A state prison sentence of 32 years was handed down to a Corning man by the Tehama County Superior Court in a child sex abuse case.
Bonifacio Hernandez Munoz, 42, was arrested by Tehama County sheriff s detectives on April 11, 2018 in Corning during an investigation into ongoing sex abuse of a child.
The Tehama County District Attorney s Office said Munoz pleaded guilty to two counts each of felony continuous sexual abuse of a child and forcible oral copulation with minor over 14 years.
He was originally charged with rape by force, aggravated sexual assault of child, sending harmful matter to minor, sexual penetration of a child under 10 years, in conjunction with the charges he pleaded guilty to.
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2 - The active shooter allegedly responsible for killing one man and injuring at least two others at the Wal-Mart Distribution Center on Highway 99W, had a history with law enforcement, reports the Tehama County District Attorney s Office.
Louis Lane, 31, of Redding was convicted in Shasta County of trespassing, and charged with battery in 2017 and 2007. In 2018, in Henderson, Nev., he was arrested on suspicion of felony being in possession of a concealed weapon with a permit.
In a shootout with Red Bluff police officers at the Center on Saturday, June 27, Lane was shot and later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
An investigation into the shooting of a murder suspect in Corning on Dec. 11 concluded the incident was justifiable under the fleeing felon rule, said Red Bluff Police Chief Kyle Sanders.
The Tehama County District Attorneyâs Office has been tasked with investigating the shooting of Elfego Chavez Acevedo, 37, of Red Bluff who, wanted on a murder charge in the Aug. 3 death of Arturo Eugene Bent III, was in a six-hour standoff with law enforcement in Corning on the day he was shot by the Red Bluff police officer with a department-issued rifle.
âUnder common law the fleeing felon rule permits the use of deadly force against a felon who is clearly in flight from apprehension,â Sanders added on Friday, Dec. 18.