RED BLUFF - District Attorney Gregg Cohen's request for a court-ordered shutdown of the only medical marijuana collective in Tehama County's jurisdiction may be dropped, but Red Bluff Patient Collective - at least for the moment - remains closed.

"We are pleased to announce we have tentatively reached an agreement," assistant county counsel Arthur Wylene, serving as a deputy district attorney in the matter, told Superior Court Judge John Garaventa on Thursday.

Cohen, who appeared in court with Wylene, sought a temporary injunction - a civil action - after Dawn and Mike Jenkins refused to close their Antelope Boulevard collective, he said.

A Shasta County judge has dropped child molestation charges against a federal probation officer.

Shasta County Superior Court Judge Bradley Boeckman dismissed all charges against Joseph Nicholas Gama, 46, said his attorney, Eric Berg.

"I am happy and proud to have defended Mr. Gama," Berg said at a news conference in his office Monday. "He is a great man that has done many wonderful things for Shasta County."

Gama, who was also at the news conference, declined to speak, directing all questions to Berg.

"I don't think I'll be able to shut up if I started," Gama said.

Gama was acquitted in August by a Shasta County jury on one of five felony child molestation counts.

Facing a possible moratorium against medical marijuana dispensaries in Anderson, The Green Heart, a medical marijuana collective and dispensary, opened in Anderson on Sunday. It's the city's first.

Anderson resident Gina Munday had planned to open the shop on West Center Street later in the week but decided to open earlier after the Anderson City Council's Tuesday meeting agenda was posted online Friday. Listed on the agenda was council consideration of the imposition of a 90-day moratorium on such businesses.

"My attorney, Eric Berg of Redding, advised me to open prior to the council taking any action on the moratorium," Munday said Sunday. She said she has tried since late January to obtain the proper permits from the city to open the dispensary.

"I first approached the city's planning director, John Stokes, six months ago," Munday said. "After researching the zoning issues, I and my attorney determined that this is a medical office just like any other medical office. Therefore, there are no zoning issues that should apply."

A federal probation officer accused of molesting three children saw his $1 million bail reduced Thursday to $350,000 after his defense attorneys argued earlier that their client is not a flight risk nor a danger to society.

Judge Anthony Anderson made his ruling after attorneys Eric Berg and Katherine Manuel claimed the $1 million bail was excessive for the crimes of which their client is accused.

Joseph Nicholas Gama, 45, of Redding is charged with five counts of felony child molestation and was arrested on a $1 million warrant at his home on Dec. 3.

Berg, who had hoped that his client might be released on his own recognizance or held at a lower bail, maintained in his bail-reduction arguments on Wednesday that Gama has an "exemplary" record of community service, noting that he served as president of a youth soccer league and has no criminal history.