A couple of weeks ago, after we reported on an apartment fire at the corner of Church and Pine streets in Eureka, some readers commented that the fire was no surprise. The building, they claimed, was a blight, filled with drug-using, music-blaring, trash-dumping delinquents, all overseen by an absentee landlord who didn’t much care. The […]
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Hat Heist [Updated x2]
UPDATE, 3:26 p.m.: Turns out there was only seven hats. So, Mission: Hat Retrieval accomplished. UPDATE, 2:45 p.m.: Seven of the 11 stolen hats have been recovered and the alleged perp is in custody. Here’s the news release: After the theft occurred from the museum, staff and deputies immediately began notifying pawn shops, and various […]
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Arrests In Arcata Playground Arson
You may recall the fire set at an Arcata playground earlier this month by dastardly miscreants. Response was swift: an award for information was offered and the Arcata City Council voted to shell out $62,444 to restore all of the playground equipment destroyed; the Rotary Club of Arcata offered to match donations up to $4,000 […]
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Peace, Love, Guns, Heroin
Yeah, it’s a real love story, all right. Couple of kids with a stolen gun, selling tar heroin. Bags o’ booty, sweet little ready-made mugshot, mementos of the affair … oh, and handcuffs. See, Derick and Ashley got busted. (Read the release after the break.) Eureka Police Department 604 C Street Eureka, CA 95501 […]
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My Neighbor Just Tackled the Guy Who Was Crazy-Driving the Mayor of Fortuna Ferndale’s Truck [Updated]
Update, 6/27: Just spoke to Jeff Farley, the mayor of Ferndale. He said he’d just finished running a meeting of the Humboldt County Association of Governments (HCAOG) at Eureka City Hall when he got a call on his cell phone from a Eureka resident who’d gotten his number off some papers that the alleged car […]
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Former Pastor Dino Cardelli Takes Plea Deal in Child Abuse Case
Dino Cardelli, the founder and former pastor of Arcata’s Calvary Chapel, has struck a plea deal in which he admits to the continuous sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 14 who was living in his custody. Cardelli was arrested last September and charged with one count of recurring sexual conduct, three counts of […]
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Claudia Pedreros’ Brother Says Husband Was Abusive
In an interview with Chilean newspaper El Patagón, Marcos Pedreros says that, prior to her arrest, his sister Claudia had been suffering domestic abuse from her husband, Robert Parker, and her father-in-law, Robert Parker Sr. Claudia Pedreros, 30, has been charged with murder and child endangerment for allegedly drowning her 2-year-old daughter Sophia in the Trinity […]
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Department of Catburglary Studies
HSU’s news department is reporting that one student has been nabbed and another is being sought in connection with multiple burglaries of the university’s housing offices in April and May. According to the news release: The burglaries involved five early-morning entries into secure Housing offices where the suspects allegedly breached interior spaces, intruded into work […]
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Letter from Robert Parker
Yesterday evening, a memorial was held for Sophia Parker Pedreros, the 2-year-old girl who died in the Trinity River. A story on the memorial by Journal intern Travis Turner is below the break. Today, Sofia’s dad, Robert Parker, sent the following letter: Yesterday I attended a memorial service that I had never imagined I would […]
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Photos and Video from Pedreros Child-Murder Case [Updated]
In this week’s issue of the Journal interns Travis Turner and Preston Drake-Hillyard report on the tragic case of Claudia Pedreros, the McKinleyville woman accused of drowning her 2 1/2-year-old daughter Sophia in the Trinity River last weekend. Here we offer supplemental material that we were unable to include in the print edition. In […]
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Homicide in Willow Creek
A Willow Creek man and his father got into a gunfight last night while defending the man’s home from burglars. Both men were shot in the exchange; the father, 50, was killed. Here’s the press release from the Sheriffs Office: On 05-04-2011, 10:20 a.m. the Humboldt County Sheriffs Office responded to a residence in the […]
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Hiding Confidently Under The Covers
Photo from Sailing “Footprints: Real to Reel” (Ronn Ashore) The Eureka Police Department has entered what appears to be an introspective, self-improvement period. First it hires a homeless liaison to tend to the needs of those a-wander in our streets and marshes. And then it conducts a “crime and policing” survey to assess residents’ measure […]