Redbearded Burglar Sought by Mendocino County Sheriff’s Suspected in Last Night’s Officer-Involved Shooting on the Coast

Suspect in Burglaries

The suspect in last night’s shooting and several burglaries throughout Mendocino County [Picture provided by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office and enhanced to show detail]

As per a conversation with Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Captain Greg Van Patten, at approximately 9:30 p.m. last night deputies were fired upon after responding to reports of a residential burglary on the Mendocino County coast. The suspect is at large and Captain Van Patten told us based on surveillance footage at the burgled residence, investigators believe the shooter to be the same individual described late last month as burglarizing rural homes in Mendocino County.

Captain Van Patten explained that at approximately 9:30 p.m. dispatch received reports from a homeowner that an individual was burglarizing their home in the 3000 block of Cameron Road in the rural town of Elk. The homeowner witnessed the suspect via a surveillance camera.

Deputies responded in approximately 20 minutes combing the area for the suspect, including a frontage logging road adjacent to the residence, Captain Van Patten explained.

Deputies found the subject and a foot pursuit immediately began. Captain Van Patten said the suspect was heard making statements as he ran such as “leave me alone.” One deputy, who Captain Van Patten described as “faster than the other,” began to catch up to the suspect when the suspect fired a gun several times at the pursuing deputy. None of the deputies were hit and they fired back at the suspect. Captain Van Patten said, “We do not believe he was hit.” The suspect then fled into the woods.

In response to the officer-involved shooting, Captain Van Patten said upwards of 20 law enforcement personnel converged on the scene including a multi-agency SWAT team establishing a mile wide perimeter around the suspect’s last known location. Personnel searched the area, in the dark, for three hours to no avail.

Just over two weeks ago, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office published a Facebook post calling for the public’s assistance in finding a suspected burglar describing him as a “person of interest in several burglary investigations within Mendocino County since January of this year.” The Facebook post added he had last been seen “in the area of Elk, Ca and currently may be on the Mendocino Coast.”

Captain Van Patten said surveillance footage gathered from the burglary that occurred last night depicts the same individual described in the Facebook post.

The suspect is described as “a white male adult, about 5’10” in height and 180-pounds, with a red beard. The subject was last seen wearing dark clothing, a knit hat, and carrying a dark backpack. It is presumed the subject is transient and travels on foot.”

The photograph of the individual published along with the Facebook post clearly depicts him with a firearm holster on his hip.

As demonstrated, this individual can be hostile and if a member of the public sees or encounters him, please find a place of safety and contact the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office at 707-961-2421.

UPDATE: MCSO Continues Search for Redbearded Burglary Suspect

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The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
2 years ago

Be careful if you see him.

He might be a RBBB.

Nanigirl
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Nanigirl
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

What’s a RBBB?

Farce
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Farce
2 years ago

This is terrible. We need to understand homeless people like him and offer them better opportunities to interact in safe environments within our community. He most likely suffered trauma in his childhood and so it is not his fault. Redheads are at a disadvantage and when we blame them we are practicing a form of racism. If we gave our transient community members more social services and worked harder to understand them then we would not have such aggressive posturing. He just wanted to get a few things and to be left alone! Police need to be defunded because they are too aggressive. We can see from this guys photo that he needs better clothing. Perhaps he was harvesting clean pants from a rich person’s house? This entire situation reeks of economic oppression and social shortcomings- We need to be more compassionate to our less fortunate!! …….(yes- sarcasm)

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
2 years ago
Reply to  Farce

So…..is homelessness always a choice in your world?

Does trauma not exist, or have effects?

Are police caught in excessive force and themselves tired of responding to ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING?

What are you being sarcastic about exactly?

Or are you just shitting on people that have less than you like Bruce Jenner just did?

Auntie Ovine
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Auntie Ovine
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

How about you defending, based on your own emotions and no evidence at all, a person who has burglarized a number of times and carries a gun while he does it? At what point is a person to be held responsible for what they do in life? Having less is not a licence to steal nor shoot at police trying to stop it. Nor does trauma give a right to traumatize others. Nor is help so hard to come by unless the help demanded is supplying what is wanted but only if it does not interfere with behavior that lead to help being needed.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
2 years ago
Reply to  Auntie Ovine

I have no intention of defending this criminal.

I am interested in how the article is being used to justify attacking large various groups of people that are NOT criminals, but victims.

Guest
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2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

That’s reasonable in part. But outside of fairly severe mental illness, homelessness is the self inflicted result of years of increasingly poor choices. Only once in decades of talking to homeless had even one acknowledged that their situation was the result of their own behavior. Mostly the reasons given for it are that someone else had it in for them so they had to quit their job. Some girl friend or relative of a girlfriend taking revenge was the usual choice for having diddled them out of their one successful job in decades. It is a script from Hollywood, not reality.

When jobs were plentiful, they assigned their situation to personal limitations such as a bad luck that somehow never stopped them from anything other than working. When times were bad, they just went with everyone is having a problem. But if their actual work record was reviewed, it was clear that they never worked much and are referring to the onetime they held a good job for few months. And are masters at rationalizing their inability to do what 90% of others do.

There are the few who really were caught by exceptional bad situations but frankly they are not common. Indeed very rare although advocates are fond of publishing them. Most create their own bad situations continuously and use exaggerations to prevent others from blaming them. Assuming they are the victims of a cold, uncaring world is how they manage expectations. No one who feeds this is doing them any favors.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
2 years ago
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There are more equitable ways to govern capitalism for the wealth of a nation.

If success was simply a matter of “choice” to work hard, my dad would be far wealthier than silver spoon baby Trump.

Many toil their lives away at work to scrape by, hoping that health holds up so they can make rent and electric.

Capitalism is biased and brutal.

I acknowledge that many homeless drug addicts have likely made poor choices and likely repetitively, but I simply don’t think that is a catch all answer.

Kym Kemp
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2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

I’ve known three people/families who were homeless in their lives. I could say they were homeless through choices they made if I were harsh. One wouldn’t get rid of her dogs, one fled a bad marriage, one family moved from an area of low opportunity to one with more, but I do know that when through various resources including supportive friends and family they were homed again, they never again became homeless (we’re talking about 40 years in those three cases.)

Certainly there are people with drug and mental health issues that are making repeatedly bad choices. But, in my admittedly limited experience those three people/families had a combination of luck and supportive surroundings which enabled them to get out of the mess and are productive members of society. I think a little scaffolding/assistance would go further than most people who have never been in that situation would imagine.

Farce
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Farce
2 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Been there. I agree heartily with your last sentence. My sarcastic comment never meant to undermine all compassion and I’m glad it stimulated discussion! Being involuntarily homeless and broke was an extremely embarrassing and shameful situation. People- even some you thought were friends- assume you are on drugs or just trouble…Good people helped me as I helped myself. It’s very hard in the current economy to even get up to the curb from the gutter. I grew my way back up to financial solvency and it’s been my deep frustration to see that opportunity be taken away and given to the already well-funded (sorry but here I am mixing major discussion topics ha ha!)

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
2 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Once you’re in the gutter it’s hard to get out.

Who will rent to someone without references or a bad rental history?
How do you get a job with nowhere to clean yourself up?
Got an alarm clock to get to work on time?
A criminal history won’t help you.

It’s complicated, so make good choices to begin with.
Bad choices add up.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
2 years ago
Reply to  Farce

@ Kym

Will you please delete this kudos to Farce.

He doesn’t deserve it now.

Guest
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2 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Here, Here.

Mike
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Mike
2 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I’ve had two family members who are on/off again homeless. With each of them it’s 100 percent drugs. If they sober up for a while they get help from some family members but the second they get spun and start stealing all help is cut off as it’s been established for decades what happens next. Cant speak as to all other homeless people but allot of them appear to look to be In a very similiar state of drug use. I’m sure that the ones who aren’t spun are less in the public spotlight though. I have a third family member who is soon to be homeless as soon as he finishes putting his entire inheritance up his nose, hard to watch but what’s the point of helping when it’s futile.

Steve Koch
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Steve Koch
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

So how do we get as many homeless as possible back on track to where they are contributing to society again?

Puest
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Puest
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

SHE, is NOT Bruce anymore, but Kaitlyn in Two Ways!!!! Anyone who lived with & interacted for so long with the “KarKrashians” CANNOT Possibly be in their right mind!!!!

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
2 years ago
Reply to  Puest

When he shows more respect, perhaps she’ll get it in return from me.

I like stars
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I like stars
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Way to take the high road! It says a great deal about your true character.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
2 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

I build my own roads.

They take more thought than the ones your used to and are harder to drive because few people take them.

There is no support on them.

That’s why I doubt I’ll see you on them.

Guest
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2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

It’s oK Brian, everyone we know still calls him Bruce also. He will always be Bruce . Certainly a better choice than Gavin though. He’ll get our vote.

In my 1911 I trust
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In my 1911 I trust
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Whoa whoa whoa, her name is Cait. There should be 0 tolerance for transphobia here.

Puest
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Puest
2 years ago

I’m not Transphobic just insanity phobic, as I said ANYONE who lived in & among the KarKrashians cannot possibly be sane!!!

Really
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Really
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

I suggest you go spend 50 hours/week helping these people since it’s obviously a case of just needing a little help and compassion. Love and a warm bed will melt away meth and heroin addiction like it was nothing. Go out amongst these fine misguided souls until you learn that for most it’s a lifestyle choice and they could give shit about getting clean. You must never get ripped off by these shitheels or your virtue lets you ride atop this flood of shit.
You’re some kind of ist for talking shit on Caitlyn Jenner. You’re undermining what everyone worked so hard for in trans rights. Not cool dude.
All you do is shit on people that don’t mirror you views. Trans rights supersede partisan politics!

Bob
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Bob
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

There is no such thing as “Excessive Force” when some asshole is shooting at you.

Puest
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Puest
2 years ago
Reply to  Bob

IF they ACTUALLY ARE, Yes, but most of the “Questionable at best” shootings of Black Men have been found UNWARRENTED!!!!

Guest
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2 years ago
Reply to  Puest

Most? Or are you just talking about partisanship where race is an issue? Anyway some sort of data validating that claim is needed. I’ve seen police be very tolerant of people who are not threatening them. And I’ve seen people really get aggressive just at being told to stop doing something destructive.

Mr. Bear
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Mr. Bear
2 years ago
Reply to  Puest

Some, but not most.

I’m not going to give you that

Cordwainer Bird
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Cordwainer Bird
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Speaking as a formerly homeless child and adult, shut up.

It’s extremely tiring to hear politically correct liberal elitists (most of which live in relative wealth and comfort) constantly pissing their pants anytime someone is critical of homeless people. Sure, not all homeless people are bad, I can’t buy into the notion that they are because when I was on the streets I got by in large part to the kindness of other people in my situation and I never did wrong by anyone myself. Conversely, the biggest threat to my safety and the safety of those kind and gentle souls were other homeless people, not the cops, and certainly not people who looked down their noses at us for being homeless.

To say that all homeless people are somehow bad is a load of shit. To say that all homeless people are good is a load of shit. To say that most of the people who routinely make those judgement calls (good or bad) have never experienced homelessness themselves is nearly an absolute truth in and of itself. If you’ve never dealt with that situation, do yourself a favor, and do us all a favor and just shut up. Your ignorance has blinded you and your words are an injustice to the situation faced by the many homeless people surviving on our streets. Your self-serving righteous indignation is a slap in the face. Shut up. I know you can’t, but please consider it. We don’t need or want you of all people to defend us.

Guest
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2 years ago

Maybe. But many (maybe most) people have scrambled at one point or another to avoid that situation and managed to do it. Worked hard in unpleasant jobs to avoid it. Without help. Why should they not have expectations that it is reasonable for others to do the same? A child on the street is one thing. Maybe an old person or a mentally ill one. But most homeless seem to be adult men who should be capable of taking care of themselves.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
2 years ago

Shut up.

Great talk.

Tammy
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Tammy
2 years ago

To Cordwainer Bird… Beautiful Response!!!

Farce
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Farce
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

TRB- you used to be pretty reasonable. Covid has made you aggressively cranky. Only people I’m sarcastically chiding are the ones who embrace their misplaced compassion to the point where everybody everywhere is a victim to be coddled and our communities become social cesspools as a result. Have a nice day!!

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
2 years ago
Reply to  Farce

I’d be honest with you about the misery in your life, but I’ll pass.

Mr. Bear
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Mr. Bear
2 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Who’s Bruce Jenner?

VMG
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VMG
2 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Thanks! My vote for “Comment of the week”!

Humboldt folk will undoubtedly take your thoughts seriously, though, because jokes are usually beyond their ability to comprehend…

Namaste, Farce, be well…

Prometheus
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Prometheus
2 years ago
Reply to  Farce

I sarcastically agree…

MAMA BEAR
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2 years ago
Reply to  Prometheus

I see Greg in the forest hunting people like animals!! Are you not EXCITED?? As long as it’s not Mary’s son Cody or Teresa ‘s son Shanti, or a maid from The Inn?? Definitely looks like he’s stealing YOUR creepy forest cabin VALUABLES, ABSOLUTELY TAKE HIS LIFE. He shot at a COP , time to put him DOWN, I just hope Greg does it bc he needs the KARMA!!! (Not sarcasm:)

Meee
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Meee
2 years ago

In that case why are you here? There are several socilist/ communist nations you can move to? Why have you not left yet? Feel free to leave there are no walls or border guards keeping people in like the old eastern block had.

Farce
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Farce
2 years ago
Reply to  Meee

I am leaving right now! You will never see me comment on this website again!!! (yes- sarcasm)

Guest
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2 years ago
Reply to  Farce

That’s pretty damn funny, Farce.
Thank you.😁

So long!
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So long!
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

The ignorant are easily entertained.

Marc
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Marc
2 years ago
Reply to  Meee

Meee: I am quite sure you know the difference between communism, socialism, and democratic socialism. I am not aware of anyone calling for communism. As well, no one in a leadership position in our government that I’m aware of is calling for socialism; what they are suggesting is a social democracy, which exists in a capitalist economy.

Personally, I prefer a capitalist approach (with some necessary market controls, as self-regulated industry has never worked) and a fair and simple flat tax rate. Everyone pays their fair share and no one is penalized for their initiative. However, at some level there does need to a social safety net for individuals who need assistance. What do you suggest?

Unbelievable
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Unbelievable
2 years ago

Oh My Goodness, leave me alone, he says! For heaven sakes! As he breaks in like Goldielocks with a gun, shooting at cops. Definitely a psychopath! Beware people!

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
2 years ago
Reply to  Unbelievable

17 cops have been murdered so far this year.

Ed Thyssen
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Ed Thyssen
2 years ago

The situation with the buns, derelicts, degenerates; i.e. ‘homeless’ is really getting out of hand. This is now far beyond stinking bums, trash & occasional deposits of fecal matter: a man breaking into a house in Fort Bragg & helping himself to clothing and food while the occupants were home; another transient lighting a brush fire in Fort Bragg and now we have an armed burglar plying his trade.

What is needed is a place to keep the dangerous bums confined and rendered harmless while at the same time providing a reasonably healthy environment for those who are harmless but too far gone to ever be able to make it on their own. It would be imperative also for ‘real’ people who are temporarily the victim of circumstances to have a safe, healthy place where they could recover their equilibrium and move on with their lives.

A network of work camps where these people would be held in compassionate confinement would be ideal. Keeping them away from drugs and alcohol would be a very good first step toward reform and increasing productivity. Depending on their ability and ability to learn, various tasks and occupations would be assigned. Ranging from simple clean up around the camp to gardening and farm work to provide their own food; various industrial operations could be incorporated. Recycling, making clothing for old people and turret lathe and punch press work are all possibilities. For the more recalcitrant and those unwilling to work, a gentle and harmless motivation could be gentle electric shocks as a reminder. This could be provided by a shock collar type device and this could also be used to control someone when they got seriously out of hand and presented a hazard.

The present approach is clearly not working and fresh ideas are needed. Perhaps my ideas are a little radical. However, I ask the reader, if we continue on our present course, what do you forsee as the end point? Do you really believe things are going to get better?

Marc
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Marc
2 years ago
Reply to  Ed Thyssen

Troll at 1 o’clock, but I’ll play. 😎

Seems a bit Orwellian and actually struck me full of fear recalling the vivid images of 1984. Who would decide which homeless citizens would be denied their liberty guaranteed them by the U.S. Constitution? Where would it stop? What about people who don’t think like me, or look like me, or I think are irredeemable for any myriad of reasons; can we lock them up too?

tym
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tym
2 years ago

Great discussion but am i missing something here?The article was about a guy with a gun committing burglaries and willing to shoot at police. I think most everyone would rather he was in custody. Homelessness there and where i live in Humboldt is a thick thorny issue with many different sides. I think its easier to discuss if one stays specific not generalizing since there are many different types of folks in that situation. Drug addiction/psychosis is a huge problem as are severely mentally disturbed people in general (as in seriously gone) but each is just a slice of the homeless pie. But my point is this guy needs to be custody ASAP before he hurts or kills anyone or himself. I sincerely hope no one has to shoot him dead and he’s a bad shot but i couldn’t fault anyone who did in self defense either.

Jim Dogger
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Jim Dogger
2 years ago

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