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 08-03-2024 at approximately 11:05 A.M., the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office was contacted regarding a suspicious item found inside of a residential, roadside mailbox located in the 4600 block of Burke Hill Drive in Ukiah, Ca. The reporting party described the item as a possible bomb.
Sheriff’s Office personnel, including Deputy Thong and his K-9 partner, “Jet”, responded to the location. Deputy Thong and Jet are certified in explosives detection. Deputy Thong visually examined the item and believed it was a dangerous explosive, commonly referred to as a pipe bomb. K-9 Jet was deployed and alerted on the item, indicating the presence of explosive materials.
The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad was requested to assist with safe disposal of the device. Personnel from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad responded and were successful in rendering the device safe. Remnants of the device were collected as evidence for identification via DNA of the person/s responsible for making and placing the device.
MCSO extends a big “Thank You” to SCSO Bomb Squad for the quick response and willingness to assist with keeping our community safe.
At this time, there is no evidence the device was placed with intent to harm a specific person or property for any specific reason. This investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information regarding this incident is requested to call the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center at 707-463-4086.
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Disgruntled neighbor? Malicious tweaker? Bored teenagers? Some combination of the three?
This is an outrage and truly barbaric!
Cannot we all come together and once again create a more peaceful and civilized society?
Let us all pray for and hopefully revert to a more peaceful and cultured era like the 1970’s.
When one would simply gift their enemy with a de-rattled tormented and slightly starved rattlesnake AKA the Synanon joke book.
That would conveniently be placed in their opponents mailbox for their enjoyment.
The history of bomb making in Mendocino hasn’t always been a joke
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Bombed_Judi_Bari
Nice try, Hillary, but im over here in tweaker Lake County. News worthy i got all my teeth put that on cnn.
Generational locals and parents have been saying it but no ones listening; there is literally nothing to do in this town.
And anyone with kids heard of fortnite? You know the game behind why you don’t see kids out on the street anymore? It’s all about weapons, of all kinds, the specialities of each, I don’t know one teenage boy who isn’t obsessed with it, who doesn’t have a whole life on fortnite.
The war on young men keeps them violent and volatile, and keeps them disassociated from reality, from non virtual reality