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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. Arrest JamesMatthewLister: 37,ofRedBluffwas arrested Wednesday in the 1300block of Third Street. He was booked into Tehama County Jail on the felony charge of inflicting corporal injury spouse or cohabitant. Bail was set at $50,000. A woman called about 8:30a.m. Wednes- day from Jackson Street to report her adult daughter had been assaulted by her boyfriend. Mill Creek: Two Modesto men were arrested Wednesday at Black Rock Camp, cross of Mill Creek. Jose N. Hinojosa, 31, and Jose D. Zuniga, 21, were booked on the charges of obstructing a peace officer and planting or cultivat- ing marijuana. Bail was $28,000each. Crash State Route 36W: A person was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Redding with major injuries in a solo motorcycle crash about 3:15p.m. Thursday near the R Wild Horse Ranch. A fire truck responding to the incident was involved in a collision. No information was available yet on that incident. Fraud Main Street: A Red Bluff resident withdrew money from the ATM at Bank of America Wednesday. She later received notification that someone had ac- cessed her account from the same ATM machine. Two transactions were completed and the suspect withdrew $700from the victim's account. The case is still under investigation. Scam Toomes Avenue: A resi- dent at the Tehama Village Apartments reported about 12:30p.m. Wednes- day receiving a letter about winning a large sum of money, which the resident believed was a scam. Suspicious Meadowbrook Lane, Corning: A woman reported about 5:30a.m. Wednesday as her husband was leaving for work a thin man about 5' 8" with no hair wearing a sports jack- et and jeans was standing outside his vehicle. The suspicious man reportedly took her husband's lunch, which was in a white Sav-Mor plastic bag. The man was last seen going north in the alley on a dark colored bicycle. Solano and Hoag streets, Corning: A man reported to police about 9a.m. Wednesday that a man known only to him as "Chewy" had tried to sell him a hand gun. North Street: A Corning woman reported about 6:30p.m. that someone she knows keeps texting her rude and vulgar com- ments on her 16-year-old niece's phone. The lady asked that the woman tex- ting told to stop sending inappropriate messages. The s Edith Avenue: Someone at Safeway reported about 6:30p.m. the the of a variety of infant mer- chandise. The suspect was described as a 30- to 40-year-old man about 6' tall with a goatee, black A's hat, blue shirt, gray Levi pants and Nike shoes. The man le the area going southeast in a white Ford Fusion. Hogsback Road: A man reported Wednesday the the of a water tank, value $200, taken from range property. Threat South Main Street: Someone at Jack In The Box reported at 1:23a.m. Thursday two men and a woman were denied ser- vice due to walking up to the drive through window and were now loitering in the area and threatening to damage employee vehicles. An area check was made, but no one was located. Policelogs An item in Thursday's edition about upcoming Medicare workshops for baby boomers contained an incorrect date. The Red Bluff work- shop will be offered 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8 at Red Bluff Community Center, 1500 S. Jackson St. The Daily News regrets the error. It is the policy of the Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you believe a factual error has been made in a news story, call 737- 5042. CORRECTION Incorrect date for Medicare workshop Entries are at about normal levels with the Maker Summer doing well for being a new cate- gory, said Still Exhibit Su- pervisor Charlotte O'Neil. There are six entries, in- cluding one in graphic de- sign, one in animation us- ing Legos, one in videog- raphy using a hologram, one in electronics using a digitally controlled crane, one in engineering that is a space engineering video and one under coding that is a maze video game, she said. "It helped a little to have the extra days," O'Neil said. "People always wait until that last minute. The one that surprised me was the sewing project. I thought we'd have more and so far we've only pro- cessed one entry." The sewing project is the 3-Day Runway Sewing Challenge. The event will take place during the fair and entrants will make a dress in 3 days, sewing at least 2 hours per day in the Home Arts/Auditorium building. The Viking Sewing Gal- lery will provide machines for the contestants to use while sewing at the fair and fair-goers will be able to watch the dresses being constructed. Judging will be during the runway fashion show on the Home Arts/Audito- rium Stage at 7 p.m. Sept. 26. Contestants may com- plete their required two hours of on-site construc- tion during any hours that the Home Arts/Audito- rium building is open for fair-goers. The grand prize will be a Husqvarna Viking Em- erald 116 sewing machine valued at $399. For more information, call the Tehama District Fairground office at 527- 5920. Exhibits FROM PAGE 1 Law enforcement agents executed a search warrant May2,2014andfoundhun- dreds of deleted images of child pornography on Oc- chipinti's computer and compact disks containing more than a dozen videos of child pornography. At the sentencing hear- ing, Occhipinti claimed that he had never hurt a child. District Judge Troy Nunley disagreed, saying that by viewing such im- ages of child pornography, Occhipinti was contribut- ing to the market for pro- ducers of these images. "To say that you've never hurt anyone, you need to understand...that you have," Nunley said. This case was the prod- uctofaninvestigationbythe U.S. Immigration and Cus- toms Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investi- gations(HSI).SpecialAssis- tantU.S.AttorneyJoshSigal prosecuted the case. Occhipinti is scheduled to self-surrender to begin serving his sentence on Nov. 3. Porn FROM PAGE 1 Thank you! PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. By Felicia Fonseca The Associated Press GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, ARIZ. Visitors head- ing to the Grand Canyon lately know they are going to get two things when they arrive: breathtaking views and long waits, whether it is to get into the national park itself or to find a park- ing spot inside. A few frus- trated tourists have even turned around and left. The crowds haven't just been coming to the Grand Canyon, where a sign ahead of the entrance gates warns of limited parking. The throngs of tourists have been showing up in big numbers at other na- tional parks, including Yel- lowstone in Wyoming, Yo- semite in California and Zion in Utah, driven by good weather, cheap gas and marketing campaigns ahead of next year's Na- tional Park Service centen- nial. With the busy Labor Day weekend still ahead, the Park Service already has re- corded 5 million more visi- tors from this time last year. The result has been the very traffic congestion that many families and tourists alike hope to escape when they embark on trips to the parks. Many tourists are taking the crowds in stride. "It comes with the deal," said David Stonecypher of Duarte, California, who was visiting with his wife Jetta mid-week to avoid over- crowding. Officials at the parks say they are making do with the resources they have, includ- ing encouraging visitors to use shuttles to cut down on the number of vehicles within parks and paying overtime to keep as many entrance gates open as pos- sible. "It has definitely been a struggle. And there hasn't been an increase in base funding to help compen- sate for the crowds," said Aly Baltrus, spokeswoman at Zion, where officials say search and rescue calls have doubled this year as more people veer off estab- lished paths. Police had to shut down the road into Arches Na- tional Park in Utah over the Memorial Day holiday because so many people wanted to get in. The increase in visitors is due partly to the Park Ser- vice's "Find Your Park" cam- paign, which launched ear- lier this year to reintroduce people to the parks. Several anniversaries are drawing bigger crowds to war me- morials in Washington, D.C., and Lake Mead Na- tional Recreation Area in Nevada and Arizona is get- ting more visitors despite record-low lake levels. Another campaign prom- ises to bring more tour- ists: Fourth-graders and their families are being en- couraged to go to national parks with a free, yearlong pass for them, starting this week. Visitation at the Grand Canyon is approaching a 30 percent rise over last year through August, al- though exact numbers aren't known yet because officials still are trying to gather data from new traffic counters, said Marlon Avan- tyr, the park's revenue and fee business manager. RECREATION Na ti on al p ar ks s ee in g hu ge spikes in visitation this summer FELICIA FONSECA — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Visitors line the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona. The Associated Press SAN JOSE Three Northern California jail guards have been arrested after an in- mate under their watch was found dead of multi- ple blunt trauma, authori- ties said Thursday. Santa Clara County sher- iff's spokesman Sgt. James Jensen said the deputies — Rafael Rodriguez, 27, Jereh Lubrin, 28, and Matthew Farris, 27 — remain in cus- tody without bail. Medical Examiner Dr. Jo- seph O'Hara said that Mi- chael James Pipkin Tyree, 31, died of multiple blunt force injuries, "visceral lacerations" and internal bleeding. Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith, her voice breaking and eyes tearing up, apologized Thursday to Tyree's fam- ily and said "the disap- pointment and disgust I feel cannot be overstated." She was flanked by 18 uni- formed officers, and at least another dozen mem- bers of her agency in plain clothes attended a news conference. She said the three offi- cers, who she called "ac- cused murderers," were treated as anyone else as they were handcuffed, booked and locked in pro- tective custody in the same jail where Tyree was killed. They've since been trans- ferred to an unnamed fa- cility for their own protec- tion, she said. Exactly what happened leading up to Tyree's death remains murky. Last Thursday, Tyree and other inmates in his jail wing were securely locked in their cells when the beat- ing apparently took place. Smith refused to provide details but said the three officers were conducting a routine clothing search and left the wing. She said about an hour later one officer re-entered the cell and issued a "man down" call. Tyree, naked and covered in feces and vomit, was declared dead by responding paramedics. Smith said she apol- ogized directly to two of Tyree's sisters earlier Thursday, and repeated her "profound sorrow" over his death. Smith said the day after Tyree was declared dead, the guards — who had be- gun working their regular shift — were removed from duty, stripped of their weap- ons, uniforms and peace of- ficer status. It took several more days for them to be ar- rested. They currently are on un- paid administrative leave, Smith said. Attorney Paula Canny, representing Tyree's fam- ily, commended the sheriff for an "extraordinary" re- sponse. "This could have been dragged out," Canny said. Canny urged community members to think about "how we, as a system, treat mentally ill people" and said she hopes the district attorney will bring the offi- cers to justice. Raj Jayadev, director of local civil rights organiza- tion Silicon Valley De-Bug which works to support families of people in the criminal justice system, said he hopes there are in- vestigations into other abuse complaints at the county jail. His organization has heard frequent claims, he said, but filing complaints is challenging because it can put inmates at addi- tional risk. He said he's hopefully Smith was sincere in her commitment to fully inves- tigate. Attempts to reach rela- tives of the deputies were unsuccessful Thursday. Tyree was homeless and awaiting to be transferred to a mental-health facility when he died. He was serv- ing a 5-day sentence on a petty theft charge. A former girlfriend told the San Jose Mercury news that Tyree had hoped for a life of peace and tried, al- though unsuccessfully, to keep his bipolar disorder in check. Lindsay Solomon, who dated Tyree when she was a teenager in Coral Springs, Florida, told the paper he could get "very agitated and agitate someone else. I could see it escalating." "But if you're a police officer, or a guard, you should have better judg- ment than that," she told the newspaper. SAN JOSE 3 correctional deputies arrested in inmate death The Associated Press SACRAMENTO Democrats in the California Assembly have unanimously elected their next leader after the current speaker tried to stave off a vote until next year. The Democratic caucus voted Thursday to install Assemblyman Anthony Rendon, a 47-year-old Dem- ocrat from Lakewood in Los Angeles County. Rendon, who currently chairs the Assembly's utilities com- mittee, will take over from Assembly Speaker Toni At- kins next year. Rendon will be the fifth Latino to serve as speaker. Under new term limits, he could serve until 2024. Atkins, who is termed out at the end of next year, had asked her colleagues to hold off on voting for her replacement until January. The Legislature is heading into its final week of the legislative ses- sion with major proposals on climate change, trans- portation and health care still pending. LEGISLATURE De mo cr at s el ec t ne xt sp ea ke r fr om L os An ge le s ar ea KARL MONDON — SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS Pedestrians walk past the Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A