The Eureka City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to allow food trucks or “mobile vendors” to operate in specifically zoned sections of the city, potentially pass a storage of personal property ordinance and (probably) grant two more contracts to the Mercer Fraser Co. The mobile vendors ordinance, which was discussed at length July 5, […]
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Psychedelic Pizza Hoax Spawns EPD Investigation
In what has to be one of the stranger crime reports in recent memory, the Eureka Police Department is investigating an apparent hoax designed to make a local woman think she’d gotten way more mushrooms on her pizza than she bargained for. On Wednesday evening, a Eureka woman in her early 20s used the Domino’s […]
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Run, Hide, Fight: EPD Prepares Residents for Active Shooter
“Don’t ever say it won’t happen here,” said Eureka Police Capt. Brian Stephens, who led a training on active shooter situations to a packed audience at the Sequoia Conference Center on Thursday afternoon. The presentation, which included several training videos and a demonstration with volunteers from the Eureka Boys and Girls Club, had practical advice […]
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Get Down With EPD: Active Shooter Training
The Eureka Police Deparment is offering a free training on how to survive an active shooter incident to citizens on Thursday, March 3. EPD Administrative Technician Suzie Owsley said that the training is just one of many community public safety events that Chief Andrew Mills has requested. “This topic seemed to be timely,” Owsley said. […]
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Police: Teen was in Hiding When Hunted Down by Gang Members
Fourteen-year-old Jesus Garcia-Romero knew his life was in danger, so he and a friend holed up in an apartment on Eureka’s P Street the night of Dec. 16, 2014, according to a court document. The document — an affidavit in support of the arrest warrant issued for 33-year-old Nicholas Leigl for the murder of the […]
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14-Year Old’s 2014 Killing Gang Related, Says EPD
Jesus “Smiley” Romero-Garcia laid on the front lawn of a residential home in Eureka, bleeding and semi-conscious, for nearly nine hours in the rain before he was found and taken to St. Joseph Hospital. The 14-year-old died of his injuries — three stab wounds to the chest — at around 9:30 on the morning of […]
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City Mulls Shelter Crisis as Activists Protest Police Presence in PalCo Marsh
Tomorrow evening the Eureka City Council will meet to discuss two items related to the city’s homeless: the feasibility of a temporary, sanctioned camp and whether or not the city should declare a shelter crisis. City Manager Greg Sparks said a site has been identified as a potential temporary camp, a city-owned parking lot at […]
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Albuquerque or Auburn? Eureka City Council Considers Different Models to Address Panhandling
At the Dec. 15 Eureka City Council meeting, City Manager Greg Sparks presented research on an idea from Albuquerque, New Mexico: employing panhandlers to participate in city beautification projects. In 2015, Albuquerque put $50,000 toward providing panhandlers with transportation to and from work and a midday meal before then connecting them with services such as […]
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Grinchmas: Toys for Tots Sign Vandalized
Determined thieves may have ruined Christmas for some little girls and boys this year. Dale Bridges, the paymaster for Toys for Tots, reports that the flashing signs his organization rented to encourage donations have been vandalized twice, with four industrial batteries having been removed, cables cut and a tire deliberately punctured. He estimates the financial […]
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PalCo Marsh Update
Two nights of battering storms had given way to a clear Wednesday morning when Erin Powers-Taylor and Kim Bergel met in the north parking lot of the Bayshore Mall. Powers-Taylor, a volunteer with the Friends of the Marsh Group, which serves a free meal for the marsh homeless every Friday, handed Bergel, a Eureka City […]
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Mills Releases Details of Officer Involved Shooting, Identifies Suspect
At a press conference this afternoon to discuss Sunday’s shootout that left a California Highway Patrol Officer wounded and a suspect dead on Q Street, Eureka Police Chief Andy Mills said the involved officer showed incredible discipline in the face of a dangerous, dynamic and intimidating situation. “As we grow up, each of us looks […]
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UPDATED: Eureka Shooting Leaves Officer Wounded, Suspect Killed
Multiple local police agencies are investigating an officer-involved shooting that left an officer wounded and a suspect dead in Eureka this afternoon. Eureka Police Chief Andrew Mills said at a press conference — audio of which can be found here and here — that a California Highway Patrol Officer initiated a traffic stop near the […]