The U.S. Coast Guard has recovered the body of an 8-year-old girl who was swept out to sea near Big Lagoon yesterday afternoon. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reports that the girl was swept into the ocean while jumping into waves on the ocean side of the lagoon at about 3:15 p.m. yesterday. Sheriff’s deputies […]
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Body Found Near South Jetty ID’d as Missing Fortuna Man
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man whose body was found last weekend at the South Jetty near the mouth of the Eel River as Fortuna resident Quincy Tod Mendes. He was 35. Mendes was last seen around 5:40 p.m. on Jan. 21, after he was involved in a solo vehicle crash on […]
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Body Found Last Year ID’d as Missing Man
A body found on a South Jetty beach last January has been identified as Mitchell G. Hernandez, who had been reported missing on Nov. 23, 2016. The cause of death is consistent with drowning, according to a release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. According to the Journal‘s Feb. 8 story “Still Missing,” his backpack was […]
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Unidentified Remains Found by Hiker Near Petrolia
Officials believe the unidentified person whose body was found by a hiker in the Mattole Beach area on Wednesday afternoon died some time ago, according to a Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office press release. An autopsy has been scheduled for Friday. Few details were immediately available, including whether the remains were those of a man or […]
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Fixing a Broken System
The Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services and Sheriff’s Office have agreed to a series of overhauls after a California Attorney General’s Office investigation found serious lapses in the local child abuse reporting system. Under the stipulated judgement accepted by a judge last week, DHHS’ Child Welfare Services and the sheriff’s office are […]
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Not Missing in Humboldt: Bachelor Contestant Bekah Martinez
It turns out Rebekah Martinez is not missing at all. Quite the contrary, actually, she’s on a popular nationally televised show: The Bachelor, which you might have heard of. When posting this week’s cover story to Facebook, we asked if any of our readers recognized any of the 35 people currently listed as missing from […]
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Remembering Sheriff Cox, 35 Years later
He was known as the sheriff who never carried a gun; the man whose laugh you could hear ringing across the building. Today marks the 35th anniversary of Former Humboldt County Sheriff Gene Cox’s death. Cox was killed in the line of duty in 1982, just four weeks before he was set to retire, the […]
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Body of Missing Canadian Found by His Father
The body of a Canadian man who was reported missing nearly two weeks ago was found by his father on Monday in a heavily vegetated area of the Arcata Marsh, according to the Arcata Police Department. Felix Desautels-Poirier, who would have turned 26 on Dec. 27, was traveling through the area with a friend from […]
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Eel River Drowning Death ID’d as Russian Man
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified a man whose body was found in South Fork of the Eel River near Redway on Oct. 6 as Dordzhi Sandzhiev, a Russian citizen who frequented Southern Humboldt and was known to deputies, according to a press release. Sandzhiev, whose cause of death was determined to be drowning, […]
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UPDATE: Two Juveniles Arrested in Dinsmore Homicide
2nd UPDATE: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with the Arcata Police Department, arrested two juveniles on Monday, Oct. 16 in connection with the homicide of Richard Falk. The Journal has reached out to the sheriff’s office to confirm whether or not the juveniles, one male, one female, were related to Falk, and will […]
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Garberville Man Found Dead in Eel River
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a 33-year-old man whose body was found in the South Fork of the Eel River north of Redway last week. Deputies responded shortly after 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 6 to a report of a body in the river and found it just upstream of the […]
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McKinleyville Man Suspected of Triple Homicide in Nevada Arrested
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a McKinleyville native who is wanted in Nevada for allegedly killing a woman and her parents at two different locations over the weekend. According to news reports out of Silver Springs, the suspect, Scott Alan Baskette, 48, had been in a long-term relationship with homicide victim Rebecca Driver, […]