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 […]
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Kneeland This Morning, in Images
Local photographer Mark McKenna was at the scene of the police investigation in Kneeland this morning. He graciously sent along a few photographs, including one of District Attorney Paul Gallegos riding in a helicopter. Click the images to magnify them.
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Final Tally: One Arrested, One Injured, One Safe and One Dead
From the Sheriff’s Office: Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies continue to investigate the shooting that was reported to official this morning. At about 2:00 p.m. deputies found the body of a deceased adult male near a marijuana grow site. The preliminary cause of death appears to be a gunshot wound. Deputies do not expect to find […]
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Police Search for Kneeland Shooting Suspect
At least one man was severely injured in shootout in Kneeland last night, apparently in a marijuana-related dispute. Police didn’t hear about the incident until this morning, when the wounded man is believe to have shown up at Kneeland airport seeking assistance. He is being Medivaced to Redding as we speak. Stay tuned, however. We […]
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Former Eureka Priest Charged With Child Sexual Abuse
A story in today’s San Francisco Chronicle reveals that Patrick Joseph McCabe, a former Catholic priest who led Eureka’s St. Joseph Parish in the early 1980s, has been charged with sexually assaulting boys in his native Ireland. McCabe, now 74, was assigned to the Eureka church in 1983 by now-deceased Bishop Mark Hurley of Santa […]
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Another Oxycontin Tweaker Holds Up Eureka Pharmacy
Yet another case in this year’s spate of Oxycontin robberies. Maybe it’s interesting to note that Limas Pharmacy, the scene of the crime, is just down from the recently shuttered Hummingbird Healing Center, a medical marijuana dispensary that the county obtained a judicial order to close. How many marijuana dispensaries have been knocked over recently? […]
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EPD Stings Old Town Johns
Yesterday saw the latest installment of the perennial prostitution crackdown in Old Town, according to this EPD press release. On 7/28/10, in response to neighborhood complaints, the Eureka Police Department conducted a prostitution sting in Old Town Eureka. A female decoy was used, and the men were are arrested after agreeing to pay her to […]
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Machado Arrested on Child Porn Charges
Eureka resident Cole Machado, a familiar face in Humboldt County political circles, was arrested Tuesday on child pornography charges, according to a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. The release states that the investigation, which resulted from a “report from a concerned citizen,” is ongoing. In 2007, Machado, 24, ran for a seat […]
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Pennisi Tree-Trimmer: ‘I Did The Job I Was Hired To Do’
Tom Head, owner of Coastal Tree Service, called into the Journal this morning to give his side of the illegal clearcut that happened last month on the Trinidad Bluffs, at the top corner of the city-owned archaeological site known as Tsurai Village and directly beneath the home of Trinidad Planning Commissioner Sam Pennisi and his […]
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Skilled Healthcare Suit: The Background
The T-S today reports that a Humboldt County jury has penalized Skilled Health Care to the tune of over $600 million for health code violations. The for-profit company runs a chain of nursing homes with five local outlets. Wondering what the fuss was about? Read Journal freelancer Carol Harrison’s disturbing account of Skilled Health Care’s […]
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Trinidad Planning Commissioner Investigated in Tsurai Site Clearcut
Axel Lindgren III and his brother, Joe Lindgren, both descendants of the original inhabitants of Tsurai, examine illegal cuts adjacent to Trinidad’s Wagner Street Trail. On Saturday Tuesday, the Times-Standard wrote about the strange case of a landscaper who had clearcut a wide swath of vegetation, including a stand of mature trees, within the archaeological zone […]
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Crime and Politics
Today’s Times-Standard alerts us to the fact that the latest edition of California Department of Justice’s crime statistics for the year 2009 have just been released. That, plus a similar release from the FBI, tells us that it’s time to update the chart we published back at the beginning of May, in response to one of […]