Lucas

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN LUCAS, No.: 1:20-cv-00552-NONE-JLT Plaintiff, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATION DISMISSING THE

v. COMPLAINT

COUNTY OF KERN, et al., (Doc. 2) Defendants.

Plaintiff, who is proceeding pro se, initiated this action by filing a complaint and paying the requisite filing fee on April 20, 2020. (Doc. No. 1.) The complaint concerns plaintiff’s efforts to effectuate a citizen’s arrest upon Jon Edwin Slikker, a crop duster, for allegedly over spraying plaintiff’s person and property with pesticide on July 27, 2018. (Id. at 16.) Plaintiff complains that defendants—various officers and officials employed by Kern County—refused to make the citizen’s arrest on plaintiff’s behalf. (Id. at 17.) The complaint sets forth various claims invoking 42 U.S.C. § 1983 concerning defendants’ refusal to make the citizen’s arrest of Mr. Slikker, defendants’ rejection on timeliness grounds of a claim plaintiff submitted to…