Over 200 tax-delinquent properties in Lake County are set to be sold in May after the Board of Supervisors voted to move forward with the auction. The council has been dealing with delays in those sales after complaints that the County Tax Collectors office had been dragging its feet going after property owners who hadn’t paid up. Now, the first sales in months are scheduled on May 29th when 219 properties worth at least 3.6 million dollars will be up for bid. 118 of them are in Clear Lake which had called for an investigation into the backlog of unsold property. The auction will be online on a third party website, bid4assets.com
Police in Fort Bragg have arrested a man they say drove off when they tried to stop him on suspicion of drunk driving. Officers say witness reports of a possible drunk driver on Franklin Street on Thursday evening led them to 62-year-old Pergunnar Guinan of Fort Bragg, who is accused of DUI with prior convictions and evading. It took a spike stick which flattened his tires to eventually stop Guinan. A news release says he had a blood-alcohol level of 26, which is more than 3 times the legal limit when he was tested and booked at the county jail
The case against a man from Clearlake accused of vehicular
manslaughter is moving forward. The Record-Bee reports that Thomas Magee was in court this week for a hearing in his case where the judge ordered further proceedings before a trial. Magee is facing charges in connection with a crash involving a pedestrian last September on Highway 20 in Lucerne. Prosecutors say it was no accident that Magee intentionally hit and killed 40-year-old Symond Jackson of Lucerne. His next court date is in late March and a preliminary hearing is on the court calendar April 22nd. Magee has been held on one million dollars bail since his arrest.
