Like any parent, Jamie Burson didn’t want her 11-year-old son to discover how frightened she really was about the novel coronavirus. But it’s hard to mask anxiety when you’re living and sleeping together in the same car. After Burson was evicted from her two bedroom apartment in Vacaville the second week of April, she heeded […]
Mike Fridley
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Sheriff’s Office, National Guard Begin Week of Warrants
Humboldt County’s Marijuana Eradication Team, working with the National Guard, is in the midst of serving multiple search warrants on unpermitted grows in a multi-day crack down on the illicit cannabis market. The team eradicated more than 7,000 plants Aug. 5, according to Sheriff’s Office Lt. Mike Fridley, who heads MET. “We hit four search […]
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‘All Hands’ Search Continues for Missing Sisters 24 Hours after Disappearance
Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said his office is using every available resource to scour the woods south of Benbow for two sisters reported missing yesterday afternoon. Honsal made clear there are absolutely no signs of foul play but said he’s called in his criminal investigations unit as a precaution, noting that deputies are searching […]
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Signs of Hope in Search for Benbow Girls
A search and rescue effort for two sisters — Caroline and Leia Carrico, 5 and 8, respectively — who went missing yesterday afternoon in the woods near Benbow have found a clue. “One of the searchers found a couple of granola bar wrappers and the mother was able to confirm that she had just bought […]
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New Ban on Unsafe Target Shooting Approved by Supervisors
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors took what some might consider a long-overdue action Tuesday on the issue of shooting on unincorporated land, unanimously voting in favor of a county ordinance that would prohibit target shooting in any area that does not meet standards for safe shooting. Those standards require a 20-foot birm of packed […]
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UPDATE: Fatality Victim Identified in Shelter Cove Accident
UPDATE: Lt. Mike Fridley of Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the deceased man as Martin Arrendondo’suarez, 28, from Shelter Cove. Previously: Cheryl Antony, public information officer of Shelter Cove Volunteer Fire Department confirmed that a person has died after a car drove off a steep embankment on Chemise Mountain Road off Shelter Cove Road in […]
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Men with Rifles, Tactical Gear Rob 35, Make off with Six Vehicles in Three Robberies
2nd UPDATE: The California and National Parks Service has confirmed the tourists were not robbed on National Park land, but rather at the marijuana farm. Click here for the full story. UPDATE: Lt. Fridley reports that two of the vehicles, the black Ford Explorer and the white Ford Explorer, have both been found. The black […]
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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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Sheriff’s Office IDs Inmate Who Died in Custody
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the woman who died in custody at around 3 a.m. this morning as Colleen Marie Branch, 36, of Eureka. Branch was in the jail’s medical unit to detox off an undisclosed substance, according to Lt. Mike Fridley. She was discovered by a staff member at around 2:45 a.m. […]