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Thefollowingdefendants were sentenced in Tehama County Superior Court, ac- cording to the Tehama County District Attorney's Office: RecentCountyJail Commitments: People vs. Justin Paul Ghilarducci, CorporalInjury to Cohabitant Brief history: During an argument, defendant stuck and choked the mother of his child. Sentenced to 2 years State Prison suspended with 60 dayscountyjailand80hours community service. People vs. Frankie Ro- lando Lopez, Maintaining a Place for Sale of a Controlled Substance Brief history: Defendant rented a room in a local mo- telandintendedtoselldrugs there. Sentenced to 120 days county jail and 80 hours community service. People vs. Gabriel Luke Hanaford, Vandalism Brief history: During an argument with his girl- friend, defendant kicked her car door, damaging it. Sentenced to 90 days county jail and 80 hours community service. People vs. Michael Wayne McDonald, Vehicle Theft Brief history: Defendant was found driving a vehicle stolen in Alameda County which he knew to be stolen. Sentenced to 60 days county jail and 80 hours community service. People vs. Sheree Ann Milnes, Possession for Sale of a Controlled Substance Brief history: Pursuant to a search warrant at her home, Defendant was found tobeinpossessionofaquan- tity of methamphetamine packaged for sale as well as other indicia of sales. Sentenced to 180 days county jail and 80 hours community service. Defen- dantwasalsoplacedinAdult Felon Drug Court. RecentStatePrison Commitments: People vs. Kevin Duane Teem, Possession of a Fire- arm by a Felon Brief history: Defendant stole a flare gun from a local business and was caught as he left the store. Sentenced to 6 years State Prison suspended with 180 days county jail. Defendant was also placed in Adult Felon Drug Court. People vs. Zenon Toledo Eguiluz,PossessionofaCon- trolled Substance With a Firearm, Failure to Appear on a Felony Brief history: Officers re- sponded to reports of shots fired, found defendant with a loaded rifle and a quantity of methamphetamine. De- fendant failed to appear at a scheduled Court hearing. Sentenced to 2 years 8 months State Prison, Sus- pendedwith180dayscounty jailand80hourscommunity service. UpcomingCourtDates -Trials,Preliminary Hearings(PX)&Pre TrialConferences(PTC): People vs. Poly Duenas Sanchez, Gabino Madera, Murder with Special Alle- gation, Personal and Inten- tionalDischargeofaFirearm Brief history: The defen- dants are charged with hav- ing killed the victim, after which they disposed of the body in Glenn County. PPX: November 28, at 10 am Department 1 PX: November 29, at 1:30 pm Department 1 People vs. Poly Duenas Sanchez, Lucio Nenecia Madera, Gabino Madera, Murder with Special Alle- gation, Personal and Inten- tionalDischargeofaFirearm Brief history: The de- fendants are charged with shooting and killing the vic- tim. Trailing new felony People vs. John Noonk- ester,Willful,Deliberateand Premeditated Murder with Special Allegation, Personal and Intentional Discharge of a Firearm, GBI (2 counts); Attempt: Willful, Deliber- ate and Premeditated Mur- der with Special Allegation, PersonalandIntentionalDis- charge of a Firearm, GBI. Brief history: The Defend- ant is charged with shooting and killing his ex-wife and her father, and shooting a bystander. PTC: January 9, 2017 at 1:15 pm in Department 3 PTC: February 24, 2017 at 10 am in Department 4 TBJ: March 8, 2017 at 1:30 pm(DepartmenttobeDeter- mined) People vs. Michael Flow- erdew, Bryan Morrison and Alexander Isaacson, Meet- ing with Minor for Lewd Purposes, Contacting Minor for Lewd Purposes, Sodomy With Person Under 18 Years Old, Oral Copulation of Per- sonUnder18YearsOld,Digi- talPenetrationofPersonUn- der 18 Years Old, Child Pro- curement Brief history: All four de- fendants were engaged in a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old victim knowing that he was a minor at the time. One of the defendants would drive the victim to Gridleysothathecouldhave sex with another defendant on weekends. Sentencing: Flowerdew: December 19, at 3:30 pm in Department 4 Sentencing:Morrison:De- cember 19, at 10 am in De- partment 1 Sentencing: Isaacson: No- vember 30, at 1:15 pm in De- partment 1 Peoplevs.ThomasMichael Dixon, Murder with Special Allegation and Intentional Discharge of a Firearm, with Great Bodily Injury Brief history: The defen- dant confronted the victim regarding an alleged theft. During the confrontation, the victim was shot multi- ple times. Next court date: Novem- ber 28, at 1:15 pm in Depart- ment 1 People vs. Suren Patel, public officer crime, perjury by declaration, theft from elder or dependent adult, grand theft, workers' com- pensation fraud, conspiracy to commit a crime, 2 counts Brief history: Patel was the owner and manager of a motel in Red Bluff and is an elected Red Bluff City Coun- cilman.Inrunninghismotel, Patelemployedpeopletopro- vide maid and maintenance services. Based on an ini- tial investigation, it was de- termined that Patel failed to provideaccurateinformation tohisworkers'compensation insurance carrier. Addition- ally, Patel used a motel cus- tomer's credit card to his ad- vantage without the consent ofthecustomer.Additionally, as a motel owner and oper- ator, Patel was entrusted by thecityofRedBlufftocollect from each motel guest Tran- sient Occupancy Tax and to provide such tax to the city each month. Based on an in- vestigation, it appears that Patel significantly under-re- ported the taxes due to the city. In addition to the listed charges, Patel falsified docu- ments on behalf of two em- ployeessothattheycouldun- lawfully obtain welfare ben- efits. Patel was arrested on a Tehama County warrant in Florida and agreed to be ex- tradited to Tehama County. Patel surrendered his pass- port by order of the court. Basedonsuchsurrender,Pa- tel'sbailwassetat$300,000. PPX: November 28, at 10 am Department 1 PX: November 29, at 1:30 pm Department 1 People vs. Clayton De- laugher, Vehicular Man- slaughter Brief history: The defen- dant was driving and ap- proachinganaccidentsouth- bound on I-5 when he hit an- other vehicle. The driver of the other vehicle died at the scene. PH: December 14, at 9 am in Department 3 People vs. Malachi Jack- son,AttemptedMurder,May- hem, Assault with a Deadly Weapon Brief History: The defen- dant and the victim were involved in an altercation wherein the victim was stabbed by the defendant. PTC: November 29, at 8 am in Department One. People vs. Kory Daniel Lefler, Murder Brief history: The defen- dant and the victim were involved in a confrontation. The victim was shot multi- pletimeswhichcausedgreat bodily injury resulting in death. PPX:December5,at10am in Department One PX: December 6, at 1:30 pm in Department One. Peoplevs.JenniferAdams, 5Counts,TheftfromElderor Dependent Adult, 5 Counts, Grand Theft of Personal Property, 5 Counts, Grand Theft, 5 Counts, Theft Brief history: The defen- dant embezzled funds from multiple clients at the care facility she was employed at over a several year period. PPX: November 28, at 10 am Department 1 PX: November 29, at 1:30 pm Department 1 Courtroundup By Kristin J. Bender TheAssociatedPress OAKLAND Like most lit- tle boys, Corey Lever liked trucks and his favorite was always the garbage truck. He loved to watch it roar down his Oakland street, grabbing the cans and dumping the trash into its rear compartment. After graduating from high school, he bounced be- tween jobs, working for var- ious large companies and at- tending community college, but nothing was a good fit for the energetic, outdoors- loving guy. He tried to be- come a garbage collector on his own but didn't get hired. Then he heard about a new partnership between Waste Management of Al- ameda County Inc., Oak- land Civicorps and unions that gives young adults — often high school dropouts from low-income communi- ties — a chance to become teamster drivers after two years of training. "It's the only city garbage franchise agreement in the country to include a non- profit job training program," said Civicorps Executive Di- rector Alan Lessik. The job-training program comes at a good time for an industry struggling to find drivers. The American Trucking Association says a shortage of qualified applicants with acommercialdriver'slicense has more than doubled since 2011. Its latest annual report says the nation was short roughly 48,000 drivers last year, with projections of a higher shortage in years to come. The shortfall has become more apparent as the econ- omy picks up, said Barry Skolnick, Waste Manage- ment's area vice president for Northern California and Nevada. "If commercial construc- tion picks up, there are more houses, and (when) routes get bigger, we need to hire more drivers," he said. "It's really being driven by the economy.It'sagreatjobwith great benefits." Apprentices work full time collecting organics from commercial businesses in Oakland. Last year, Civicorps cre- ated six apprenticeships in partnership with Waste Management that can lead to lucrative jobs with the teamsters and unions as well as non-union adminis- trative jobs. Truck driver apprentices earn $20 an hour, and af- ter two years they are eli- gible for union jobs earn- ing $70,000 annually while working toward a pension, Lessik said. "This job is environmen- tally friendly, and I'm doing something that kids look up to," said Lever, now 25 and finished with his first year of training."Icouldn'tgetthere by myself, and they helped me get there." Even getting up at 2:45 a.m. and dealing with mag- gots — and worse — on the job doesn't seem to bother Lever. "I am thankful that they gave me this opportunity to do something I wanted to do," he said. Will Montolla was once a high school dropout headed toward Oakland gang life, but says the program changed his life. "I was in the streets doing bad things," he said. Montollahadrun-inswith law enforcement and says he wasn't looking to get a job. He envisioned a future in prison or dead. "I made some real dumb decisions. AllIwastryingtobewasthe toughest street kid around." Montolla is now 28 and a father. Through Civicorps, he earned a high school di- plomaandenteredthetruck- driving training program. "It's hard work and phys- ically demanding," he said. "You are always watching out for cars and kids and people crossing the street, but I've learned how to work really hard." That determination has not gone unnoticed. Operations Manager Hec- tor Abarca earned his high school diploma through Civ- icorps more than 20 years ago and has a good-pay- ing job that supports his four children. He's been im- pressedwithLeverandMon- tolla. "They've definitely set the bar high," he said. "The next guys who go over there have big shoes to fill." Civicorps Recycling runs five routes, serving more than 800 commercial ac- counts, including the Uni- versity of California, Berke- ley, Oakland International Airport, Mills College and the Oakland Unified School District. It also serves more than 750 small businesses in Alameda County. "It's really cool to watch these young adults enjoy what they are doing and get past anything that hap- pened to them before," said Skolnick, of Waste Manage- ment. "It's a great win-win for them and for us and for Civicorps, and a win-win for the city of Oakland." JOBS Program trains young garbage collectors amid US shortage ERICRISBERG—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Apprentice garbage man Corey Lever collects trash outside a school in Oakland. 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