A couple of teens from Ukiah have been arrested following a car chase after allegedly trying to break into some vehicles on Ford Street. Ukiah Police responded around 3am Sunday and when they got there they saw an SUV speeding off. That led to a chase along several streets until they got to the lower Mill Creek Dams where the driver jumped out and tried to run. Both guys were caught and both allegedly had knives on them. UPD officers determined that the two had stolen something from at least one vehicle and were suspected of tampering with several others. They are ID’d as 18-year-old Jorge Alvarado and 18-year-old Luis Alvarez.
One building has been destroyed but a fire that popped up Tuesday night at the Humboldt/Mendocino County line has been contained. The fire started at an as-yet unidentified structure and spread to the brush in a very dry spot east of Cooks Valley around 640pm. KymKemp.com reports CalFire quickly dispatched an Air Crew and Palo Verde volunteer firefighters also responded. By about 830pm the CalFire Battalion Chief said forward progress had stopped into the brush. Crews stayed on scene for what he called a heavy mop up.
No word yet on what took out the power for about six hours Tuesday in parts of Mendocino County. PG&E says the outage started around 10am for 1,248 customers in Little River, Albion and areas west of Van Damme Beach State Park. The juice was back on by 430pm. PG&E says it was an unplanned outage and that their team was evaluating the system to identify damaged sections.
The Lakeport Police Department and its Community Partners are hosting the National Night Out Against Crime in Lakeport’s new Xabatin Community Park on Tuesday evening, October 1st from 4pm -7pm There will be games and activities for the whole family including face painting, raffle prizes, music, a kid’s bike parade, and lots of treats. Kids who want to participate in the parade can bring their bicycles and enter the Lakeport Main Street Association bicycle decorating contest. Kids can meet Safety Pup, Chipper and McGruff the Crime Dog as well as lots of actual police officers. This event is sponsored by many local citizens and businesses and everything is free of charge. Get details on the Lakeport Police Facebook page.
A trial date has reportedly been delayed and reset for a Clearlake Oaks man charged with attempted murder and assault due a change to his public defender. Treyvon Jones was arrested last October for two counts of attempted murder and two counts of assault with a firearm during a shooting involving several people in September 2023 near Austin Park. The Record Bee reports Jones has had several public defenders appointed and replaced for various reasons. An August trial was reset for this week, but a Lake County Superior Court Judge has reset it for November. Jones has pleaded not guilty.
A proposed affordable housing project is the subject of a special meeting of the Lakeport City Council tomorrow night. The meeting is to discuss whether the City Manager should ask the California Department of Housing and Community Development for a grant extension of around $2.3 million from the Bevins Senior project to the Parkside Apartments project. The proposed Parkside development would be on three acres on Craig Avenue and would include 64 units of affordable housing. The meeting is Thursday at 6pm.
No bail for a CalFire equipment engineer accused of starting five fires in Sonoma County. Robert Hernandez of Healdsburg was arrested last week at the Howard Forest Fire Station in Willits and charged with five counts of arson. At a court appearance Tuesday the judge revoked his initial $2 million bail although he set a bail hearing for October 1. CalFire investigators allege Hernandez started the five fires while off duty from August 15 to September 14. Each burned less than an acre but prosecutors say the first arson count for the August 15 fire includes an enhancement because it happened during a state of emergency.
