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Bonds: Joseph F. Bonds, 90, of Red Bluff died Friday, May 30 at Red Bluff Health- care Center. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Satur- day, May 31, 2014 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Rankin: Albert Theodore Rankin, 93, of Los Molinos died Thursday, May 29 at his home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Saturday, May 31, 2014 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Sperrazzo: Charles Sper- razzo, 93, of Red Bluff died Friday, May 30 at Emeritus at Lassen House. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Sat- urday, May 31, 2014 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Deathnoticesmustbepro- vided by mortuaries to the news department, are pub- lished at no charge, and fea- ture only specific basic infor- mation about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified adver- tising department. Paid obit- uaries may be placed by mor- tuaries or by families of the deceased and include on- line publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of con- tent, including photos. DEATHNOTICES and music, performed a trio of fiddle tunes and picked on an acoustic guitar, provid- ing accompanying music for a speech delivered by gradu- ate Giancarlo Nandino. Nandino will study aero- space engineering at Em- bry Riddle Aeronautical University. Scholarshipsand awards Nandino, Misslin and Gaumer earned life mem- berships in the California Scholarship Federation Chapter 340N. Nandino also earned the Red Bluff Rotary Scholar- ship, Tehama County As- sociation of Realtors Schol- arship, Officer Dave F. Mo- bilio and Tehama County Police Activities League Scholarship, and a social science Mercy High School Achievement Award. Misslin earned a life membership to the Cali- fornia Scholarship Federa- tion, a language arts Mercy High School Achievement Award and the Spirit of Mercy Award. Gaumer earned a life membership to the Cali- fornia Scholarship Fed- eration, the Red Bluff Kiwanis Club Scholar- ship, and the Mercy High School Achievement Award in art. The Janet Snider Guz- man Memorial Scholar- ship Award went to Jara- millo and Chloe Gist. Gist also earned the Mercy High School Achievement Award in religious studies. Jaramillo also earned the Mercy High School Achievement Award for music and fine arts. Jocelyn Chen earned the Umpqua Bank scholarship, which is awarded to a stu- dent pursuing a degree in business or finance, and a Mercy High School Citi- zenship Award. Matthew Misener and Alejandro Guerrero also earned Mercy High School Citizenship Awards. The Cash for College Scholarship Award went to Roberto Ayala, who also earned the foreign lan- guage Mercy High School Achievement Award. Hailey Gao earned the Heart of Mercy Award. The Tehama County Peace Officers Associa- tion Scholarship went to Jessica Curl. Chuck Li earned the Mercy High School Achievement Award in sci- ence, Sae Gae Chon earned the award in mathematics, and Brenten James earned the award for physical ed- ucation. The Class of 2014 also included Brandon Gorden, Juan Saucedo, Thomas Garcia, Duy Huynh, Ani- sha Acevedo, Yunho Lee, Irlanda Hernandez, Bre- ana Kemp, Yaxing Li, Tha- nupong Chatwiriyanot and Joyce Xia. The commencement address was delivered by Richard Cherveny, a teacher at the school. Mercy FROM PAGE 1 17,298-square-foot Diamond Avenue location in 1979. On-site printing of the newspaper stopped around 2000. The paper has been printed in Chico at sister property the Enterprise-Re- cord since. Earlier this year the Daily News as part of a region- wide effort by Digital First Media consolidated its lay- out duties for 11 northern California daily newspapers to Chico. Stevens has said it is un- likely the newspaper opera- tion would move prior to the sale of the building. The Daily News building is being listed by Coldwell Banker. Building FROM PAGE 1 side door of the car, removed the victim from the passen- ger seat, and led her to the back of the police car. Benson engaged in in- tercourse with the woman against the police car with- out her consent. The offense resulted in bodily injury to the victim, including physi- cal pain and bruising. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 15. Benson and the government agreed in the plea agreement that the Court should sentence Ben- son to five years in prison. Benson also faces a fine of up to $250,000. "In sexually assaulting a woman in his custody, the defendant betrayed his oath to uphold the law, violated the trust placed in him by so- ciety and, most regrettably, caused untold harm to the victim," said Acting Assis- tant Attorney General Joc- elyn Samuels for the Civil Rights Division. "The de- partment will continue to hold such offenders account- able." This case is being inves- tigated by the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation. The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Chiraag Bains from the Justice De- partment's Civil Rights Di- vision and Assistant U.S. At- torney Matthew Morris for the Eastern District of Cal- ifornia. Guilty FROM PAGE 1 N EWS D AILY REDBL UFF TEH AMA COUNTY 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 •CALIFORNIAWALNUTCOMPANY • LEPAGE COMPANY INC. • MODERN CLEANERS • OLIVE CITY QUICK LUBE • WALMART • TEHAMA CO. DEPT. 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"The credit, as well as our gratitude, goes out to the Tehama County Sheriff's Office for solving this crime and bringing a suspect into custody," Cohen said in the release. "With the arrest of Setzer, all of us who work in or who work close to the court house can all breath a little easier." Threat FROM PAGE 1 By Astrid Galvan The Associated Press PHOENIX By the time the women arrived disheveled and hungry at the Grey- hound station in Phoenix, they had already spent weeks traveling thousands of miles with young children in tow. Ranging from months old to adolescents, some of the children were sick and le- thargic. Others played glee- fully at arcade games in the crowded waiting room of the bus station. The families were appre- hended in Texas, flown to Arizona and dropped off by the busload at the station in Phoenix by federal im- migration authorities over- whelmed by a surge of fam- ilies caught crossing the Mexican border into the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. It was signal of a shift in immigration that has seen the Rio Grande Valley sur- pass Tucson as the leader in border apprehensions, over- whelming border agents in Texas. The trend is being driven by a huge increase in the number of immigrants from Central America. Yet while the number of apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley vastly sur- passes those in the Tuc- son sector in Arizona, the area has fewer agents. From October 2013 to May 17, agents in the Rio Grande Valley made more than 148,000 arrests, compared with 63,000 arrests in the Tucson sector. But the Rio Grande Valley has about 1,000 fewer agents than Tucson. "This shows that our strategy is poorly thought- out. Illegal aliens are always going to go where agents aren't," said Shawn Moran, a spokesman for the Na- tional Border Patrol Coun- cil, the U.S. Border Patrol union. Immigration officials by policy do not keep children in detention. When agents in Texas caught an unusu- ally high number of families with young children cross- ing the border over Memo- rial Day weekend, they were stumped as to where to pro- cess them. So they turned to Arizona. In a sign of the political ramifications of the move, politicians in Arizona lashed out at the federal govern- ment over the fact that im- migrants are being sent to the state when it has its own problems associated with immigration. "What an astonishing failure of leadership at ev- ery level inside the Beltway," Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Smith said. Floridalma Bineda Por- tillo and her two young boys were part of a group of about 400 Central Amer- icans who were flown from Texas to Tucson last week- end. Bineda Portillo and many others were then shut- tled to Phoenix after the Tucson Greyhound station ran out of space. When they arrived at the station in Phoenix, a vol- unteer nurse found Bineda Portillo's 5-year-old son, Hugo David, wheezing and struggling to breathe. His asthma inhaler had been lost when the family was processed by immigration. The boy's three-year-old brother developed a cold after sitting on the floor for hours in the detention cen- ter, his mother said. "We all started crying be- cause we didn't know what was going to happen to us. It was brutal," the Guatemala native said in Spanish. Bineda Portillo said she fled Guatemala because of growing violence and to es- cape domestic abuse. Her mother, who lives in Nash- ville, Tennessee, sent her money for a bus ride there. In the meantime, volun- teers from the Phoenix Res- toration Project, a humani- tarian group, have been at the Greyhound station since Tuesday handing out food, clothing, diapers and other supplies. "It's always heart- wrenching, especially when we're working with women, because they're less likely to be able to read and some- times are coming from very rural areas of Central America, and Spanish isn't their first language," volun- teer Cyndi Whitmore said. "We see a lot of women who are very sacred, very vul- nerable." Like the other Central American migrants sent from Texas to Arizona this week, Bineda Portillo has 15 days from the time she was apprehended to report to the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement of- fice in Nashville, where offi- cials will begin proceedings against them there. ICE requires that mi- grants provide a valid ad- dress to their destination in the U.S. before they are re- leased. The migrants' cases are then forwarded to the ICE office closest to that address. Immigration officials say they don't know how many migrants will actually re- port to ICE, but that many who are fleeing violence are likely to do so to seek asy- lum. Maria Eva Casco, of El Salvador, says she and her 8-year-old son fell ill while in immigration detention. On their way to meet the boy's father in Orlando, Florida, Casco was now regretting the trek. "It's been terrifying. A lot of tears and regret," she said in Spanish. The rise in Central Amer- ican migrants in Texas and the Rio Grande Valley has exposed how few resources agents have in protecting the border, Moran said. Agents in Laredo, Texas, on Friday sent another flight of migrants to Tucson, and at least one other flight out of there was scheduled in the upcoming days. "It really highlights that we're behind the eight ball and it's a difficult job to do, especially when we're over- whelmed," Moran said. IMMIGRATION Migrants dropped off at Arizona bus stations RICKSCUTERI—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Elana Carmen, middle, with her daughters Abigail, right, and Ayala, of El Salvador, tie their shoes with yellow rope for shoe laces on Thursday at the Greyhound bus terminal in Phoenix. About 400mostly Central American women and children caught crossing from Mexico into south Texas were flown to Arizona this weekend a er border agents there ran out of space and resources. "This shows our strategy is poorly thought out. Illegal aliens are always going to go where agents aren't." — Shawn Moran, spokesman for Border Patrol Council MarthaTaftSlade Martha was born in San Jose, California on February 15, 1919, to Arlo and Helen Dice Taft. The only child of a bookkeeper and a one-room schoolteacher, she grew up in Corning and Gerber, and rode the school bus to Red Bluff Union High School, graduating in 1935. She received a degree in economics from UC Berkeley in 1939. Martha worked as a secretary in the Bay Area until she met Bill Slade at Audubon Camp in July, 1953. They were engaged a week later. They lived in Willows, Exet- er, and Calexico, where Bill was a high school principal and Lieutenant Colonel (Reserve) in the Army. During those years, Martha was active in the League of Women Voters and the Association of University Women. The Slades moved to Paradise in 1969. Martha resided at her home on Wagstaff Road for 44 years until shortly before her death. She also maintained a vacation home in Mineral, California for over 70 years. Martha was an active member of the Military Officers As- sociation of America for decades and a life member of the Lassen Park Foundation. Martha had a keen interest in local history and was an instrumental member of many state and local historical as- sociations. She served on the boards of the Conference of California Historical Societies and the Bidwell Mansion Association for 30 years and 10 years, respectively. She was President of the Butte County Historical Society and Paradise Fact and Folklore. She was a life member of the Gold Nugget Museum, the Tehama County Museum Asso- ciation, and the Tehama County Genealogical and Histori- cal Society. Martha was an accomplished writer and editor. In the '70s and '80s, she wrote a column called "Rear View Mir- ror" for the Paradise Post and was an editor of the maga- zines Diggin's and Tales of the Paradise Ridge. From 2000-2002, she wrote an 8-volume, single-spaced auto- biography. Martha loved reading, writing, nature, backroads travel, classical and jazz music, sewing, knitting, interesting peo- ple, and cats. She is survived by two daughters, Mary Slade of Para- dise and Anne Slade Alexander of Irvine, CA, and two grandchildren. No services. Donations may be made to the Bidwell Mansion Association, PO Box 1303, Chico, CA, 95927, htt p://www.bidwellmansionassociation.com/. Obituaries SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A