Arrest made after man is threatened with gun

By Larry Judkins

Glenn County Observer

Orland – Not too long after sunrise on Friday, April 2, a man called for law enforcement assistance.

He said he encountered a trespasser on his property, and when he told the man to leave, the man pulled a gun on him.

The property owner took off, and so did the trespasser.

However, the alleged trespasser’s car (or one similar to it, which would be remarkable in itself) was spotted by an Orland police officer in the 700 block of Tehama Street – coincidentally the same short block in which Arlo Little said he was shot on March 28.

The officer made a felony stop (a stop made at gunpoint) and the driver was detained.

He was identified as David Gutierrez. Whether or not he was the same individual who exhibited the firearm, Gutierrez is a parolee and officers began searching him and his vehicle.

Besides the contents of the vehicle, the car itself was even more interesting to behold than the interior of a certain reporter’s minivan (a van that had been stolen and stripped prior to its current ownership). The car was missing its hood and at least two of its wheels were held on by three wrench sockets rather than five lug nuts.

Gutierrez was sitting in the back of a patrol unit when The Glenn County Observer arrived. However, he was brought out when officers were told that the property owner would be brought by in another patrol unit to possibly confirm that Gutierrez was indeed the man who threatened him with a gun.

When the nearly shirtless Gutierrez exited the patrol vehicle, Sgt. Greg Felton of the Glenn County Sheriff’s Office ask him why he was sweating so much. Gutierrez claimed it was because it was very hot in the patrol unit.

As Gutierrez leaned with his back against his own car, in handcuffs and facing the street, a sheriff’s unit slowly drove by. It is presently unknown whether Gutierrez was identified as the man with the firearm.

Nevertheless, although no gun was found in Gutierrez’s possession at the time, ammunition was allegedly found, and that is also a felony for a parolee. Gutierrez was placed under arrest.

An update in The Observer is planned for tomorrow.