A two-day manhunt in McCloud concluded Wednesday afternoon with the arrest of both suspects wanted in connection with a shooting incident that left a Siskiyou County Sheriff’s deputy’s patrol vehicle struck by shotgun fire.
Stephen Robles, 36, and Leanne Varao, 35, both of McCloud, are now in custody following an intensive search that prompted shelter-in-place orders for the small community south of Mount Shasta.
The incident began around 6:15 a.m. Tuesday when a deputy approached a blue pickup truck idling near Upland Road and Eddy Drive outside Mount Shasta city limits. The deputy found two individuals passed out inside the vehicle with what appeared to be stolen property in the truck bed.
