded .22-caliber handgun on the tent floor. According to the criminal complaint, the defendants' dog continued to bark aggressively and run toward the officers and even attacked the police K9, biting him on the neck and head. At no time did the defendants attempt to call off the dog. Due to the immediate threat from the dog and the multiple attempts to scare it away with no lasting effect, an office was forced to kill it. According to court documents, the defendants and fed their marijuana garden by tapping the water supply for the community of Salyer in Trinity CounSee POT, page 7A I-5 delays expected Sutter DA scrutinized in fire, affair with escort over Labor Day Weekend REDDING – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 2 is alerting motorists on Interstate 5 between Redding and the Oregon border that there will be short delays while travelling this Labor Day Weekend. Due to construction activity and the reduction to one lane at various construction locations both northbound and southbound, up to 15-minute delays with the possibility of traffic coming to a complete stop during high volume periods is anticipated. Please allow additional travel time and 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 drive with caution in this and all construction areas. Motorists should plan for additional delays when travelling this holiday weekend due to high traffic volumes on all roadways. Be prepared with extra food and water, have a full tank of gas and make sure your vehicle is in good working order. Construction activity will be limited on most roadways, but there are still travel restrictions in place. Please visit the District 2 website at www.caltrans2.info for more information. Caltrans would also like to remind the traveling public to please move over if safe or slow down when they see Caltrans vehicles flashing warning lights along the side of the highways. SACRAMENTO (AP) — The veteran district attorney in a largely rural Northern California county is caught in a story fit for the tabloids, with the 65-year-old grandfather and former Rotary Club president being investigated in a fire that gutted the home of a former escort with whom he had an affair. Sutter County District Attorney Carl Adams was one of several suitors of Sarah Garibay, 32, who showed police text messages from Adams saying he was jealous of her other lovers. Garibay said she had a brief affair with Adams earlier this year and told investigators she had two other lovers who had recently expressed anger or jealousy toward her. Yet she said she does not believe Adams set fire to her home in Yuba City, a city of about 65,000 about 40 miles north of Sacramento. ''Someone is trying to smear him and they're using my name to do it,'' she told the Marysville Appeal-Democrat. An affidavit filed in Sutter County, where Adams has been the district attorney for 31 years, said Adams lied to investigators when they first asked him about whether he had sex with Garibay, whom he met in 2010 when he was prosecuting a case in which she testified. In that case, another Garibay lover was convicted of manslaughter for killing a man after he walked in on the couple having sex. Adams, who later admitted the affair, may also have tried to steer investigators toward one of Garibay's other boyfriends, the affidavit said. Three men were interviewed for the affidavit, which was filed to seek their phone records to determine their ''involvement or innocence'' in the fire. The woman told the newspaper in an interview this week that she had a brief ''inappropriate, romantic relationship'' with the district attorney, but said it was ''ludicrous to assume'' Adams was involved in the fire and said he was the least likely suspect. Garibay was asked in the interview if she had been a prostitute, the newspaper reported. ''Yes, I have,'' she responded. ''Some time ago, I have been a paid escort, but that's definitely in the past.'' Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Garibay have been unsuccessful. It was Adams' behavior immediately after the July 21 fire that drew scrutiny from local law enforcement and fire officials. He showed up at the fire scene the next morning, which fire officials said he had never done before. Later, he sent several emails to fire investigators referring to the incident as ''arson,'' describing ''pour patterns'' found at the scene and referring to the fire starting in the bedSee DA, page 7A THE DAILY NEWS OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED Monday, September 2 in honor of Labor Day DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY 527-2151 • FAX 527-3719 545 DIAMOND AVE., RED BLUFF