SANTA ROSA, CA — “On June 19, 2026, at approximately 10:55 p.m., Santa Rosa Police officers responded to a report of an unidentified subject who had climbed onto the roof of an occupied recreational vehicle (RV) and was refusing to come down.
Officers arrived on scene and identified the subject as 47-year-old Santa Rosa resident, Jeramy Patton, who was on pre-trial release for an ongoing criminal court case. Upon contact, Patton made multiple alarming statements, including claims that he was armed with a firearm, possessed dynamite in a backpack, and intended to set the RV on fire. Patton had also been contacted by law enforcement earlier in the week, when he had made threats and threatened to provoke officers to shoot him (suicide by cop).
A drone was deployed to monitor Patton’s actions throughout the incident. Officers observed him repeatedly accessing his backpack and causing significant damage to the RV, including using a metal bar to destroy the rooftop air conditioning unit. Patton also threw large rocks, one of which struck a vehicle in a nearby parking lot…