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 11/09/2024 at approximately 1:23 a.m., two Ukiah Police Department (UPD) officers were on patrol together in the 100 block of South Main Street when they observed a GMC Yukon fail to stop at a stop sign at the controlled intersection. The UPD officers conducted a traffic enforcement stop on the GMC Yukon due to the vehicle code violation.
When the two UPD officers approached the vehicle, one of the officers on the passenger side observed a black handgun within arm’s reach of the driver behind the center console. The driver was later identified as Grady Hollenbeck.
For the UPD officers’ safety, they told Hollenbeck to exit the vehicle. As Hollenbeck exited, the officers observed a glass methamphetamine pipe in plain view inside the driver door pocket. Hollenbeck was detained in handcuffs without incident and secured in the rear seat of the officers’ patrol vehicle. A probable cause search of the vehicle was conducted following the discovery of drug paraphernalia and the firearm. During the search of the vehicle, the officers found that the firearm was a Glock Model 20 chambered in 10mm with a loaded magazine directly next to it. On the front passenger seat of the vehicle, there was a plastic pencil box containing suspected cocaine, methamphetamine, and oxycodone tablets, commonly referred to as M30s.
The UPD officers continued their search and located multiple other items of drug paraphernalia, as well as a backpack containing large “Mortar”-style explosive fireworks, which are illegal to possess in California. Due to the size and potential danger of the fireworks, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office EOD (Bomb Squad) was contacted and briefed on the specifics of the items. It was determined that the items were consumer-grade and not homemade, which would be safe to transport to a secure facility. The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office EOD later responded to Ukiah and retrieved the items for destruction.
Hollenbeck was placed under arrest for the above-listed violations and transported to the Mendocino County Jail to be booked and lodged.
As always, UPD’s mission is to make Ukiah as safe a place as possible. 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.
The clown show of Ukiah Police department calling the Sonoma County sheriff bomb disposal unit over a fucking firework is absolutely wildly absurd.
Taxpayer dollars wasted by cops who doesn’t know what a firework looks like? Especially a consumer grade one?
What a terrible childhood they must have had, not knowing what real fireworks look like.
Wow another drug bust that didn’t involve marijuana! Last year Mendocino undersheriff called marijuana the deadliest drug he’d ever encountered in his career- before the fentanyl overdoses at the jail of course. Now we have these big busts and with weapons and meth and fentanyl etc that seem pretty bad with ghost guns and pistols within reach of drivers. I mean which is crazier, rolling with two pounds of weed or rolling with two pounds of meth? Which is deadlier? Two pounds of weed or two pounds of meth? According to our sheriffs department the answer is weed! Whooda thunk?
Will sheriff Matt “I’m working for free now” Kendall have a sit down with Fort Bragg and Ukiah PD and get the skinny on these recent events? It might help help him with his investigation into which are the deadliest drugs in the county!