Compiled from an interview.

I was getting gas at the Chevron [on Guintoli Ln in Arcata.] I had a passenger in the vehicle [Zachary Blake Gelwicks] An officer smelled marijuana.  He searched the car and found something [Looks like it was a narcotic from the booking info.] Because it was my vehicle, I was responsible. [The two were arrested.] My arresting officer’s name was Matthew O’Donovan APD. 

We arrived at the jail on New Year’s Eve around three..four o’clock. I was there only about 45 minutes to an hour because I was released OR [Own Recognizance] because they didn’t have any beds for me.   First they took my co-defendent in because he’s a male. [Kathy Comolli was left in the car in the jail garage.] Then about 10 min later he brought me in.  

As soon I got to the big metal door… before we even got to that door… it is thick almost soundproof…I could hear a male screaming at the top of his lungs, blood curdling screams.  I could feel the energy. I asked the arresting officer what was going on.  [According to Comolli, the officer acted as if the situation wasn’t unusual.] I’ve been arrested before it was not like I was scared. …This still scared me.  

[The booking room is circular.] You walk in at 9’ o’clock. The cell [where Gary Bullock] was held was at about 7’ o’clock. Another exit door is about 4 o’clock. Directly in front of you is like a counter. Behind that is where the officers do their paperwork.  12 o’clock is an exit for the officers.  6 o’clock is where they take your mugshots. Between 6 and 8 o’clock is the sitting place—facing that 7 o’clock door.  

They take me into the booking room.  After they take my mugshot, they said they were going to do some paperwork. [They had her sit down roughly facing the holding cell.]

Bullock was in a cell. He was segregated.  They kept him in his street clothes [How does she know this?]. They never took him back to the general population.  It [she means Bullock but she doesn’t use that pronoun. she uses “It.”] was in that holding cell by himself.  It was a pretty thick door.  He was being so loud.  He was screaming and throwing himself up against the door.  It sounded liked he was fighting with someone. You could hear thumps and bangs.  Things that were coming out of his mouth— guttural sounds coming out of his mouth.  He was screaming all these religious things like “God help me…. This isn’t happening… Jesus… Jesus… What’s going on? Somebody, God, somebody help me!”

[Comolli, who is Catholic, said that throughout the time she was there, Bullock kept making “nerve wracking religious references.”]

There was a lot of energy in the awful noise emitting from his mouth….It was inhuman.

There was a little bitty window. [Comolli could see a person moving.]  I never made eye contact with him.

[Because of the violence behind his voice and his tone, Comolli said, she was very uncomfortable. She was shaking. However, the officers didn’t seem affected.]

It was like the big elephant in the room that no one wanted to address.  

They told to mind my own business.  It seemed like they were more pissed off that I was getting out on an OR bond. It was disturbing to me that no deputy tried to calm him down. He was just in there going crazy.  He was just an inconvenience. They were wanting to go eat. It was New Year’s Eve. It was very awkward.  

There is all this chaos with the man in the cell.  

[Comolli and her friend, Zach, can] see each other.  We’re freaked out because of this animal behind this door. We don’t know what is going on…Did the cops do this to him? Is he on a bad trip?  

By the time they released me, Bullock had shut the jail down.  [Comolli went to get a bondsman to get her friend out of jail. When they got back, it took an inordinate amount time to get him out of jail.] The bondsman was really irritated.  [The deputy told the bondsman that the slow down was because of Bullock (she doesn’t remember if Bullock’s name was mentioned.)  

This situation was intense.

Aladdin Jason Catlow. 445-0000.