Butane Hash Lab, Assault Rifles Found at Home of McKinleyville Man Accused of Shooting BB Gun at Deputies
This is a press release from the Humboldt 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 August 17, 2022, at about 10:13 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the 1600 block of Ocean Drive in McKinleyville for the report of an assault and firearm brandishing.
According to the reporting party, a male suspect, later identified as 40-year-old Ricardo Cora, was outside his residence in a physical altercation with two male victims. The victims sustained minor injuries as a result of this assault. At some point during this incident, Cora reportedly also brandished a bb gun at the victims. Upon deputy arrival, Cora retreated inside his residence and began firing the bb gun at deputy patrol cars. No one was injured as a result of this shooting.
After a short negotiation, Cora peacefully surrendered to deputies and was taken into custody without further incident. During a search of Cora’s residence, deputies discovered multiple assault rifles, a large quantity of cannabis trim and a Butane Honey Oil extraction lab. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Marijuana Enforcement Team was dispatched to assist with the BHO lab investigation.
Cora was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of battery with bodily injury (PC 243(d)), exhibiting a deadly weapon other than a firearm (PC 417(a)(1)) and resisting a peace officer (PC 69). The investigation into the illegal BHO lab is ongoing and the case will be forwarded to the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office for review and prosecution.
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office would like to remind the public that California law prohibits openly displaying or exposing any imitation firearm in a public place or exhibiting an imitation firearm in a threatening manner (PC 20170(a), PC 417.4). These laws were enacted to reduce confusion between real and imitation firearms. Displaying or brandishing an imitation firearm in violation of the law is dangerous and could result in a deadly situation.
Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the
Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.
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Earlier: Suspect With BB Gun Accused of Injuring Two
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When’s the auction? Have ta be sterilized cause I dunno what shit been runnin through but a few seals and a new tank and good as new. If ya gonna go back in operation I suggest better power source cause with those clips exposed just a matter of time before, BOOM!
Made me think of this…
Biden’s open border around McKinleyville is serving to flood the rest of Humboldt County with illicit drugs. It is offensive and just not fair.
And there it is…
Just give me a minute to touch up my eyebrows! Send in a sharpie!
Yep, never fails.
Why is it necessary to pretend that there is no problem with immigration based crime in order not to be racist?
Actually the opening of Pelican Bay Prison had a lot to do with someof the influx of the meth and cartel to NorCal. But they have been here for a long time working the dairy ranches too. Biden has Nothing to do with this. You can thank California Dept of Corrections.
I lived elsewhere, but a motorcycle gang was the earliest meth supplier I know of there. I think they were major players in other places too. I think loggers and others were known to use speed back in the day. I don’t know what exactly it was or who supplied it. I agree that prisons become hubs of organized crime.
I blame the housewives of the 50s and 60s for starting this whole mess. Only time I ever got really jacked out of my mind was after snitching three of my moms “diet pills”. The gals in her bridge club fascinated me. Smiling statues sitting upright, prim and proper flaunting their cards like a Japanese fan. They would all talk at once, without even moving their mouths.
Who is the “they” who’ve been working at dairy ranches for a long time? The Swiss?
I suspect not Filipinos.
The only way to change the situation, enforce our laws, secure the border, take back our streets and reestablish our energy independence is to vote republican across the board, in the 2022 and 2024 elections.
What will Trump do that he didn’t do in the four years before he lost the first time?
So they can keep allowing people to buy guns without background checks, suppress voting rights, give tax cuts to the wealthy, try to keep people in the dark about climate change, stash classified documents in their private residence,….
Didn’t most of the recent mass shooters actually pass background checks?
Did they? Source? And what about non-mass shootings?
70% of all mass shooters acquired their firearms legally.
Look it up yourself.
He’s a legal use citizen and marijuana is legal [edit]
Wow, that’s a big setup for someone willing to fire on LE with a BB gun.
Yeah, this is a whole nother level of crazy.
Mr. Cora’s fashion selection…white tank top…just seems so fitting for this sordid tale.
“assault rifles” lol
Are his eyebrows bladed?
What was this guy doing shooting a BB gun at the cops?
That stupid mistake cost him and his partners dearly.
Maybe he grabbed the wrong guns.
They should send the guns to Ukraine there’s too many in Humboldt they need them over there.
So someone threatens you outside on your property and you can’t legally show them you’re armed and can protect yourself?
Mr. Cora is lucky to be alive. He owes his life to the professionalism and restraint of HCSO deputies. Thank you, all of you in law enforcement.
Spot on.
good on the law enforcement response not escalating this into something worse, especially after getting shot at (even if it is a bb gun). even among criminals, this dude seems dense…
The assault rifles with the hippy tapestry behind them is a great picture
I thought so too.