Rail Road Flat News

Dale Buller, the millionaire buffalo rancher known for his love of guns and his volatile encounters with law enforcement officers, neighbors and even judges, has been ordered into a treatment program at a state mental hospital.

Millionaire buffalo rancher Dale Buller will return to Calaveras County Superior Court on July 6 for a hearing at which a judge may determine whether to send Buller to a state mental hospital or some other form of psychiatric treatment.

Dale Buller might soon be watching television in a state mental hospital. Buller, seen as recently as last year repairing fences and driving a utility vehicle around his buffalo ranch in Rail Road Flat, was found mentally incompetent to stand trial May 18 on charges of illegal gun dealing, assault-weapon possession and assault.

Comment: "It feels great," said graduate Jesse Main, 18, of Rail Road Flat. "This school helped me out a lot.

Thompson was in an altercation with Calaveras County Sheriff's Deputies and he was shot attempting to flea the scene in a stolen car.

Calaveras County Sheriff Dennis Downum Monday defended a detective who on May 27 shot and wounded car theft suspect Michael Thompson during an encounter in Rail Road Flat.

Many Calaveras Transit runs will be eliminated as a result of a 40 percent budget shortfall faced by the public transportation agency.

The Calaveras County sheriff's detective wounded Wednesday in an encounter with a suspected car thief was actually struck by richocheting bullet fragments from his partner's weapon, a sheriff's department spokesman said.

A Calaveras County Sheriff's detective was injured by metal fragments as a result of shots fired by a fellow detective during an attempted arrest Tuesday afternoon in Rail Road Flat, according to sheriff's department investigators.

It was fragments from another Calaveras County Sheriff detective's bullet that struck the shoulder of a fellow detective during the arrest of a car theft suspect, investigators said today.

A Calaveras County Sheriff's Department detective and a vehicle theft suspect were shot during an encounter about 3:40 p.m. Wednesday on a stretch of Rail Road Flat Road a few miles north of Mountain Ranch.

A Calaveras County sheriff's deputy was shot Thursday following a traffic pursuit in the Rail Road Flat area.

Steve Wilensky, the Calaveras County supervisor who represents the former timber-industry communities of West Point, Wilseyville and Rail Road Flat, will testify May 21 in Washington before the House Resources Committee.

Facing a budget shortfall estimated as high as $420,000, Calaveras Transit must significantly scale back service and raise fares, according to a consultant's report.

Asking Calaveras County voters in November to support another bond measure is among options county leaders are considering as they search for ways to pay for nu-merous multi-million-dollar road projects.

After a four-month undercover operation, the Amador County Combined Narcotics Enforcement Team arrested a man after he delivered marijuana to an undercover agent.

A judge Friday stripped millionaire buffalo rancher Dale Buller of his taxpayer-paid attorney and ordered Buller fingerprinted and photographed at the Calaveras County Jail in connection with one of a number of cases in which Buller is being prosecuted.

Dale Buller is one of Calaveras County's wealthiest men, owning millions of dollars of real estate within the county, according to public records.

A millionaire gun collector from Rail Road Flat is in need of a new attorney. The Associated Press says the lawyer who has represented Dale Buller for the past year on a variety of charges has won permission ...

Dale Buller, the millionaire gun collector from Rail Road Flat who faces prosecution on a variety of charges ranging from letting one of his buffalo escape and gore a neighbor to dealing in illegal assault ...