Posted on 05/31/2024 10:51:02 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
A former college professor has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison over a string of arson fires in Northern California in 2021 as fire crews were battling the second-largest fire in the state’s history.
Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, of San Jose, pleaded guilty in February to three arson counts in connection to fires in the Shasta National Forest and near the Dixie Fire in the Lassen National Forest.
The Dixie Fire burned over 1,500 square miles after igniting on July 13 and destroyed over 1,000 homes. Maynard was accused of setting fires behind firefighters battling the Dixie Fire.
According to the Justice Department, Maynard admitted to starting the Cascade Fire on July 20, 2021, and the Everett Fire the following day. He also admitted to sparking the Ranch Fire and Conard Fire on Aug. 7 that year.
Investigators arrested Maynard after putting a tracking device under his car. The Associated Press reported he was a former lecturer on criminal justice issues at Santa Clara University and Sonoma State University for a period.
Maynard faced the possibility of up to 20 years in prison and a $750,000 fine. Besides the prison sentence of more than five years, he was ordered to pay $13,081 in restitution.
A short Life sentence. 30 days.
This is why the story is reported on a weekend news dump, while people are still distracted by the Trump case.
Hopefully someone will get to him and teach him a lesson
Attempted murder?
But it’s to save the planet, right?
DESTROYED 1,000 homes & “RESTITUTION IS $13,081?????
WTF???
I AM CONVINCED THAT THERE ARAE @ GROUPS OF CRIMINALS WE CAN NEVER, EVER CHANGE:
ARSONISTS
SEX OFFENDERS OF ALL STRIPES
THEY ARE WIRED WRONG BEFORE BIRTH
Bernie Madoff got life, and served it!
Google John Orr .
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Not to mention people hundreds or even thousands of miles away who may suffer grievous, even fatal illness, contracted from particulate matter in wildfire smoke, that containing VOCs and carcinogens. These firebugs need to be deterred with capital punishment, and not encouraged by light sentences and global warming hype (which serves to stoke their pyrophilia as well as confidence that their fires will be blamed on global warming rather than their acts).
Indeed. Quite suspicious, and probably won’t be the last effort made to effect such outcome.
You can’t change the subset of arsonists who are sexually aroused by fire. But you can steer their inclinations into furthering an agenda. Hype wildfires in the news with lurid footage on big screen television and you’ll get these sickos masturbating as well as fantasizing about seeing fires they themselves set on television. Blame wildfires on climate change in the news and you’ll encourage these sickos with confidence that they’ll get away with setting wildfires because the wildfires will be attributed to climate change instead. Keep the vicious cycle of more wildfires inspiring more wildfires, and the burning will keep getting worse every year until the population will be smoked into submission to draconian climate change laws.
The azzhole arsonists back in 2021 starting fires in Oregon and northern CA were BLM and antifah members including the profs and other vile mentors.
I bet he’ll be out in less than 3 years and wind up paying zilch.
Arson is a psycho-sexual crime; there is an almost 95% of a chance of recidivism unless the underlying provocation is addressed.
Most arsonists derive a sexual pleasure by starting and observing a fire.
The fact that so much damage occurred from three (3) separate fires that he admits to is significant in terms of firefighters salaries, expense, and damaged damaged property.
However this legal case totally ignores the threat to firefighters lives by setting fires behind active firefighters,
who could have been caught simultaneously between two active fire fronts
who could have been caught off from safe escape though backfires.
This would essentially be acting with depraved indifference to human life, and also should have been taken into account at the time of sentanceing.
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