ARREST - The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office logo, serving Mendocino County, California. (Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office via Bay City News)

UKIAH, CA., 9/8/26 — A 23-year-old man is in the Mendocino County Jail on $1,002,500 bail, accused of trying to kill a 53-year-old man in a stabbing Friday night at a Sunnycrest Drive property north of Ukiah where both men lived, the Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.

Carlos Ortiz-Garcia was booked Saturday afternoon on suspicion of attempted murder, first-degree burglary, battery with serious injury, resisting an officer by force and using a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury, according to a Sheriff’s Office news release and county jail booking records. He remained in custody Tuesday, the records show.

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