Woman suspected of attempted murder
Allegedly held pipe to man’s throat
A Bakersfield woman was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly holding a metal pipe to a man’s throat, the Ukiah Police Department reported.
According to the UPD, officers responded to the 900 block of South State Street at 10:11 p.m. Sept. 19 when they “heard yelling coming from the area near ABC Supply Company.” There officers reportedly saw a woman, later identified as Melissa R. Miller, 40, of Bakersfield, “holding a metal pipe across the throat of an adult male (and) using the pipe to push the victim” into a darker area of the parking lot.
When officers approached the suspect they reportedly saw she
“had the victim pinned against a large metal Dumpster and was depressing the metal pipe across the victim’s throat.” When Miller was first ordered to drop the pipe, she reportedly refused, but dropped it after being ordered a second time to do
so.
Miller also reportedly resisted being arrested, and taken into custody “after a brief struggle.”
When officers spoke to the victim, he told officers that he and Miller were “acquaintances, and that she asked him to walk with her over to the area of ABC Supply Company. Once there, Miller put the pipe against his throat and pushed him to
ward the dark area of the lot.” He also told officers that Miller said “she was going to kill him, and he was indeed in fear for his life, once she pinned him against the Dumpster with the pipe.”
Miller reportedly admitted to officers “that she was going to kill the victim and pushed him into the dark portion of the lot so that her activity was hidden from detection.” She was
booked into Mendocino County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder, kidnapping, resisting arrest and violating her probation, and is being held under $250,000 bail.
The victim declined medical treatment and was released at the scene. According to the UPD, both Miller and the victim provided the nearby homeless shelter at 1045 S. State St. as their address.