At 10:30 a.m. today, a Yurok Tribal Police Department officer assisted a sheriff’s deputy to recover the body of James Dennis Cook, also known as Major. Cook’s body was tangled up in branches and brush in the river. He had been missing since last Friday following a boating accident. The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office will […]
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UPDATE: Suspect in Hoopa Stabbing Death Arrested
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s SWAT team apprehended murder suspect Gearold Sotolongo at a Hoopa residence this morning, according to a press release. Sotolongo was wanted in connection with the Feb. 13 killing of Hoopa and Weitchpec resident Rodger Allen Yale. From the Sheriff’s Office: On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at approximately 9:03 a.m. the Humboldt […]
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Sheriff’s Office: No Arrests Anticipated in Scotia Homicide
The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office recently announced that it has ruled Justin Joseph Nevis’ death a homicide, about two weeks after deputies found the 32-year-old’s decomposing body near Scotia. The Sacramento County man died of blood loss due to laceration wounds, and police believe his death is linked to an attempted home invasion robbery back […]
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Need $10K? Find the AT&T Slasher
AT&T is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction for whoever sliced through a fiber optic line Thursday morning between Ukiah and Hopland, resulting in a 16-hour Internet, phone and television outage that impacted five counties. Humboldt County was among the hardest hit by the outage, which stretched from […]
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DA Probing Borges Death
The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office has initiated a review of the June 13, 2014 in-custody death of Daren Borges, who died hours after being booked into the county jail by Eureka police officers. Borges’ sister, Stephany Borges, filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit last week, alleging officers acted negligently in booking him into jail […]