UPDATE #3: LaRue has relinquished his co-ownership of Redwood Curtain Brewing Co.
UPDATE #2: On Friday evening, LaRue sent a statement to the Journal, saying in part:
I wish to offer my sincerest apologies to the two women Jen Ables and Maral Attllah [sic]. I would like to assure them that I meant them no harm, and am truly sorry that I put them through an experience that made them feel unsafe in their own home and community. … My actions in the morning hours of Aug. 18 are indefensible, and embarrassing. All I can do is ask these two women, and the community for forgiveness.
See his full statement in the comments section below.
UPDATE #1: LaRue has submitted a letter of resignation from the planning commission to city staff. The city council is expected to accept his resignation at its Sep. 5 meeting.
Original post:
Eli LaRue, the 32-year-old co-owner of Redwood Curtain Brewing Company and a recent appointee to the Arcata Planning Commission, has been charged with public drunkenness and violating his probation after reportedly trying to break into a house in downtown Arcata last weekend, terrifying the two women who’d been sleeping inside.
Arcata residents Jen Ables and Maral Attallah say LaRue repeatedly and violently tried to break into their home in the wee hours of last Saturday morning, damaging a window screen and nearly kicking in a side door, even as they yelled at him to leave. [Disclosure: I’ve met both women in passing at social gatherings, but neither is a close friend.]
LaRue was appointed to the city’s planning commission last Wednesday. Via email, he declined to comment on the incident.
In a phone interview, Ables said she was awakened shortly after 4 a.m. by her dogs’ frantic barking. Suspecting cats or raccoons, she peered out the window but saw nothing. She then heard a series of thumps, like someone putting things away in a closet, Ables told the Journal. She assumed it was Attallah; the two women’s bedrooms share a wall.
“The dogs were just barking, barking, barking,” Ables said. “I was starting to feel a little irritated. I couldn’t go to sleep. Then I hear what sounds like her windows opening and closing, so I said, ‘Hey, Maral, c’mon.’ Then everything stopped.”
Attallah, meanwhile, was asleep in the living room, where she’d drifted off in front of the TV hours earlier.
Ables went back to bed, only to be woken 20 minutes later by more thuds, more barking. She got up to investigate.
“Right when I came out of my room I heard a big boom,” she said.
The noise snapped Attallah awake.
“I knew immediately someone was trying to break into the side door,” Attallah said. “The windows off of the kitchen shook. The whole house shook.”
Ables was terrified, but Attallah remained level-headed, telling Ables firmly but calmly to go back to her room — someone was trying to break in.
“I just screamed ’cause I got really, really scared,” Ables said.
Attallah told her to call 911, which she did, begging the dispatcher to hurry. Attallah then approached the side door and peered through its glass panes, catching a glimpse of LaRue, she said. Two more kicks. The door shook with each impact but didn’t give.
A few years earlier, after some disoriented drunks had also tried to enter their home, the women had installed new deadbolts. Now, that thumb-sized stub of metal held their door firmly to the jamb.
Attallah called out to Ables, loud enough for the man outside to hear: “Get the shotgun! Get the handgun! Anyone comes to the door you shoot.”
On the other side of the door, LaRue responded by muttering, “Hey,” Attallah recalled.
She declined to say whether she actually owns a shotgun and a handgun. “I believe in my Second Amendment rights. That’s what I feel comfortable saying.”
Nearly hysterical with fear, Ables returned to her room and grabbed a small baseball bat. LaRue, she said, continued kicking the door. Attallah recalled what happened next:
I yelled, ‘I have a shotgun! You need to leave!’ He said, ‘Hey, I’m comin’ in.’ That’s when I said, ‘I will blow your fucking head off.’ At that point he stopped. He stepped down off the porch. Then he turned. He was looking toward the back yard. I went up to the window to get his description. I moved the blind and I could see him perfectly. I could see everything as clear as day.
As LaRue walked away from the door, Attallah described him aloud to Ables. He climbed nimbly over the chain-link fence that surrounds the side yard and then fled, Attallah said. Arcata police officers arrived almost immediately thereafter and apprehended LaRue.
Both women feel that LaRue should have been charged with more than just public drunkenness, which is a misdemeanor and, for LaRue, a parole probation violation. (Last year he pleaded “no contest” to misdemeanor driving under the influence.) Ables in particular says she was traumatized by the experience.
“All weekend I’m fucking terrified out of my mind, [wondering], ‘Is the guy coming back? What did he want?'” Ables said. “Even after finding out who he is, I’m still scared. That sucks. I still can’t sleep. He took away that sense of security at home. That’s not fair.”
Arcata officials would not release any details about the incident to the Journal, but the women said they were told by Arcata police officer Bob Martinez that LaRue had a blood alcohol level of 0.214, nearly three times the legal limit. Officer Martinez also told them that LaRue thought he was at his own house, and that he was too drunk to be charged with a more serious crime, such as vandalism or attempted burglary, according to Attallah and Ables.
Both women are frustrated. “It feels like we were really terrorized,” Ables said.
But according to UC Davis Law Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin, it is difficult to convict a person who was that drunk of a “specific intent” crime — “that is, one where you have to have some particular purpose, motive or resolve, like burglary,” Chin said.
California Penal Code Section 22 states that voluntary intoxication won’t get you off the hook for any criminal liability, but it can be used as a defense to argue that you were too hammered to commit a “specific intent” crime.
“Now, does that mean a jury would necessarily accept [that defense]?” Chin asked. “No. Those sorts of mental state defenses are often rejected, and some states have abolished them by statute.” But California is not one of those states, and Chin said other factors are often considered, such as whether or not the suspect has committed violent crimes before.
Ables said the Arcata police department tried to put her at ease by telling her that LaRue has no history of violent crimes.
After hearing the details listed above, Chin said he understood why LaRue wasn’t charged with anything more serious. “Drunk in public does sort of cover the situation you’re describing to me,” he said.
Attallah and Ables disagree. They say LaRue seemed coherent — climbing over their fence, responding to them verbally and kicking the door even after he’d been threatened.
“He knew people were home; he knew there were dogs; he heard female voices. … To me, there’s some intent there,” Attallah said. She believes that the charges against LaRue trivialize the severity of the experience. “Let’s be honest here: Giving someone a drunk in public? That’s a slap on the wrist. And with somebody who owns a brewery? That’s almost a badge of honor.”
The women have since upgraded the security in their house, but Ables is still shaken up. “I feel so bad for Jen; she is so traumatized,” Attallah said. “Any little movement around the house she thinks someone is trying to get in.”
Arcata police officers returned to the women’s house Thursday morning to inspect damage to the house, including a bent window screen and splintered door jamb.
This article appears in The Recyclable Journey.
A parole violation? Think you mean probation, like you said earlier.
Yes, I did. Thank you.
I sent you a statement via e-mail, I would appreciate it if you could include it in your blog as soon as you get a chance, Thankyou
Figures another brain dead Arcata City Council member. This place is like a giant turd stinking up the whole County.
Was this the guy who has been on the counsel for a week? Also, no other applicants at the time of his acceptance. Just saying.
I wish to offer my sincerest apologies to the two women Jen Ables and Maral Attllah. I would like to assure them that I meant them no harm, and am truly sorry that I put them through an experience that made them feel unsafe in their own home and community.
I would like to offer whatever I possibly can to rectify this situation that I caused. I went out on Friday night with a friend to show him a good time while he was in town. When calling for a cab ride home at 1:23 am, I was informed that the soonest I could get a ride was 4:30 am. At this point, I attempted to walk home, and became disoriented and separated from my friend.
I had no intent to harm anyone, or any property; I was simply trying to get home. I have been reluctant to comment on the matter due to a very unclear recollection of the events that evening and being unable to get a copy of the police report. When some information started coming forward through social media, I made my best attempts to apologize to Jen Ables and Marl Attallah. These attempts however failed. My actions in the morning hours of Aug 18 are indefensible, and embarrassing. All I can do is ask these two women, and the community for forgiveness.
Sincerely,
Eli LaRue
Given the culture that focuses on liability and denial, I find Eli LaRue’s [public] apology courageous, unusual, and sincere. It is too bad that because the legal system and contemporary U.S. “culture” itself is so counter to true accountability, more people cannot try to make things right by first addressing people they have hurt and the community. It is too bad that when I was hit by a large truck on my bicycle last year, the woman who was driving was too afraid of liability to ask me if I was alright, or to even speak decently to me. It is unfortunate that EPD officer Justin Winkle would have a very hard time apologizing to the Cotton family and the community for fatally bashing Martin “Freddy” Cotton’s head into the concrete and taking part in a group beating. I saw moments during the civil trial against the EPD and specifically, officers Adam Laird, Justin Winkle, and Gary Whitmer, when the color in Winkle’s face (and maybe Laird’s on occasion) would fade- perhaps a sign of remorse, guilt, regret, realization. But with the miserable, greedy and unscrupulous attorney Nancy Delaney and corrupt, violent, EPD bagman Murl Harpham and the rest of the City government thugs patting these cops on the ass, saying “good job” after they MURDERED someone, beat him to death, it is hard to imagine the officers ever trying to be accountable to anyone- getting real, apologizing, and putting their guns and weapons and violent attitudes down, for starters.
In some cultures, if someone hurts or kills, say a member of your family, they would have to care for your family for the rest of their life.
I hope that Eli LaRue personally takes care of what he needs to so as to prevent his part in similar regrettable things from happening again. I hope the two women heal, past the fear and other things they suffered. And I hope true reconciliation and growth occurs.
True justice is not punishment- it’s something to be explored with acknowledgement, communication, courage, honesty, understanding, and a mind and heart focused on change and a better future.
BAC nearly 3 times the legal limit? That is only for driving. There is no “legal limit” otherwise, his ass was on foot.
And what a ‘tard to publicly apologize in this blog directly to these people, and by name. Just leave them alone already! It’s not the cab companies fault you can’t handle yourself. Time to sober up, your lucky nobody was hurt. The cops should have thrown your ass in the drunk tank.
the alcoholic owns a brewpup, hmm, time for a career change.
Eli, while I have some respect for the apology, I hope you have reflected upon how bad this situation really was. You came very close to losing your life and permanently traumatizing two women. Had that lock not held and you had entered the house, you would now be in the morgue and the women would have to live with that incident everyday. Please think hard about the second chance you just received the next time you reach for a drink.
Traumatized? Not satisfied with drunk in public? Hell, the man owns a business dispensing alcohol. Sue him. If the story is as described, any jury would award you monetary damages for the experience he inflicted upon you.
The two young women endured a horrifying experience. I can see where drunk in public may not seem like a just reply from the law to them.
I appreciate the apology that was offered. It is rather rare. How far it goes in offering repair to the terror the women went through no one can say but them.
Apologies are like that. They do not take away the harm they simply say I am sorry.
I will never purchase any beer from Eli LaRue’s Brewery again. He’s sick in the head, with a violent temper, and there is plenty of killer brew elsewhere is our county.
Wait, what? Did anyone force him to get completely drunk out of his gourd? No. Did he do something that terrified people? Yes. Did he damage their home? Yes. At the very least, he should be made to pay for repairs to their home, counseling for them, AND be made to get a LOT of counseling, himself. But seriously, how does he get away with this? This sounds like that “Now girls, you don’t really want to ruin this poor guy’s life, do you?” BS that assault/rape victims get all the time.
Eli, you better get out of the county now, there’s no room for your ignorance and stupidity.
Redwood Curtain brewing company just lost my lunch business (usually twice a week with clients) and Verbenna just lost my sympathy and support with her idiotic sidewinder of a letter bringing focus on herself.
Mr. LaRue is in dire need of community monitoring far beyond unsupervised probation.
Until now I thought people were far too harsh with Verbenna but her post really shows her to be a complete narsicist.
I’m quite aware of the differnce between retributive and distributive justice, I’m involved in researching legal issues.
Absolutely disgusting on both their parts.
@enough already… Redwood Curtian isn’t open for lunch and doesn’t serve food. Confused. The actions of an indivual shouldn’t have anything to do with ones business. They make great beer, have a great tasting room (not a brewpub), give back to the community, forgive and forget. Sheesh.
People apologize publically ALL the time during the sentencing phase of a trial. This jerk is only doing it sooner in the hopes that he doesn’t get sued for negligent infliction of emotional distress and attending damages.
The DA should charge on this and let the Courts decide. Unless of course, this DA’s office only charges what they know they can win on a plea agreement.
Verbana, how utterly inappropriate for you to capitalize on these women’s terror-story to further your own uber-biased agenda! I’d say you should ashamed but I dont think you’re capable of seeing you’re own hideous face (you’d probably turn to stone, Methusala). Frankly, the community is getting real tired of your ego-centric, truth distorting crap. Leave already.
As for Eli, what can he really do but sincerely apologize and then make fair restitution. I will say if it had been my door he was trying to kick in, he would be dead. Not gonna let someone threatening my family and earnestly trying to kick my door in actually make it into my house before firing…
Eli should be utterly ashamed of his criminal wrongdoing. With what he did to those Women and their house is unforgiving. He is incomprehensible and a danger to society. I will be at the City Council Meeting to expel that jerk.
Some people would call that “rock bottom”. One of my best friends did the same thing in high school, he got shot, then charged and convicted and jailed for it.
Wow. What a gossip fest this thread has become. Let the parties involved deal with it themselves. Small-town gossip is revolting.
Uh, Regular guy, I think you mean “Medusa” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa) not “Methusala (sic)” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah). Nothing weakens an insult like a mistake like that.
My heart goes out to the women who reside in the home that Eli tried to enter. I know first hand how terrifying it can be when someone breaks into your home and I wish them patience along their path of healing. With that being said, I happen to be a friend of Eli’s and I find it utterly disgusting how fast everyone seems to want to see him burned at the stake. What he did was a horrible experience for those ladies, yes, but he is trying to make it right and people make mistakes. To take it out on Redwood Curtain is just unbelievably juvenile and to publicly talk negatively about him on a blog says way more about you than anyone ACTUALLY involved in the situation. I’m slightly confused with how this incident has become a concern to the safety of Arcata, but I guess small minded people will talk their talk regardless.
@sara – i’m confused how this isn’t a concern of safety in Arcata…. it’s exactly about safety or lack there of.
Eli was being drunk and stupid like a 5 year old, except he’s 32!
A person with that kind of track record involving alcohol offenses should not be allowed to operate a premises that produces/sells alcohol.
@sara; welcome to the internet. Don’t expect it to play nice when someone you know screws up and word gets out. A “public” apology on some blog isn’t going to cut it for scaring the living shit out of a couple women. You might not like what is said, but it’s also not illegal for people to post nasty opinions either.
He’s on probation already for DUI, so people hammering him on the internet is the least of things to worry about now. The fines will be huge, and he’s looking at potential jail time too. Jailbirds will be far less cordial to him than a bunch of jokers on the internet.
He obviously can’t handle his liquor and needs to address that before there’s a next time and the recipient of his rage puts him in the hospital or killed. I do honestly hope he cleans up and makes things right, but it won’t happen on some ‘rags blog.
People are just fed-up with the violent attacks on others. This is not the first time this has happened either with the downtrodden/addicts and drunks. Eli needs to seriously be investigated so he loses his liqueur license, and do some time in the jail, plus heavy fines and long term work program. The Law needs to step forward and really nail things down.
Some of you have forgotten who the D.A. is around these parts….. A little slap on the wrist, that’s all that come of this.
http://www.abc.ca.gov/index.html
After speaking with a group of Blue Lake residences last night we found that we can send letters of this terrible incident to the California Alcoholic and Beverage Control, demanding the revocation of Eli LaRue’s license, and an answer as to how he already has one DUI, and then this.
I would pursue charges against the guy. Who knows what he’ll due next, in addition to what he would done had he broken in and found two young ladies alone. [Edited.]
I agree Kimberly, someone who is un-stable and violent with a shady past, should not be out breaking into peoples houses; he should be in jail and have intensive psychotherapy permanently when he gets out for the rest of his life.
What I would like to know is everyone who put a negative comment, are you completely innocent of any wrong doing. Should people in glass houses throw stones? Why are you assuming that everything that these two girls said are not imbelishing the truth just a little bit. Not to say that it was not a scary experience, but come on. What Eli does on his own time has nothing to do with his profession. From what I understand he conducts himself with the up-most professionalism. No one is perfect, yet everyone is ready to throw him in jail and throw away the key. Look at yourself before you judge others. Don’t get me wrong, it was bad all the way around, but what about the cab company that couldn’t come? Next time it could be a college student, or even worse someone who really wants to cause harm, not someone lost and just trying to get home. TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELF BEFORE YOU JUDGE OTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see that Mr. LaRue has sent an apology via NCJ. Although I feel compelled to respond to Mr. LaRue’s public apology, I would like to make it clear that I do not intend on debating the facts of incident. Mr. Burns wrote an accurate story based on the facts and I thank him for making it public.
It seems Mr. LaRue has an issue with alcohol consumption. It’s unfortunate that he didn’t learn a lesson with his alleged earlier DUI arrest. He was irresponsible and it almost cost him his life. I truly hope he gets the help he needs. The violence and terror he caused that night is something my roommate is having a hard time recovering from. He put me in a position that I wouldn’t wish for anyone … I could have seriously injured or even killed him. I didn’t know if he had a gun or if he was alone. I didn’t know what his motives were, and honestly motives didn’t matter, he had made his way over a locked gate and on to a covered side porch. He was violently and repeatedly kicking in my door and I was forced to respond. This is trauma that can’t easily be remedied with an apology. All I can say is that although I’m sure Mr. LaRue may be embarrassed by his actions and remorseful because now members of this community know what he did, I don’t think he truly understands the severity of the trauma he has inflicted. I can accept his public apology but it does not excuse his irresponsible behavior. At this point it is in the hands of the law and public opinion, as my roommate and I would like to go on with our lives. However, we would like to thank all the folks who have been so supportive during this time. Please keep in mind that holding someone accountable for their behavior is actually being supportive of ALL parties. I hope his friends and his family can encourage him to seek professional help.
Best,
M. Attallah
Dear Nikki, we all have issues. Or know people with addictions, non-addictions, bad attitudes or anything else. Quit sugarcoating it. Eli made his trangressions public and now he’s in the Court of the Public Opinion on the internet.
Be hopeful that it stays that way and those two women don’t know a couple fellas that will break his kneecaps one night. Scare a couple women with their lives and you run with the devil.
Should he lose his liquor license? Nah. His partners should start making changes to keep him away from the product however. Or kick him out of it altogether.
So….how in the hell did this guy get on the Planning Commission? who the hell let this guy in? are they a bunch of drunks too?
when someone chooses to represent the public they are choosing to be in the eye of the media and others. When an alcoholic shows up at a door in the middle of the night, terrorizing people, the consequences of his actions are set forth. Addicts seldom think of others due to their addictions and sometimes it takes a real slap in the face to recognize the depth of ones addiction. I shudder to think that Nikki supports the idea that this mans private time does not impact his public persona. Hello. I would prefer not to have addicts representing me. I hope for Mr. LaRue’s sake, that the losses and the suffering that he is now experiencing will catepult him into sobriety. Addiction is an ugly disease that will slowly and methodically ruin your life.
However you feel about Eli, Redwood Curtain had nothing to do with this, and it is unfair to the other owner and its employees for people to stop patronizing that business. Also, Eli just gave up his stake in the business and now has no part of it.
Let’s not tear down a local business because of this.
People can’t read, then get all pissed off. 2 Corrections that are glaring from these comments: 1 he is not on the Arcata city council. 2 he was not the co-owner of Lost Coast so the guy who said he’d never go to Lost Coast again for lunch needs to wise up.
Here is a good place for Eli to start:
http://www.aahumboldtdelnorte.org/meetings.html
While I’m sorry for the trauma that was suffered here, it sure seems that Eli was so drunk that he thought this was his own home and that he was locked out of it. There was no violence against the women that I can see in the story. If he had gotten in he probably would have wanted to know what they were doing in his house. He is paying a very high price in loosing his half of the business, not to mention the legal problems this will bring and I can only imagine what it must be like at his home right now. I hope he gets the help he needs, and I would like to think that his ex partner won’t be penalized for something he had nothing to do with. Why are people so quick to judge when they don’t have the facts.
I agree with 2:28. Eli screwed up badly and it seems that this is not the first time.
That being said, Redwood Curtain is a fine brewery making some of the best craft beer that Humboldt County has ever seen. This is exactly the type of business that this community should support. To indict this business for the actions of one (now former) owner would be a shame and in my opinion, very misguided.
@3:56; he’s not on the Planning Commission because he resigned it 3 days after being appointed to it when he pulled this little stunt. It’s in the article.
@4:52; it may be misguided, but that’s for the patrons to decide. If a company’s employee (or owner) goes rogue, you risk the backlash because of it, regardless of your product.
I LOVE Arcata. Let’s create a counter culture haven for draft dodgers, illegal drug producers, and anarchists. Then let’s create a place where binge drinking and excess are encourages as revenue producing enterprises. Next let’s preach tolerance of everything, even the most vile and harmful behaviors. Let’s support this tolerance with massive social spending so we can create sub-living wage jobs attending to the victims we produce in the name of community welfare, charity, and shelter. Then when one of the pillars of our community of self indulgence has a really bad night let’s destroy him. Let’s jump on him like a baby seal at Louisville Sluggers convention. Geez people! He had a bad night, got drunk, and made a horrible mistake. A MISTAKE! I don’t feel unsafe with this man in my community. I can sleep at night. I can see a beer, and a guy with a beard….at the same time….without wetting my pants. Grow up Arcata! Some of the comments on here are even more ridiculous than mine. The real hero of this story? The second amendment saves a few more lives……go figure.
Hey “AMUSEDATTHEINSANITY” if you were perfect, look at the Women in their house not just feeling secure, but to BE secure, and some psycho male you don’t even know is at her door trying to break it down looking in the windows, I’d shit too. Man you better rewind your life and see the errors.
AMUSEDATTHEINSANITY: well said, very well said. Most of the posts here are frightfully vindictive. Arcata’s true colors are on full display. Scratch the surface of it’s eco-groovy facade, and you will find angry, hateful, vengeful, vicious people. If this guy had burned down a grow house he was operating, endangering the lives of scores of neighbors and firefighters, you wouldn’t hear a peep from the “community.” Arcata, thy name is hypocrisy.
I just re-read my post and I wanted to make one thing abundantly clear. I in no way intended to cheapen or mitigate the pain and fear the victims in this case experienced. I am just disapointed at all the hate and jeering from the peanut gallery. My prayer would be that all of the people involved get to heal. I wish that the victims get recompensed for their financial loss and that they recover fully from the emotional toll. I also hope that Mr. LaRue is able to heal from his condition so that he may have a meaningful existence in this community as well. Why don’t we all just get together and decide not to create another Pariah? I think that is how we might build a community. I learned something today. I learned that a sincere apology goes a long way towards a new beginning. If I can be sorry, why can’t he? And today when nobody kicks my door or steals my stuff or scares me, i wll be thankfull for it and for my community.
Oh cut me a break. I think these women are over reacting. It is a good thing they didn’t live in New York City back in the 1970’s when crime was rampant. White people were regularly singled out for robberies, physical attacks, rapes, and murders. When I told a cop about what happened one of the times I was mugged on the subway, the cop said not to bother reporting it because when the mugger got out of jail he would hate white people even more. I built a thick skin, moved out of NYC, learned not to dwell in the past and now embrace cultural diversity.
Here’s a sign for LaRue to hold up on Samoa…..
SPARE CHANGE
SO I CAN GET BOMBED
AND INVADE YOUR HOUSE
*AT NIGHT*
STAY COOL AND DONT SCREAM
*IVE DONE IT ALL BEFORE*
Six Rivers Brewery in McKinleyville is owned and operated solo by a few super women, their beers and ales are excellent, and there’s nobody who works there like Ely LaRue that could go off on anyone.
Like I said before a couple of indoor pot growers making sub par beer. Another one bites the dust. Let’s take a look into where the money came from to start this shitty alehouse!
@ Literate 8:46 pm thank you, you just proved my point that nobody can read. Wow, you need to double check yourself. Hilarious.
Let me help you out:
People in comments said he was on the city council and said they were going to show up mad to a meeting.
I said, he’s not on the city council
You said Nuh uh he’s on the planning commisssion
Bravo
@ Drunk Dummy, you might not want to use weed money starting up a business as the lightning rod for judging a business negatively, or you’d have to be mad at most local businesses up here.
To those who are lucky enough to never get black-out drunk, be grateful. What Eli needs is support, not rude comments. Alcoholism is an extremely challenging disease & I wish him the very best of luck pulling it together. I have loved Redwood Curtain Brewery since they opened & will always love Redwood Curtain Brewery. I have lived in Arcata for 18+ years, I’ve had my home terrorized by a drunkard & many of my long time local friends have had run-ins with drunks in their home, it’s a college town & a very tolerant city of many types of addictions. Eli – I believe in you & so does your family, you can do this thing! I hope everyone involved can heal & move forward.
Eli is not evil. HE has no ill intent to these women. He should offer to be a personal security guard and sit on their porch on a chair like a night watchman for months until they feel safe.
Here you can view all of Eli’s criminal record and DUI convictions, it’s REAL interesting, It’ll be interesting when I bring it to work for my co-workers to read. I never would have hired him.
http://results.beenverified.com/e.php?fn=Eli&ln=LaRue&state=
Eli Meade Larue
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Dear Bloggers,
I don’t think one person here has even questioned where Mr. LaRue was being over served except for the victim. The plaza bars are to blame for over pouring beverages, they should have cut Mr. LaRue off a lot sooner. That being said Mr. LaRue should know better than to proceed in binge drinking.
Also, wouldn’t it be a fantastic idea to offer the students a free shuttle to and from the plaza allowing all the cabs to actually function in a timely manner??? I believe it should be this communities main priority to have a safe, reliable and efficent transportation for all people on the plaza to be able to get home safely!
I am not blaming anyone for Mr. LaRue’s actions, he is to blame for what he did, and I sympathize with the victims, however, to many people are being over served, and with no way to get home. If Mr. LaRue had been just another college student this wouldn’t have even hit the papers. The problem with the bars and the cabs is the real issue and one that Arcata needs to trouble shoot. Their are too many lives at risk every weekend! Young lives, just starting out! We as a community need to come together to make sure that all of the students and public can get home in a safe manner!
“By just a thought” get real, and get a life. The real residences in Humboldt are fed up with stupid bums and drunks. I hope that they all get nailed hard.
Eli is a nice person who made a mistake. If you’ve never been in his presence you don’t know him. He would never hurt women intentionally. He’s not who’s being described here. He is a kind person whose apology is nothing but true and sincere.
That is my cousin and he is a wonderful man! He would never hurt anyone intentionally and in fact DIDN’T! It was an honest mistake. He worked so hard and for so long to develop that brewery! Now he lost it all over a complete misunderstanding. Where is the justice is that?
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