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06-17-2009, 12:39 PM
Good job team! Support, support, support for our injured brothers.
http://www.redding.com/news/2009/jun/16/officer-reportedly-shot-during-traffic-stop/
UPDATED: One suspect dead, six arrested; two Lassen officers wounded by gunfire
By Record Searchlight staff
Originally published 01:42 p.m., June 16, 2009
Updated 10:36 p.m., June 16, 2009
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Deputy shot, one suspect dead, six arrested
A Lassen County Sheriff's deputy arrives at Mercy Medical Center in Redding after being shot in the arm at about 1 p.m. after stopping a truck suspected of hauling marijuana from an illegal plantation in Little Valley which is east of Burney, just across the Lassen county line. Andreas Fuhrmann/Record Searchlight
A Lassen County Sheriff's deputy arrives at Mercy Medical Center in Redding after being shot in the arm at about 1 p.m. after stopping a truck suspected of hauling marijuana from an illegal plantation in Little Valley which is east of Burney, just across the Lassen county line.
LITTLE VALLEY — One man is dead and six have been arrested following a gun battle this afternoon near an illegal marijuana garden that sent a Lassen County sheriff’s sergeant to the hospital with a gunshot wound and also injured a sheriff's deputy.
The sergeant and deputy were part of a task force investigating an illegal pot plantation south of Dixie Valley, just across the Lassen County line east of Burney, said Steve Warren, Lassen County sheriff.
The sergeant was flown by helicopter to Mercy Medical Center in Redding with the non-life threatening injury, a press release says.
The sergeant was reportedly shot in the arm after he stopped a truck suspected of being involved with the marijuana garden. His identity was not released, which makes it impossible to check his condition, though a Record Searchlight photo of his arrival at the hospital shows that he was apparently alert and sitting up on the gurney, his right arm bandaged.
There was no further information on the Lassen County deputy who was wounded by gunfire.
Two of the suspects were arrested on Forest Service Road 22 near where the two officers were shot and four were arrested when they were found in a car on Pittville Road, Warren said.
Names of those arrested were not immediately available.
“I want to give props to all the agencies who helped make these arrests possible today,” Warren said.
The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office and the California Highway Patrol were among the agencies who sped to the area to help Lassen deputies. Also responding to assist were sheriff's deputies from Modoc and Plumas counties, members of the Bureau of Land Management and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The Lassen County Sheriff's Office has asked the state Department of Justice to investigate the shooting.
http://www.redding.com/news/2009/jun/16/officer-reportedly-shot-during-traffic-stop/
UPDATED: One suspect dead, six arrested; two Lassen officers wounded by gunfire
By Record Searchlight staff
Originally published 01:42 p.m., June 16, 2009
Updated 10:36 p.m., June 16, 2009
Photo Gallery
Deputy shot, one suspect dead, six arrested
A Lassen County Sheriff's deputy arrives at Mercy Medical Center in Redding after being shot in the arm at about 1 p.m. after stopping a truck suspected of hauling marijuana from an illegal plantation in Little Valley which is east of Burney, just across the Lassen county line. Andreas Fuhrmann/Record Searchlight
A Lassen County Sheriff's deputy arrives at Mercy Medical Center in Redding after being shot in the arm at about 1 p.m. after stopping a truck suspected of hauling marijuana from an illegal plantation in Little Valley which is east of Burney, just across the Lassen county line.
LITTLE VALLEY — One man is dead and six have been arrested following a gun battle this afternoon near an illegal marijuana garden that sent a Lassen County sheriff’s sergeant to the hospital with a gunshot wound and also injured a sheriff's deputy.
The sergeant and deputy were part of a task force investigating an illegal pot plantation south of Dixie Valley, just across the Lassen County line east of Burney, said Steve Warren, Lassen County sheriff.
The sergeant was flown by helicopter to Mercy Medical Center in Redding with the non-life threatening injury, a press release says.
The sergeant was reportedly shot in the arm after he stopped a truck suspected of being involved with the marijuana garden. His identity was not released, which makes it impossible to check his condition, though a Record Searchlight photo of his arrival at the hospital shows that he was apparently alert and sitting up on the gurney, his right arm bandaged.
There was no further information on the Lassen County deputy who was wounded by gunfire.
Two of the suspects were arrested on Forest Service Road 22 near where the two officers were shot and four were arrested when they were found in a car on Pittville Road, Warren said.
Names of those arrested were not immediately available.
“I want to give props to all the agencies who helped make these arrests possible today,” Warren said.
The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office and the California Highway Patrol were among the agencies who sped to the area to help Lassen deputies. Also responding to assist were sheriff's deputies from Modoc and Plumas counties, members of the Bureau of Land Management and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The Lassen County Sheriff's Office has asked the state Department of Justice to investigate the shooting.