Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 20

20 SUNDAY, AUG. 18, 1991 Daily Digest -THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL- Officer- Streets Aug. 18,1991 OBITUARIES None reported. POLICE LOG The following was compiled from reports prepared by the Ukiah Police Department ARREST Martin J. Breuer, 36, of Redwood Valley, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.

According to the report, Breuer was arrested in the 100 block of Gibson Street at 3:04 a.m. Saturday. SHERIFF'S LOG The following was compiled from reports prepared by the Mendocino County Sheriff's. Department VANDALISM Windows on four vehicles and a home on Yokayo Ranch Road were reported broken Friday at 10:43 a.m. According to the report, the damage was estimated at $3,000.

BURGLARY Jewelry worth $200 was reported missing from a home on North Bush Street According to the report, a bedroom door was forced open. VEHICLE BURGLARY A CD player and 30 disks were reported stolen Thursday from a locked vehicle parked in the Mendocino College parking lot According to the report, the property was estimated at $500. FIRE LOG UKIAH VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT Friday VEGETATION FIRE Firefighters responded to a small vegetation fire in the 2100 block of South State Street at 11 ajn. MEDICAL AID Firefighters responded to a call for medical aid in the 1800 block of South Dora Street at 11:21 a.m. Saturday MEDICAL AID Firefighters responded to a call for medical aid in the 2100 block of South State Street at 12:32 a.m.

TRAFFIC COLLISION Firefighters responded to a non-injury traffic collision in the 400 block of Oak Knoll Road at 6:20 a.m. MEDICAL AID Firefighters responded to a call for medical aid in the 1800 block of South Dora Street at 9:43 a.m. MEDICAL AID Firefighters responded to a medical aid call in the area of the Mill Creek Dams at 4:10 p.m. BIRTHS son, Scott Jackson, was born Aug. 7,1991, at Ukiah Valley Medical Center to Donna E.

and John R. Retzloff of Covelo. His grandparents are Leon Holder of Orland, Quina Holder of Flora Vista, N.M., Lucille Retzloff of Orland. Scott was also welcomed by his sisters, Sara and Kelli and his brothers, John Jr. and Matt.

son, Jeffrey Daniel, was bom Aug. 7, 1991, at Ukiah Valley Medical Center to Sue and Trino Rodriguez of Ukiah. His grandparents are Al and Pete Manning of Ukiah, Ignacio and Margarita Rodriguez. Jeffrey was also welcomed by his brother, Gregory Lee. daughter, Kristine Jenifer Ann, was born Aug.

8, 1991, at Ukiah Valley Medical Center to Michelle Lee Shanklin and Paul John Mendez Sr. of Upper Lake. Her grandparents are Jerry and Alice Jarnagin of Ukiah, Jose Mendez of Ukiah, Gerry Jicha of Wisconsin. Kristine was also welcomed by her sister, Leslie Shanklin, 3, and her brother, Paul John Mendez, 13 months. daughter, Alanna Marguritte, was born Aug.

9,1991, at Ukiah Valley Medical Center to Jan Hofman and Douglas Browe of Talmage. Her grandfather is George Hofman of Chicago. Alanna was also welcomed by her sisters, Allison June and Victoria Myers and her brother, Aaron Samual. daughter, Raylynne Faye, was born Aug. 9, 1991, at Ukiah Valley Medical Center to Shawna Strickland of Willits and Richard Jeanes of Oroville.

Her grandparents are Hutchee Strickland and John O'Farrell of Willits, Dave and Donna Simmons of Glen. son, James Ryan, was born Aug. 10, 1991, at Ukiah Valley Medical Center to Georgette M. and James L. Wells of Redwood Valley.

His grandparents are Diana Wells of Ukiah, James Wells of Sacramento, Dianna and Henry Desroches of Ukiah. daughter, Sacha Teresa, was born Aug. 10, 1991, at Ukiah Valley Medical Center to Annette and Ken Whedon of Ukiah. Her grandparents are Elvin and Joyce Stroligo of Ukiah, Pat Whedon of Reno, Nev. Sacha was also welcomed by her sister, Matija.

son, Matthew Michael, was born Aug. 11, 1991, at Ukiah Valley Medical Center to Valerie A. and Michael R. Moore of Potter Valley. His grandparents are Ray and Carol Moore of Escondido, Joann and Tom Treptow of Mission Viejo.

daughter, Marisol Mireya, was bom Aug. 11, 1991, at Ukiah Valley Medical Center to Esperanza and Gonzalo Vazquez of Ukiah. Her grandparents are Manuel and Maria Lopez of Bend, Sara Vazquez of Zamora, Michoacan, Mexico. Marisol was also welcomed by her brother, Alejandro. son, Erick Mario, was born Aug.

12,1991, at Ukiah Valley Medical Center to Estreya Fuentes and Mario Patino of Willits. His grandparents are Patricia Foster, Mario Patino, Aurora Patino. son, Michael James, was bom Aug. 13,1991, at Ukiah Valley Medical Center to Heidi Ann and James Michael Martin of Ukiah. His grandparents are Robert and Marian Welch of Boise, Idaho, Judy Anderson of Ukiah.

Continued from Page 1 this very seriously and that they can come to us and we will protect their rights." Keplinger said the investigation began about two months ago when a Hispanic, non-English-speaking man who had been arrested for public intoxication told a Ukiah Police detective he had been released from jail with less money than he believed he had when arrested. Later, another man reported similar circumstances, Keplinger said, and both men had been arrested by Richard. The two arrested men were not identified by police. Keplinger said the amount of money missing was more than $100 each, but the exact amount was unknown. "They could not tell us how much money they originally had, probably because they were intoxicated at the time.

But they knew they had less (after they were released from jail)," Keplinger said. He said an investigation was initiated then, and late Friday night, a Spanish-speaking agent from the Attorney General's Office, Bureau of Investigation was placed as a decoy outside the Vineyard Bar, 720 N. State St. The bar was under the surveillance of Ukiah Police investigators and state law enforcement personnel. Arrangements were made for Richard to be dispatched to the bar and contact the agent who pretended to be intoxicated and unable to speak English, Keplinger said.

Richard arrested the agent, who had about $500 of marked bills in his wallet, and transported him to county jail. There, officers discovered some of the marked money about $200 missing from the agent's wallet. Keplinger said the money was later recovered and Richard was subsequently arrested. The chief declined to say where the money was found, but said it was not found in Richard's possession. He said a thorough background investigation was completed before Richard was hired onto the police force, and there was never any indication of dishonesty.

'It's the first time in my career I have ever had to arrest a police officer," the chief said Saturday. "I've investigated officers and I have arrested former police officers, but I never had to arrest one of my own. It was disgusting." When the alleged crimes were first reported to police, he said, investigators were unsure if Richard or others, possibly corrections officers, were involved. "We were hoping to exonerate our officer. I told the sheriff I believed it was our problem and he was very cooperative," Keplinger said of the investigation.

"The reason we arrest those who are intoxicated is for their own protection," Keplinger added. "For police officers to take advantage of that situation is disgusting to me." Perlene Hernandez, a member of Concilio Latino Americano and coeditor of the Amanecer, Mendocino County's bilingual newspaper, said she had not heard of Richard's arrest or the allegations against him. "A lot of unfairness goes on in our community, not just with the police, but with the ranchers," Hernandez said. "Because they (non- English speaking individuals) are not educated or acculturated there really is no legal support for them." But, she added, she was satisfied with what the police department had done. "If they had some kind of suspicion, they followed through with their suspicions," she said.

Before coming to the Ukiah Police Department, Richard was an officer with the Petaluma Police Department for about a year and a half. He also was a member of the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department from 1986 to 1987. Jjf convicted, Richard could be sentenced to state prison. Continued from Page Guilty- Continued from Page 1 trial and answered "yes, your honor" when Judge Cox asked him if he understood his rights. The judge ordered a probation report completed and scheduled Plymire's sentencing for Sept 27.

"I feel relieved it's almost over," said Kristen Scaturro, mother, who was present in court with her husband, Mario. Plymire was originally charged with four felony counts including drunken driving, hit-and-run, having a blood-alcohol level higher than .08 and making terrorist threats. But two of the charges were dropped, according to District Attorney Susan Massini, because Plymire pleaded guilty to the most serious charge and would receive no more punishment for the others. The charge of making terrorist threats was dropped because of insufficient evidence, Massini said. The court granted a "Harvey waiver" on a fifth charge which alleges Plymire failed to notify an owner of damage during a separate hit-and-run incident the same day.

A "Harvey waiver" allows the judge to order restitution be paid to the victim without Plymire admit- ting guilt. Plymire's attorney, Duncan James, said his client is satisfied with the outcome. "From the very beginning in my dealings with Mr. Plymire, he has been emotionally upset about what he caused," James said. "He has tremendous feelings of remorse.

He recognized the seriousness of the injuries and didn't realize it (the accident) had happened." James said Plymire had waived a preliminary hearing scheduled- in June because he did not want to put the Scaturro family through anymore than they had already gone through. Massini said Friday she was unsure if she would ask for a state prison sentence. The maximum punishment for felony drunken driving is three years in state prison. "It depends on the probation report," Massini said when asked what punishment she would seek. James said he plans to ask for felony probation.

"He has an immaculate background and is a first offender at age 67. If he ended up going to prison, he probably would not survive," James said. Seven die in mall massacre; attacker turns gun on himself 'Bob' upgraded to hurricane MIAMI (AP) Hurricane Bob, packing winds near 75 mph, was upgrade from a tropical storm Saturday and forecasters posted warning for the North Carolina coast "It could skirt the outer banks (of North Carolina)," said Bob Ebargh, a weather service specialist with the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables. Hurricane Bob was predicted to move north-northwest, take a turn to the north and skin the North Carolina coast and then continue north. Ebargh said it wasn't possible to pinpoint exactly where it would hit.

"It's a matter of watching and waiting, and seeing that it does," Ebargh said. At 3 p.m. PDT, Bob was located about 380 miles south of Cape Hatteras, N.C. The hurricane was moving toward the north, northwest near 9 mph and was expected to turn toward the north with an increase in speed today. Bob gained tropical storm status Friday in the Bahamas.

A hurricane watch was posted from the southern border of North Carolina to south of Virginia Beach, including Pamlico and Albemarle sounds. STRATHFTELD, Australia (AP) A man hacked to death a teenage girl, then opened fire in a crowded shopping mall Saturday, killing six others before taking his own life as police closed in. At least seven people were wounded by automatic gunfire in the 10-minute rampage that turned the suburban Sydney shopping center into a scene of carnage and confusion. "Blood was everywhere. People were running frantically around.

It was total chaos," said Constable George Kohahila. Police said the motive for the attack was unknown and there was no indication the assailant knew any of the victims, many of whom were hit as they scrambled for cover. "There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason for it," said Doug Kelly, chief superintendent for Blacktown district police. "It was a horrendous killing." The masked attacker whom police identified only as a 33-year- old part-time taxi driver shot himself on the rooftop parking garage at the Strathf ield Shopping Plaza in an upper middle-class suburb west of Sydney. Police said the man, who lived alone, had a license for the assault rifle, a Chinese-made self-loading automatic weapon.

Earlier reports had said the rifle was a Soviet- designed AK-47. Police said the dead included situation. 1 just told her that you know, she could figure it out for herself. So I went and I had six stitches put in my hand. Usually when you do this (kind of work) you get bit quite a bit Dale Brlggs Route: South end of Dora Street I got bit delivering mail to a house, to a door.

And it was on a regular route that I'd had for probably a year and a half and no "beware dog" signs or nothing. Never heard a dog bark. And the kids always came to the door and got the mail. I did that probably 100 times. So this one time I came to the door and handed him the mail.

This was about six years ago I guess. He turned around and walked inside the house and just as I started to walk off the dog came out the door, bit my hand. It was a hunting dog, but I don't know what kind it was. It was about 60 pounds. It was real interesting because you go back and you don't feel pain, but you almost go back in an animal way.

Because the dog was actually trying to pull me down. So I kneed the dog at which time I had my spray in my satchel. And the dog turned around and come back again and I could spray it because I already had the spray out. So I sprayed it (the dog repellent we carry). And poor kid, the kid was about 70 pounds and the dog ran around this bush and came back at me from the other direction and I sprayed it again because the kid was holding it and the kid could not restrain the dog.

And at that time I just started walking across the lawn because across the street was an old supervisor from here (Ukiah post office). Lady came out and said, 'What's going And it's really hard to be congenial in that five women and three men, including the assailant A 47-year-old woman injured in the shooting died about eight hours later in nearby Concord hospital, police said. "It's a terrible scene in there terrible," Kellv said. The two-story complex of small restaurants, shops and boutiques filled with late- afternoon customers at a half-hour before most stores usually close. Witnesses said the man was sitting in a restaurant when an argument broke out He attacked a 15-year-old girl with a machete, then turned bis rifle on other patrons, shooting four of them dead.

One victim was the restaurant's owner, George Mavors, who was shot in the chest as he walked from the kitchen. Witnesses said the gunman appeared to be calm. Screaming shopkeepers and shoppers ducked for cover or fled. The man, wearing a stocking mask, ran to the parking area, killing another person on the steps. Police said he continued firing indiscriminately from the roof, wounding passers-by below.

One person was hit at a railway station about 100 yards away. Chief Superintendent Ken Moroney, acting regional commander of the South-west Police region, said the assailant had no previous criminal record Steven Olson Route: Todd Grove Park area Well, the worst one wasn't that bad at all. I've been pretty lucky, I guess. I've been a carrier for about 13 years and the worst one was a dog came up from behind me from out of a garage and I didn't get a chance to turn around, and it bit me in back of the leg. And that's about it.

Actually, it was in Southern California. And I really didn't get a chance to react and as soon as he did bite me he turned around and he took off. It was a Dalmatian. But that was it that was the worst experience I had. Well, as it turns out I was just changing jobs and I was only on the route for another week or so, but I had seen him (the dog's owner) about every day before that and after that he stayed in his house and was afraid to come out.

He was a little bit embarrassed about the whole thing too. I did have to go and get a tetanus shot They're good for what, about 10 years, quite a while. That was about it. I've just come to this area last year and I think there's a bigger problem hi this area with dogs and people controlling them. I don't know, maybe a country-type of an attitude people have that dogs can run free and that's not necessarily true.

I think they should have some restraint on them because if they do bite somebody, of course they're liable. Quake- Continued from Page 1 Arnold Bray, owner of the Lighting Center, 1045 S. State said the first earthquake "felt like a real roller" and his light fixtures swayed for some time. "The one in San Francisco we didn't feel at all. This one seemed like it lasted longer than any I have ever experienced," Bray said.

Few people live near the epicenter of the first quake, but it was felt up to 250 miles south in Santa Rosa and in Sacramento, authorities said. The first temblor shook a single family residence off its foundation near Honeydew, 15 miles north of Shelter Cove, but the extent of the damage was not immediately clear, said Capt. Bill Christen, a firefighter with tiie California Department of Forestry in Fortuna. Phone lines were dead in Petrolia, 30 miles south of Eureka, and the overhead doors of a Department of Forestry fire station in Honeydew jumped off their roller tracks, Christen said. Small slides of rock and dirt blocked a rural paved road near second one was 90 miles away, so it didn't shake people as bad as the first one, which was 40 miles (south)." Saturday's second quake caused a half-foot tsunami that reached Crescent City, about 4 p.m.

PDT, according to the Tsumani Warning Center in Anchorage. There was no danger of further tsunamis generated by the quake, said Paul Whitmore, a geopnysicist at the center. No one reported noticing the wave, said Peggy Sue Castner, a Del Norte County Sheriffs Department dispatcher in Crescent City. "Several residents called to say they felt the shaking. We had one who reported the oil in their lamps sloshed back and forth," Castner said.

Residents of Curry County in southern Oregon also reported feeling the 6.9-magnitude temblor, sheriff's officials said, adding that reports came from as far north and inland as Eugene, 223 miles north of the California border. No damage or injuries were reported. "It was a rolling feeling. We had several citizens wondering whether it was an explosion," said a dis- Garberville, about 15 miles east of patcher with the police department Shelter Cove, said Humboldt in Grants Pass, about 30 miles north of the border. County sheriff's Deputy Floyd Stokes.

"We had some minor difficulties reported, a few road closures and one (electric) line down. I called my wife over in Shelter Cove to see if everything was OK, and she said the power was out and some glass items broke in the house," he said. No damage occurred to any 'highway, but crews continued to check, just to make sure, said Jim The Richter scale is a measjore of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one whole number means a tenfold increase in the strength of the shaking. A 6.9 quake is 10 times stronger than one of 5.9 and is capable of inflicting widespread casualties and damage, with locally severe property loss.

The 1989 earthquake that devas- Drago, a spokesman for the California Department of tated parts of the San Francisco Bay Transportation. Area measured 7.1 on the Richter "We didn't feel the second scale, but hit a more densely popu- (quake) much," said Eureka police lated region than either of Satur- dispatcher Jeff McDonald. "The day's quakes. Man with wrong heart doing well PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) A received a heart Wednesday from a man who received a mismatched donor with Type A.

he waited for the right type organ and a second transplant operation. The man's condition at Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital was upgraded from critical to serious Friday night, said spokewo- man Sandy Poole. The man, who has Type blood, body. But there was no sign of problems, Poole said. "He's doing as well as any transplant patient at this point," Poole said.

"In fact, he's doing better than some patients because he's a really strong guy.".