No restraining order against man who yells at marijuana search teams

Colusa officials failed in their efforts to get a restraining order against a man who reportedly harasses pilots at the airport.

Although Connor Davis admitted to authorities that he is prone to yell at law enforcement surveillance helicopters as they stop for fuel, Superior Court Judge Jeffrey A. Thompson said the county did not prove that Davis posed a physical threat to anyone.

The request for the restraining order stemmed from a July incident in which Davis admitted to harassing the pilot and passengers of a helicopter that had been doing aerial surveillance to discover illegal marijuana operations in the county.

Among the passengers of the helicopter was Colusa County Supervisor Kim Dolbow Vann, Colusa County Counsel Tom Parker said. 

Parker said Davis verbally abused Vann, as well as issued verbal threats. The county even posted security at the door of a recent Board of Supervisors’ meeting.

Davis responded in court Wednesday that he didn’t know Vann was a supervisor, but thought she was a police officer in plain clothes.

“Yes, I get pissed off,” he said. “Yeah, I smoke weed and I get mad that they fly around looking for my marijuana.”

Davis is the son of Irene Davis, who lives in a mobile home at the airport and has a contract with the county to oversee fuel delivery, according to airport manager Harry Krug said.

Krug testified that Davis’s behavior violates federal airport security regulations, and jeopardizes the relationship the airport has with pilots from all over the state, who stop at the Colusa airport for lower-priced fuel.

“That is how the airport makes money,” Krug said. “Sixty percent of our income is from fuel sales. I can’t have people harassing customers.”

Davis, however, said his behavior, while obnoxious, stemmed from feeling harassed by the county.

“The cops let drunk drivers drive around town all the time, but I can’t get drunk and walk into town,” he said.

“Of course, I’m going to get butt-hurt. The cops are always chasing me around town because I want to smoke marijuana.”

Davis has been arrested multiple times since 2003 on charges of assault, public intoxication, resisting arrest, making annoying phone calls, vandalism, grand theft, domestic violence, and drug possession and transportation, according to his rap sheet.

Except for drug and public intoxication convictions, the charges were dismissed after Davis was found incompetent. Davis has been committed three time to state mental health facilities, court records state.
In 2005, Davis served time in state prison for failure to register as a sex offender.

Thompson ruled that while Davis’s behavior was abusive, the testimony given as to the nature of the threats were ambiguous, and not sufficient to grant the restraining order.

Vann did not testify.

After the hearing, Krug said the county would handle the problem by canceling the contract with Mrs. Davis and removing the mobile home from county property.

Davis, a native of England, said he would be leaving the country once his passport was reissued.