Former professor charged with setting forest fires
Gary Stephen Maynard was a lecturer at a couple of colleges. His “lecture focus” was on criminal justice. His specific expertise, within criminal justice, was cults, deviant behaviors, and criminal justice in general. He no longer has this job. He made the news on the account of his being charged with starting additional fires behind the fire fighters who were battling an ongoing forest fire.
From Fox News:
According to court documents, Maynard’s alleged arson spree included blazes he started in July and August behind crews fighting the Dixie Fire, which became the second biggest wildfire in California history, scorching more than 1,500 square miles and destroying more than 1,000 structures.
Federal prosecutors say Maynard, a resident of San Jose, set four blazes: the Cascade and Everitt fires, on July 20 and 21, and the Ranch and Conard Fires on Aug. 7.
U.S. Forest Service agents started investigating Maynard on July 20 after the Cascade Fire was reported on the western slopes of Mount Shasta.
An investigator found Maynard underneath his black Kia Soul that had its front wheels stuck in a ditch and its undercarriage centered on a boulder, court papers said.
A second fire erupted the next day on Mount Shasta, and investigators later found tire tracks similar to those made by the Kia.
They eventually placed a tracking device under Maynard’s car after he was stopped briefly by police on Aug. 3. Tracking his movements for hundreds of miles, investigators said Maynard traveled to the area where the Ranch and Conard Fires erupted in the Lassen National Forest.
“It appeared that Maynard was in the midst of an arson-setting spree,” court papers said.
Maynard has denied setting the fires, court papers say. It wasn’t immediately known whether he has an attorney who can speak on his behalf.
Could Maynard have been attempting to give the man made global warming crowd additional fire for their arguments? Fox News has additional details in this link.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Crime
Regardless of what he was trying to do, him intentionally setting fires behind the fire crews is a direct threat to not only the safety of the fire crews, but to anyone else still in the area. Throw the book at this guy hard!!!
Never trust a guy in a Kia.
Waitaminutehere…
If you have a Kia, I was joking. 🙃
No shit on the Kia
He’s gonna burn.
*runs, pun intended*
Mofo likes to see trees burn? Yeah, I say, strap his ass to some trees (read “firewood”) and let it “Burn Baby Burn!”
A vivid, if relatively brief, learning experience and an example of poetic justice all at once.
Win-win.
There are turkey buzzards around here that would truly enjoy a hearty meal, but I think even they would view him as poison.
Yes, he really loves the planet, doesn’t he?
I am pretty sure that turkey vultures do not have a culling point when it comes to dead meat.
I would love to find him at the mercy of the birds and beasts he has damaged. Or how about this poisonous slime is dropped off some place “special” and the plants decide to take him down?
This piece of garbage and the slime that started those fires in Greece this past summer deserve whatever bad things happen to them.
starting at 100ft and lowered 1 foot every 1o minutes into the mouth of an active volcano until he is a crispy critter
Hm. Interesting that his area of expertise is deviant behavior. Firebugs commonly engage in other crimes, like robbery and rape. They’d better look at him carefully.
Anyone want to be this asshole thought Kyle Rittenhouse should have been convicted?
*Anyone want to bet…
Nah, I’m too peasant to afford to bet. 🙂
So they Fired him for starting fires, but if the colleges are liberal then why is he getting fired for starting peaceful fires and that is one reason I get Fired up about.
I wonder if he taught any classes at Berkley?
Arsonists are 1 of the warts on humanities ass.
BUTBUTBUT WHAT IF the setting of those fires was his method of “Peaceful Protest”?
Maynard, seems to have some theological resemblance – a long-lost cousin of Lars..?