A hearing to determine whether a residence in Manila is a suitable placement for a sexually violent predator ordered released from a state hospital into a community supervision program has been rescheduled for July. But before deciding on a suitable placement for Richard Stobaugh, who was convicted of a series of brutal attacks in the […]
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Sheriff Announces ‘Strong Opposition’ to Serial Rapist’s Pending Release
Editor’s note: Be advised, this story covers violent sexual assaults and may be disturbing to some readers. Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal released a letter to the community at noon today announcing his “strong opposition” to the proposed release of a man once known locally in the late 1980s as the “Ski Mask Rapist” to […]
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Humboldt Judge Rescinds Release of Convicted Sex Offender
A Humboldt County Superior Court judge issued a ruling last week striking his December of 2016 order for the conditional release of a local man who’s been designated as a Sexually Violent Predator. According to a Humboldt District Attorney’s Office news release, Judge John Feeney’s Aug. 13 ruling was based not only on the inability […]
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Jury Classifies Scott Eden a Sexually Violent Predator
Today a Humboldt County jury classified Scott Dean Eden, who spent time in and out of prison for two different sexually motivated crimes, as a sexually violent predator under the Sexually Violent Predator Act. According to the Humboldt County District Attorney’s press release, in 1990 Eden was found guilty of abducting a woman from a […]
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Judge Denies Placement of Sex Offender in Eureka
Judge John Feeney today decided against approving plans to have a man deemed by the courts to be a sexually violent predator placed under supervised release in Eureka, according to media reports and a Facebook post by Eureka Police Chief Steve Watson. The proposed placement would have had Joshua Cooley staying in a rotating set […]
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Release of Sex Offender to Garberville Denied
Multiple media outlets are reporting that Judge John Feeney today denied the placement of a man deemed by the courts to be a sexually violent predator for the second time in less than a year, this time to Garberville. However, according to a Times-Standard article, Feeney did agree with his attorney’s argument that Joshua Cooley […]
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UPDATE: Judge Denies Placement of Convicted Sex Offender in Freshwater
UPDATE: The Times-Standard is reporting that, in the face of a tremendous outpouring of neighborhood concern, Judge John Feeney has denied the proposed placement of Joshua Cooley in a Freshwater neighborhood. Feeney set an Oct. 23 hearing to review Cooley’s placement status. PREVIOUSLY: A Humboldt County Superior Court judge is scheduled to decide Thursday morning […]