Mendocino County News

Registered Sex Offender Caught Violating, and not just the Bushes

By Erica Bjerke | 5/16/2013

GYSERVILLE – On 05/13 Mendocino County Sheriff’s Officers were dispatched to examine the report of an indecent exposure incident which had happened on 05/ [...]

Five Jailed in 1200 plant Marijuana Cultivation Operation

By Erica Bjerke | 5/15/2013

UKIAH – On 05/13 at approximately noon, officers from the County of Mendocino Marijuana Eradication Team (COMMET) were undergoing a search for marijuana in [...]

Battery and Assault for a Broken Heart

By Maryna Honcharuk | 4/26/2013

Sometimes dating relationships don’t end “happily ever after.” Some people don’t want to part ways peacefully. Iuta Pittman, 29, from Guala, for example, came to her former date’s home a [...]

He Started it!

By Maryna Honcharuk | 4/16/2013

An argument about property and trespassing turned violent, resulting in one arrest on Thursday, April 11. It all began when a mildly injured patient at the Mendocino Coast District Hospital reported t [...]

Tags: arrest, assault

Father Arrested for Abusing 6-month-old Son

By Maryna Honcharuk | 4/10/2013

It was a typical Friday night at the Ukiah Valley Medical Center until a 6-month-old boy was admitted with an unusually high fever. However, it was not the high feve [...]

Tags: arrest, child abuse

Traffic Stop, Police Chase Lead to Arrest of Wanted Felon

By Maryna Honcharuk | 2/5/2013

A high-speed chase in Ukiah ended with an arrest of a wanted felon on Monday, February 4. According to the police reports, the deputies from the Mendocino Sheriff’ [...]

Rite Aid Robbery Ends with Two Arrests

By Maryna Honcharuk | 1/14/2013

On Tuesday morning, January 8, the Ukiah Police Department was called out and responded to a local Rite Aid store on 680 South State Street at 7:15 am. According to the reports, a Hispanic male attemp [...]