Gross! Four grow houses raided, six arrests, about $50,000 in cash seized, over 40 lbs. of bud, a bunch of hash, plants and a Dodge truck modded out as a weed machine! It looks like they caught the last house — the McK one — right in the midst of a pretty major deal. From […]
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Polipoli owie
Humboldt State University sophomore Martin Stubbs, from the Kula district of East Maui in Hawaii, is presumably glad to be back in good old Humboldt and chillin’ in the redwoods after having survived a gauntlet of drunken shithead ruffians in Polipoli State Park earlier this month, reports today’s The Maui News. He and a friend […]
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Burgess’ mother arrested
Margorie Burgess, whose son Christopher was shot and killed during a confrontation with Eureka police officers in 2006, was arrested by Humboldt County Sheriff’s officers at her Fields Landing home Wednesday for allegedly striking another son, a juvenile, in the face with an iron, in the head with a shot glass and biting him, according […]
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Suspended St. Joe’s nurses accused of over-sedating patients
[Corrected] Four nurses and a supervisor, who nearly six weeks ago were placed on administrative leave without cause from Eureka’s St. Joseph Hospital, have been accused by hospital administrators of over-sedating patients, disregarding medication schedules and spending too much time on the Internet — all while maintaining a “party-like atmosphere” during night shifts, according to […]
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Cop Arrested On Goodie Duty
California.” This just in from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: HCSO Correctional Officer Benjamin Jentry-Rakestraw, 20, of Fortuna, was arrested Friday night around 9:30 “as he attempted to bring heroin, tobacco and other contraband into the jail.” He was on duty. On a tip, Sheriff’s investigators had been watching him for about a month. They’d […]
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Humboldters In the News
housing.”Humboldters In the News: Phish concert in North Carolina: “Christopher Michael Ventura, 27, of McKinleyville, Calif., charged with trafficking in more than 100 grams of ecstasy, possession with intent to sell and deliver 50 grams of marijuana, 15.3 grams of psilocybin, 152 grams of ecstasy, 124 grams of Ketamine, maintaining a vehicle for a controlled […]
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Amy in the NYT
Amy in the NYT: The New York Times comes out with its long-awaited profile of Humboldt County literary darling Amy Stewart! Stewart — whose new book, Wicked Plants, is a police lineup of the botanical world’s bad boys — provides the NYT writer with some advice about how to murder her husband.
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Fiore Booked For Fields’ Murder
The surviving half of last week’s dope robbery-turned-shoot-’em-up has been booked for the murder of his partner, local resident David Fields. From the Sheriff’s Office: Brian Cole Fiore was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility last evening after being transported from the Sacramento County Jail. He was booked on two counts of attempted murder, […]
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Shootout with at Deputies Ends In Death
Holy fucking moly. Sheriff’s office press release: UPDATE: The survivor is a 19-year-old male from Antioch. Note below that both suspects sustained gunshot wounds to the head, but the press release states that neither the CHP nor the Sheriff’s Deputies fired their weapons. More info in a few minutes. Shortly before 11:00 last night the […]
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Fugitive’s Daughter Left in Fortuna
[Updated] Seattle’s King 5 News is reporting that a nine-year-old girl who watched her dad rip off an AM/PM Tuesday morning in Thorp, Wash., was taken into protective custody by Fortuna Police last night. Her dad, Robert Daniel Webb, 42, is still on the loose. And here’s the strange thing: Webb is apparently pals with […]
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Pot Merch In The Middle
A Morro Bay pot dispensary owner, busted by U.S. drug agents before the feds went soft under new A.G. Eric Holder, will be sentenced tomorrow. What, he wonders, will be his fate?
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The Economist: End the Drug War
Sunday.The Economist: End the Drug War: “Next week ministers from around the world gather in Vienna to set international drug policy for the next decade. Like first-world-war generals, many will claim that all that is needed is more of the same. In fact the war on drugs has been a disaster, creating failed states in […]