Investigators say he became enraged and started kicking the jail cell door.Īuthorities are looking into multiple other fires that occurred during July and August to see if Maynard is connected. Once arrested, Maynard denied setting any fires.
Forest Service investigators working around the clock to track Maynard, those fires would not have been discovered in their infancy." But for the dedication and efforts of U.S. Old newspapers hold secrets that are waiting to be discovered by you. "Maynard's fires were placed in the perfect position to increase the risk of firefighters being trapped between fires. In addition to the danger of enlarging the Dixie fire and threatening more lives and property, this increased the danger to the first responders, " the document alleges. If convicted of the charge related to the Ranch Fire, he could face up to five years in prison."He entered the evacuation zone and began setting fires behind the first responders fighting the Dixie fire. As of Monday evening, the Dixie Fire has burned 914,655 acres and is at 58 containment. He appeared Wednesday in federal court, where he was ordered held without bond until his next hearing Aug. Jon Cappleman prepares to defend his home during the Dixie Fire in Twain, California. Maynard no longer is employed at either Santa Clara University or Sonoma State University, where he was listed as being a lecturer in criminal justice studies specializing in criminal justice, cults and deviant behavior, the Sacramento Bee reported. “In addition to the danger of enlarging the Dixie Fire and threatening more lives and property, this increased the danger to the first responders.” “He entered the evacuation zone and began setting fires behind the first responders fighting the Dixie Fire,” Anderson wrote. (Monroe County Sheriffs Office) EAST LAKE, FL Following the arrest of the East Lake Fire. He was arrested Saturday in an area under emergency closure orders due to the Dixie Fire, which has grown to become the second-largest in state history. James Dalrymple, 64, was charged with a misdemeanor for not wearing a face mask outdoors in Key West. Maynard came onto authorities’ radar on July 20 after the Cascade Fire began on the western slopes of Mount Shasta.
“It appeared that Maynard was in the midst of an arson-setting spree,” court papers said. The device was able to pin him to the areas where the Ranch Fire and Conard Fire erupted Saturday in the Lassen National Forest.
Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty ImagesĪuthorities began tracking Maynard’s movements and eventually obtained a warrant to place a tracking device on his car. Vehicles and a home are engulfed in flames as the Dixie Fire rages in Greenville, California. Maynard denied any knowledge of the fire and was at times “uncooperative and agitated,” according to court filings.Ī second fire was reported the next day on Mount Shasta, and investigators later discovered tire tracks similar to those from the Kia, court papers said.
Gary Stephen Maynard denied any knowledge of the fire and was at times “uncooperative and agitated,” according to court filings.Īuthorities responding to the scene found Maynard underneath a black Kia Soul with its front wheels stuck in a ditch as well as its undercarriage on top of a boulder. “The area in which Maynard chose to set his fires is near the ongoing Dixie fire, a fire which is still not contained despite the deployment and efforts of over 5,000 personnel.”
DIXIE FIRE MAN ARRESTED SERIES
“Over the course of the last several weeks, Maynard has set a series of fires in the vicinity of the Lassen National Forest and Shasta Trinity National Forest,” Assistant US Attorney Michael Anderson wrote in a detention memo, the newspaper reported. Gary Stephen Maynard, 47, who previously taught at Santa Clara University and Sonoma State University, was charged with intentionally setting the Ranch Fire in Lassen County, the Sacramento Bee reported. Easter Island ‘Moai’ statues face irreparable damage after wildfireĭozens rescued from devastating mudslide in Southern Californiaģ injured after helicopter responding to Fairview Fire crashes in Californiaĭevastating images of the California wildfiresĪ former professor specializing in cults has been arrested after he went on an “arson-setting spree” in a forest near California’s record-setting Dixie Fire, authorities said.
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