The following is a press release from the Ukiah Police Department. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:
On 09/22/2024 at approximately 3:00 am, Ukiah Police Department (UPD) Officers were dispatched to [500 block of] Ford Street in Ukiah for a report of an in-progress auto burglary. As the officers were on their way to the location, the reporting party informed them that the suspects had just left the scene in a vehicle.
As UPD officers arrived in the area, they observed a dark-colored SUV leaving the area at a high rate of speed. An officer caught up to the SUV and initiated a traffic stop due to the reasonable suspicion that the vehicle was involved in the auto burglary and the speeding violation.
The SUV failed to yield to the UPD officer’s emergency lighting, and a vehicle pursuit began as the suspect vehicle and an officer traveled southbound on Leslie Street. The suspect vehicle took East Gobbi Street to Babcock Lane, and then went eastbound on Talmage Road. Other UPD officers were able to join the pursuit on Talmage Road, and the suspect vehicle took Talmage Road to Old River Road, before turning onto Mill Creek Road.
UPD Officers pursued the suspect vehicle to the area of the lower Mill Creek Dams, where the vehicle came to a stop. The driver, later identified as Luis Alvarez, exited the vehicle in preparation to flee on foot, but was apprehended immediately. The passenger, later identified as Jorge Alvarado, exited the vehicle and fled down a hill towards the Mill Creek Pond. UPD officers found and apprehended Alvarado a short time later. No one was injured during this incident. Both suspects were armed with concealed fixed blade knives on their person at the time of their arrests.
During the course of the investigation, UPD officers determined that Alvarado and Alvarez had committed theft from at least one vehicle, and they were suspected of multiple other vehicle tamperings.
Alvarez was arrested and booked into the Mendocino County Jail for charges of 2800.4 CVC, 2800.2 CVC, 21310 PC, 182(a)(1) PC, and 484(a) PC. Alvarado was arrested and booked into the Mendocino County Jail for charges of 21310 PC, 182(a)(1) PC, and 148(a)(1) PC.
As always, UPD’s mission is to make Ukiah as safe a place as possible, and we are grateful for the help that we received from the concerned citizen that called in the incident, and the support that we received from the community. If you would like to know more about crime in your neighborhood, you can sign up for telephone, cellphone, and email notifications by clicking the Nixle button on our website; www.ukiahpolice.com
Thank you UPD.
These filthy animals will get slapped on the wrist until they’re caught killing or raping someone. Sending this kind of scum to Guantanamo bay would be the most humane solution. Meanwhile law-abiding US citizens have to bear the brunt of foreign invasion and the mexican criminal gangs. What a shame, Ukiah wasn’t always like this.