A Willits man allegedly brandishing a knife while shirtless was arrested in Ukiah this week after a long standoff with officers and negotiators, the Ukiah Police Department reported.
According to the UPD, officers responded to the 500 block of North State Street around 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2 when it was reported that a shirtless man in possession of a knife was “yelling and acting erratically.”
When they arrived, the officers described the man, identified as Robert W. Bell, 43, of Willits, as “making sporadic and incoherent statements,” and that with the assistance of personnel from Redwood Community Services, “officers attempted for over an hour to negotiate with Bell in an effort to have him drop the knife and accept assistance.”
While the first responders were attempting to “de-escalate” the situation, the UPD reports that Bell “actively cut himself and exposed his genitals to officers, (making) multiple aggressive and threatening hand movements with the knife, pointed the knife at officers, and swung it through the air. It was apparent that Bell was under the influence of a controlled substance and not comprehending any negotiations or attempts to talk.”
The UPD reports that Bell eventually “stepped down from an MTA bus stop bench, while holding the knife in his right hand and began walking across the street directly toward a Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant in an aggressive, fighting stance. Due to Bell’s agitated state, aggressive behavior, and continued possession of the knife, officers deployed less-lethal devices; however, these measures were initially ineffective.”
Bell then reportedly fled to a housing facility where a brief standoff occurred (before) he ran back to the east side of North State Street and into the parking lot of 605 North State Street” where a second standoff occurred. The UPD reports that “Conducted Energy Weapons (Tasers) were deployed and found to be effective. Bell was taken into custody without further incident and transported to Adventist Health Ukiah Valley for medical evaluation and treatment.”
Bell was later arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, brandishing a deadly weapon, resisting/delaying a peace officer by use of force and violating his probation, and booked into Mendocino County Jail under no-bail.
The UPD reports that an officer was treated for a minor laceration and later returned to duty, and “commends the coordination and response efforts of our allied agencies, including RCS, the MCSO, the California Highway Patrol, and the Ukiah Valley Fire Authority, which led to the safe resolution of this dangerous incident.”
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