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The following defen- dants were sentenced in Tehama County Superior Court, according to the Tehama County District Attorney's Office: —————— Recent State Prison Commitments: • Spiker Ryan Caha- lan was sentenced to seven years in state prison for driving while having a 0.08 percent or higher blood alcohol with special allegations, prior felony and prior strike. Officers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle driven by Cahalan. Upon contacting Caha- lan officers could smell an odor of alcohol emit- ting from him. After officers were advised that Cahalan was on parole they conducted a search of his vehicle where they located open beer cans and a plastic bag containing metham- phetamine. • Casey Russell Van- gundy was sentenced to 16 months in state prison for petty theft with a prior. Vangundy was com- pleting community ser- vice at the Tehama County Fairgrounds when he stole knives from a BBQ wagon parked nearby and hid them in his clothing. • Arturo Bent was sentenced to 17 years, 8 months in state prison for three counts of sale of a controlled substance with special allegation, controlled substance prior, maintaining place for selling or using con- trolled substance. This case was part of the "Black Ice" drug buy program. During several undercover drug buys, Bent sold methampheta- mine to a confidential informant on three sepa- rate occasions. The drug sale was monitored and recorded by T.I.D.E. agents. • Pablo Lozano was sentenced to two years in state prison for first degree residential bur- glary. Lozano, along with four juveniles, was seen running from a residence carrying several items. It was later determined that the house they were running from had been ransacked and several items had been stolen. When officers ques- tioned Lazano he admit- ted to breaking into the house and stealing prop- erty belonging to the victim. • Worthy Don Stephens was sentenced to 16 months in state prison for failure to reg- ister: initial registration, after address change. Stephens is a sex reg- istrant who was being monitored by parole agents with the use of a GPS tracking device. Stephens had registered with the Red Bluff Police Department as being a transient but agents discovered Stephans had been stay- ing at an address in Red Bluff for several nights as though he had estab- lished residency. Agents then contacted Stephens and advised him to update his sex registra- tion with his current address. Stephens failed to do so and was taken into custody. • Andrew Jewel Fitzwater was sentenced to 16 months in state prison for petty theft with a prior. Deputies were dis- patched to victim's resi- dence regarding a theft of a wallet. Upon arrival deputies were advised that the victim's wife had carried the wallet into the house and a short time later noticed it was missing. Deputies then contacted Fitzwater after they learned he was staying in a trailer out- side of the victim's resi- dence. Fitzwater denied having any knowledge of the stolen wallet. After an investigation it was determined Fitzwater used the victim's credit cards to make purchases at several businesses in Red Bluff and was iden- tified through a surveil- lance video from one of the businesses. Recent County Jail Commitments: • Javier Govea was sentenced to 364 days in Tehama County Jail for corporal injury to spouse/cohabitant/child' s parent. Officers were dis- patched to a residence regarding a disturbance. Officers contacted the victim who stated she had a verbal argument with Govea which became physical. Govea pulled the victim to the ground by her hair and proceeded to drag her across the ground. Govea then punched the victim in her face when she attempted to defend herself. • Wallace Ervin Wil- son was sentenced to 120 days in Tehama County Jail for vandal- ism over $400 damage and vandalism of a dwelling. Wilson was originally granted formal proba- tion. He violated his pro- bation when he failed to keep in contact with his probation officer. • Armando Gutierrez- Flores was sentenced to 120 days in Tehama County Jail for trans- portation of marijuana. Officers issued a traf- fic stop on Gutierrez- Florest after they noticed him driving erratically. While contacting Gutier- rez-Flores officers noticed large trash bags in the back of his truck. After a dog alerted on an odor of narcotics near Gutierrez-Flores' vehi- cle officers searched the trash bags where they located 45 one pound packages of marijuana. • David Cayetano Montes-Deoca was sen- tenced to 365 days in Tehama County Jail for leaving the scene of an accident. Montes-Deoca was driving his vehicle when he initiated a left hand turn in front of a vehicle driven by the victim which resulted in a traf- fic collision. Immediate- ly after the collision Montes-Deoca fled the scene. • Jeramy Alexander Bowers was sentenced to 92 days in Tehama County Jail for sale or transportation of mari- juana, maintaining place for selling or using con- trolled substance. Bow- ers sold marijuana to a confidential informant on two separate occa- sions. Recent Proposition 36 Commitments: Note: A l l cases wherein a defen- dant is sentenced per the terms of Proposition 36 are not at the request of the Tehama County Dis- trict Attorney's Office. Per the requirements of Proposition 36, a defen- dant who possesses drugs cannot be sen- tenced to confinement time in jail or prison. Instead, the court must place defendant on pro- bation and require drug treatment alone. Per the requirements of Proposi- tion 36, only upon a third drug related proba- tion violation may the court impose confine- ment time. In the event the defendant violates a non-drug related term of probation the court may then elect to sentence defendant to jail or prison. The Tehama County District Attorney's Office contends that each criminal case is unique and that in cer- tain, specific, cases a defendant should be sen- tenced to a combination of drug treatment and jail time. We further contend that in other specific cases where a defendant has an exten- sive criminal record and/or a history of non- compliance with either previous grants of proba- tion or previous grants of drug treatment, a state prison sentence should properly be imposed. • Michael Conrad Darrow was sentenced to Prop. 36 probation for two counts of possession of a controlled sub- stance. Darrow was the driver of a vehicle that was stopped for a traffic vio- lation. Upon contacting Darrow officers obtained consent to search his vehicle which resulted in a methamphetamine pipe and a small bindle of m e t h a m p h e t a m i n e . Agents from the drug task force were execut- ing a search warrant at Darrow's residence when they located Dar- row in a travel trailer outside the home. Upon searching the trailer agents locate a broken methamphetamine pipe and a plastic bag con- taining a usable amount of methamphetamine. A search of the main resi- dence resulted in a digi- tal scale and another methamphetamine pipe. 8A – Daily News – Friday, February 5, 2010 The Electric Man For all your electrical needs • New Outlets / 220 • Fans / Fixtures • Pools / Spas • Code Corrections • Troubleshooting • Panel Upgrade • Telephone Wiring 347-4441 $10.00 Customer Discount FREE Estimates License# 826543 DW PLUMBING INC. Local Plumbers Serving all Your Plumbing Needs Since 1993 530 527-6403 Lic. 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Fears of more disap- pointing news Friday, when the government issues its Jan- uary employment report, added to the selloff. Demand for safer invest- ments sent the dollar and Treasurys higher and the euro falling. Major indexes skid- ded as much as 3.1 percent to their lowest levels in three months. The Dow fell 268 points and briefly traded below 10,000 for the first time since Nov. 6. The day's news reminded investors that the global eco- nomic recovery remains tenu- ous. It also raised questions about whether the market can resume its rebound from 12- year lows it hit last March. The latest slide began in Europe, where markets dropped on concerns about onerous debt levels in Greece, Spain and Portugal. It is becoming harder for countries to contain rising debts and to borrow the money they have been using to try to spend their way out of recession. The euro hit a seven-month low against the dollar on the news. The rising dollar hurt demand for commodities, which are priced in dollars and become more expensive to foreign buyers when the dollar climbs. The market's drop was the latest leg of a stumble that began in mid-January. Stocks fell then in response to China's attempts to curb its overheated growth. Those moves raised fears that the other world economies could suffer as a result. The pull- back in stocks worsened as leaders in Washington said they would impose tighter regulations on U.S. banks. ''The market is becoming aware that the wall of cash that lifted it last year is com- ing to an end,'' said Jon Mer- riman, chief executive of Merriman Curhan Ford in San Francisco. Investors also worry that a slowdown in foreign coun- tries would spill over to the U.S. and make it harder for the economy to overcome its biggest problem: unemploy- ment. The Labor Department said Thursday that claims for unemployment benefits rose by 8,000 to 480,000 last week. The news disappointed investors who had hoped for a drop. It was the fourth increase in the past five weeks. The jobless claims num- bers chilled expectations that the government's January jobs report would show that employers added workers in the first month of the year. Analysts currently expect Friday report to show that employers added 5,000 jobs in January. The government is also expected to report that the unemployment rate ticked up to 10.1 percent from 10 per- cent. According to preliminary calculations, the Dow fell 268.37, or 2.6 percent, to 10,002.18. The Dow has fall- en 723 points, or 6.7 percent, since closing at a 15-month high of 10,725.43 on Jan. 19. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 34.17, or 3.1 percent, to 1,063.11, while the Nasdaq composite index slid 65.48, or 3 percent, to 2,125.43. Just 273 stocks rose on the New York Stock Exchange, while more than 2,800 fell. Volume came to 1.5 billion shares, compared with 1 bil- lion Wednesday. Wall Street