Should be much love flowing from SoHum to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office today, as deputies foil some truly dangerous-sounding hombres from L.A. Palm Springs:
Yesterday at about noon Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies were on patrol on Briceland Road near Redway. They saw a vehicle stopped at the side of the road with two people standing near the vehicle’s opened trunk. The deputies made contact with the two individuals and inquired if they needed assistance … While deputies were talking to the pair, two more men, Christopher Barkley and Jack Dye approached from the trees. One of the men, Barkley, started to walk away with his hands in his pockets. The deputies told him to take his hands out of his pockets and walk back to them; he complied. The deputies noticed that Barkley’s sweatshirt was unusually bulky and conducted a pat-search for officer safety reasons.
As Deputies started to search Barkley he told them he had a loaded handgun in his pocket. A warrants check of Barkley revealed he was a wanted parolee. Deputies arrested Barkley … The remaining three individuals were detained and the vehicle was searched incident to Barkley’s arrest. In the trunk of the car deputies found an assault rifle, a shotgun, duct tape, ammunition, and ski masks …
Further investigation revealed that the four individuals had arrived in Humboldt County with the intention of stealing marijuana from a home.
‘Nuf respect to the ever-vigilant Sheriff’s Office.
And sorry about the initial confusion between the greater Los Angeles exurb and the Palm Springian desert. It’s all L.A. to me.
This article appears in Everyone Is Connected.
Why do you refer to it as a jive-ass ripoff?
Should have been “Jive-Ass Ripoffs.” It’s fixed.
Refers to an age-old Mendocino County song by a Laytonville band whose name is lost to memory. To my memory, anyway. ED Denson, you out there?
It was one of the numbers on a mixed tape of outlaw songs that was widely circulated back in the day. Called Mendocino Home Cooking, I believe.
My wife will remember.
The tape also contained Ed Reinhart’s magnum opus, “The Phantom Wild Bush Hippie of the 101.”
Hank it’s partially my monitor, but in your site’s setup the comments are teeny teeny tiny and unreadable. Can you reformat that and your sidebars larger, or is it a “Me” problem?
-JMan
Yargh. I don’t think I can do anything about it. Wordpress prepackages your template.
Our tech gods assure us that someday we will return from our wanderings in the desert to the promised land, and at that point all our problems will be solved.
In the meantime, adjust the font size in your browser. Sorry!
The font size is fine for me.
Hank, yesterday I saw a white helicopter with black trim with HCDP written on it. Does HCDP stand for Humboldt County Deputy Patrol?
Humboldt County Democratic Party, right? You guys have a chopper, don’t you?
My sister-in-law the pilot is over tonight. She works at Murray Field. She says she has no idea.
“Is it a tail number?” she asks. “Even a police department plane will have tail numbers — letters and numbers in combination. Numbers first and letters last.”
“I know there’s a private helicopter based in McKinleyville,” she continues. “The guy keeps it in his backyard. I know it’s white, but I don’t know what color trim it has.”
“I fueled it the other day. I don’t know what tail numbers it has. I could check.”
I didn’t see any tail numbers. But the letters HCDP were quite large. The helicopter was small and less than a 100 feet from the ground. Greg was mowing the lawn in the back and I was pulling weeds in the front. I heard the noise and looked up. It was right over the house and I could see the pilots. It was flying southeast.
Also, the day before there were 5 ultralights with the flyers in matching black uniforms. There was a picture of them on the front page of Sunday’s T-S. Two of the flyers flew right over the back yard and were dangerously close to the ground. I was afraid they were going to crash.
I have seen hang gliders and ultralights before, but their matching uniforms were weird.
Aren’t aircraft suppose to be no lower than 500 feet?
The fonts are fine. Jman just has his default font size set abnormally low and is used to visiting web sites that force a size on him instead of deferring to the default he has set.
Hank, if you pay $15 you can edit the CSS to adjust font size.
These guys will always remember their visit to Humboldt County.
-boy
Seems like Carole has been watching too many James Bond movies! Five Ultralights with matching black uniforms ?! Did they have machineguns mounted on the wings? This is amusing.