Hand gun arrest

In a local news story with legs that have carried it across the country to the Baltimore Sun, a Chico man was arrested July 11 after telling police he’d been shot by a man outside his North Cedar Street apartment during a verbal altercation.

But an investigation by Chico police suggests Thomas Cadotte, 31, accidentally shot himself in the hand and tried to blame it on someone else because as a felon he is not allowed to have a gun. He now faces that very charge as well as the false report of a crime.

Cadotte was scheduled to be in court July 16 to face earlier charges of corporal injury to a spouse, cohabitant or child, and possession of a controlled substance.