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The following defendants were sentenced in Tehama County Superior Court, ac- cording to the Tehama County District Attorney's Office: RecentState/Local PrisonCommitments: Peoplevs.MishakalBrocco Clark, Possession of Matter Depicting Minor Engaging in Sexual Conduct with Special AllegationTwoPriorStrikes. Brief history: Defendant wasfoundinpossessionofnu- merous photos of minors en- gaged in sexual conduct. Sentenced to 25 years to life in State Prison. People vs. Michael Ramiro Garcia, Sale of a Controlled Substance (2 counts) with SpecialAllegationsControlled Substance Prior, Prior Felo- nies, Maintaining Place for Selling or Using Controlled Substance with Special Alle- gation Prior Felonies; Trans- portationofaControlledSub- stance. Brief history: Defendant was originally granted for- mal probation. Defendant vi- olated his probation when he was found in possession of methamphetamineandtested positive for morphine. Defen- dant was a passenger in a ve- hicle that was stopped for a traffic violation. Officers con- ducted a search of the vehi- cle and located methamphet- amine, packaging material, a digital scale and marijuana. Sentenced to 16 years 8 months State Prison. People vs. Christopher Calvin Fackrell, Post Re- lease Community Supervi- sion;TransportationofaCon- trolled Substance with Spe- cial Allegations Controlled Substance Prior, Prior Fel- onies, Felon in Possession of Ammunition; Evading an Of- ficer, Willful Disregard. Brief history: Defendant was released from prison to post release community su- pervision. Defendant vio- lated the terms of his super- vision when he was found in possession of methamphet- amine. Defendant was origi- nally granted formal proba- tion. Defendant violated the terms of his probation when he was found in possession of methamphetamine. An of- ficer attempted to conduct a trafficstoponavehicledriven by the defendant. The defen- dant failed to yield and pro- ceeded into a trailer park at a high rate of speed. Defendant jumpedoutofhisvehiclewhile it was still in motion and fled onfoot. Defendantwasappre- hended a short time later and found in possession of ammu- nition, marijuana and meth- amphetamine. Sentenced to 12 years 8 months State Prison. People vs. Leslie Thomas Hewitt Jr., Possession For Sale of a Controlled Sub- stance; Maintaining Place for Selling or Using Controlled Substance. Brief history: Defendant was found in possession of packaged heroin and a digi- tal scale. Officers located de- fendant at a residence where they were serving a search warrant and located meth- amphetamine,marijuanaand digital scales. Sentenced to 4 years State Prison. People vs. Joshua Nathan- ielPayne,PossessionofaCon- trolled Substance, Receiving Stolen Property, Motor Vehi- cle;FailuretoAppearonOwn Recognizance with Special Allegation Offense While on Bail or O.R. Brief history: An officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle driven by defendant regarding a road rage inci- dent. The officer was advised the defendant had a warrant out for his arrest and subse- quently conducted a search. Inside the vehicle the officer located methamphetamine and syringes as well as a sto- len motorcycle in the back of the pickup that the defendant was driving. Defendant was released from custody on his own recognizance and failed toappearincourtasordered. Sentenced to 4 years Local Prison. People vs. Courtney Mor- gan Peralta, Second Degree Commercial Burglary; Petty Theft; Second Degree Com- mercialBurglary;PettyTheft. Brief history: Defendant was originally granted for- mal probation on both cases. Defendantviolatedherproba- tion when she tested positive for opiates. Sentenced to 3 years 8 months Local Prison. People vs. Patrick James Dale Twiford; Second De- gree Commercial Burglary with Special Allegation Prior Strike. Brief history: Defendant was observed by security ex- iting a store without paying fortheitemsinhispossession. Sentenced to 3 years 8 months State Prison. People vs. Todd Allen Hicks, Failure to Register with Special Allegation Prior Felony. Brief history: Defendant is a convicted sex offender and failed to update his registra- tionaftermovingtoanewad- dress. Sentenced to 3 years State Prison. People vs. Brian Joseph Cron, Criminal Threats with Special Allegation Prior Strike. Brief history: Defendant and victim had got into an argument which escalated when the defendant punched the victim, hit her head into a wallandthreatenedtokillher. Sentenced to 2 years 8 months State Prison. People vs. Quentin Ray Bealer, Receiving Stolen Property. Brief history: Defendant was found in possession of items that had been stolen from student lockers at a lo- cal high school. Sentencedto16monthsLo- cal Prison. Peoplevs.DianjeloWilliam Carvajales, Receiving Stolen Property; First Degree Resi- dential Burglary. Brief history: Defendant was originally granted for- mal probation. Defendant vi- olated his probation when he wasfoundinpossessionoffic- titious money and drug para- phernalia and failed to report to probation as required. Vic- tim reported her home has been broken into and some items had been stolen. Offi- cers were able to locate fin- gerprints at the scene which were later determined to be- long to the defendant. Sentenced to 2 years 8 State Prison RecentCountyJail Commitments: People vs. Manuel Jesus Ortega, Possession of a Con- trolled Substance With Fire- arm. Brief history: An officer attempted to conduct a traf- fic stop on a vehicle driven by defendant. As the officer ap- proached the vehicle the de- fendant took off. The officer pursued the defendant un- til the vehicle slowed and the defendantjumpedoutandfled onfoot.Defendantwasappre- hended and found in posses- sion of methamphetamine. Inside defendant's vehicle the officer located a loaded hand- gun. Sentenced to 365 days county jail. People vs. Robert Bruce McCullough,DUICausingIn- jury; Maintaining Place For Selling or Using Controlled Substance. Brief history: Defendant drove a vehicle while intox- icated and crashed into an- other vehicle. Defendant fled the scene but was appre- hended a short time later. Agent served a search war- rant at defendant's residence and located methamphet- amine, marijuana, a digital scale and marijuana plants. Sentenced to 180 days county jail. People vs. Bethany Lau- ren Gaylord, Bringing Drugs or Alcohol Into Jail; Posses- sion of Ammunition, Posses- sion of Smoking Device. Brief history: Defendant was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped for a traffic violation.AK-9alertedonthe vehicle and a search was con- ducted. Insidethevehiclethe deputy located methamphet- amine and syringes. Defen- dant was arrested and taken into custody. While at the jail defendant was found in pos- sessionofmethamphetamine and a glass pipe. Defendant was originally granted for- mal probation. Defendant vi- olated her probation when she arrested. Sentenced to 180 days county jail. People vs. Luke Martin Malailua, Maintaining Place For Selling or Using Con- trolled Substance. Brief history: Agents con- ducted a search warrant at defendant's residence and lo- cated marijuana plants, pro- cessed marijuana bud, mari- juana shake and scales. Sentenced to 90 days county jail. People vs. Steven Ethen Steigman, Vandalism Over $400 Damage. Brief history: Defendant was originally granted for- mal probation. Defendant vi- olated his probation when he was found in possession of items with gang significance. Sentenced to 90 days county jail. People vs. Melissa Kim- berly Smith, Aid by Misrep- resentation. Brief history: Defendant was originally granted for- mal probation. Defendant vi- olated her probation when she was found in possession of methamphetamine. Sentenced to 90 days county jail. People vs. Jamie Jesse Grant Markes, Possession of Firearm by a Felon. Brief history: Deputies re- sponded to a residence re- garding a domestic distur- bance and found defendant in possession of a rifle. Sentenced to 90 days county jail. People vs. James Blue, Corporal Injury to Child's Parent, Criminal Threats, False Imprisonment by Vio- lence, Unlawful Firearm Ac- tivity. Brief history: Defendant was originally granted for- mal probation. Defendant vi- olated his probation when he testedpositiveformarijuana. Sentenced to 60 days county jail. COURTS such a politically charged issue and one that would leadtopublicpolicycreating millions of dollars of profit from consumers and trans- ferring that profit to retail- ers," Cathy Browne, gen- eral manager of Los Ange- les-area plastic bag maker CrownPoly,toldlawmakers. She said the $2 million in assistance for manufactur- ers wouldn't replace even a single production line for her company alone. Manufacturers and some grocers have pushed for states to adopt a plastic bag recycling program at stores instead of a ban, as Califor- nia did in 2006. The Associated Press foundthestatewasn'ttrack- ing how many bags were re- cycled as mandated by the law. The state's last review of the data, in 2009, found a 3 percent recycling rate, up 1 percentage point from the previous year. The bill heads next to the Assembly Appropriations Committee and must pass both chambers of the Legis- lature by the end of August. If signed into law, the ban would take effect in 2015 for large retailers and grocery stores and apply to phar- macies and liquor stores the next year. Ban FROM PAGE 1 tion, she said. Ragsdale said after be- ing invited into a transi- tional living home in Red Bluff, she sought to find a job, which was difficult to gain after being unem- ployed for five years. She said with the help of Job Training Center in Red Bluff and other agen- cies she was able to at- tain a job with the same organization that pro- vided her the opportunity to get back on her feet — the Poor and the Homeless Tehama County Coalition, where she is a now a case manager. Morehouse pointed out that because the commu- nity invested in Ragsdale, it gained an actively en- gaged resident. Summit FROM PAGE 1 PLEASERECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Thankyou! TheAssociatedPress NEW YORK Rousing Dem- ocrats for their fight to keep the Senate, President Barack Obama mounted a searing critique of the Re- publican Party on Wednes- day, accusing his political foes of thwarting progress on everything from wages to scientific research and climate change. In what's become an elec- tion-year routine for the president, Obama took the mic at an opulent Manhat- tan apartment and urged Democrats not to let their party's tendency to neglect midterm elections hand Re- publicans a chance to cap- ture the Senate. Such a turn of events would essen- tially halt his agenda for his final two years in office. "We have a party on the other side that has been captured by an ideology that says 'no' to every- thing," Obama said, "be- cause they claim to a rigid theory that the only way to grow the economy is for the government to be disman- tled." In the past, such a bleak description of the Grand Old Party might have been an exaggeration, Obama said, but not anymore. Extending his critique to the Republican approach to winning elections, he charged that the GOP's "main election strategy is preventing people from voting" — a nod to voter ID laws and other restric- tions that Democrats have opposed. Obama's pep talk also included a healthy dose of tough love. He said his own party suffers from a "con- genital disease" in which its supporters get revved up during presidential years, then fail to show up at the polls for midterm elections, hamstringing the party's prospects in Congress. "We have to break that cycle," Obama told Demo- cratic donors who packed the Upper East Side apart- ment belonging to Blair Effron. The investment banker and his wife hosted Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and a few dozen donors who paid $32,400 for the chance to see the president in person. The sharp political talk from the president at a pair of Democratic fundraisers came at the halfway point of a two-day jaunt to New York that is bookended by official events — standard fare for Obama, who has visited New York a half- dozen times since winning re-election and headlined fundraisers for Democratic during almost every trip. Obama started his day with a visit to Tarrytown, just north of New York City, where the rundown Tappan Zee Bridge served as the backdrop for a presidential pitch to Congress to spend more money on the nation's crumbling roads, hole-rid- den bridges and outdated ports — or prepare to lose business and jobs to other countries. ELECTIONS Obama: GOP captured by ideology of 'no' President rallies Democrats in NYC By Julie Pace The Associated Press WASHINGTON President BarackObamaisdispatching oneofhisclosestWhiteHouse advisers to oversee a review of the beleaguered Veterans Affairs Department as the agency grapples with allega- tions of treatment delays and preventable deaths at a Phoe- nix veterans hospital. White House deputy chief of staff Rob Nabors will be temporarily assigned to the VA to work on a review fo- cused on policies for patient safety rules and the schedul- ing of patient appointments, officialssaidWednesday.The move signals Obama's grow- ing concern over problems at the department, particu- larly recent reports that hos- pital administrators in Phoe- nix kept an off-the-books list to conceal long wait times as 40 veterans died waiting to get an appointment. Similar problems have since been re- ported in other states. The allegations have sparked a firestorm inside the VA and on Capitol Hill. The American Legion and some congressional Republi- cans have called for the res- ignation of Veterans Affairs SecretaryEricShinseki,who is scheduled to testify before a Senate committee Thurs- day. "While we get to the bot- tom of what happened in Phoenix, it's clear the VA needs to do more to ensure quality care for our veter- ans," Obama said in a state- ment. "I'm grateful that Rob, oneofmymosttrustedadvis- ers, has agreed to work with Secretary Shinseki to help the team at this important moment." Obamaorderedthepatient policy review after the Phoe- nix allegations became pub- lic. But officials said Shinseki requested more help with the review,leadingObama'schief of staff, Denis McDonough, to tap Nabors for the assign- ment. The move is similar to the action the White House took last year when it assigned longtime Obama aide Jeffrey Zients to take over manage- ment of the troubled Health- Care.gov website from offi- cials at the Health and Hu- man Services Department. HHS Secretary Kathleen Se- beliuslaterresignedherpost. "We are glad the president took this first step to ensure the White House is involved in solving this crisis at the VA," said Tom Tarantino, the chief policy officer of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. "We need bold re- form to establish a culture of accountability throughout the VA system and hope that Mr. Nabors' presence will help ensure that this type of failure never happens again." Despite calls for Shin- seki to step down, the White House insists that Obama continues to have confi- dence in the secretary, a retired four-star Army gen- eral. VETERANS AFFAIRS Obama aide to oversee review of VA department FRANKN.TOWNLEY April 12, 1946 ~ April 20, 2014 Frank N. Townley was born April 12,1946 to parents Frank N. and Martha Townley. He is survived by his wife Jody Townley, his children Crystal Carter and Rob Hibdon, step children Don Roush, Shawna Roush-Miller, mother-in-law Meryl White, grandson Dakota Townley, brothers Joe, Donald, and Tim Townley and sister Madelynn Foster. Franks passion and love for his family and friends was constant; always quick to greet people with a handshake or a hug along with a "love you" or "you doing okay". Family, fishing, food, baseball and football, a few of his favorites. Loving to love his family, fishing was his liveli- hood, food he enjoyed to cook and of course eat too, baseball and football were just fun to watch. The magic of Frank Townley, if you knew him you know he actually had magic. He made people happy, maybe even mad; because they couldn't have, what he had! The fishin magician ran the rivers for many years. Knowing each hole, snag, and shallow of each river he took fishermen and women to. Earning the respect of fellow guides and fishermen from all walks of life for being one of the best. His knowledge of river and fishing was truly amazing and magic. The water of the river continues to flow, yet it is always there. With tears of sadness and heaviness of heart Frank has gone. The magic of the fishin magician will live on with the tricks he has taught each of us. In the riffles of the river, the bear on the shoreline, and eagles in the sky. Now his son and his grandson having learned his magic will keep Franks love and passion of the rivers flowing. Cancer was the one trick he couldn't master, he fought long and hard but on April 20, 2014 with his wife by his side, the cancer took control and took his life away from us. A celebration in honor of his life will be held June 14th at his daughters home in Corning. Brufer-in-law I will miss you tremendously, we all will. DIANA DELORES (BOSSE) BURGESS December 10, 1929 ~ May 13, 2014 Diana Delores (Bosse) Burgess, the first-born child of Bernard J. and Bellemeta D. Bossewas delivered from the lord on December 10, 1929 and into the parish of the Sa- cred Heart Catholic Church, where she received the sacra- ments of Baptism, Reconciliation, First Holy Communion, Confirmation, and Holy Matrimony. Diana received her early education at Mercy Elementary School on Elm Street. In her teens she worked the harvest of local peach orchards and was a student at Red Bluff High. Before opening a business with her husband Jack W. Burgess, Diana could be found working at J.C. Penny on Main Street, or assisting her father at Bosse's Meat Mar- ket, a local landmark or assisting with the cooking at Mer- cy Elementary School. Diana met her husband Jack Wesley Burgess at the Red Bluff Creamery, shortly after his return from World War II. They married in 1948, as their love grew so did their fam- ily, with sons Jack W. Burgess II, Bradley S. Burgess and daughter Patricia Ann Hess. Last year Jack & Diana cele- brated their 65th wedding anniversary. Family was the center of Diana's life, living everyday in the service of her family and the lord. She became the proud grandmother of three grandchildren, Amber Lee Burgess, Barret and Briana Hess. Her wish to meet her great grandchildren came true with the addition of Alex and Zack Hendrix and Johnathan and Emilia Hess. Jack and Diana's home and cabin in Mineral, CA were always open to friends and family. Many will remember happy times and their supportive nature while in their company. Diana was always there with a helping hand, a warm meal, or just a smile and a hug. Diana remained active in the lives of her many nieces and nephews, Suzette Eisenacher, Brian Bosse, Brenndon Bosse, Lorraine Crispen, Mathew Bosse, Donna Klepper, Robert Ramsey, and Carol Shaw; who assisted her closely in her last moments. Diana was preceded in death by her sister, Patricia Bosse, lost as a child to leukemia, and is survived by her brothers Edwin (Red Bluff) and Raymond (Reno, NV), and her husband Jack. Diana was returned to God's grace on May 13th. She left her family with gifts of great faith and memories of re- assuring hugs and kisses. No member of her family ever left her house without knowing they were loved. Her soul was truly the heart of her family and for many the heart of Red Bluff. Services will be held Monday, May 19 at Sacred Heart Church in Red Bluff, commencing with the Rosary at 11:00 am and followed by a f uneral Mass. Arrangements are under the direction of Affordable Mor- tuary. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.aff ordablemortuary.net Obituaries THURSDAY,MAY15,2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A