Most likely both cops and homeless folks — and local businesses — will be heaving great sighs of relief as a new addition to the Eureka Police Department adjusts to her duties. EPD Chief Garr Nielsen hired Pamlyn Millsap on March 17 to serve as the department’s homeless liaison, the EPD announced in a news […]
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Criminal Charges Filed Against Eureka Police Officer
Following a joint investigation by the Eureka Police Department and the Humboldt County District Attorney’s office, former Eureka police officer Daniel “Danny” Kalis has been charged with numerous crimes including false imprisonment, possession of heroin, possession of more than an ounce of marijuana, petty theft and vandalism. The DA’s office first began receiving reports of […]
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Eureka’s Serial Dog Killer
I don’t know who held the title up ’til now, but Eureka has a new king of sociopathic cruelty, and his name is Donovan Nathaniel Baltzley. A warning: If you can’t stand the thought of something horrible happening to the dog pictured here, you should probably stop reading this post. You may remember Baltzley’s name. […]
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Locals Nabbed in South Dakota for, well, You Can Probably Guess
Don’t let the city’s name fool ya: Highway Patrol in Rapid City, South Dakota, are sticklers for speeding. And they don’t like marijuana posession much, either — at least not when you’ve (allegedly) got 23.5 pounds of it moving through The Mount Rushmore State in a rental car. Kenneth Jordan, 29, of Ferndale, Scott Mitchell, 32, […]
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Former RREDC Exec Director Jeff Zander Arrested
Remember Jeff Zander? He was the semi-legendary con man that the Redwood Region Economic Development Corporation hired to be its executive director a couple of years ago — inexplicably. As detailed at the second link above, dating from a year or so ago, Zander had plenty of unresolved legal troubles before he came to Humboldt […]
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Trial Briefs in the Martin Cotton Case
Last week we previewed the upcoming federal civil suit over the strange death of Martin Cotton II back in 2007. Cotton died of a subdural hematoma in the Humboldt County Jail following a violent struggle with the Eureka Police Department. After the jump: The three trial briefs filed with the Federal District Court of Northern California. […]
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Weird Midnight Encounter on 101 at Benbow Leads to Shooting
From the Sheriff’s Office: Late last night Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a report that a man had been shot on US Highway 101 near Benbow. At about 11:45 p.m., deputies arrived and found that a man had been shot; and the man who shot the other man was the reporting party. The driver […]
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The Eureka Inn Axe Attacker’s Tragic End
Back in 2003, a 29-year-old man named Cody Alan Dwire attacked someone with an axe outside the Eureka Inn. It was pretty startling at the time, as the attack seemed to be random and likely would have been fatal had another man not intervened. Recently, a reader alerted us to the shocking last chapter of Dwire’s […]
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Hardly Progress
In an early morning home invasion today on the 2100-block of Progress Street in Eureka, a group of young, male, well-armed thugtwits thwopped one of the residents on the head with a gun — for which he needed medical attention — reports the Eureka Police Department. And then when the invaded family refused to surrender […]
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Creepiest Mug Shot of the Year
Hands down. This dude was arrested Friday morning after allegedly hitting a man in the head with a handgun, then barricading himself in his garage. (Shudder.)
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I Can’t Smoke 55
The California Highway Patrol pulled in a pretty good haul up in McKinleyville last night — $120,000 and 55 pounds of weed. The suspect is from Jamul, Calif. — apparently a real place. The CHP press release is below. (Reminder: Follow our @HumboldtCHP feed for other real-time dispatches from the local CHiPs.) On 09/21/2010, at […]
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Settlement Announced in Skilled Health Care Case
The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office has just announced a settlement in the omnibus lawsuit against nursing home operator Skilled Health Care. In addition to payments to members of the class-action lawsuit against the company, which was found guilty of maintaining illegally low levels of staffing at their facilities, prosecutors in the case will be […]