A Ukiah man faces an attempted murder charge for allegedly stabbing his sister’s boyfriend. Ukiah Police say the woman called for help around 5 am Tuesday from a home on Irvington Drive. Investigators have been piecing together the story and allege it was premeditated, with the suspect, Maclovio Garcia Magana, lying in wait in the kitchen and attacking the victim as he walked in. They claim Magana used a 13-inch kitchen knife to slice down the victim’s face from his eyebrow to his jawline and also stabbed him in the chest. The victim is in a hospital. Police say Magana was on probation for carrying an unregistered gun which added to his bail for now $252,000.
A motorcyclist has been killed in a crash in Ukiah. Police say it happened around 330pm Tuesday afternoon at the corner of North State Street and Clara Avenue when for an as yet unknown reason the 36-year-old Ukiah man collided with a car driven by an 18-year-old Ukiah woman. UPD says the motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene and the car diver was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. Investigators are looking for more information or witnesses or any surveillance video from the area.
Local police are asking your help in finding a man who has been missing for several months from Southern California. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office says the 59-year-old man known only as Kojoe was last seen in Anaheim in June on the way to Yosemite National Park and has not been heard from since. The CHP says in August his car was found on State Hwy 128 in Navarro a few miles east of Paul Dimmick Campground. The Sheriff’s Office says Search and Rescue personnel scoured the area but found no evidence. Anaheim Police are continuing to look into his disappearance. You can see his picture on the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Facebook Page.
Lakeport Police say they are concerned about an increase in drivers passing stopped school buses. In a social media post, police say they are seeing an uptick in violations of the law that requires all vehicles to stop in both directions when a school bus has its red lights flashing and stop arm extended. They say the lights may feel to you like they are flashing for a long time but it’s to ensure every child has crossed the street safely or to allow students to get off or onto the bus without rushing to sit down. The fine for violators is $695 or more plus a point on your license which could hike your insurance.
More than 25,000 illegal marijuana plants have recently been removed from state parks. The California State Parks Agency says their Cannabis Watershed Protection Program Special Enforcement Team led 16 operations in or near state parks’ properties resulting in 7 arrests and the removal of 25,500 cannabis plants, 4,820 pounds of processed cannabis, and 18 firearms. And they say investigators documented several environmental crimes related to water diversion and pollution. They say the most plants were removed at California’s largest state park, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, but they also cleaned up at Clear Lake State Park and several others.
The California Wolf Project is underway in a partnership between UC Berkeley and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife along with the National Geographic Society to work on long term management of the gray wolf population nearly 100 years after they were almost rendered extinct. Officials say it will use Berkeley’s experts in ecology, sociology, economics and environmental policy and their relationships with nonprofits, landowners and tribes. The team will be looking at how wolves migrate and colonize, predator-prey dynamics, and conflicts with rural communities and livestock producers. Gray wolves are classified as endangered both under the California Endangered Species Act and the federal Endangered Species Act. They were systematically destroyed and removed from California in the 1920’s and began recolonizing in 2011.
