An employee of a Caltrans contractor was killed Saturday morning during an active landslide on State Route 36 east of Swimmer’s Delight, the agency announced. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office identified the man killed as former Eureka Police Sgt. Rodrigo Reyna-Sanchez, 58, who reportedly took up work with the contracting company after his retirement in […]
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NCJ Preview: Redacted Reports and Piping Hot Pupusas
The Journal finally got the requested report on the investigation into deeply misogynistic, violent and dehumanizing messages sent between Eureka Police Department officers centering on Rodrigo Reyna-Sanchez and Mark Meftah. But its heavily redacted text reveals more about obstacles to transparency than it does about the texting scandal. We’ll talk about what all those blank […]
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EPD Sergeant, Captain Facing Discipline Retire, Effective Immediately
The city of Eureka’s highly publicized investigation into a unit of police officers’ dehumanizing, vulgar and violent text messages that made national headlines has come to an end — not with a bang, but with a whimper. The city issued a press release this afternoon noting that a police captain and sergeant facing pending “disciplinary […]
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EPD Texting Investigation Nears Conclusion
Nearly six months after it began, an outside investigation into misogynistic, dehumanizing, vulgar and violent text messages shared between a unit of Eureka Police Department officers appears to be nearing its conclusion. “All interviews have been completed and they are in the process of compiling all that information into a report,” Eureka Police Chief Steve […]
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EPD Captain On Leave Amid Investigation
One of the Eureka Police Department’s two captains has been placed on paid administrative leave. EPD Chief Steve Watson confirmed to the Journal that Capt. Patrick O’Neill is on leave, but declined to discuss why or in relation to what matter, saying he’s legally prohibited from doing so. “The penal code and evidence code prohibit […]
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Protestors Call for Firing of EPD Officers Involved in Reported Text Message Scandal
About 50 people turned out yesterday to a protest in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse calling on the Eureka Police Department to fire the officers who reportedly sent misogynistic and violent text messages that were leaked to the Sacramento Bee. EPD Chief Steve Watson has placed two of the six officers involved in the […]
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Eureka Mayor ‘Angry’ About Alleged EPD Text Messages
Eureka Mayor Susan Seaman issued a statement this afternoon saying the text messages allegedly sent between Eureka Police Department officers that were released in a bombshell report from the Sacramento Bee earlier this week “are wholly unbecoming of any professional, or any decent human being for that matter.” “Public trust is hard to earn and […]