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FRIDAY JANUARY 28, 2011 Breaking news at: Corning 2011 Olive City www.redbluffdailynews.com Inside RED BLUFF Bull Sale Pages 4A-6A Wii Tourney SPORTS 1B Weather forecast 10A Sunny 64/37 By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer One pipe bomb exploded while an interagency bomb squad attempted to neutralize two pipe bombs found in a Cot- tonwood barn Wednesday. Tehama Interagency Drug Enforcement agents found two “legitimate” pipe bombs, as well as methamphetamines, marijuana and three stolen chain saws during a probation search that began before 9:30 DAILYNEWS TEHAMACOUNTY DAILY 50¢ T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Pipe bomb explodes when neutralized a.m., said TIDE Special Agent Supervisor Eric Maher. The pipe bombs, found in an upstairs room of a barn, were legitimate pipe bombs “fused up and ready to go,” Maher said. When members of the bomb squad were using equipment to render the bombs inactive, one Harvin of the bombs went off. The other was successfully neutral- ized without incident and officers collect- ed what remained for evidence, Maher said. David Harvin, 52, of Cottonwood was arrested after agents searched his double- wide mobile home and other structures on the property in the 19100 DIG this Disc golf course opens at Dog Island Park block of Hooker Creek Road. Another man, Travis Michael Shrader, 23, of Cot- tonwood was arrest- ed for outstanding warrants when agents found him on the property, Maher said. The owner of the pipe bombs is unde- termined and still under investigation, Maher said. Shrader Inside the home, agents found 1.6 grams of metham- phetamines and 395.5 grams of mar- ijuana. In a nearby two-story barn, agents found 43 pounds of shake, 1,466 grams of mar- ijuana and 160 grams of hashish, along with parapher- nalia, including nee- See BOMB, page 9A Man suspected of molestation A 43-year-old Red Bluff man was arrested Wednesday on sus- picion of molesting a juvenile at his home in December. Red Bluff Police officers arrested Allan Joseph Mikesell, 43, of Red Bluff after being called to a Red Bluff area school to assist Child Protective Ser- vices, a police press release said. Mikesell is suspected of molesting the child at his Red Bluff residence during the month of December, police said. He was charged with performing lewd or lascivious acts with a child and sexual penetration with a foreign object. Mikesell Bail was set at $175,000. — Staff report Tent burns in transient camp Daily News photo by Tang Lor Ben Bailey tees off at the first hole while Jason Gordon looks on. Both players, from Redding, said they heard of the course through word of mouth and are excited to have a new location to play. By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Red Bluff’s very own disc golf course — Dog Island Golf — is open for play. A team of volunteers put in the baskets Sunday, and already there has been lots of interest, said Bran- don Grissom, who led the efforts in building the course. He estimates more than 100 people have already played on the course at Dog Island and Samuel Ayers parks. He started the project as a way to introduce the community to a fun activity that he enjoys, but it has become bigger than that, as news of the course have spread to other communities, Grissom said. Red Bluff’s course is now another stop for avid players who can play on Tehama among counties to target criminal aliens On Tuesday, five Northern California coun- ties - Colusa, Nevada, Plumas, Sutter and Tehama – became the lat- est in the state to benefit from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce- ment (ICE) federal infor- mation-sharing capability that helps federal immi- gration officials use bio- metrics to identify aliens, both lawfully and unlaw- fully present in the United States, who are booked into local law enforce- ment’s custody for a crime. This capability is part of Secure Communities - ICE’s comprehensive strategy to improve and modernize the identifica- tion and removal of aliens convicted of a crime from the United States. Prior to the activation of Secure Communities, fingerprint-based biomet- ric records taken of indi- viduals charged with a crime and booked into local custody were checked for criminal his- tory information against the Department of Jus- tice’s (DOJ) Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). Now, through enhanced information sharing between DOJ and the Department of Home- land Security (DHS), bio- metrics submitted through the state to the FBI will be automatically checked against both the FBI crim- inal history records in IAFIS and the biometrics- based immigration records in DHS’s Auto- mated Biometric Identifi- cation System (IDENT). If fingerprints match 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See ALIENS, page 9A their way to Redding, Black Butte Lake or Chico. “This is another way to bring other people to our town and show them what we have to offer,” Gris- som said. “We intend to be one of the best destinations.” Disc golf enthusiasts are not the only ones benefiting from the new course. See DIG, page 9A Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Red Bluff Fire puts out a debris fire in which a tent burned Thursday in the creekbed on Willow Street near the Harlan Warwick Underpass. The cause of the fire, reported by two Red Bluff men at 10:01 a.m., is undetermined. A Red Bluff Police officer said the tent was part of what appeared to be a transient camp. No one was at the scene when firefighters arrived. RBUHS band fundraiser set for tonight Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Red Bluff Union High School students practice Wednesday for Notes and Noodles, an annual event that supports the band program. The event will have two performances, 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., today at the Red Bluff Community Center. Cost is $7 for a spaghetti dinner and tickets are available from band students, at the Red Bluff High School office or at the door. • Everyday Cheapskate • Coupon Queen • Gleaners The Daily News - At your side when times are tough TEHAMA COUNTY GLASS MOULE’S WE SERVICE Garage Doors Springs Cables Sectional Remotes Rollers 515 Sycamore St. 529-0260 Your Business, A Look Inside Five Areas to Assess Your Business for Future Growth Two Dates to Choose From: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 – Red Bluff (Red Bluff Community Center) Wednesday, February 9, 2011 – Corning (Corning Chamber of Commerce) Call the Job Training Center at 529-7000. Join this interactive session featuring The ChicoProject which assists small and microenterprises with business and strategic planning, marketing, Web development, Web marketing, IT integration, sales assistance, finance and accounting. Leave knowing what areas you should be focused on. Sponsored by 3Core, the Job Training Center, County of Tehama, TehamaEDC and the ChicoProject. 2-5 pm / Cost: $45 per person Pre-registration required.