A Myers Flat man is being jailed on suspicion of arson of an inhabited structure, false imprisonment and threats to commit a crime. According to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, on Saturday Michael Jay Merriman, 66, allegedly became angry with his neighbors in the area of Orchard Way and Boy Scout Camp Road when they declined […]
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CHP, State Parks Officer Rescue Kidnapped Woman
A Eureka man is in custody after allegedly kidnapping a woman and evading law enforcement officers. According to a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, John Luther Leslie, 35, forced a woman he had been dating to leave her Eureka home early Wednesday evening and drove her north to Trinidad. The woman made an […]
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Honeydew Store Owners ‘Put The Sneak On’ Alleged Burglars, Leading to Arrests
The Honeydew Store was burglarized last night but it didn’t take long for store owner Bob Shinn to crack the case. The store’s manager arrived this morning to find the door pried open, the cash boxes gone and several cartons of cigarettes missing. Shinn said he checked the store’s surveillance tapes to find two people […]
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Death Investigation Underway after Body Found at South Jetty
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has launched a death investigation after a decomposing male body was found today near the mouth of the Eel River on the South Jetty. The sheriff’s office released few details, just that deputies were dispatched to the scene shortly after noon today and that deputy coroners took possession of the […]
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UPDATE: Preliminary Autopsy Results For Centerville Beach Body
UPDATE: The body has been confirmed as male, but its identity is pending. According to the sheriff’s office, preliminary autopsy results show signs of death consistent with drowning. Previously: An autopsy is scheduled tomorrow to help determine the identity and cause of death of a body found Saturday afternoon on Centerville Beach, approximately a quarter […]
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UPDATED: Hoopa Man Held on Suspicion of Murdering Sister
UPDATE: The victim has been identified as Angel Aubrey, 33. Aubrey is the sister of Antone Aubrey, who was arrested in connection with the murder. Previously: Officers from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and Hoopa Tribal Police Department responded to a disturbance call yesterday afternoon behind the Hoopa Gas Station. According to a Humboldt County Sheriff’s press […]
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Agreement Reached in Attorney General’s HumCo Child Abuse Reporting Inquiry
A Humboldt County Superior Court judge has accepted a stipulated judgement negotiated between the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services, the Sheriff’s Office and the California Attorney General stemming from the AG’s civil investigation into whether the county was in compliance with the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, the county announced […]
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Man Found in Van Duzen ID’d as Missing Spaniard
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man whose body was found on Van Duzen River bar last week as Spaniard Iván Liñan Cano, who went missing in late November while suffering from a mental health crisis. He was 31. The professional mountain climber had leaped out of a car on Nov. 28 after […]
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UPDATE: Suspect Held in Fatal Orick Stabbing
2nd UPDATE: The stabbing victim has been identified as Vernon James Weatherford, 34. Weatherford’s autopsy is scheduled for Jan. 6, 2018. UPDATE: The sheriff’s office confirmed this morning that a suspect in the stabbing death, Ronald Joshua Loureiro, was booked into the jail yesterday on “charges of homicide related to the Orick homicide and on parole […]
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Homicide Victim Identified
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victim of a fatal Jan. 1 Southern Humboldt shooting as 28-year-old Saul Perez Pacheco. A passerby found Pacheco bleeding of a gunshot wound on the side of Alderpoint Road at about 5:30 a.m. and tried to rush him to Jerold Phelps Hospital in Gareberville but Pacheco died […]
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Sheriff’s Office Investigating Alderpoint Homicide
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is investigating its first homicide of 2018 after a man died of a gunshot wound this morning while being rushed to Jerold Phelps Community Hospital. According to a press release from the Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched to the Southern Humboldt hospital shortly before 5:30 a.m. after a passerby found […]
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Deputy, Suspect Wounded in Shootout Near Ferndale
A Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputy and a suspect were both hospitalized early this morning after a shootout at a residence in the 700 block of Ferndale’s Coppini Lane. The deputy, whose name hasn’t been released, is in stable condition, according to the sheriff’s office. The suspect, Hugo Parral-Aguierre, 30, was shot multiple times. His condition […]