Photo: trailer fire (MendoFever)
On the afternoon of May 11 a domestic disturbance call from the Golden Rule RV Park came in to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department.
A husband had assaulted his 41-year-old wife, possibly holding her captive in the RV for several days.
Arriving deputies spotted a trailer with black smoke coming out of it. Witnesses, and the wife, reported that her husband had gone back into the trailer.
The trailer’s door was locked and it was filled with smoke. Deputies broke the trailer’s windows and others attempted to put the fire out with water hoses.
As the fire grew items began to explode. Everyone backed off. Fire Department personnel arrived and put the fire out.
Others around had gotten the suspect, Joshua Lipscomb, out of the trailer, apparently against his wishes. Lipscomb climbed back onto the roff of the trailer and was not spotted after that.
As a backstory, on Sunday Lipscomb had forced his wife to take blood pressure pills, after whiuch she lost consciousness.
When she awakened, she noticed puncture marks on both of her arms, perhaps needle marks. She snuck out and got into her vehicle to leave. Soon after this she noticed the smoke coming out of the trailer.
Lipscomb was the subject of a restraining order for domestic violence.
After all of this excitement, Lipscomb was located in a nearby creek bed and arrested. He was taken to a hospital fior treatment and then “released on a citation with a date to appear in court.”
Also, “The cause of the fire is being investigated by a Cal Fire Arson Investigator.”
