Man With Assault Rifle Involved in Two Robberies in Covelo, According to Mendocino Sheriff’s Office

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:

CaptureOn 05-10-2016 at approximately 5:30 AM, Deputies from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a forced-entry burglary at the Uptown Mercantile in Covelo, California.

The reporting party told Sheriff’s Office Dispatch that the suspect, Clarence Bruno III, was in the back of the business and in possession of an SKS type of assault-rifle.

By the time Deputies arrived on scene Bruno had left the business and had been located by Round Valley Tribal Police outside a nearby business. Bruno had been detained and property from Uptown Mercantile was found nearby.

Uptown Mercantile video showed Bruno and an unidentified female accomplice wearing a hooded sweatshirt break the business’s front window and remove approximately $2,300.00 worth of clothing and other property.

Piles of stolen clothing were recovered near where Bruno had been detained. Ammunition of the type used by an SKS rifle was located under a pile of the stolen merchandise but the firearm was never found.

Bruno was arrested for burglary, possession of ammunition by a prohibited person and violation of the terms of his Placer County probation.

Bruno was booked into the Mendocino County Jail where he was to be held in lieu of $15,000.00 bail.

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Life is Good
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Life is Good
7 years ago

What’s with all the crime in Covelo? Is this the Hoopa of Mendocino County?

Michael
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Michael
7 years ago
Reply to  Life is Good

Round Valley Indian Reservation is close to there…a lot of similarities to Hoopa…

This native
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This native
6 years ago
Reply to  Life is Good

It’s from the 20000 that were killed in 1860. When 300,000 white people came to California and killed 90 percent of the native population.

Big louie
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Big louie
7 years ago

Has been in the past.

Robert
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Robert
7 years ago

What’s with all the crime in Humboldt County. Is it because it adjoins Mendocino County?

Mogtx
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7 years ago

Lots of methicans in mendo too.

speedoSteve
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speedoSteve
7 years ago

Sloth,..

mendocino mamma
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mendocino mamma
7 years ago

Nasty ass creepy people day after day. Hell in a handbasket! Ya ta hey!

truthhurts
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truthhurts
7 years ago

Wait.15000 bail. So this guy can be back on the streets for 1500 bucks? Wtf

Ramp Worm
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Ramp Worm
7 years ago

Yea the $15k bail is weak.. I guess feeding him to the bears is too harsh. Maybe =next= time…

Disgusted
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Disgusted
7 years ago

There was an assault outside the Buckhorn dive about two weeks ago. Six thugs waited outside the bar and jumped a bar patron and his wife. Beat the man’s face to a bloody pulp. The report sits on the county DA’s desk. A member of one of Covelo’s better known crime families, with a string of burglaries, assaults, car thefts’ parole violations, was involved as the chief instigator and assailant. And you know this POS will be given yet another catch and release free pass such is the sorry state of law enforcement here in Covelo. Keep these demented punks, most who suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome, in jail. They are totally incorrigible and victimize our entire community.

Cheryl larvie
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Cheryl larvie
7 years ago
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Yah ur rite they should keep for fuckin 7 to20 years in my book but dude I actually know ur talking bout the Indians n know this mother fucker most do not suffer from alcohol syndrome okay, I know you came from an alcohol n drug family so don’t try to put that on all of us !!!

bad drugs causing extreme violence
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bad drugs causing extreme violence
7 years ago

[edit] is bringing the new super meth down from crescent city that causes people to be so violent. I know of at least 3 people dead because of it. Probably 5. (Not sure bout 2 of them but sure bout 3, they ingested that stuff got real overheated and keeled over dead) if it was just killing tweakers really wouldn’t care but it makes them extremely violent.. that drug has caused a machete to the face, caused a young man to try to kill his mother and probably caused that buckhorn incident. That girl has brought horrid drugs to a community that already has enuff problems.. regular meth sucks enuff take your nasty drugs home meth mama.. ps. Your always crying about not being with your [edit]children why not go home to crescent and take care of them instead of living here selling bad drugs. The only reason ur [edit] is because ur on parole for robbing gardens.. take ur b.s. home we don’t need it here [edit].

Cheryl larvie
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Cheryl larvie
7 years ago

Fuckin people wanna accuse people selling meth to people n complain bout it bout to chickin shit to put their names get em off the streets if u don’t fuckin wanted around n know whose brining it in asshole let keep killing people p