Mendocino pond drained in Khadijah Britton search
A Mendocino County pond was drained this week in the search for Khadijah Britton, missing for more than a year.
No human remains were found, the sheriff’s office said.
The draining on Monday and Tuesday came after a search dog showed interest in the pond during a January canvass of Round Valley tribal land in the search for Britton.
The 23-year-old woman, a resident of Covelo, was last seen on Feb. 7, 2018, when she was allegedly taken at gunpoint from a friend’s house by her former boyfriend, Negie Fallis IV, 37. A week earlier, he had allegedly attacked her with a hammer.
Fallis has not been charged in connection with Britton’s disappearance, and the charges related to the hammer attack were dropped. He remains the main suspect in the case, the sheriff’s office said in December, shortly after he was sentenced to state prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Anyone with information about the disappearance of Britton is encouraged to call the WeTip hotline at (800) 732-7463 or the sheriff’s tip line at (707) 234-2100.