By Gary Meyer, TME

Daniel Gilbert Tarr is not a warm and fuzzy guy.

He’s 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs 185 pounds, has a natural frown and an arrest record as long as your arm.

He admits openly that sometimes he is not a nice person. He said he does not drink, smoke or take drugs. We found no record of any drug or alcohol-related arrests. He speaks with reporters in a soft, polite voice.

Tarr is a Vietnam veteran who served in the United States Army from 1966 to 1968. He spent much of those two years in combat. He said he drove a tank in Vietnam and operated the tank’s gun.

Mr. Tarr has had a difficult time relaxing at his home in Lebec over the last few years.

Tarr told The Mountain Enterprise that in the summer of 2017, while he was out of town, squatters occupied his home on Ridge Route Court in…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Daniel Gilbert Tarr came to the newspaper office complaining about his treatment at the hands of local deputies. While it appears the deputies were just doing their jobs, we researched if Mr. Tarr may have been treated unfairly in the criminal and civil justice systems recently.

Above: Daniel Tarr has been arrested numerous times for violating a restraining order that prohibits him from being within 100 yards of his neighbor, Davin Cano. But the restraining order states that Tarr is not prevented from going to or from his home. Cano, Tarr said, has blocked the only usable roadway to his home with rocks.

Wide access to neighbor Cano’s driveway

Turn-off from Lebec Road into a narrowed Ridge Route Drive that leads to Daniel Gilbert Tarr’s home

Excerpted from a 9/13/18 letter notifying the Fullers that they must return Ridge Route Drive to compliance with the required road width.

California Fire Code Chapter 5 Section 503 subsection 503.2.1 states Fire apparatus access roads shall have unobstructed width of not less than 20 feet, exclusive of shoulders, except for approved security gates in accordance with section 503.6 and unobstructed vertical clearance of not less than 13 feet, six inches.

Above: Excerpted from a six-page restraining order filed against Daniel Tarr by his neighbor in 2018.

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