UKIAH >> After noticing a “surge in gang activity” that included a homicide in the Ukiah Valley in recent weeks, the Ukiah Police Department partnered with several other agencies to contact people identified as gang members a couple of days before Halloween, arresting several of them.
According to the UPD, officers from its department as well as the Mendocino County Major Crimes Task Force, the Fort Bragg Police Department, Mendocino County Probation Department, the California Highway Patrol, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office and the Multi-Agency Gang Suppression Unit.
During the enforcement operation, which was conducted Oct. 29, officers arrested seven people on suspicion of violating their probations, possessing illegal weapons and possessing illegal substances.
The UPD reported that all of the arrests but one were made “at the locations targeted,” with the one exception being an arrest made near the Alex Rorabaugh Center of a suspect with an illegal weapon.
The arrested suspects were not identified by the UPD.
