The following is a press release issued by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office:
On 10-29-2024 at approximately 8:30 PM a Corrections Deputy was performing a routine safety check on two pre-housed adult male individuals inside a holding cell inside of the Mendocino County Jail Building One (referred to as Main Jail).
At this time the Corrections Deputy noticed both individuals were laying on the floor in different areas of the holding cell and appeared to be asleep. After constant visual observation for a brief time, the Corrections Deputy became concerned about one of the individuals.
This prompted the Corrections Deputy to enter the holding cell with an additional Corrections Deputy to perform a closer physical check on the individual. The Corrections Deputy determined the individual was unresponsive to include being absent breathing and a pulse.
An immediate radio broadcast of a medical emergency was made which prompted response of additional corrections and onsite Naphcare medical personnel.
Corrections and jail medical personnel began immediate lifesaving efforts which included CPR, and use of an AED (automated external defibrillator) while outside medical services were being requested.
Personnel from the Ukiah Valley Fire Authority soon thereafter arrived and continued with additional advanced forms of lifesaving efforts. Corrections personnel continued providing CPR assistance during this time for an extended period which resulted in the individual regaining a pulse.
The individual was transported to the Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Emergency Department where further advanced lifesaving efforts were continually provided after admittance.
These ongoing advanced lifesaving efforts were ultimately unsuccessful, and the individual was pronounced deceased on 10-30-2024 at approximately 12:14 AM.
Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Detectives were contacted, and they are conducting investigations in connection with the Mendocino County Fatal Incident Protocol.
In addition to this investigation the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Unit is conducting a coroner’s investigation into the cause and manner of the individual’s death. A forensic autopsy on the individual was performed on 10-30-2024 and the official result of that autopsy is pending BA/Toxicology analysis at this time.
The identity of the deceased individual is not available for public release at this time pending identification and notification of their Next of Kin.
Well how many deaths in the jail does that make this year? Was it from Marijuana? It could have been because I heard the undersheriff say that marijuana was unquestionably the most dangerous drug he’d ever seen and he should certainly know the truth. When he spoke before the board of supervisors in August last year he said it on camera and he wouldn’t be lying about something that serious. It was before the fentanyl overdoses in jail but that doesn’t make it not true. I mean fentanyl has caused a higher rate of overdose and death in this county than almost anywhere in California but if our undersheriff says pot is more deadly than I believe him. Those guys never lie. Never.
I take all thumbs down as acknowledgment that I’m onto something big with this view. Thumbs up means you agree and thumbs down means you think the undersheriff really said that, which he did, and it makes you extra mad that he did.
No just take all the thumbs down as being a strong indicator that you are completely ignorant. Marijuana isn’t dangerous but the chemicals some growers use can make it toxic, the most dangerous combination is when you lace it with other harmful substances such as fentanyl.
Oh no I had no idea they were smoking fentanyl laced pot in jail! That’s what happened? That’s terrible and I take it all back. I guess they did a quick investigation and found that pot was liable again for a jailhouse death and you’re really getting the true story out. Thank you so much Melody!
Sometimes when you get arested and brought to the Mendocino County jail under the influence of anything the correction officers never check on you often enough to make sure that you’re still breathing.Even after they throw you in the drunk tank not realizing that you’re almost overdosed on the stuff blacking out periodically. They just strip you of your clothes and give you a skimpy little turtle ? shell suit to wear, throw you in a padded cell with only a hole in the floor to piss in and leave you there.
Matt Kendall too busy writing letters to editors to run a jail properly.
How many people die in mendo(we have the highest rate in the state ) of overdose in freedom vs. in jail. People, you’re more likely to die on the outside. Settle down, fent overdose is practically normal
Always a blame game. Two fent overdoses. Period. End of story.
Yes please end your boring story about how you don’t care about anyone. Normal people would appreciate it if folks held in custody and under the protection of elected law enforcement officials weren’t dying in a locked cell under mysterious circumstances.