UPDATE: An autopsy performed Oct. 14 on Christine Ann Randolph’s remains found no obvious signs of foul play, Capt. Gregory Van Patten told the Journal, adding final findings remain pending toxicology results and the case remains under investigation as a suspicious death. PREVIOUSLY: The body of a Eureka woman reported missing earlier this week after […]
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Recruitment and Retention
Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal says he became more concerned about his office’s already pressed recruitment and retention efforts when he heard that Mendocino County supervisors were giving their deputies a significant raise. Not that he begrudged the nearly 30-percent increase Mendocino’s deputies will be receiving over three years under a new contract approved in […]
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Body Found in Eel River May Be Missing Santa Rosa Man
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office is looking into whether the body found earlier this week by a wildlife photographer in the Eel River is that of a Santa Rosa man who was last seen heading home after a trip to Eureka in November. A release states that the missing man’s family contacted the MCSO after […]
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Eureka Man ID’d as Person Found Dead in Burning Van, Daughter Says
The body found in a burning van Nov. 24 in a pullout a few miles west of Leggett on U.S. Highway 1 has been identified as missing Eureka man, Frank Pinckney, his daughter Jasmine Barreto said today. He was 58. “They matched dental records and confirmed,” she told Redheaded Blackbelt. “I was notified Thursday.” A […]
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Sheriff IDs Shooters in Deadly Standoff
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the officers who shot and killed David Allan Fulton after a tense Aug. 18 standoff in McKinleyville as being from Mendocino County. During the 17-hour standoff, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office sent an armored personnel carrier and its SWAT team north to aid its neighboring agency. It appears […]
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Who Bombed Judi Bari? 25 Years Later, We May Find an Answer
Twenty-five years after a bomb exploded on an Oakland freeway, shocking the environmental community, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office is mulling launching a criminal investigation. Capt. Gregory Van Patten said police have received some “new information” related to the May 24, 1990 bombing of Earth First activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, and are reviewing […]