by California News Times Staff
San Francisco-A former university professor was charged by a federal grand jury on Thursday, threatening to trap firefighters in four wildfires earlier this year in northern California, fighting a major fire nearby. It was said that it was done.
A 47-year-old Gary Stephen Maynard will be fined up to 20 years in prison and $ 250,000 for each arson, a US law firm in eastern California said in a statement.
According to court documents, Maynard’s arson case included 1,500 square miles (1,500 square miles) of flames that began in July and August behind crew members fighting the Dixie fire, the second-largest wildfire in California history. A structure that incinerated more than 3,900 square kilometers and destroyed more than 1,000.
According to federal prosecutors, San Jose resident Maynard had four fires, the Cascade and Everit fires on July 20 and 21, and the ranch and Conard fires on August 7.
US Forestry agents began investigating Maynard on July 20, after a cascade fire was reported on the western slopes of Mount Shasta.
According to court documents, investigators found Maynard under a black Kia car with a front wheel stuck in a ditch and a substructure in the center of the rock.
The next day, a second fire broke out on Mount Shasta, and investigators later discovered tire marks similar to those of Kia.
According to investigators,…
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