A man from Covelo’s been arrested for Domestic Violence after an altercation with his girlfriend. Deputies reported to a home September 23rd after a woman was yelling. Patrick Dennis says he and his partner had been drinking and when they got home, they got into an argument. Deputies say it got physical and Dennis took the woman’s phone and tossed it on the roof. He was arrested for domestic violence battery and held on $25,000.00 bail.
A massive settlement has been reached with PG&E and former executives for the 2017 North Bay firestorm along with the 2018 Camp Fire. Former officers and directors of the company were taken to court by a victim trust who claimed the fires were directly caused by the former executives’ work at the company. The trust announced last week they had finalized the $117 million dollar settlement. You may recall back in 2017 fires ignited after power lines owned by the utility company went down. The fires in Napa, Sonoma, Humboldt, Butte and Mendocino counties killed 19 people. Then there was the massive Camp Fire in Butte County the following year, also caused by PG&E equipment, killing 85 people.
A man from Covelo accused of disobeying a court order and terrorizing a couple of women. But Deputies couldn’t get to the home right away after several emergency calls from Willits and Covelo. When Deputies got ahold of the caller, they said the suspect had left the home. They later found Fox Blue Hoaglin came to the person’s property even though they had a tribal court order against him. They say he had a hatchet and was told to leave but swung it at at least one person. Deputies found him in a neighbor’s yard, trying to run into their shed. He was taken down and booked into jail for assault with a deadly weapon and held on $30,000.00 bail.
A juvenile has been found after reports they escaped the Ukiah Juvenile Hall. It was reported over the weekend a white male in a gray sweatshirt and green long sleeve shirt with “Mendocino County” on the back was on the run near the Ukiah golf course. A nixle alert went out to alert anyone who may have seen him, or anything suspicious to call police or the Sheriff’s Dept. But he was found and the nixle alert was canceled.
A homeless advocate in the Ukiah area is being accused of sexually assaulting former colleagues. Mendo Fever reports Tony Marsh is being sued by former co-workers who say they worked under him at Manzanita Service Incorporated and after they reported the abuse to supervisors, they lost their jobs. The company has merged with another called Tapestry Family Services in Mendocino County. There are three lawsuits against the company and Marsh, the former employee’s direct supervisor at the time. They all say he continued to proposition them and inappropriately touched them sexually. One claimed there was sexual battery by Marsh, another said she was groped. All of the complaints, the women say, were met with hostility.
A surfer has been attacked by a shark at Centerville Beach near Ferndale. The Volunteer Fire Dept responded and reportedly took the 31-year-old victim to a hospital. Kym Kemp reports it’s the latest shark attack in Humboldt County, but the last was two years ago in Shelter Cove. That time it was a kayaker who got away as the shark chewed his kayak. The same year, in May of 2020, a shark bit another kayak, that sank. Back in 2018, a woman had a small bite at Trinidad Beach. And a decade ago, another surfer was bitten off the North Jetty and had to have surgery.
A man in Willits has been arrested after his wife reported her husband was threatening her with a machete. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Dept. says they went to a home Friday September 23rd where they learned Lewis Perll was chasing the victim with the machete, and a sledgehammer in their home. The woman told Deputies she was able to escape and Perll stayed in the home. He also had a felony warrant for his arrest from Santa Clara County and a misdemeanor warrant out of Santa Cruz, plus he was on formal probation in another county, so he was arrested for strangling the woman and chasing her with weapons. Crisis negotiators had to lure him out as he apparently also had a pellet gun on him. He’s held without bail.
A car accident brought out medics to State Route 20 in Mendocino County. The car crash ended with a black car overturning and landing on its roof. The CHP reported a truck and the black car crashed with the black car 100 feet down an embankment and someone trapped inside. They were able to get the victim out and they were airlifted to a hospital after being examined locally.
Ever gotten a ticket for jaywalking. It can’t happen anymore in California. The Governor has signed the bill “Freedom to Walk” into law. Assemblyman Phil Ting’s bill starts in January. It comes after activists had fought against jaywalking rules which they claimed had affected more marginalized or low-income residents than anyone else. So, a pedestrian can legally cross a street out of designated intersection for the first time in nearly a century. Jaywalking laws went into effect back in the 1930s. Until January pedestrians might still incur a fine or get a citation for crossing outside a marked crosswalk or moving across the street while a signal is still in play.
As many of us have returned to before times, health officials are warning about subvariants of COVID19 potential emerging ahead of cold temperatures and indoor activities. The coronavirus medical advisor to the White House, Dr. Anthony Fauci says it’s far too early to know what could happen, but as we head into late fall and winter, it’s probable there will be a new variant. There are none so far documented in Calif. or in the country, but some health experts say there could be another super-spreading subvariant as people gather indoors when the weather gets cold. New York has been seeing more cases, but Calif. has been seeing a steady decline since mid-summer.
Reports of threats to Pomolita Middle School on social media are apparently nothing to be concerned about. The Ukiah Police Department says after an investigation of an 11 year old, they found they had no access to weapons. Parents were told last Wednesday by the Pomolita Principal that there was a “concerning media post made by a student.” He says they immediately called police and after an investigation, they found it was not believable, but to err on the side of caution, they will be beefing police presence at the school. After questions about preparation for potential serious threats, the Superintendent shared a list of “major things we do to help ensure safe schools” to the Daily Journal.
