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A’s lose opener Your health: FORUM .............Page 6 Ask Dr. Gott Suggestions for casino project ..............Page 3 ......................................Page 4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Mostly sunny 7 58551 69301 0 TUESDAY April 3, 2007 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 359 email: [email protected] Man shot during sweep Bullets fly in south Ukiah neighborhood By BEN BROWN firearm, then a pause, then five more The Daily Journal shots. A man was injured in an exchange Allman said the Sheriff’s office of gunfire with police during an would take the lead in the investiga- inter-agency gang and probation tion because the crime occurred out- sweep of South Dora Avenue near side city limits. the intersection with Jefferson Lane He said investigators from the Monday night. District Attorney’s Office would be Mendocino County Sheriff Tom coming in to investigate the use of Allman said officers were conduct- force as is standard for officer ing the sweep when the shooting involved shootings in Mendocino occurred after 8 p.m. Monday. County. “Contact was made and shots It is not known what started the were fired,” he said. shooting, or if it was related to the The suspect was hit, and was probation sweep. transported by ambulance to the Police had South Dora Avenue Ukiah Valley Medical Center for closed Monday night from the inter- treatment, Allman said. The suspects section with Laws Avenue to the name was not available at press time. intersection with Jefferson Lane No officers were injured during while they performed their investi- the shootout.. gation. Others living in the area said they Officers from the Sheriff’s office, heard the shots. the Ukiah Police Department, The Randy Casey, who lives on South Fort Bragg Police Department and Dora Avenue, said he had stepped the California Highway Patrol all outside his house for a cigarette responded to this incident. The when he heard “an awful lot of gun- Ukiah Valley Fire District also fire.” responded. Ben Brown/The Daily Journal Casey described hearing as many Ben Brown can be reached at Law enforcement from the Sheriff’s Department, Ukiah Police and the California Highway Patrol as eight rounds fired from one [email protected] descended on south Ukiah Monday night. Two major court cases delayed WEEKEND UPDATE By KATIE MINTZ postponed to Monday, April 9 a child Raff and Larkin had Meanwhile, the start of pro- responded to the incident. The Daily Journal at 1:30 p.m. to allow both of during a relationship in the ceedings against the man Diver dies Laura McCutcheon can be two mental health experts 1980s. charged over a year ago with near Mendocino reached at [email protected]. A mental competency hear- selected the time to see Raff. Raff has also been charged 36 counts of animal abuse in ing for Howard Eugene Raff, It is alleged that the Beaver with the special allegations the case of a herd of horses Sunday Burned body 55, who is charged with mur- Dam, Ariz., man entered the that he committed the crime seized on the coast was also By LAURA MCCUTCHEON der in the shooting death of law offices of Hugh L. Preston with a firearm, that he lay in found after fire on Nov. 6 and shot Larkin, 60, put off again Monday. The The Daily Journal The Daily Journal Virginia Larkin, was post- wait to commit the crime and poned one week on Monday once in the head before walk- Daily Journal will have more A 55-year-old man died Badly burned human to allow for further review by ing to the Ukiah courthouse that he committed it for finan- on the future of James Sunday while diving in the remains were discovered in doctors. and turning himself in to cour- cial gain. DeNoyer’s case in Mendocino Bay. the rubble, following a struc- Public Defender Wes thouse security. If found fit to stand trial Wednesday’s Daily Journal. The man was diving with a ture fire Wednesday near friend, when the friend Hamilton, who is representing The dispute was reportedly and convicted, Raff could face Katie Mintz can be reached at Willits, it has now been noticed him face down in the Raff, asked that the hearing be over visitation and support of life imprisonment. [email protected]. announced. water, according to At around 2:30 a.m., Mendocino Fire Chief Danny Mendocino County Sheriff’s Hervilla. The friend pulled the deputies were dispatched to victim out of the water and an address on Foster started performing CPR, Mountain Road northeast of while bystanders called 911, Willits for a reported victim of Red Cross Hero of the Year Hervilla said. a fatal structure fire, accord- When firefighters arrived He tirelessly assisted in ing to the MCSO. Hopland man shortly before 4 p.m., the vic- The Little Lake Fire water rescues, evacuations tim -- whose name has not and property protection,” Department and the California named for his been released -- was at the Department of Forestry and said Ellen Maremont Silver, base of a short cliff, Hervilla dedication director of marketing with Fire Protection responded to said. the blaze and found a wooden during’06 floods the American Red Cross, The fire department and Sonoma and Mendocino structure fully engulfed in other medical personnel con- flames. The human remains By LAURA MCCUTCHEON counties. tinued CPR until paramedics The Daily Journal In the months following were found in the rubble. arrived on scene. The victim The remains were trans- Because he is a man who that devastation, Melchors was evacuated using a Stokes goes “above and beyond” to helped throughout the com- ported to Ankler-Lucier stretcher during a high angle Mortuary in Willits. The iden- help others in his communi- munity, especially in the cliff rescue, Hervilla said. ty, Hopland volunteer fire- clean-up and repair of the tification of the remains will The patient had a pulse at have to be done through den- fighter Chino Melchors has Hopland School, which was this point, he said, but died in been named “Mendocino hit hard by flood waters. tal records or DNA. the ambulance while en route The cause of the fire is still County Hero of the Year,” by Melchors also served as to the Mendocino Coast the local chapter of the translator between the many under investigation, but foul District Hospital. play is not suspected, accord- American Red Cross. Spanish-speaking residents The US Coast Guard also Melchors -- and about a and the relief organizations ing to the Sheriff’s Office. dozen others from helping them following the Mendocino and Sonoma flood, she said. Public invited in on the counties -- will be honored at the Real Heroes Breakfast on See HERO, Page 16 ground floor for general plan April 25, at the Hyatt will give community mem- Vineyard Creek Hotel in Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal The Daily Journal Santa Rosa, for his efforts Hopland volunteer fire- Mendocino County resi- bers a chance to participate in during the Hopland flood. fighter Chino Melchors dents are invited to join the updating the General Plan, “On Jan. 1, 2006, Hopland has been named county Planning Commission adopted in 1981, so that it suffered the worst flooding “Mendocino County at three upcoming workshops reflects changing conditions, ever recorded. During this Hero of the Year,” by the on the General Plan update, issues, requirements and time, when the volunteer fire regional chapter of the the first of which is set for desired direction for the future department responded to American Red Cross for Thursday in Ukiah. growth and development of over 100 incidents in 80 his efforts during the The workshops, spread the unincorporated county hours, Chino worked for New Year’s floods at the throughout the county with through the year 2025. more than 60 hours straight. start of 2006. the second and third planned On Thursday, the workshop for Boonville and Fort Bragg, See PLAN, Page 16 2 – TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] vehicle overturned. POLICE REPORTS At around 5:30 p.m., Mona The world briefly The following were Sampson, 54, was driving compiled from reports southbound on Highway 101 prepared by the Ukiah at Burke Hill, at approximate- Senate may move to cut town in the western Solomon Islands north of the capital. The attack came just Police Department. To ly 65 miles per hour, when she after a tsunami that struck without warn- days after the government adopted a plan anonymously report apparently fell asleep and ran off war funds if White ing washed away coastal villages, killing to relocate thousands of Arabs who were crime information, call off the freeway into a dirt cen- House rejects timeline at least 13 people. The death toll was moved to Kirkuk decades ago in Saddam 463-6205. ter median, according to the expected to rise. Hussein’s campaign to displace the ARREST -- Maximilian California Highway Patrol. WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate A wall of water reportedly 30 feet high Kurds. Mische, 61, of Ukiah, was The vehicle -- a 1989 Honda Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday struck the island of Choiseul and swept a Doctors worked in a scene of bloody arrested on suspicion of dri- Accord -- hit a concrete/metal he will try to cut off funding for the Iraq third of a mile inland, while smaller but pandemonium as wounded were brought ving under the influence at culvert in the middle of the war if President Bush rejects Congress’ still destructive waves surged ashore to the emergency room.