A woman in Fort Bragg gets away and a man is arrested after an alleged abduction attempt. Police say they got a call Wednesday to the back entrance of the Mendocino Cookie Company on N. Main Street where the victim says a man tried talking to her while she was on the phone, asking her if she wanted a ride and she said no and turned away, but then he grabbed her and starting pulling her to a van parked closeby. The woman hit the guy who got in the white 1998 Ford E350 panel van and took off. The man was found later near A Frame Coffee House and arrested. The victim positively id’d the guy so he was taken to Mendocino County Jail.
Two people from Clearlake have been arrested on weapons charges after a report to police of someone showing a handgun. Lake Co News reports Julio Zaragoza and Shanti Gallon arrested on Monday after the report that Zaragoza brandished a handgun at someone then left the area in a silver Mazda. As officers headed that way, they saw Zaragoza’s car and stopped him. Gallon was in the car too and the person who said the weapon was waved at them came to the scene and id’d Zaragoza who was then arrested for brandishing a firearm. Gallon also admitted to cops that a loaded 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun in the car was hers. So she was also arrested for possession of a loaded firearm in public and possession of a concealed firearm.
