The Eureka Police Department arrested six people on Saturday for furnishing minors with hooch. How, you ask, did they catch half a dozen such creeps in a single day? It’s called a Decoy Shoulder Tap Operation, and here’s how it works: Some sleezoid corrupter of youth slithers his way toward a liquor store, cleverly hiding […]
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Child Pornography Arrest
UPDATE (with photo): Maniaci (yes, his name contains the word “maniac”) is being held on $250,000 bail. This just in from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: Last Friday morning, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Detectives arrested a Phillipsville man after serving a search warrant at his house and finding child pornography. The case originated when a juvenile […]
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Crime Rates in Humboldt County
In his trip from debate to debate around Humboldt County this election season, District Attorney Paul Gallegos has taken credit for reducing violent crime during his eight years as the county’s chief prosecutor. To state it up front: I believe that the case the counselor is advancing here is a piece of minor campaign flummery […]
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Did You Suffer An Overdose?
In this week’s Journal we write about the absconding of Dr. Fran Day from her medical practice in Eureka. She left without giving proper written notice to all of her patients and, apparently, she took their medical records with her. While it may or may not be related to her disappearance, Dr. Day has been […]
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Restitution Ordered in Jennings Case
From the District Attorney’s office, news that Alan Bear has been ordered to pay the family of Greg Jennings a quarter of a million dollars in restitution. Bear struck and killed Jennings while the latter was riding his bicycle along Highway 299 in August 2008. In September 2009, under strange circumstances, Bear pleaded guilty to […]
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Advice For Drug Dealers
Here’s a tip for you drugmongers out there: Let’s say you and your man-friend, who happens to be a convicted felon (sexy!), are hotboxing it in a casino parking lot, enjoying some well-earned r & r after a grueling day of meth-peddling. We’ve all been there. And we all know that, on days like this, […]
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Icky-sounding Murder Investigation
Two men were arrested on suspicion of murder over the weekend, and judging by a Sheriff’s Office press release, the body must have been in a bad way. Without the question even being posed the release states, “The condition of the remains is being withheld at this time.” It goes on to explain that forensic […]
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Photos Released in Arson Investigation
The Humboldt County Arson Task Force released these fuzzy security camera stills that show a suspicous pedestrian strolling through South Bay Elementary School Tuesday night before a fire erupted , causing half a million dollars in damage. The task force has determined that the fire was indeed caused by arson, though no arrests have been […]
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Bomb Scare in Arcata
Update, 4:49 p.m. — Interim Chief Tom Chapman clarifies the city’s role in suspending photography at the scene. The parking lot behind Arcata City Hall by the library, as well as the nearest sidewalk to the lot, was closed all morning as investigators examined a suspicious device. APD officers were directing people away from the […]
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Gallegos Challenger Announces
Gallegos Challenger Announces: The Times-Standard writes that former Deputy DA Kathleen Bryson will run against current DA Paul Gallegos in June 2010. ”Law enforcement has about had it with Paul,” Bryson told the T-S. No word yet from former environmental crimes prosecutor Paul Hagen, a widely rumored
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Arrest in Reetpaul Singh Rana Case
Remember the case of Reetpaul Signh Rana, the San Francisco man killed in Humboldt County in late 2008? They found his body in Alderpoint and his torched car in Big Lagoon. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office made an arrest yesterday: A suspect has been arrested for the 2008 murder of Reepaul Singh Rana whose body […]
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Man From Eureka Standoff Identified
The man who engaged in a 12-hour standoff with law enforcement last night before shooting and killing himself this morning has been identified as Greg Allen Hawkins, 48, of Peoria, Ariz. The standoff took place at Hawkins’ mother’s home on the 1800 block of Mesa Ave., located on the hill above the Tip Top Club […]