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A criminal justice professor who has worked at various California colleges pleaded guilty Thursday after being charged with setting a series of blazes near the massive Dixie Fire in 2021. Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, pleaded guilty to three counts of arson to federal property in Sacramento federal court before U.S. District Judge Daniel J. Calabretta.
A former criminal justice professor pleaded guilty Thursday to setting three blazes during the 2021 Dixie Fire, which burned nearly a million acres.
A criminal justice professor who has worked at various California colleges pleaded guilty Thursday after being charged with setting a series of blazes near the massive Dixie Fire in 2021. Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, pleaded guilty to three counts of arson to federal property in Sacramento federal court before U.S. District Judge Daniel J. Calabretta.
Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, of San Jose, pleaded guilty to three arson counts in connection to fires in the Shasta National Forest and near the Dixie Fire in the Lassen National Forest, the Justice Department said on Thursday.
“It appeared that Maynard was in the midst of an arson-setting spree.”