Willits Man Charged with Kidnapping His Neighbor
This 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 05-01-2016 at approximately 8:50 PM, Deputies from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a possible assault in the 6000 block of Big John Road in Willits, California.
Upon arrival the Deputies learned a 64 year-old male and Brett Raymond Cooper had been in a dispute over property for several years.
On 05-01-2016 at approximately 4:00 PM, Cooper arrived at the 64 year-old male’s home armed with a 12-gauge shotgun. Cooper threatened to kill the 64 year-old male and then discharged a round through a window near where the 64 year-old male was sitting. Cooper then held the 64 year-old male at gunpoint and forced him to lay face down on a bed. Copper held the gun to the 64 year-old male’s head and threatened to kill him before discharging a round into the bedroom wall.
Cooper forced the 64 year-old male to open his gun safe, taking two shotguns and two handguns with him before leaving the home. After Cooper drove away, the 64 year-old male went to a nearby residence and called law enforcement.
Cooper was subsequently arrested for kidnapping, reckless discharge of a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon and criminal threats.
Cooper was booked into the Mendocino County Jail where he was to be held in lieu of $600,000.00 bail.
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In Humboldt, that’d be like $25,000 bail, then released the next day anyway.
Then placed on informal probation with a search clause.
Must have been some dispute…. thankfully the older gentleman was not shot.
That guy looks like “Notso Super Mario”.
What an idiot. Had the older man kept his weapons more handy, this could have ended a lot differently. Keep your weapons cleaned and ready, folks. Anyone who enters your home with a weapon is a target to be taken down. Ask questions, later.
They missed the armed robbery charge.