Ferndale police arrested the Humboldt County Fair Association’s bookkeeper yesterday morning and booked her into jail on suspicion of having embezzled from the fair and another nonprofit. Ferndale Police Chief Ron Sligh confirmed that he personally took Nina Tafarella, 47, into custody yesterday morning at the Bear River Casino. The case spawned out of Eureka, […]
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Alleged Energy Scam Has Eureka Residents Up in Arms
A video of a Humboldt Hill resident chasing two alleged scammers down the street while exchanging insults has generated more than 15,000 views on Facebook. The video, posted Tuesday evening by Bill Yeater and shared on several crime-oriented Facebook groups, shows a young man and woman walking rapidly away from Yeater, who is holding two […]
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Let Your Kids Drink and Pick Up the Tab…For EPD
It’s high school graduation time, and the kids are ready to cut loose. They’re going to drink anyway, you reason, so shouldn’t they be doing it in the safety of your home? NO, says the Eureka Police Department. Thanks to a social host liability law, passed by the Eureka City Council in 2014, you could […]
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Psychedelic Pizza Hoax Spawns EPD Investigation
In what has to be one of the stranger crime reports in recent memory, the Eureka Police Department is investigating an apparent hoax designed to make a local woman think she’d gotten way more mushrooms on her pizza than she bargained for. On Wednesday evening, a Eureka woman in her early 20s used the Domino’s […]
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UPDATED: Officer-involved Shooting Suspect Wanted for Murder of David Ganfield
2nd UPDATE: EPD Chief Andy Mills has confirmed that the man shot by DA investigators this morning was Nickolas Ryan Joseph Johnson, a suspect in the April 28 deadly assault of David Dwane Ganfield. Johnson has been wanted in connection with Ganfield’s death since April 2015. Mills said DA investigators had “him on the run” and […]
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Coffee with the Captains
A crowd of about 30 citizens, public officials and police officers squeezed into Vellutini’s Bakery in Henderson Center this morning for the Eureka Police Department’s first “Coffee With the Captains” — an informal sit down with local law enforcement. Suzie Owsley, with the city’s Problem Oriented Policing team (POP), said that this gathering was one of […]
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3rd UPDATE: Name Released in Eureka Homicide
Third update: The coroner’s office says the 14-year-old victim was Jesus Joani Garcia-Romero, of Arcata. Second Update: Humboldt County Deputy Coroner Trevor Enright said the victim in the case is a 14-year-old from Arcata. Enright said the boy’s family has been notified, but officials are holding off on releasing his identity “because he’s a minor and […]