Molester will serve a year in jail

Oct. 28, 2008 — A former police chief will spend one year in the Lassen County Jail for molesting a child under the age of 14. “Obviously we’re a little disappointed,” said Bob Burns, Lassen County’s district attorney. “We thought a residential child molester should be sentenced to more than a year in county jail.”

Lassen County Superior Court Judge Donald Sokol sentenced William Lowell Harris, 54, the former police chief at Sierra Army Depot in Herlong, on Thursday, Oct. 16. Sokol also ordered Harris serve five years formal probation and register as a sex offender.

Harris pleaded guilty to a felony child molestation charge on June 9. In exchange for Harris’s guilty plea, Burns stipulated Harris would serve no more than the mid-term sentence for the crime — six years in state prison.

Lassen County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Harris on April 9, and he resigned from his position at SIAD in May.

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