Suspect Smokes Cigarette While Waiting for Law Enforcement to Come Arrest Him for Reported Robbery at Hopland Gas Station
Initial reports described the suspect as a dark-skinned 20-something wearing dark clothing and white socks and potentially under the influence. The reporting party was unsure whether the suspect was armed with a weapon.
When this reporter reached the scene, the suspect emerged from the gas station, sat on the stairs leading up to the entrance, smoked a cigarette, and conversed with bystanders.
When law enforcement arrived, the suspect put his hands in the air and seemingly cooperated as three deputies approached.
Deputies with the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department handcuffed the suspect and took him away.
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Blatantly smoking within 20′ of an entance to a public building!
That’s what’s going to add the most time to his sentence. Robbery, meh. SMOKING WITHIN 20′ OF OPERATIONAL DOORS OR WINDOWS????? Fry him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + Restitution for future lung cancer to all the people within 750 feet…
Not just that but 20′ of those gas pumps, NOT SMART!!!!
Why is that not smart? The fumes ignite, not the gas. Can you point me to an incident of someone smoking around a gas pump that was not in use and it exploding? Cause I’d really like to see it.
Dang! Where you been? In the movies it happens all the time! lol.
Allegedly Smoking!
You’re right. We must not rush to judgement. The image may have been digitally altered. And we must determine if this dark-skinned 20-something wearing dark clothing and white socks identifies as a smoker. For all we know, he may identify as someone who wasn’t even in the vicinity of Hopland at approximately 7:26 p.m.
Wow! Image alteration? By Matt, the reporter? For a small scale robbery?
Suggested motive?
Bullocks
Unable to understand sarcasm?
Obviously no sense of humor there non fiction.
“Don’t let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy. ”
Take it easy bud!
He did not inhale
Three hots and cot must be better than what he has now…
Yup. Been there. Sometimes three hots and a cot doesn’t sound so bad.
Used to be Three colds and a fold, but now they get spoiled. This guy won’t be so lucky because he is already released. Then lesson he just learned is that he will have to kill someone to get his 3 hots and a cot
Spoiled? Have you ever been to county jail? That is just a wildly inaccurate statement.
Spent over 2 years of my life in county jails… and you?
Three colds and a fold. Gonna have to remember that.
Charge 1: felony
THREATS TO COMMIT CRIME RESULTING IN DEATH OR GREAT BODILY INJURY
Charge 2: misd
DISORDERLY CONDUCT:ALCOHOL
Both under classification of COMMITED
Not ATTEMPTED
Bond data not listed.
Booked at 8p 6/19
Released. 11:12p 6/19
Resides in Huntington Beach
Cold baloney ain’t hot bro!
Hahahhahaha made my morning!!!!
What did he steal?
Maybe the cigarettes and a lighter!
If its considered a robbery then he must have confronted the clerk or a patron directly, armed or not.
Otherwise would be considered shoplifting
Called ….STRONG ARM ROBBERY!
Robbery is simply the use of force or fear to take the property of another person. I too am interested if he actually took something.
Probably tried to use an EBT card.
He wasn’t reported to have robbed anyone from what the article says. Was he “arrested” on a 5150?
The title says for reported robbery
Why use the word seemingly? He did cooperate or not?
Because we weren’t right there and don’t know if he was refusing to give information or in some other way not cooperating. It appeared he was, but we don’t have proof of that.
Dark-skinned. Really?
He isn’t dark skinned? We can’t use grey hair and overweight to describe me?
🤔🧐🤫No, that would implicate me.😁
In a county full of aging overweight hippies that definition wouldn’t narrow it down much. In a county that’s less than 2% black I’d say, “dark skinned,” is a relevant descriptor.
While I’m here, I have a question for you, Kym. I post pretty much the same shit here that I post elsewhere, yet I have been banned from LoCo, HCOA, Neighborhood Watch, Everything Fieldbrook (where I am back now, on probationary terms), North Coast News, and I’m sure if I hadn’t stopped posting Nextdoor would have banned me by now, too.
Of all those sites, you seem to focus on civil discourse more than the rest (i.e., you can talk about anything as long as you stick to the subject and don’t diverge into an exchange of personal insults and completely irrelevant political commentary).
The other sites seem to focus more on the personal attacks; the brow-beating and ganging up on anyone who doesn’t rigidly adhere to their Liberal agenda, yet I, a person who does not participate in the wallowing around in the mud, but tries to present rational, reasoned arguments, ends up banned.
I know you have what would be called Liberal leanings (as do I, unbeknownst to my internet detractors), so how do you manage to maintain what could only be called the beacon in the wilderness of Humboldt County blog sites?
Don’t really know where I’m going with this (it’s noon on Father’s Day and I’ve already had three drinks) other than to say thank you for providing a place to go to for accurate, unbiased reporting of the local goings-on, and a place for people to meet and greet and josh around without the shit that goes on at other places.
Yer doing a good job. Keep it up.
And thank you for not banning me.
👎 Stupid comes in all colors as your post proves.
You may think Striker is stupid, but he has a point.
Had we sent all the blacks who were brought over here as slaves back to Africa upon the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation (or the end of the Civil War, or whenever), they could all be being happily subjected to the atrocities blacks in Africa are inflicting upon one another to this day.
Genocide, slavery, abject poverty, starvation, AIDS — all while their, “leaders,” are living in splendor.
Meanwhile we wouldn’t be looking at the fact that 53% of the murders in the U.S. are committed by 1%-2% of the populace, all who happen to be black males.
We wouldn’t be looking at the fact that other countries in the world (and a lot of people in this country) believe this is a dangerous country to live on — based solely on the violent crime statistics driven by the actions of inner-city black men.
I have nothing against black people. I’m darker myself than most people who call themselves black.
What I’m against is the current insistence that we glorify everything black, and villainize everything white.
There is more to our world than memes on the internet. It takes a bit of thinking to realize what’s real, but all you have to do is put down your phone and think for yourself.
Try it. You might like it.
“Data from the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice show on the contrary that more than 80% of white murder victims are killed by whites.” Similarly “88.5% of Black victims were killed by Blacks.” https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-data-racial-murder/fact-check-false-data-on-u-s-racial-murder-rates-idUSKCN24I2A9
Blacks make up about 13% of the populations and slightly under half are male so about 6% of the population is black males.
Less guns= less murders
🕯🌳Who says it was a cigarette?🖖🖖
Who exactly is “We”?
Do “they” have no mind of “their” own?
Are “they” compensating?
Maybe just a wannabe gangster?
Why do all these racist comments like this one from striker get to stay on here and seemingly tame ones get deleted?
Waiting patiently for law enforcement to arrive, and allowing oneself to be handcuffed without a struggle does not suggest “wannabe gangster” to me. Also his “gang colors” appear to be an anime T-shirt..
I was referring only to “striker’s” use of “we” towards no one in particular besides himself.
I see now that striker’s comment was deleted, thankfully. My comment loses its relevance without it.
In no way did I reference the individual waiting calmly for the authorities.
Wannabe gangster would be in reference to any individual that referred to himself alone as “we”.
I was being facetious.
To be certain, the accused in this case conducted himself in an exemplary way.
Thanks for helping me to clarify that.
Maybe he just needed a ride home?
The guy probably just wanted to get medical care and couldn’t afford it, like most of us. So, he decided he’d go to jail, where he’d get free medical care. Doesn’t look like he robbed anything. He just wanted to go see a doctor and have it paid for. This is why we need medical care for all. People should not have to go to such extremes to get help.
Lol WTF ??
He just needed a ride back home to Mexico.