A domestic violence incident in Ukiah leads to the arrest of a man. Cops say they got a call July 6th to a fight outside a home and found a woman and child at the home alone and were told Oscar Sanchez was there but left. The woman says she was dating Sanchez and while at a wedding earlier that night in Hopland they were drinking, then went home and got into a physical altercation. The child was still in their car and when the woman tried taking the keys from the car, she says Sanchez pushed her, and when she took the child out of the car, he pushed her. He was arrested after cops found he was on probation. He’s charged with domestic violence and violation of probation and held on $20,000.00 bail. At the jail, it was found he also had cocaine on him, so another charge of possessing a controlled substance was added.
A routine stop by cops in Ukiah leads to a drug arrest. Sheriff’s deputies on patrol July 3rd find a couple in a parked car, Antonio Delossantos-Rojas and Monica Maldonado and saw ammo out in the open, a glass methamphetamine pipe and a small plastic ziplock bag. When deputies did a records search, they found Delossantos-Rojas was prohibited from owning or possessing firearms or ammunition. They searched further and found a shotgun, semiautomatic handgun, drug paraphernalia, meth, and more ammo. Then more weapons hidden in a different area, a wooden stick with metal on one end, metal balls, knives and crowbars. Plus one handgun was reported stolen. There was also stolen credit cards, and ID. The woman in the car cited for meth use, and Delossantos-Rojas was arrested on numerous charges including possessing drugs while armed with a firearm, possessing drugs, ammo and dangerous weapons and held on $35,000.00 bail
A man in Ukiah’s been arrested for having a bunch of meth on him packaged for sale. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Dept. reports a deputy saw Michael Lockett in the 1000 block of Airport Park Boulevard and recognized him and found him to be on searchable probation. The deputy found several plastic baggies with meth in them and more evidence of drug sales and paraphernalia. He’s arrested for possession for sale of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and violation of probation and booked on $82,500.00 bail.
A man in Fort Bragg has been arrested after reports of a domestic violence incident. Police say they got a call last Saturday morning to the 31000 block of Highway 20 finding a woman there who says she was dating Andrew Riffle. The pair in a tent at the location and Riffle got up to go to work and tried putting his shoes on, but the woman wouldn’t let him leave, grabbing one of his shoes, then they started fighting over a shoe. She says that’s when things got heavy, and Riffle put her in a “headlock” and dragged her from the tent. They say there were visible injuries on the woman’s neck. Riffle was arrested for felony domestic violence battery and held on $25,000.00 bail
A man in Gualala for having a gun. Deputies got a call last Friday to reports of a 17 year old boy found people he didn’t know outside his home on South Highway 1. They found Raymundo Moreles at the edge of the driveway at the teen’s home. Cops say Moreles saw the Deputy walking towards him and took out a loaded gun and threw it on the ground. He apparently thought the teen stole money from him. The teen says Moreles threatened him. Moreles was found to have more than an ounce of marijuana and ammo in his car, so he was arrested for making criminal threats, having a loaded gun in a public place and possessing more than an ounce of weed and held on $20,000.00 bail.
Another domestic violence arrest. This one last Saturday morning. The Sheriff’s Office got a call to a home in Ukiah where a woman says she had been in a fight the night before, after her ex-boyfriend came into her house and choked her until she could barely breathe. Ryan McIntyre was arrested after the woman complained about pain in her back. He’s charged with felony domestic violence battery and held on $25,000.00 bail.
A couple in Covelo have been arrested after a gun shot’s fired from a car in the 76000 block of Highway 162. Deputies report while driving to the scene they got a report of an assault and an ambulance had to be called. When they arrived they found Colter Reynolds and his girlfriend, Jessica Durazo where hitting someone with a bat, Antonio Tickner who they say had several traumatic injuries to his upper body. He was treated at the scene. The couple both had warrants for their arrest and were found to be on probation. Plus Reynolds was out of jail on bail at the time and Durazo was on felony probation for unrelated assault with a deadly weapon case. The pair arrested on various charges with Durazo held without bail and Reynold’s held on $55,000.00 bail.
The man who killed a couple on a beach in Jenner 15 year’s ago is going to prison for the rest of his life. Shaun Gallon confessed to shooting Lindsay Cutshall and Jason Allen on the beach. The two visiting the area from Ohio ahead of their impending wedding. Lindsay’s mom brought her wedding dress to the sentencing. Gallon got three consecutive life terms without parole and another 94 years in state prison for those murders, the 2017 murder of his brother, and another attempted murder in Monte Rio in 2004. Gallon’s background included several other arrests over the years and was known to kill animals, not just for hunting. His lawyer said he had a history of mostly untreated mental illness.
An officer involved shooting in Clearlake after police investigate a stabbing. One person was taken to an out of county hospital and another to Adventist Health Clear Lake. Lake Co News reports the police officer involved was also taken to a hospital for precautionary measures but released. There’s not a lot of other information on the incident, but the news site reports dispatchers sent medical aid to the scene Monday night where they found a gunshot victim and someone else with a stab wound.
The body of a man who went missing more than a month ago while fishing with his dad on Lake Mendocino has finally been found. Someone apparently spotted Vincent Soto’s body Monday. Family members have been holding vigil at the Lake since he disappeared, and his father’s body was found. Dad either had a heart attack or stroke. Their boat found empty. Searches were ongoing since that day to look for Vincent after Carlos was pulled from the Lake. A call came in yesterday to the Sheriff’s Office for a body floating near the Coyote Valley Dam control tower. His family was waiting for him and said a prayer over his body. An autopsy was set for today.
A small wildfire threatening homes in the Clear Lake Riviera put out with no damage reported. The fire Sunday afternoon in about a 30-foot by 30-foot area of brush. The fire spread to about 100 by 100 feet near homes. Cal Fire reports there were several homes threatened. They say quick work by residents, calling 911 and firefighters nearby in Kelseyville and Cal Fire Kelsey Cobb helped. It was a perfect day for the fire to spread, hot, dry and windy. Rumors were circulating it might have been fireworks related, but so far it’s noted as accidental and whoever started it was fully cooperating. It started in a lot where weeds were just cut nearby, but not that lot.
Congressman Mike Thompson visiting a border detention facility taking notes, touring the place and sending pictures to the press. He’s also coming up with recommendations to improve the situation. There were about 20 Democrats in Brownsville, Texas, last Saturday. Thompson told Lake Co News it wasn’t his first trip to a detention center, but this one was a “real mess” adding, “nobody… would be anywhere at all interested in spending a minute, let alone a day, in those areas.” He said it was large and over capacity, and has never seen another detention facility that full. He went on to describe the conditions as very poor, with 25 to 30 people in a closed cell with an exposed toilet, and they couldn’t all lie down. He also says criminals on death row are treated better in some cases.
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office has their annual sweep of illegal marijuana sites in process. This whole week, the Sheriff’s Office working with the state Department of Food and Agriculture, Department of Fish and Wildlife, State Water Resource Board, Cal Fire and the National Guard are serving search warrants on public/private lands to look for illegal cannabis cultivation sites. They’re looking for sites without permits or believed to be illegally diverting water or otherwise harming the environment in the greater Eel River area of Northern Mendocino County.
A woman rescued after being injured hiking. A chopper, ambulance and a couple firefighters responded Sunday afternoon to Low Gap Park for the hiker who fell hiking to the “U” on the mountain above the park. The Record Bee reports the 43 year old in a steep section of private property not part of the park’s trail system. The woman reportedly injured her ankle and was airlifted out from the Ukiah Dog Park then got into an ambulance that took her to Adventist Health Ukiah Valley.
Reps from P G& E at the Mendo County Supervisor’s meeting to talk about their intended power shut offs in fire weather and their Community Wildfire Safety Program that was started after the fires of 2017 and 18. Part of the program is vegetation management, including clearing debris around power lines, eradicating hanging limbs and branches above lines, and removing dead and dying trees. The utility company is also doing more inspections of their transmission and distribution poles and towers, visual checks, aerial drone inspections, and installing more equipment. They said again the power shut offs could go as long as five days at a time and could impact as many as 5 million customers, with Mendocino County probably part of that since the county’s noted in a California Public Utilities Commission map as being at an elevated or extreme risk for wildfire.
The so-called Natural High property in Lakeport is being considered as part of a proposal for a new park. Money from Prop 68 to be used for a multi-use park with Lakeport identified as a “critically underserved community” from city staff to get grant money. The city applying for some of the available $255 million to possibly build an amphitheater, a multiple use lawn, concessions area, bathrooms, basketball court, shelter with tables, barbecues, a boat ramp and maybe even a boathouse. The Natural High property owned by the local school district and since residents voted to get a new pool with a bond measure in 2014, the money could go towards this. The money gathered, not enough for a pool after all.
