Press release from the Eureka Police Department:
On 5-4-2012 at about 1:10 am, an officer of the Eureka Police Department conducted a traffic enforcement stop at the 600 block of Broadway on a silver van for unsafe speed.
Upon contacting the driver, the officer observed several objective signs of the driver being under the influence. The driver, identified as Joshua James Mellinger (23 years old of Berkley, California), was evaluated and eventually taken into custody for driving under the influence.
As a result of an incident to arrest search, the officer located an illegal weapon concealed in the vehicle and also nearly $40,000 in cash. Based on the investigation, totality of the circumstances, and evidence, the cash was believed to be implements of illicit drug activities.
Mellinger was transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility, where he was booked for driving under the influence and possession of an illegal weapon. He was being held on $50,000 bail, however Mellinger bailed out of jail later that day.
This article appears in A Place in the Woods.
Not the smartest cookie in the pack.
As long as the NCJ makes light of drug trafficking, we all suffer for it.
Where’s the lightness?
So the cops stole $40,0000 from this guy and want $50,000 more to let him out of jail?
Damn.
The lightness, Mr. Goff, comes from tagging your post as “Crime Candy.” Probably a decision made by editors well above your pay grade.
But there is nothing candy-like about this incident — neither to the unfortunate Mr. Mellinger nor to a community that is plagued with people who would take a life over $40K. I’m sure Mr. Mellinger would value his own life at a higher price than that, and hopefully he would think the same of his fellow humans.
Oh, OK.
No need to blame any higher ups though. I’ll take credit for the saccharine label.
Dolla dolla bill, yo.
Darn ! That money could of been used to buy another drug recovery house in, Eureka and lots of syringes, straps & cookers for these poor drug addicts . Ahhhh….what a great City we got !
If you don’t get it by now free dope gear & drug recovery houses
( practically one on every block ) only increses crime & makes our Town a magnet for more of these bums to come here .