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Community Your health: FORUM sports digest Ask Dr. Gott Have the voters forgotten? .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ...................................Page 4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Mostly sunny 7 58551 69301 0 TUESDAY Oct. 17, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 191 email: [email protected] Number City pot gardens raided of voters down Voter registration below level of June primary By KATIE MINTZ The Daily Journal On Monday afternoon, Mendocino County had 47,306 registered voters, but chances are, that number is now different. “It’s a continually chang- ing number,” County Clerk Marsha Wharff said of the registered voter count. As Oct. 23 -- the deadline to register -- approaches, she said, it’s in constant flux. Brothers arrested “We usually get quite a few By BEN BROWN plants growing in the back- registrations in at the end,” The Daily Journal yards of both homes, as well Wharff said. “We expect that Gardens Avenue is a quiet as an additional 262 smaller there will be a lot of registra- residential street. There is an “clone” plants. tions coming into us this elementary school one block “This is the most blatant week.” over and in October, the marijuana grow in city limits” To be eligible to register, a leaves turn, fall, and gather in said UPD Capt. Trent Taylor. person must be a citizen of the the gutters. Officers also seized 170 United States, a resident of The only things breaking pounds of marijuana that was California, 18 years of age or the illusion Monday morning being dried and processed for were the police cars blocking sale, $1,200 in cash, a BMW See VOTERS, Page 16 both ends of the street and the and an SUV that belonged to overpowering smell of mari- Memo. Taylor estimated the juana. street value of the marijuana Officers from the Ukiah seized to be close to $1 mil- Axe Police Department, with help lion. from the County of Taylor said Memo did have Mendocino Marijuana some documentation to show wielding Eradication Team, served he had the right to use mari- search warrants on 106 and juana for medical purposes, man 130 Gardens Ave., neighbor- but the amount seized is larger ing houses owned by Ukiah than can be grown legally for resident Memo Parker. personal use. arrested Officers briefly blocked “He could provide no evi- The Daily Journal both ends of the street to vehi- dence that he could provide to Mark Bevan, 32, of cle and foot traffic while they others legitimately under Manchester, was arrested on served the warrants. Proposition 215,” Taylor said. suspicion of spousal abuse, Memo, 36, and his brother The search warrants were violation of a restraining Mark Parker, 45, both of issued partially based on mul- order, resisting arrest, threat- Ukiah, were arrested on suspi- tiple calls from neighbors ening the victim of a crime cion of cultivation of marijua- complaining of the smell of and vandalism over $400 at na for sale and possession of marijuana, and more recently 10 p.m. Sunday. marijuana for sale. Officers on reports that Memo was According to reports from seized 190 mature marijuana growing his marijuana out- the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, deputies Ben Brown/The Daily Journal responded to reports of Top left, Ukiah Police Sgt. Justin Wyatt and Officer Quincy Cromer arrest Memo yelling and a possible fight at Parker (left) and Mark Parker (right), on suspicion of cultivation and possession 162 Mountain View Road in of marijuana for sale Monday morning. Above, Ukiah Police Sgt. Justin Wyatt removes adult marijuana plants from a garden in the backyard of 106 Gardens See ARREST, Page 16 Avenue where Ukiah Police officers served a search warrant Monday. side, in violation of Ukiah city den Monday morning. One woman, a teacher at Time ordinance. “We were going to call the nearby Yokayo Elementary Taylor described the back- DEA in Santa Rosa,” Gordon School, told officers she could yard of the 130 Gardens said. often smell the marijuana to clean Avenue residence as so thick Another neighbor, who from her classroom a block with marijuana plants that it declined to be named for fear away. was difficult to walk through. of reprisal, said the garden had Mendocino County Deputy your When officers started been an escalating problem District Attorney James Nerli bringing plants out Monday since 2001. was on site for service of the chimney afternoon, many were as tall “We’re very pleased this is search warrant and the eradi- The Daily Journal as seven feet. Taylor said happening,” she said. “We’ve cation. Nerli said he would be As we head into fall and Memo had erected tall fences been putting up with it long prosecuting the case but said the mornings and evenings in the backyard of the house to enough.” he did not have an official get colder, the Ukiah Valley conceal the plants. As operations wore on comment. Fire District is encouraging Keith Gordon, who lives on through the morning and into Memo and Mark were both county residents to clean their nearby Hillcrest Drive, was the afternoon, neighborhood booked into county jail where chimneys to avoid potential one of the people who lobbied residents stopped to stare in they are being held on a fires. Ukiah Police Sgt. Justin Wyatt and COMMET Deputy the Ukiah City Council for amazement at the amount of $150,000 bond each. Chimney fires are caused Butch Gupta remove processed marijuana from a that ordinance. He was glad to marijuana coming out of the Ben Brown can be reached by the accumulation of cre- house at 106 Gardens Avenue, Monday. see UPD officers raid the gar- house, and to thank officers. at [email protected] osote, a black, highly flam- mable substance that builds- up in chimney pipes. While chimney fires are sometimes minor, the heat Governor’s contest: Angelides calls it ‘a horse race’ inside a chimney during one can reach as high as 2,000 By JOSH RICHMAN The state Treasurer once Market. “You can’t trust money on politics. ers killed in the line of duty. degrees Fahrenheit. That is MediaNews Group again noted that Arnold Schwarzenegger to do He also had backed a mea- “It was a bad idea last year Schwarzenegger, at their Oct. the right thing by public safe- sure to replace police offi- and it’s a bad idea this year,” hot enough to crack brick or SAN FRANCISCO - rock construction and heat Flanked by police and fire- 7 debate, had said his special- ty in this state.” cers’, firefighters’ and other said San Francisco Deputy election agenda included Among ballot measures public workers’ pensions with Sheriffs Association President metal chimney pipes to red- fighters, Democratic guberna- hot. torial nominee Phil Angelides “good ideas” simply pursued Schwarzenegger touted last a 401(k)-type of plan, but he David Wong. too quickly. year was one that would’ve abandoned it after Attorney Ron Cottingham, president If the chimney cracks dur- said Monday that Gov. Arnold ing a fire, flames can quickly Schwarzenegger attacked first “The people of California required public workers’ General Bill Lockyer wrote of the Peace Officers know they were bad ideas,” unions to get individual mem- ballot language noting the Research Association of spread to the attic or roof of responders and can’t be trust- the house where they can ed to refrain from doing so Angelides said outside a fire bers’ annual written consent plan would eliminate death again. station on Sanchez Street near before spending their dues benefits for spouses of work- See RACE, Page 16 See CHIMNEY, Page 16 2 – TUESDAY, OCT. 17, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] The world briefly FUNERAL NOTICES [\ Lawn Cemetery in Bill is survived by his dren Zachary Ludwig, WILBUR “BILL” GURLEY Colma, California. wife Barbara Gurley of Minta Ludwig, Jackie Memorial services for Born November 28, 1913 Ukiah, daughters Sandra Friend, Dana Nelson, Surge of sectarian violence leaves nearly Wilbur “Bill” Gurley of in Riverside, Cali- and Richard Ludwig Stephen Gurley, Daniel 100 dead in Iraqi town near Baghdad Ukiah will be held on fornia, Bill passed away on of Carson City, Marsha and Gurley and great- Saturday, October 21, Monday, October Geoff Nelson of granddaughter Autumn BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Four days of sectarian slaughter 2006 at 3 pm at the 9, 2006 in Fort Bragg, Cloverdale, son David and Danielle. killed at least 91 people by Monday in Balad, a town near a Eversole Mortuary. Inurn- California with his fami- Jo Anne Gurley of The Eversole Mortuary is major U.S. air base an hour’s drive north of the capital. ment will be in Cypress ly at his side. Miranda, CA, grandchil- in charge of arrangements. Elsewhere, 60 Iraqis died in attacks and 16 tortured bodies were found. The U.S. command said seven American troops died in fight- prepared by the for inhaling nitrous oxide in tact the appropriate agency. In the case ing a day earlier. That raised the U.S. toll to 58 killed in the first POLICE REPORTS of those arrested on suspicion of dri- Mendocino County the car, according to the ving under the influence of an intoxi- two weeks of October, a pace that if continued would make the The following were Sheriff’s Office: report. Deputies also noticed a cant: all DUI cases reported by law month the worst for coalition forces since 107 U.S. and 10 compiled from reports ARREST -- Mendocino smell of marijuana coming enforcement agencies are reported by British soldiers died in January 2005.