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Thefollowinginforma- tion is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Red Bluff Fire, Tehama County Sheriff's Depart- ment, Corning Police De- partment, Corning Fire, Cal Fire and California Highway Patrol logs. Animal EdithAvenue:ACorning woman reported about 3 p.m. Wednesday she had a bat in her attic. Animal Control was advised and recommended she call a pest control company. Arrests James R. Smith: 49, of Corning, was arrested Tuesday in the area of Mar- guerite Avenue and Marin Street. He was booked into Tehama County Jail on the felony charges of evading officers; disregard safety and hit and run; death or injury and flash incarceration. He was also booked on misdemeanor charges of contempt court; disobey order, drive; license suspended and obstructing a peace officer. Bail was $82,000. Jose Artemio Briseno: 32, of Corning was arrest- ed Wednesday on Blos- som Avenue and booked into jail on the charge of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant and other violations. A 911 call was received at 7:12 p.m. in which the daugh- ter reported her father had hit her mother and spit on her. Bullet 4100block Columbia Avenue: A 72-year-old man reported about 10:50 a.m. Wednesday that un- known persons had shot a bullet through his front window about 10minutes prior. He did not see any- one in the area. Fires Manton: Cal Fire re- sponded about 8a.m. Wednesday to report of a fire caused by lightning in an area of wilderness just northeast of Manton. A single lightning strike to a tree caused a small spot fire. 1515State Route 99W, Corning: A fire was reported just before 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Western Manor Apart- ments when someone reported their neighbor's apartment was on fire. The incident is under investigation, a Corning Volunteer Fire Department spokesman said. Noth- ing further was available while the incident is being investigated. Outage 1000block Diamond Avenue: PG&E reported a power outage to one customer just before noon Wednesday. The outage was caused by a trans- former failure. Power was restored sometime prior to 3p.m. Patrol Fig Lane: Extra patrol was requested 6-8a.m. Wednesday at the Lazy Corral Trailer Park due to a man who was hanging around the property and had been asked to leave. Lost Loleta Avenue: A Corning resident called Wednes- day to report a lost black and brown female York- shire terrier who had been missing from the area since July 4. Suspicious Corona Avenue, cross of Oren Avenue: On his trip home, a Corning man noticed Wednesday af- ternoon a charred vehicle, possibly a Ford Focus, on the side of the road and asked that it be logged. Solano Street: A man was reportedly standing in the road near the Corn- ing Car Wash about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday yelling at people in traffic. Upon contact, he told officers he was directing traffic. He was advised to stay out of the road and that assistance with traffic was not needed at that time. 4900block Toomes Av- enue: A woman reported Wednesday finding boat motors and a Minolta camera on her orchard property. The items were returned to the family of the owner who was out of town and did not know the items were missing. 22000block Flores Av- enue: A woman reported about 8:30a.m. having two subjects in a 1995 Toyota with two differ- ent license plates come to her door and ask for fuel. One of the license plates, 3WCF815, was an unreported stolen license plate from a residence in Red Bluff. Vandalism Rio Vista Lane: A woman reported about 3:30p.m. Wednesday that unknown subjects had caused about $200in damage to the electrical system of a boat and set it adri . The boat was recovered. The woman thought it might be connected to a recently evicted party. Policelogs ORLAND A 53-year-old Artois man is recovering from a medical condition and will be booked into Glenn County Jail when medically cleared in con- nection with the death of a teenaged girl who was found in a shop building near Orland Saturday. Glenn County Sheriff's Deputiesrespondedaround 1:15 p.m. Saturday, July 4, to a report of a deceased fe- male in the 3600 block of County Road D, south of Orland. On arrival, depu- ties found the deceased fe- male in a shop, and it ap- peared she had suffered a gunshotwoundtothehead. Alfredo Rodriguez Ru- valcaba was found in a ditch near the area of County Road 28 and County Road C suffering from an unknown medical condition, according to a release issued Thursday by the Butte County Sheriff's Office. The area is in close proximity to where the vic- tim was found. Ruvalcaba also had an arrest warrant out of Butte County. The female was iden- tified as 16-year-old Me- lissa Esquivel-Flores out of Chico. Deputies learned that Esquivel-Flores had last been seen by her fa- ther at their residence in the late evening of July 3. The initial autopsy ex- amination was performed Wednesday and revealed the probable cause of death to be a gunshot wound to the head, the re- lease said. Confirmation is still pending toxicology re- sults, which could take up to four weeks. Anyone with any in- formation relating to this crime is urged to call Det. Greg Felton at (530) 934- 6720. HOMICIDE Personof interest found in teen's death SACRAMENTO Dann- iel Hoose, 49, of Redding, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of falsely certify- ing more than 570 oxygen cylinders for re-use, includ- ing re-use in aircraft, US At- torney Benjamin Wagner announced. According to court doc- uments, Hoose owned and operated Shasta Fire Equipment Inc. in Redding and held a Department of Transportation-issued per- mit to test oxygen and other gas-containing cylinders and to certify those cylin- ders for re-use for various purposes, including in air- craft. Acting on an anony- mous complaint, investi- gators discovered that be- tween March 2013 and June 2013, Hoose was per- sonally responsible for per- forming all cylinder tests at Shasta, even though Hoose's DOT certifica- tion to perform such tests had expired nearly a year earlier. Investigators also found that Shasta's re-qual- ification equipment was in disrepair, and that test pro- cedures, test accuracy and test records failed to satisfy regulatory requirements. According to documents filed in federal court Thurs- day, Hoose admitted that he falsely certified more than 570 cylinders for re-use af- ter conducting incomplete or, in some cases, no tests on those cylinders. Hoose also admitted that some 58 oxygen cylinders that he improperly tested or did not test were returned to ser- vice and installed in air- craft. All of the cylinders were recovered and re-tested during the investigation. This case is the product of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Trans- portation, Office of Inspec- tor General. Assistant US Attorney André Espinosa is prosecuting the case. Hoose is scheduled to appear before US District Judge Troy Nunley on Sept. 10 for sentencing. The max- imum statutory penalty for a making and using a ma- terially false writing con- cerning an aircraft part, which relates to the avia- tion quality of a part in- stalled in an aircraft, is 15 years in prison. The ac- tual sentence, however, will be determined at the dis- cretion of the court after consideration of any ap- plicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentenc- ing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. DISTRICT COURT Man pleads guilty to bogus oxygen certification To be sure, California's next rainy season won't start in earnest for five more months. And many of those will be hot summer months with a high fire risk be- cause the worst drought since California became a state in 1850 has left grass- lands and forests bone dry. Scientists also caution that promising El Niños have fiz- zled out in the past — most recently last year. But with each passing month, many scientists now say, this year is look- ing more and more like 1997. That year, an ocean area that scientists call the "3.4 region" along the equator near South America that is considered a key indictor of El Niño trends was 1 de- gree Fahrenheit hotter than normal from April to June. Currently the water there is 1.6 degrees higher than av- erage — the warmest since 1997. San Francisco received 47 inches of rain the win- ter of 1997-98, double its historic average and the most since 1862. At the peak in the win- ter of 1997, the water along the equator was 4.1 degrees above average. And now supercomputers at NOAA, NASA and other world-lead- ing scientific institutions are projecting the temper- atures in that ocean region by November will hit close to that — 3.6 degrees Fahr- enheit — the warmest since 1997. John Lewis remembers that soaking winter of 1997- 98. The owner of Commer- cial Gutter in Fremont was so swamped with calls from people needing gutter re- pairs during the relentless downpours that he had a six-month waiting list. "It was a frenzy," he said. "My guys were working seven days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day. I had to turn people away." Lewis, who also sells rain barrels and water storage tanks, said some homeown- ers are getting their gutters repaired now and mention- ing the El Niño reports. But could one soaking winter end California's drought in a year? It's possible if the state receives 150 percent or more above average rain- fall, filling Shasta, Oroville and the state's other largest reservoirs, said Anderson, the state's climatologist. "The potential for runoff in the watersheds is larger than the storage capacity of the reservoirs," he said. The state's biggest reser- voirs have filled quickly be- fore. In 1978, one wet year ended the 1976-77 drought, Anderson noted. And, he added, in 1993 heavy rains brought the 1987-92 drought to a close. Last month's heavy storms in Texas dumped 11 inches of rain on Houston in one night, killing more than 20 people but ending a lengthy drought. But to end California's entrenched dry spell, the rain would probably have to start around Thanksgiv- ing, saturating the ground to allow steady runoff into rivers and reservoirs. And then the storms would have to be cold enough to bulk up the Sierra snowpack so that the melting spring snow will continue to fill reservoirs. Even then, the rainfall deficits of the past four years wouldn't be com- pletely erased, and ground- water that has been over- pumped during the drought could take 10 years or more to replenish, Ander- son noted. But the emer- gency situation now plagu- ing farms and cities would largely pass with full reser- voirs. So what became of last year's El Niño predictions, which never panned out? The water was warm, but it didn't trigger significant changes in wind directions or the jet stream in the at- mosphere, experts say. But this year those changes are already underway. "It's well coupled with the atmosphere. That never happened last year," said Jan Null, a meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services in Saratoga. "We get our rain from the at- mosphere, not from a warm ocean. The fact we are see- ing the coupling is one of these checked boxes that is pointing toward a strong event." PaulRogerscovers resources and environmental issues. Contact him at 408 920-5045. Follow him at Twitter.com/ PaulRogersSJMN. Drought FROM PAGE 1 By Elliot Spagat and Janie Har The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Kathryn Steinle, a medical device saleswoman who loved travel and dance, is the newest symbol for those seeking stricter immigra- tion enforcement. They point to her death, from a gun prosecutors say was fired by a Mexican man in the country illegally after five deportations, as heart- wrenching evidence of the need for tighter border con- trols. The story is burning up conservative talk radio, with hosts and callers la- menting the senselessness of the seemingly random killing, expressing anger that Juan Francisco Lo- pez Sanchez still was in the country and consternation that San Francisco author- ities had rejected a request by federal immigration au- thorities to hold him until they could take him into custody. Daniel Stein, president of the Federation for Immi- gration Reform, which ad- vocates for tighter immigra- tion controls, said his orga- nization has been doing six or seven media interviews a day on the killing since the news broke last week. "You have someone who has been repeatedly de- ported," he said. "In the end, it so clearly illustrates the complete breakdown of the system." Steinle, 32 of San Fran- cisco, was gunned down July 1 while walking along a city pier with her father. After Sanchez, whom au- thorities have identified as 45-year-old Mexico na- tive, was arrested it was revealed he had seven fel- ony convictions related to drugs and repeated illegal entries into the country. It also became clear that the San Francisco Sheriff's Of- fice, citing city policy on im- migrants with no violent criminal background, re- leased Sanchez in April de- spite a federal immigration request that they hold him until U.S. authorities could take him into custody for deportation proceedings. Critics across the coun- try have slammed San Fran- cisco as a too-liberal "sanc- tuary" city that provides a haven for criminal immi- grants. Some are calling for a "Kate Steinle's Law" to en- hance enforcement. Jesse Watters, a corre- spondent with Bill O'Reilly's Fox News show, showed up at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting this week and held up a photo of a smiling Steinle. "I'm not saying you pulled the trigger, but you're partially responsi- ble. Her last words were, 'Help me. Help me.' Why aren't you guys helping her?" he asked. Immigration rights ad- vocates say that Sanchez is a rare exception to the millions of people who are in the country illegally but live lawful lives while here. They say that "sanctuary" cities like San Francisco seek to build trust within that community, and that helps public safety. "Every time I talk about this, I feel so sad and so much loss for this obviously beautiful young woman," said Julia Harumi Mass, a senior attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern Cali- fornia. "But it's really im- portant that we also recog- nize this is a terrible trag- edy, one that would have been difficult to foresee al- most, it seems." Laura Polstein, an at- torney with Centro Legal de la Raza, echoed a state- ment made by many advo- cates of sanctuary protec- tions: "The actions of one person should not be used to stereotype or criminal- ize the immigrant commu- nities that are part of the fabric of our city and state." In a jailhouse interview with a news reporter, San- chez said he is 56 years old and from Guanajuato, a picturesque town about a four-hour drive northwest of Mexico City. He said he found a gun under a bench and that it fired acciden- tally. Police have said the gun was reported stolen by a federal Bureau of Land Management agent. At a court hearing this week, Sanchez appeared to know little English and seemed confused at times. He repeated "I'm not guilty" to a question of whether he wanted to waive attendance at a fu- ture hearing. His attorney, public defender Matt Gon- zalez, said Sanchez has a second-grade education level. Steinle's mother, Liz Sullivan of Pleasanton, de- scribed her daughter as strong and sensitive, deep and spiritual. "We were best friends," Sullivan said. "She and I drew strength from each other, and I just feel that she's still here." SAN FRANCISCO Wo ma n sh ot a t pi er a dd s fuel to immigration debate MICHAEL MACOR — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Francisco Sanchez, right, is lead into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, le , and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice on Tuesday in San Francisco. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A