The Humboldt County Sherrif’s Work Alternative (SWAP) program will resume on July 6. The program that gives low-level offenders an alternative to incarceration by letting them work off their sentence closed due to COVID-19 concerns but will resume with health and safety precautions. SWAP participants can work at the Sheriff’s Wood Lot or Farm, the […]
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Body Found on Safety Corridor Last Week Identified
The body that was found at the center of the Hwy 101 corridor has been identified as 66-year-old, Eureka resident, Robert Alan Wolf. According to an email from the California Highway Patrol, the Humboldt County Coroner’s Office has determined he was not involved in any type of traffic collision and his cause of death is […]
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Justice for Josiah 38th Month Vigil; Charmaine Lawson Petitions AG to Take Over the Case
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse holding signs that read Black Lives Matter, asking for justice and demanding action in the unsolved killing of David Josiah Lawson. It has been 38 months since Lawson, a 19-year-old sophomore at Humboldt State University, was fatally stabbed April 15, 2017, at an off-campus […]
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Justice for Josiah 38 Month Vigil
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse for a David Josiah Lawson vigil.
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Two Correctional Deputies Assaulted Over the Weekend in Separate Incidents
Two Humboldt County correctional officers were assaulted this weekend during two separate altercations within the Humboldt County jail. On June 12, while a deputy was conducting an inmate count he noticed a “compliance violation” and asked Damen Carlson who was in the cell to resolve the issue. Soon after Carlson allegedly charged the deputy and […]
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Gas Station Robbed in Blue Lake
This morning, about 7:50, two white male adults possibly in their twenties wearing “blue and white hoodies” robbed the Blue Lake Patriot station on Blue Lake Boulevard, according to scanner traffic. The two fled the scene on foot possibly up the hill toward State Route 299. However, later, one hoodie and a bandanna believed to […]
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Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Body Found on Hoopa Valley Reservation
A body of a man was found at the south end of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, according to a Hoopa Valley Tribal Police community debriefing post on Facebook. According to the post because of the unknown cause of death, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office will be taking over the investigation. Read the full community […]
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College of the Redwoods to Review Basic Law Enforcement Academy Curriculum
College of the Redwoods is establishing a committee, the Basic Law Enforcement Academy Advisory Committee, that will enhance its ability to train future law enforcement officers that reflects the culture of equity and inclusion and is inviting residents to become committee members. “We are going to start by bringing key constituent groups together to review […]
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Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and Eureka Police Department (Partly) Bans Chokeholds; 8 Can’t Wait Campaign Policies
On June 11, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office issued a departmental directive suspending the use of the chokeholds and strangleholds by deputies. “The decision to suspend the use of carotid restraint will be formally documented in an upcoming update to our use of force policy,” the press release reads. The Eureka Police Department also banned […]
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Sexual Assault Hearing Raises Privacy Concerns (UPDATED)
A Humboldt County Superior Court judge ruled today there is sufficient evidence to hold David Bernard Anderson II to stand trial on charges he drugged and raped a 16-year-old girl in 2018, but not that he committed attempted sex trafficking. Deputy District Attorney Stacey Eads is prosecuting the case, with local attorney Michael Acosta representing […]
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Update: EPD Suspect Surrenders, in Custody and Being Evaluated by Mental Health
Update: Eureka Police Department responded to a report of a male vandalizing a wall on Waterfront drive near the Blue Ox Millworks building. When the first officer arrived, the suspect was allegedly swinging a machete “wildly.” He later barricaded himself near the Blue Ox Millworks after police found a backpack with a machete and an […]
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Superior Court to Resume In-person Felony Arraignments Next Week
The Humboldt County Superior Court will resume holding arraignments for defendants who are out of custody but facing felony charges beginning June 15. Such appearances have been suspended for weeks in the midst of restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the court has apparently begun sending out appearance notices to […]