84 months in state prison for man who blew himself up operating a butane honey oil lab

A man who blew himself up in 2014 operating a clandestine butane honey oil lab in a backyard shed on Luce Avenue in Ukiah was sentenced today in the Mendocino County Superior Court to state prison.



Joshua John Corrigan, age 38, of Oakdale, was sentenced this afternoon by Superior Court Judge Cindee Mayfield to 84 months in state prison.

Based on his no contest pleas entered last month, Corrigan stands convicted of unlawfully causing a fire of inhabited property, unlawfully manufacturing concentrated cannabis by chemical extraction (in this case also known as BHO, or butane honey oil) while armed with a firearm, and the unlawful possession of an assault rifle, all as felonies.

Following the pronouncement of sentence, Corrigan was remanded into custody to be transported by the Sheriff to the Department of Corrections to begin serving his state prison sentence.

The prosecutor handling this matter has been District Attorney David Eyster. The investigating law enforcement agencies were the Ukiah Police Department and the Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force.