The following is a press release from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:
On 07/22/2024 at approximately 3:11 P.M., Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Deputies were dispatched to a property in the 24000 block of Shady Lane in Covelo for a report of an in-progress burglary. It was reported that residents interrupted multiple subjects stealing marijuana, who subsequently fled the location in a red pickup and a U-Haul box truck.
Law enforcement from numerous agencies throughout Mendocino County responded to include representatives from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, California Highway Patrol, CalFire Prevention Officers, California State Parks, and Round Valley Tribal Police Department.
A short time later, the caller to Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch provided updated information that a U-Haul box truck had returned to the property on Shady Lane and the residents confronted two of the suspects in their driveway. Sheriff’s Office Dispatchers then heard what they believed to be firearms being discharged over the phone line and the resident reported there was an exchange of gunfire between the residents and the suspects. The residents physically subdued two of the suspects until law enforcement arrived, while several other suspects fled the area.
Law Enforcement personnel arrived and detained 34-year-old Gary Casdell Fite from San Francisco, CA and 28-year-old Marcel Jamarie Earl Patterson from Richmond, CA. Fite and Patterson both had significant injuries to their faces, heads, and extremities which were reportedly caused by the residents prior to law enforcement arrival at the scene.
Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Detectives were summoned to the scene to assist with the investigation. Fite and Patterson were transported to Howard Memorial Hospital to be treated for injuries sustained during this incident. Fite was arrested for violations of 213 PC (robbery), 29800 PC (prohibited person in possession of a firearm), and 12022.53 PC (armed with a firearm during the commission of a felony). Fite was booked into the Mendocino County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail.
Patterson was unable to be incarcerated due to the significance of his injuries and was subsequently airlifted to an out-of-county hospital for further medical treatment. Charges against Patterson are pending while he is hospitalized for his injuries.
At this stage of the investigation, law enforcement does not believe the suspects or victims were shot during the exchange of gunfire while law enforcement personnel were responding. This case is actively being investigated by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office and additional information will be released as it becomes available.
Anyone with information related to this investigation is encouraged to call the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center at 707-463-4086. Information can also be provided anonymously by utilizing the non-emergency tip-line at 707-234-2100.
This is why i don’t want growers near me. It becomes a target for janky negraz from the bay area to pull their little theft antics. I’m more than happy that they got a fucking sock up for going into someone’s land and stealing shit. I wonder if these miscreants will ever learn?
You comment is so inappropriate in so many ways. Starting with your title.
Evidently these rip-offs fucked around and found out! Back in the 80’s they might have just disappeared never to be seen again.
Them were the days.
Just use these dirtbags for backfill.
So obviously the cal trans sign did nothing to warn these guys.
Was it racist to bust them. Is mendo just Jim Crow? Why don’t we just let them take from us it’s our fault. Reparations now Kamala now yeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
That’s the look of utter defeat. His courage and optimism gone.
This is either the beginning or the end of mr fite’s career in rap “music”.
The “significant injuries” to his face and head are a bit hard to see.
Must have been a quick recovery.
Do you read?
Or is just the failure to comprehend?
Is this Aunt Jemimas husband? Or the next VP for on her knees Harris.
While in it’s a good thing in general for the editor to provide a public forum for discussion of local issues such as crime, all that forum seems to accomplish is no such thing as a discussion, rather just an outlet for local blowhards to display their ignorance and prejudices, rants almost always based on the idea that the ranter knows something others don’t or are unwilling to say in public. The ranter is therefore a truth-teller and every else is cowardly, blind, and wrong.
Welcome to the insanity of Trumpland
Hope you enjoy the Matrix, suckers
So if you don’t agree with someone else’s opinion that they have to offer it’s a rant and not a discussion?
Fuck those wannabe gangstas! They came up here armed and to do whatever it takes to rob people of there hard work and personal property.
And what race they happen to be doesn’t mean squat they are dangerous criminals you leftist fool.
And thats Soon to be President Trump to you so get over it and show some respect!
You’re right. Race doesn’t matter. That’s why the clearly racially biased comments made by some is so disturbing.
Of course race matters but if it would have been Asians there would be a different set of derogatory remarks.
If it would have been Venezuelan criminals that came across the southern border yet another.
Or if they were whites they would have been labeled white trash and brain damaged mouth breathing Trump supporters by the same people that are making a ruckus.
The list is endless and the bottom line is that dangerous gun weilding criminals do not deserve any respect or sympathies no matter their race or color.
That’s an entirely false equivalence and you are making shit up, once again.
When is the last time a report on mendofever of a white criminal arrested prompted white trash rhetoric or were labelled as trumpers?
Unfettered BS.
The bigots only pipe up for the perceived non-white or presumed immigrant criminals and are entirely absent and silent when whites are busted.
Just go read the comments on every report of a white person busted in the last week or few months.
Proper English the cal trash sign was talking to tho thoughtless mindless stupid..locals damn I love everything about mendo but the..ignorance
A comment thread fitting of the kkk. Congratulations people! You’re racism & stereotypical prejudice has left me truly embarrassed for you. May all your daughters fall in love with, & be impregnated by, the very people you look down upon so ignorantly.
Oh yah that’s what we need more unwed mothers and a herd of mannerless Oreos that rob the few. Still willing to work and then demand reparations. Too bad the statistically predictable sub civilized thieves survived their attempt to take what wasn’t theirs rather than earn themselves. Steal in the gay bay and walk away. But there are places that still understand right from wrong.
Correct, the #s don’t lie.
But you are spewing and parroting bigoted lies that contravene the #s.
Just one more statistically incompetent, ignorant AF shitass painting the walls with his shite.
Cdnt wish a worse thing on anyone
All of you super sensitive cry baby’s talking about racist this and racist that fuck everyone of you crying ass fools those sorry fucks should’ve been shot in there fucking head come on my property and try to take what I’ve worked for and that’s exactly what you will get no cops getting called just gonna rent a backhoe and build a fire it doesn’t matter what race color or background they are same punishment for all and all of you bringing politics in this should go study some shit becmfore coming on here and looking stupid because none of what your crying about matters to anybody except yourself get over it fucking lames those wanna be gangsters got everything they had coming and should have got more
This comment thread is terrible. I’m about as redneck and White trash as they come and I’m embarrassed and disgusted by the racist comments on here. You all should be ashamed of yourselves. I hope I’m not in the minority here.
Not only do I identify as a redneck, I’m dirty South ?. If this guy is, was, will be a rapper, might not be a good one to put onto an album.
This report really leaves one to question numerous wonders of the outcome to the situation.
I say good job at protecting what they worked hard for. Now maybe others can see that there’s people that will fight back and not just wait for law enforcement to finally show up.
In this case it took less than an hour for all enforcements to arrive. Good job Mendocino. You locked down the whole hood for a short period of time and your job was done. Except the paper work.
Being a victim of a brutal home invasion, the efficiency of law enforcement arrival is quite important. To see a quick report of the names of suspects has got to be of some comfort for the residents, and the recognition that the residents was the victims has got to feel justified.
Glad no one was shot during the shoot out, but what happened did everyone run out of bullets just in time for these two suspects to get beaten before law enforcement arrived? ?
For those who want to put Kamala and Trump into the comments to the happening, WTF do you think is going to happen to the entire country if Kamala is president. Will we be unburdened by what has been. ??? Maybe the suspects will become the victims and the victims will be the suspects.
There’s only one way and that’s the RIGHT way!
Bravo to MendoFever for not locking the comments here in heartbeat. Takes a bit of grit to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly.
My two bits here —
When it comes to matters of self-defense:
“When seconds count, the police are just minutes away…”
Stay frosty, friendlies.
fuck these thieves. though the reason I comment is this disgusting display of the loud minority here. are all you racist fuckheads serious? it’s real easy to be a cunt, and it takes effort to be a good person. just going to church doesn’t absolve you of your racist sins. be a better slave to religion. if you’re not religious, but still a big fat racist bitch then go take a long walk off a short pier.
You should have a plan to protect yourself and your property. It sounds like the property owners did just that. We live in a huge rural county and cannot wait for law enforcement to arrive in time. Our right to bear arms should be protected. If you don’t want to bear arms, that’s your choice. The Criminals will still be packin’ and we need to be able to protect ourselves.
Why where they harmed. Beating people until they have to be airlifted is gross. If they where already subdued why Continue to beat them. Its giving Rodney King. Marijuana is a plant that grows back. why does it take that many law enforcement men to beat two people
Because some people just need taught a lesson or they will never learn. Basic kindergarten logic.
Law enforcement wasn’t who beat them. Who they were trying to Rob did. It’s what happens. It’s not gross. Murdering someone is
They are very lucky to be alive.
Again. Not with a 10 ft pole.
The absolute buffoonery on display in these comments.
I love all the “whats gonna happen when Kamala gets elected?” ones especially, correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t she an LEO/Prosecutor and District Attorney? Not happy she’s our best option right now, but she unfortunately definitely is.
Y’all dorks forgot your hoods and crosses back in ‘Bama or what?
Please reopen the mental institutions America!