Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - September 30, 1999, Ukiah, California Ukiah Daily Lifestyle A collecting craze Page 3 In Brief Jumble Classifieds Crossword Daily Digest TV listings Weather Group 14 Volume 141 Number 149 LARGEST NEWSPAPER 50 cents tax included email Perrot plea bargain no jail time for sex offender By GLENDA ANDERSON The Daily Journal Despite a tearful plea from one of Shawn Petrols alleged rape Superior Court Judge Henry Nelson this morning granted the convicted sex offenders plea which is free of prison he warned the 25year old repeat sex who was accused of having sex with at least eight some of them unconscious at the that this was his last chance to get reha You are like the spider dangling from a string of your own web over the fires of Nelson told Whether you go to state prison is up to If Perrot is caught violating any of the conditions of his fiveyear he automatically will be sentenced to six eight months in prison for the four counts of hav ing sex with minors to which he pleaded no Original charges filed against him included the more serious charges of having sex with unconscious and forcible The alleged vic tims ranged in age from 11 to The conditions of Perrots proba tion include staying away from minor children a year in an Ohio rehabilitation program for sexual predators and five years of proba which allows his probation officer to periodically search his home for signs of continued sexual interest in He also was sen to a year in the county but hes already served most of that See Page 14 Perrot ALIEN AMERICA Mites threaten beekeepers EDITORS species of plants and animals are continuously changing and often seriously damaging Americas natural land These stories examine what they are and how they affect the way we Last of a By PAULINE ARRILLAGA Associated Press You cant see them at or even hear The boxes give them In a dirt lot alongside a field of alfalfa seed hundreds of pine containers are stacked on 800 colonies of honeybees are resting after a hard season in the They pollinated almonds and cher ries in cantaloupe and watermelons in Back in the McMullen Val acres of farmland 100 miles northwest of theyre gearing up for another round of work come More melons along with cotton and But some have come home to Clad in jeans and a labeled Bee World Ken inspects his pry ing open boxes and pulling out screens laden with thousands of There are four colonies per each colony swarm ing with as many as Then comes upon a he Over the past two 90 percent of the nations wild Barbara Daily Journal Honey like this one gathering pollen on a garden are threatened by two varieties of honeybees have been wiped out by two mites that arrived in the United States in the transported by insect and Managed colonies owned by beekeepers such as have dwindled from 5 million to while the num ber of beekeepers has fall en from to about The culprits are the tracheal and varroa First detected in Great Britain in the tracheal mite clogs a bees breathing The native to feeds on the blood of developing which emerge from the hive with deformed wings or miss ing these alien crea tures are destroying hon themselves a nonnative species first brought to Ameri ca in the 1500s by Catholic See Page 14 Wild symbol of compete with native species Daily Journal file Mares and their foals stand in a pen at the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds during a Bureau of Land Manage ment wild horse auction last By CHRIS ROBERTS Associated Press Wild with flaring nostrils and flashing are the defiant free spirits of the Yet they are damaging land and making it uninhabitable for native species that have evolved over thousands of The wild horses found in 10 western states claim diverse Some are descended directly from the first modern horses brought to the New World by the Spanish conquistadors about 500 years Others are from herds that were managed and culled by ranchers who sold the horses to the Cavalry at the turn of the Although they arent natives horse ances tors disappeared from the continent more than years ago they have taken well to their new They reproduce like coyotes and have few natural says Bud the Bureau of Land Managements senior wild horse and burro specialist in With a reproduction rate of about 19 percent a a herd can double its population in three or four he The population essentially would increase unchecked until the horses eat themselves out of house and Cribley We have to keep in mind wild horses were not a part of the ecosystem in the The United States has a wild horse population of about according to 1998 BLM the most recent The which manages the estimates the land they live on can support about ani Roughly animals are classified as The most visible problem caused by horse See Page 14 vineyard contract readied Would be first in county history By GLENDA ANDERSON The Daily Journal Anderson Valley Vineyards has reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Farm according to a compa ny Were just waiting for both sides to said Michelle a spokeswoman for Anderson Valley Vineyards and Roederer Estate which owns the She said thats expected to happen as soon as the contract language is formalized by attor If it will be the first such contract in Mendocino County Armour said shes not sure when the contract will be final Nor does she know the specifics of the tentative agree spokesman Mark Grossman said members are satisfied with the tentative which he believes they ratified by a vote within the last two But he declined to discuss it noting that Anderson Valley Vineyards and the have agreed to make a joint statement at a later The pending agreement stems See Page 14 Tractor accident victim IDd By LANEY FOUSE The Daily Journal The Mendocino County Sher Office has released the identity of the farmworker killed in a accident early Wednesday morning in Potter Gil of was picking grapes at the Mid Mountain Vineyard on Eel River Road and Gibson Lane at about when he was run over by the wheels of the trailer being pulled by a Attempts to revive the worker were Volunteers from the Potter Valley Fire Department and Cal Star responded to the The California Department of Occupational Safety and Health will conduct un industrial acci dent Care home testimony finishes closing arguments to be submitted By LANEY The Daily Journal Three days of testimony were wrapped up Wednesday afternoon in a hearing called by the California Depart ment of Social Services against Suzanne and David operators of an elder ly care home in Over the course of its inves the state agency made 14 visits to facilities the couple one on Capps Lane and their home on Ruddick Cunningham During state the Carrolls were cited for failing to comply with licens ing regulations and engaging in conduct not conducive to the welfare and safety of the elderly residents and children placed in their These citations are the basis for the According to the the Car rolls also have a license for a child care Vineyards Inn Day on Rud The Carrolls say that despite state they do not operate a child care They say they received a 90day state agency seeking to revoke the Car provisional license for Vineyards Inn rolls licenses to operate the Day Care in but never actually One of the facilities Carrolls Cozy opened Care Home is a residential care home The maintains it visit for the elderly located on Capps Lane ed the site also the Carrolls home in that has been in operation since May August 1998 and found 14 children Suzanne Carroll denies The Carrolls say the second elderly care home was to be located in their home and that they planned to move into a historic home they moved to the During Wednesdays Suzanne Carroll was asked by her attor Michael why there was such a history of violations surrounding the care She replied that one problem was not being able to be present at the elder care home The other is with she During his David Carroll explained that changes have been made that allow his wife to be available at the facility more The children are in day he which has freed up more time for Suzanne to oversee the David Carroll also indicated that Suzanne spends 24 hours a day at the facility except for a couple of days a See CARE Page 14
