Mendocino County Jury Convicts Redwood Valley Man of Felony Criminal Threats
UKIAH, CA — “A Mendocino County jury returned from its deliberations Tuesday afternoon to announce it had found the trial defendant guilty of the felony charge.
Defendant Shelson Louis Cabada, age 26, of Redwood Valley, was found guilty of felony criminal threats, said crime having occurred on October 29, 2024.
A criminal threat under California law is when a defendant willfully makes a threat to commit a crime that can result in great bodily injury or death to another person, with the intent that the statement be taken as a threat and that the threat is so specific and unequivocal to the person threatened that he or she harbors a sustained fear of the immediate prospect of execution of the threat.
The jury found the defendant not guilty of a separate misdemeanor count of battery.
After the jury was excused, the defendant and his case were referred to the Mendocino County Adult Probation Department for a background study and sentencing recommendation.
The defendant, who remains in-custody unless and until he posts bail, was ordered to return to court on March 4, 2025 at 9 o’clock in the morning in Department A for consideration of probation’s report, sentencing arguments of the attorneys, and pronouncement of judgment and sentencing.
The law enforcement agency that developed the evidence and identified the witnesses needed and used at trial was the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office.
Trial support was provided by the District Attorney’s own Bureau of Investigations.
The prosecutor who presented the People’s evidence to the jury was Deputy District Attorney David Moutrie.
Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Keith Faulder presided over the two-day trial.”
