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Anonymous ID: 8627ec May 7, 2019, 7 p.m. No.6442231   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Judge Orders PG&E's Board To Tour Wildfire-Ravaged Paradise

 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge has ordered board member of Pacific Gas & Electric to tour the Northern California town of Paradise, which was leveled by a wildfire that may have been caused by the utility's equipment.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday that the judge ordered the tour as part of the utility's punishment for violating its felony probation terms imposed after one of its natural gas pipes exploded in 2010 killing eight people.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup says he wants the utility's newly appointed board to focus the company on complying with new wildfire safety plans approved by regulators. Complying with the plan is the utility's top probation condition.

After the hearing, PG&E's newly appointed chief executive Bill Johnson told reporters he also planned to tour Paradise.

 

https://www.actionnewsnow.com/content/news/Judge-orders-PGEs-board-to-tour-wildfire-ravaged-Paradise-509604961.html

 

Article Comments

 

Susie Heffernan

Hand them a sifter, latex gloves, a mask and put them to work. No press coverage. A tour on a comfortable bus and photo op press conference afterward won't change our situation or theirs. Their Board and the PUC should have toured in December when evacuation zones were finally lifted.

 

Lee Satterfield

Before they tour the devastated area there needs to be a cross put up on every piece of property where someone died.one cross for each person.

 

Kathy Terstegen

Yeah and all the pets and animals that suffered and died…. They need to visit Magalia and Concow as well.

Anonymous ID: 8627ec May 7, 2019, 7:11 p.m. No.6442340   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Fugitive Chico child molester, child pornographer nabbed in Florida

 

KEY WEST, Fla. — A Chico man who allegedly faked his own suicide to avoid jail for child pornography and child molestation was found living in a storage container and arrested in Florida.

 

Michael Patrick Manning, 58, of Chico, is in custody in Monroe County, Florida, awaiting extradition to California on no-bail warrants, according to a news release from the Chico Police Department.

Manning pleaded no contest to oral copulation of a person under 14, possession of more than 600 images of child/youth pornography and two counts of solicitation of a minor to engage in preparation of sexual images on June 30, 2016, in Butte County Superior Court.

 

He was out of jail after posting a bail of $215,000, but had a sentencing hearing scheduled Oct. 6, 2016.

Manning never made it to that hearing.

According to Chico police, a car rented in Manning’s name was found Oct. 7, 2016, by National Park Service officers near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

A suicide note in Manning’s handwriting was found in the car, but his body was not found.

 

Police investigators apparently didn’t buy it.

 

“Investigators began to monitor the behavior and patterns of a close associate of Manning and observed what appeared to be sophisticated counter surveillance measures,” according to the news release.

Chico detectives requested help from the U.S. Marshal’s Service Fugitive Task Force and the FBI.

Last month, the Marshal’s Service developed leads indicating Manning could be in Florida.

But was Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies who caught Manning.

Deputies responded to a burglar alarm at a business at the Stock Island Marina near Key West, Florida. They located a man living in a connex storage container next to the property.

According to Chico police, he identified himself as William Wallace Littlejohn and had a U.S. Passport and U.S. Navy identification card. The deputies thought the passport and ID card were fake and requested assistance from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Border Patrol and the FBI. When those were found to be fraudulent, the man was arrested.

At the Monroe County Jail, the man’s fingerprints were taken and positively identified Manning, according to the release.

 

https://www.chicoer.com/2019/05/07/fugitive-chico-child-molester-child-pornographer-nabbed-in-florida/

 

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