The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has released body-worn camera and other footage from the June 5 fatal shooting of a 29-year-old man on road near the Bear River Recreation Center that shows him charging at a deputy while holding a knife above his head. Nicholas David Anderson, of Simi Valley, died after being shot in […]
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Sheriff’s Office Identifies Deputy Who Shot Bear River Suspect
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the deputy who fatally shot a suspect allegedly charging him with a knife on June 5 as Cpl. Bradford Anderson, a nine-year veteran of the office. Anderson remains on paid administrative leave, as is standard protocol, according to a press release. The other deputy at the scene did […]
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More Information Emerges in Fatal Police Shooting in Bear River
As information continues to trickle out regarding the June 5 fatal shooting of a 29-year-old Simi Valley man by a Humboldt County sheriff’s deputy, a picture is emerging of the man who allegedly rushed a deputy with a knife having been in prolonged medical distress. According to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to […]
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Deputy Fatally Shoots Man in Bear River After Medical Aid Call
A Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a 29-year-old man yesterday afternoon at the Bear River Recreation Center who was allegedly armed and combative. According to a press release, deputies responded to the center at 2:16 p.m. to a report of a man with a bloody, bandaged arm “actively dripping blood throughout the facility.” Responding […]
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Huffman, Haaland to Visit Humboldt Bay Amid Growing Tribal Offshore Wind Opposition
Amid an upwelling of Native opposition to plans to build offshore wind farms, including one off the coast of Eureka, United States Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and North Coast Congressmember Jared Huffman will be visiting Humboldt Bay later this week, in part to meet with local tribes and hear their concerns. Reached this morning to […]
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Guilty Plea Entered in Bear River Triple Murder Case
The 19-year-old Loleta man who fatally shot three people — including a 16-year-old girl — at a home on the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria Reservation in February pleaded guilty today to three counts of first degree murder in a plea deal. Mauricio Johnson, who was 18 when the crime was committed, will […]
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Bear River Triple Murder Suspect Returned to Humboldt
The Loleta resident accused in the triple murder of a family at a home on the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria Reservation has been returned to Humboldt County more than three months after being arrested in Utah. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office states in a social media post that Mauricio Johnson, 19, arrived […]
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NCJ Preview: Heartbreak in Loleta, a New Restaurant Model
We’re running through what we know so far about the triple homicide on the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria in Loleta that took the lives of Nikki Dion Metcalf and Margarett Lee Moon, both 40, and Moon’s 16-year-old daughter, Shelly Autumn Mae Moon. This week’s cover story goes into the Humboldt County Sheriffs Department’s response […]
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Harper Motors Carousel Has a New Home
Have you noticed anything different when driving on the U.S. Highway 101 safety corridor? Especially when you pass Harper Motors? Maybe you’ve noticed that a bright red and yellow tent and the contents underneath it are missing? Well, the Harper Motors carousel has found a new home with the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria […]
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Local Tribes Support AG’s Effort to Continue CWS Monitoring
Four local tribes have announced they are “vigorously supporting” an effort by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to extend third-party monitoring and other provisions of a 2018 court ruling that found the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and Department of Health and Human Services were not in compliance with the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act. In […]
