A man who led police on a wild chase in Red Bluff has been sentenced. Last June Tehama County Deputies and Red Bluff Police responded to a shots fired call on Adobe Road. They found bullet marks on the front of a house and spent 9 millimeter casings. While they followed a lead on a suspect’s location, more shots were fired at the home from a car with the same description. Deputies then located and chased the car at high speed through a neighborhood until the the car drove over a curb, went on the wrong side of the road and stopped in a parking lot. The two occupants fled on foot into a crowded restaurant where a cornhole tournament was underway with many people present, including a lot of children. Silas the K9 was unleashed, and he bit one suspect while a bystander grabbed 26-year-old Ben Meister and held him. Another time Meister was on Cocaine when he crashed a car into a fence off Rancho Tehama Road and fled, leaving behind his passenger trapped in the car with a broken leg. Meister has been sentenced to more than 4 years in state prison.
-Steve Gibson