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UPDATE: Suspicious Death Investigation Near Herrick Avenue
UPDATE: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reports its Criminal Investigations Division is currently investigating the suspicious death of a man found in the area of Herrick Avenue and Elk River Road. His cause of death is under investigation, according to a news release. Deputies responded to the scene just before 7 a.m. today on the […]
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Deputy Resigns After Investigation Contradicts On-Duty Crash Statements
A Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office deputy who claimed he was sideswiped has resigned after a CHP investigation into his on-duty crash found no other vehicles were involved in the incident near Singley Hill Road and Loleta Drive that sent his patrol car down an embankment. “The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has been in communication with […]
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Sheriff’s Office Investigating ‘Suspicious Death’ of 73-Year-Old Woman
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the suspicious death of a 73-year-old woman who was found with severe injuries on Aug. 3 and died after being sent out of the area for treatment. According to a news release, Hoopa Valley Tribal Police officers responded to Barbara Jean McNeil’s home on Pine Creek Road just […]
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Sheriff’s Office Investigating Eel River Drowning
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a 57-year-old man who drowned in the Eel River near Holmes Flat yesterday afternoon. According to a witness, the man was swept under by the river’s current while swimming and failed to resurface, a sheriff’s office press release states. Sheriff’s deputies and multiple agencies were […]
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Coroner Identifies Four Killed in Yesterday’s Plane Crash Near Dinsmore
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified four people killed in yesterday’s small-plane crash near Dinsmore, while the cause of the crash remains under investigation. The four people whose remains were recovered at the crash site have been identified as Henry Punt, 69, of Los Angeles County, Steve Sanz, 63, of Orange County, Jacquie Ann […]
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UPDATE: Multiple Fatalities Suspected in Small Plane Crash Near Dinsmore
UPDATE The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reports that multiple people are believed to have died in the small plane crash near Dinsmore shortly before noon today and no survivors have been located. “A deputy coroner is responding to conduct a death investigation,” the agency posted on Twitter. “Multiple fatalities are believed to have occurred, however, […]
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Fatal Shooting Suspect Turns Self In
A Trinidad man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a man who was dropped off at a CalFire station near Orick late last month was arrested today after turning himself in to authorities, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. Shaun Patrick McMahon, 49, went to the main sheriff’s office in Eureka around […]
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Homicide Victim Identified as Trinidad Man
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man who died Wednesday after being dropped off at the Elk Camp Fire station near Orick with a gunshot wound as Benjamin Scott Thomas, 40, of Trinidad. Thomas was reportedly driven to the station around 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 23, and left there by “multiple unknown […]
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Sheriff’s Office Conducting Homicide Investigation into Death of Man Dropped Off at Cal Fire Station
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a homicide investigation after a gunshot victim was dropped off at the Elk Camp Cal Fire station near Orrick yesterday evening. Although Cal Fire employees administered living-saving efforts, the man died at the scene, the HCSO states in a news release. According to the release, the man was […]
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Missing Eureka Woman Found Dead
A Eureka woman who was reported missing in May was found dead yesterday morning by maintenance workers who were clearing heavy brush off of Fairway Drive, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. Foul play is not suspected in Stacy Lynn French’s death at this time, a news release states, and an autopsy is being […]
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Sheriff’s Office Fielding Rash of Illegal Target Shooting Reports on the Eel
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is reminding residents that target shooting on the Eel River bar near Fernbridge is illegal under county code after fielding a rash of reports about shooting activity in the area with the potential to harm people and livestock. Back in July of 2018, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors passed […]