[UPDATE 4:22 P.M.: One Fatality] BREAKING NEWS: A Mass Casualty Incident has been Declared at the Mendocino County Jail
A Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) has been declared in Mendocino County around 12:45 p.m. on March 1.
The MCI declaration comes after medical personnel were requested to the Mendocino County jail. According to scanner traffic, there are at least five patients, some, if not all, receiving CPR.
As of 12:59 p.m., scanner transmission between dispatch and emergency personnel, indicates that five patients are suffering from fentanyl overdose. At least 3 of the 5 patients have been transported.
We are attempting to reach the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office for updates, however, given the urgent, serious nature of this call, there may be a delay before MCSO personnel are able to respond.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
UPDATE 1:11 p.m.: All five patients have been removed from the jail. Emergency medical personnel are monitoring the remaining inmates of affected cell block for any further patients.
UPDATE 1:30 p.m.: All the inmates are alive, confirmed Sheriff Matt Kendall by phone this afternoon. He told us that the incident began earlier today with one patient showing signs of fentanyl exposure and then Narcan had to be administered. Then, Kendall said, “six other people in that wing began to show signs right after meals. Mealtime is when things get spread and shared as in narcotics and things like that.” Kendall said that six inmates were affected.
UPDATE 4:22 p.m.: In a phone interview with Sheriff Matt Kendall this afternoon, Redheaded Blackbelt learned that one inmate, unfortunately, passed away at an area hospital due to the earlier incident.
We here at RHBB extend our heartfelt condolences to the decedent’s family and friends.
UPDATE 4:42 p.m.: One Deceased, Others Recovering After Overdose Incident at the Mendocino County Jail
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Drugs in jail? Who would have thought.
Hope they had a good supply of Naloxone on hand.
Lots of drugs and cell phones in MCJ. The Sheriff is too hyper focused on Cannabis, the intake cells all have poor security, drugs are handed from new intakes to the food cart and distributed throughout the jail, the other source of fentanyk in Mendo jail is the corrections officers. Investigate, get to work Kendall, it’s not just about ego and being the big man after Allmans demise. ALLMAN is now selling real estate, go figure wh u he’s not a cop anymore, now we got who he left in charge, Kendall is under educated and lacks experience in leadership. Time to solve this reoccuring problem at our county jail.
Fentanyl can be sprinkled on weed and you’d never know it until their uh…behavior turns to something completely other than what you’d expect good ol’ weed to do. Weed doesn’t make you pass out and stop breathing for one. Nor does an overdose, if you could on weed, make you lose control of all your bodily functions. And fluids. I’ve had to revive people that have OD’d. It’s not pretty. And the Narcan just sobers them up for a day or so, and they’re right back at it.
Actually they can often need repeated doses of narcan and then even a drip. It’s not always the panacea people believe. And the long term problems that arise from hypoxia/anoxia. Time is brain.
System needs an overhaul. We also expect too much from LE and do too little as a community and give LE too much power without enough oversight.
The hits just keep on coming in dysfunctional Mendocino County U.S.A.
At least Medo puts criminals in jail.
Oh really ? When was the last time you heard of a large fentanyl bust I n Mendocino County? I hear of overdoses in our county regularly but I hear nothing about law enforcement cracking down on the dealers, it is the elephant in our county nobody is talking about. Meanwhile our kids, families neighbors and acquaintances keep on overdosing while the Sheriff department keeps quiet and sweeps the bad news of the fentanyl epidemic under the rug.
Medocarantino County might be offering mules a ride to the market too!
Oh no they don’t. I work with a girl who was aiding and abetting a felon found with a gun in her car. She was arrested and is now back at work a few weeks later.
The jails are mental institutions, rehab centers and a pipeline for those unlucky enough to be born into highly messed up families…if those groups had other options the jails could be just for the actually very dangerous jerks. We demand they lock up everyone so we don’t have to be bothered with civic and social duties and then we complain when that doesn’t work. Priorities people. It takes a village.
sounds like a hot date. I like em fast like my cars.
Really? cause some are running the place obviously. Besides criminalizing drugs to the extent we do so is just not wise. Our country incarcerates more people per capita than any other country except one or two others. Jails are mental institutions, rehab facilities and a pipeline for the poor and foster system (aka used to be called orphans or kids in need of care).
With the lame “justice system” it’s shocking there were actually 5 inmates at the jail. What’s not shocking is that there were drugs in the jail.
Most inmates are there for dui, few for dealing fentanyl or hard crimes, it’s a revolving door of drunk drivers and petty crimes while real criminals with victims are not even investigated. The bars are full of young and old alike selling fenty, cocaine, meth and pills. The Sheriff could stop aloe of it by just by putting undercovers in our local dirty bars, but instead they do nothing but sit around in their ego filled heads and pretend to be the big man like Kendall does. Drugs sold in broad sight, large groups of snorters exiting to the bathrooms together for another line, all the bars in Willits and Ujiah and Fort Bragg, nothing is done!
You’re quite the bar hopper ain’t ya.
Sounds like you would be crawling by the time you hit all those bars.
Go to the local watering holes around 11pm, see for your self, the watering holes are all well known on the coast, in Laytonville, in Willts, Ukiah. These are notorious drug dens. You can’t make this up, check em out for yourself, the Sheriff and Police know exactly what’s going on and who the dealers are and do absolutely nothing about it!
And Gavin Newsome is only gonna make it worse because we allow everyone in and pay for their medical so work hard so u can give it to someone besides your family .
Oh come on our country incarcerates more people per capita than almost all other countries. How’s that working for us? No wonder there isn’t priority and focus on the most dangerous offenders. Jails are mental institutions, drug rehab centers and a pipeline for those unlucky enough to have messed up parents and we wonder why it does’ t work well? No wonder cops sneak in drugs and bully people…the job already attracts that type cause we also give them too much power in our attempt to shove at them to many of our social ills and then you add the stress due to community being a bunch of lazy demanding babies…don’t get me started.
Maybe the Sheriff Department should figure out which Corrections officer or detainee brought the fentanyl into the jail. Corrections officers are notorious for sneaking cell phones and drugs into out local county jails. Not the 1sg time this has happened we just don’t hear about it since it usually isn’t 5 overdoses. I wonder if this began in the kitchen or the food…. better get to work and stop focusing on Cannabis Mendocino COUNTY, fentanyl is the real deal killing our locals and being sold in county bars by gangstas with ties to our Southern Border. This will be swept under the rug as usual so I have notified state and national new outlets. Let the press calls begin, where has Sheriff Kendall been hiding the past year? RESPONSIBILITY! TAKE IT!
Can you cite your sources for support of these claims? If what you say is true it would be nice to offer some facts instead of making a blanket accusation. That would help so we could take the claims seriously. The problem with social media and blogs is that you can claim anything you want without supporting proof. That is why our politics are fueled by hate and misinformation, rather than what is really happening to our nation.
This is common knowledge at the jail and in corrections. Arrestees are left in group intake holding cells for days at Mendocino County Jail before they are stripped searched and booked into the jail. This leaves ample time to hand off the drugs to other prisoners and the food cart guys. This has been the norm for decades. Prisoners are able to coerce guards since many have money and ties outside the jail. A simple $30 burner cell phone is worth thousands in the jail and inmates are willing to pay for it, look at the last update from the sheriff : ” UPDATE 1:30 p.m.: All the inmates are alive, confirmed Sheriff Matt Kendall by phone this afternoon. He told us that the incident began earlier today with one patient showing signs of fentanyl exposure and then Narcan had to be administered. Then, Kendal said, “six other people in that wing began to show signs right after meals. Mealtime is when things get spread and shared as in narcotics and things like that.” Kendall said that six inmates were affected.” ,
Sheriff Kendall admits “mealtime is when things get spread and shared as in narcotics and things like that”…..
My relatives worked at the jail for a long time, this is not insider knowledge however; if a addict or a wealthy inmate offers a corrections officer thousands of dollars for a phone or drugs that cost very little on the outside, it is no question as to who they will be loyal to. Your lack of knowledge and blind trust is exactly what enables this to continue. Nobody speaks out as you don’t want to be the next overdose…. I wonder if they willingly took the fenty or if they were poisoned in their food…. this will be swept under the rug,, like every other time.
Try to imagine how an inmate could smuggle a cell phone into jail. It absolutely is corrections officers doing that.
Well again if you have someone go in law enforcement on the under you would have facts look at Antioch and Pittsburg and that has been going on for decades. The cops are the biggest gang out there..dah
Why is this important? Unless of course these people somehow got “dosed” unknowingly and against their will.
If people knowingly take drugs and suffer some undesirable effects — including death — its their own fault. If they stuck their hand in a hornets nest, would they then be crying that they got stung?
This whole thing is a mystery to my of why this is of any importance.
Why do we keep kowtowing to stupidity?
Drugs g s like fenty can be used as poison to overdose other people, drugs being brought into the jail by inmates or corrections officers is a huge problem, especially fentanyl as it cab be used as a weapon against corrections officers and other inmates, it is a very important story, especially to those who have loved ones incarcerated for some small violation or probation violation. Our friends and neighbors can easily find themselves in extreme danger especially when there are drugs like fentanyl which the amount the size of a grain of rice can kill a full grown 250lb man. Why are you trying to devalue and downplay the situation? Thats the real question
Thank you cartels and chinese communist party.
Exactly. Now the Chinese Sleepercells are illegally coming in our Southern Border in record numbers along with the fenty and precursor drugs from China used to make fentanyl.
Meanwhile there has been an enormous amount of time and energy wasted at the state and local level screwing mom and pop cannabis farmers out of their heritage and legacy and destroying our local economy. Go figure
Just imaging if we had town hall meetings and every board of supervisors meeting we were instead of spending that time used to make failed cannabis policy on taking down the fentanyl and prescription drugs distribution networks locally and nationally. What a waste of time Mendo Supes spent destroying our local economy instead if solving real problems like meth and fentynal. #truth
True words. Very well said. Thank you!
Doctors prescribe all of these drugs. Taken in excess they can cause death, and addiction stemming from prescription drugs, especially to opioids, is rampant.
So where to start?
Start in the bars in Mendocino County, It really is that simple. Clean out the dealers dealing in plain sight of the other bar patrons. Johns, Diggers, Forest Club… Etc
But ha ha- been that way since the 80’s. The cops were supplying the drugs then, confiscated from busts.. Not sure if anything has changed since I got away from that corrupt crap town…
😀🤣😂😅
Sounds like attempted murder. Who provided the drug to inmates?
I just like coming here and waiting to see when the racists whistle will blow, so I guess the “cartels” crossed the fence at the jail and put it the food? Now it’s the Chinese cartels? But never the euro cartels!
The Bulgarian cartels are in Humboldt. With the illegal Mexican cartels and the Hmong cartels. Then you got your greenrusher cartels and your ranching cartels…etc etc
Another great post. Not sure if anybody knows who brought it in, or into the country. The truth isn’t likely to come out. Plenty of buisness-people involved. Lots of players in that biz
Sounds like a self mitigating problem.
We expect LE to deal with too too many of our civic social duties/social ills and also give them too much power without enough oversight. They shouldn’t have to be dealing with severe mental health, addiction nor homeless issues and juveniles with not enough to do nor not enough adults supporting them nor should they have to deal with things apartment mangers can but dont nor elder care we absolve ourselves of as a community. . ALso they shouldn’t be allowed to be bullies and be blindly loved just because they are LE…nor hated just because either. We expect too much, participate too little and then complain they aren’t doing their jobs. Throughout human history adults spent most of their time surviving and now there are expectations to play video games and recreation of so many sorts and vacations every year and watching sports and streaming …used to be you went to the games in your town not all over the World. “I want my MTV and chicks for free” as the song went. All adults should be required to participate in government and community and we should be funding many other social services so LE can focus on their specialty.
“Shitty” drugs
The way this was presented as a “mass casualty” is irresponsible and also seems intentional …to strike more fear into people and cause a knee jerk reaction to fund more LE and give them more power. It’s like they capitalized on an obviously bad situation by exaggerating and distracting from other vital issues such as why do have jails dealing with substance abuse and mental health at all ? Meanwhile physical violence, robbery and child and elder and domestic violence…unsolved murders….no time for those..
I was listening to the scanner which is where I got mass casualty. This was not an attempt by law enforcement to effect the public. This was internal communication intended to assist during an obviously stressful time. This was a situation where about five different men needed cpr roughly at once. That’s two medics per person to do properly–or roughly 10 medical personal. I doubt they had enough.
The definition of mass casualty is
“Mass casualty incidents (MCIs) are disasters, either man-made or natural, in which local management agencies and the healthcare system are overwhelmed. ..There may be large numbers of victims who will need care.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK536972/
Who brought it in? They should be charged with murder, right?
Most likely the corrections officers, they are responsible for selling cell phones and for bringing in drugs.
The peason who bought them in is probably the same person they get from on the street
So these few tied up essential emergency services from transportation to hospital for how long, and costing how much? C’mon Commifornia wake up and stop supporting the users. Let them deal with the choices they make.
In all probability these folks did ingest the drug willingly. But you don’t know and neither do the medics when faced with these situations if any might have been secretly given the drug. If a person didn’t choose to ingest it, then they may die and no one can bring them back.
And secondly, the measure of a good society is to rescue folks in need of assistance no matter if that is a result of bad choices–the death penalty is a harsh punishment for the crime of being a drug addict.
Even those who ingested the drug could have been fooled into thinking the drug was something else. Fentanyl is showing up in all kinds of street drugs, most people have no idea what exactly they are getting as counterfeit drugs are usually containing fentanyl these days
If your a drug addict then you know the consequences just part of knowing what you want out of life a chance to live or a chance to die
Prayers for the families of the person who passed and those still in the hospital 😢 hopefully these men get the help they need to recover and remain drug free. Good work of the staff who were alert and helped saved lives 🙏🏽💕
My condolences to the family.
Learn the facts
Educate yourself and your loved ones about Fentanyl!
Was any or all victims families contacted about these conditions. Or am I the only one wondering if my loved one could have been a victim to this demonic bullshit?
Close, but no cigar.
People saying that murder charges should be given out to those supplying the drugs that are resulting in any person’s death, incarcerated or free, it seems you are a little confused on as how things work in drug culture, so id like to share some insight. Most people using fentanyl/heroin know better than most, what they are risking when they do these drugs. Many are aware that they could die, and have been as close to “dead” as you can get from having overdosed before. Usually dealers are selling drugs for money, or just to stay high. They arent giving there drugs away or forcing them down anyone’s throat. They are not murdering anyone. Would you demand the death penalty for a car dealer who sells a vehicle that crashes and the passenger dies? How about a farmer at yer local farmers market that sells a organic zucchini that someone chokes to death on? We know that we could die from using the drugs that we chose to seek out and purchase in a mutual transaction. We made a choice, and that choice ended our lives, not the individual that sold us our shit. Now, there are cases in which people are selling a product as one thing, claiming it is something else and for them, we’ll you can’t cheat karma. There are also individuals out there who think there doing God’s will, and use there position to slip food into prisoners food because they broke the law and need to be punished or whatever other zealtious justification they can come up with. Just sayin, it could happen. It’s a world out there, so ya know, lookout. And test your drugs. And keep some narcan on hand. And try not to use alone. And maybe consider the possibility that you could be wrong, however right you are.