Gerald Ronald Richardson of Ferndale, passed away on April 25, 2022 at the age of 83. Jerry was born on April 23, 1939 in Akron, Ohio to Georgianna (Hughes) and Howard Richardson and he grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. He joined the Navy at age 17 as a steelworker, 3rd class, and served as a SeaBee from 1958-1962. He was stationed at Kwajelene Atoll before being sent to Ferndale to help build the new Navy Base at Centerville Beach.

During his stint at Centerville Beach, Jerry met and married Donna Cox. After the Navy, Jerry owned and operated his own Pepsi delivery route. He then bought and ran the Cask and Flask Liquor Store in McKinleyville for 42 years. During that time, he bought a houseboat at Trinity Lake where he and his family made many wonderful memories.

After retirement, Jerry really enjoyed tending his vegetable garden and strawberry patch. He was very proud of his beautiful begonias and never gave up on growing a good tomato in the Ferndale weather. He also enjoyed playing blackjack, making his own clam chowder, traveling, and ocean fishing. A highlight every year was when he and Donna hosted the annual Tree Trimming crab feed for his large family. He enjoyed cooking his own crab and smoking specialty meats for the event.

Jerry was preceded in death by his parents, Georgianna (Hughes) and Howard Richardson, his sister and brother, and his wife, Donna. He is survived by his children; a daughter, Kathy (Richardson) Dodds and husband Dave of Elk Grove; sons, Ron Richardson and wife Susie of Arizona; Gregg Richardson and wife Laura of Hillsboro, WI; Grant Richardson and wife Robin of Naples, FL; Brad Richardson and wife Ellen of Ashland, OR. He is also survived by 26 grandchildren; Lindsey, Stephanie, Katie, Vincent, Kayla, Christiana, Janelle, Karina, Rachel, Luke, Lee, James, Anna, William, Benjamin, John, Matthew, Drew, Jay, Emma, Stephen, Christopher, Joshua, Jonathan, Brianna, and Olivia. And he is also survived by 17 great grandchildren; Jrew, Marin, Ty, Aspen, Abeline, Justus, Uriah, Elysia, Eivin, Yvonne, Oren, Aven, Evelyn, Matthias, Calvin, Sebastian, and Derek.

A private family burial will take place at a later date to be determined.

The family extends our many thanks to Sequoia Springs for the care they provided. Memorial contributions may be made to the Ferndale Volunteer Fire Department, P.O. Box 485 Ferndale, CA 95536. Our many thanks to the department for their swift and caring assistance for both of our parents.

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The lovely and fun-loving Holly Hunt passed away peacefully with her family nearby on April 19, 2022.

Holly was the middle child of Sandra Shearer Hunt and Dr. V. Everett Hunt. A fourth generation Arcata resident, Holly grew up in Sunny Brae, attending Jacoby Creek and Arcata High Schools.

While growing up, Holly was a natural people person, fitting in effortlessly with people she would meet. She was energetic, charismatic, generous, and kind. At Arcata High she engaged in musical productions, cheerleading, student government, and community service. Upon graduation she was awarded both the White Sweater/Blanket Award for overall outstanding participation in academics, activities, and leadership, as well as the Evelyn Fielding Award for excellence in athletics.

In 1971, she left the rain-soaked North Coast for sunny San Diego, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing with an unofficial minor in Socializing Studies from San Diego State University. There, she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority and developed strong friendships that she maintained through her life.

Holly was a nurse for 35 years, practicing first at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and then at St. Vincent Hospital in Portland. She thoroughly enjoyed her work helping patients and she found great meaning in collaborating with her colleagues. She found success not only in her consistent effort, but by standing on the shoulders of those she respected. Her work community was like family to her, and she maintained many close relationships with colleagues even after she retired.

Though Holly had no children of her own, she treated her nieces and nephews like daughters and sons. She developed unique relationships with each of them. Holly assisted in the delivery of Alexis and was the first to hold her. It was always a great adventure to be with Aunt Holly. She was energetic and fun, and she had a spicy (and sometimes wicked) sense of humor. She took her young nieces shopping, did their makeup and French-braided their hair. They adored her, and greatly miss her presence in their lives.

Holly also took great joy in her special relationship with step-daughters Emily and Joanna Lacter. Holly was kind and generous and helped raise them with love. She shared life lessons on treating others with respect, creating moments of fun, and provided encouragement to be brave and try new things. Holly was a beautiful example of a strong woman and loving mom.

No discussion about Holly would be complete without mentioning her amazing generosity to other people. The examples of her giving support to others in need are numerous. Perhaps she is best known for close relationships with her dogs. They were a very large part of her life.

Sadly, Holly passed away at the age of 69 from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Her disease robbed her of her cherished memories with the people she loved. Holly knew when she called me in the fall of 2011 to tell me about her diagnosis, exactly what course her life would follow going forward. Over the last 11 years, Holly had to experience a constant decline in the quality of her life. Fortunately, Holly was peaceful when everyone around her felt hopeless and a need to protect her. We wanted to defend the memory of the person she wanted to be remembered as. That was the Holly at the top of her potential. Thanks for knowing her like that and for understanding how hard she worked to maintain her kindness and upbeat personality. Those 11 years sucked the life out of her. We hope that, inside, she was mining those amazing Holly memories, because at the end of the day that is all you have that you value. And the thought that she couldn’t find them is the saddest thing of all.

The best of Holly may yet to be seen. In the last chapter of the Book of Holly, our thoughts and memories will not be sad obstacles that dissolve over time, but rather recognition of how her qualities affect the way we interact with the people in our own lives. We will all have some tomorrows that will be rough, but Holly showed how these days can be managed with grace.

Holly is survived by her siblings, Heidi Hunt Kagarakis (Frank) and brother Howard Hunt (Jan); her beloved nieces and nephews, Courtney Hunt Munther (Jeff), Amy Hunt (Adrian Kamada), Ryan Kagarakis (Kim), Alexis Kagarakis, and Cameron Hunt (s.o. Nicole Green); great-niece and nephews Miles and Grayson Munther, Avery Kamada, and Savannah Kagarakis; and step-daughters Emily Lacter Maxey and Joanna Lacter Fonk.

Holly was preceded in death by her parents, Sandra and Everett Hunt, and by her life partner of more than 30 years, Dr. Daniel Dennis. Holly’s family will host a celebration of life on Saturday, May 14 at 10 a.m. that will be accessible by Zoom. If you are interested in participating or watching, please email howeird@sbcglobal.net or text (707) 845 6618 to receive the link.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the following charities:

Portland Animal Welfare Team (PAW Team); https://pawteam.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/pawteam/donation.jsp

Sequoia Humane Sociey; https://sequoiahumane.org/donateSHS

The Alzheimer’s Association; https://alz.org/donate

referencing: Holly Hunt, 2161 Golf Course Road, Bayside, CA 95524.

Surrounded by love Robert Lee Boyer I — “Papa” — ended his journey on earth December 17, 2021 at his home on the Rusty Bucket Ranch in Glendale, Oregon.

Papa was born September 3, 1945 to Earl and Grace Boyer in Eureka. Spending most of his childhood in Humboldt County where he met his lifelong friend, Charles Davis. Papa and Charles were a bit mischievous in their youth running the Manila dunes in vehicles with no brakes, scavenging coins and cigarettes from an overturned truck and Papa losing most of his hair when they started a fire in the woodstove using gasoline.

In his early teenage years Papa moved to Southern California where he tried out many trades along with enlisting in the National Guard before finding his calling. Beginning his long well traveled career traversing the highways and byways of the Western United States behind the wheel of his immaculately polished eighteen wheeler.

Papa returned home to Humboldt County where he started racking up miles from 1977-1985 with Ranch Supply. In 1985 the truck side shut down and Papa added to his resume with Kenneth Poole Trucking from 1985-1991. In 1991 Papa needed a change, making his final professional move to Joe Costa Trucking. Papa continued to rack up the miles until reluctantly ending his 45 year career with 4.5 million miles under his belt in 2010. By the ned of his career he was truly a “Knight of the Highway.” There was no mountain too steep, no storm too big, no road too snowy. He was always ready for the challenge and often lead the way for others.

In retirement he dove deep into his love of trains and roses, While trains and roses were a part of his life before retirement the extra free time only added fuel to the fire. Papa had an extensive collection of HO trains along with every single other item needed to create, maintain and run a full layout that took up a 12x12 room. Papa entered his roses in the Humboldt County fair for several years winning many ribbons including his most prized “Best of Show.” Papa had no storage of roses to choose from over 100 different rose bushes in his personal garden.

In 2013 Papa moved to Reno, NV with his family where he met many wonderful friends before making his final move to the Rusty Bucket Ranch in Glendale, OR in 2018. Here Papa grew gardens, wrangled pigs, chased steer, fixed fences, remodeled barns, befriended stray cats, ran around on his tractor, met friends that became family and enjoyed the wildlife until the end.

Papa was preceded in death by his Father (Earl), Mother (Grace), sister (Anna), brother (Austin), Father in-law (Louie Walton 12-30-21), Aunts, Uncles and several Cousins.

Papa is survived by his wife of 38 years Barbara (Meme), Mother in-law Mary Roberts, Mother in-law Judy Scott, Children; Robert (Sabrina) Boyer II, Wendy (Jeff) Kapic, Heather (Josh) Stephens and Shawn Boyer. Grandchildren; Ryan, Glen (Becca), Josh, Tyler (Madison), Raelinn, Christopher, Sara, Colten, Wyatt, Sierra and Aspen. Great Grandchildren; Abby, Falon and Levi. Siblings; Clarence, Carl, Rose, Albert, Tena and Frank. Lifelong Friends; Charles (Peggy) Davis. Papa is also survived by many other loved ones too many to name but loved all the same.

A celebration of life for Papa will be held Sunday, May 29th, 2022 at Driften Diamond Ranch, 760 StageCoach Rd, Trinidad at 2 p.m.

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DOCUMENT:

• “Confidential Personnel Investigation Report. City of Arcata, Councilmember Brett Watson”

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UPDATE, 7:35 p.m.: Watson sends the Outpost the following statement:

I received a copy of the investigation on May 4th after the rest of the council had access to it for over a week. I haven’t had a chance to review it in its entirety.

I made myself available to the investigator for several months. The staff worked with the investigator to deny me reasonable accommodations per an email sent from the staff to the investigator on February 10th.

Despite this, I made myself available to the investigator on March 25th per an email to staff. I followed up with staff on April 5th to reiterate my availability and that I had not been contacted by the investigator. I was never contacted by the investigator.

From the very beginning I’ve been denied due process and reasonable accommodations.

I’ve never harassed anyone in my life and I’ve worked tirelessly for the residents of Arcata.

I’ll likely make further comment after I’ve been able to completely review the report and additional documents.

I’m grateful to the public for their continued support over the last several months.

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Driven by an “obsession” that extended over a period of years, Arcata City Councilmember Brett Watson committed workplace sexual harassment against the one of the city’s female employees. 

Watson.

That’s the conclusion of a 600-plus-page report that the city commissioned from Kramer Workplace Investigations, a firm based in the Bay Area town of Danville, in January, following a series of events that included Watson’s arrest for driving under the influence and drug possession, his ouster as the city’s mayor, a council vote of “no confidence” in him, a stint in a rehab facility, a public fight over his access to city staff members’ time and his proclamation that he has a learning disability that prevents him from fully understanding written material.

According to the report, investigators made several attempts to interview Watson through a series of three different lawyers he had retained between January and March of this year, but were ultimately unsuccessful in obtaining his cooperation.

The report includes several addenda, including a log the staff member starting keeping when she became concerned about Watson’s behavior, a string of emails Watson sent the staff member and a chain of text messages between the two. Through them, and through interviews with several people in city government, the report chronicles many months of disturbing and inappropriate behavior. It summarizes that behavior this way:

It is undisputed that Watson engaged the conduct attributed to him by [redacted] and that his conduct was motivated by his romantic interest in [redacted]. It is also undisputed that Watson abused his power as a City Councilmember by expecting [redacted] to spend time with him outside of City Hall; to respond to his calls and text messages outside of regular work hours; to engage in communications of a personal nature with him; and to hug him each time they met in his capacity as a Councilmember and her capacity as [redacted]. The credible evidence presented during the investigation establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that the allegations against Watson are sustained.

Among other things, the report finds that:

• Watson spoke of his romantic feelings for the staff member to other city employees.
• He placed inordinate demands on the staff member’s time, including twice-weekly “walks” together, during which he would frequently ask for hugs, which would sometimes last 20 or 30 seconds.
• He would send texts and emails to the staff member about personal matters at all hours of the evening and on weekends, including at least one in which he told her about his crumbling marriage, and would be upset when she didn’t answer.
• When he sensed her avoiding emotional intimacy with him, he threatened to schedule a closed-session item on the council agenda to review her performance.
  

According to the staff member’s log of events, sometime in mid-June 2020, while on one of their walks, Watson told her that he had developed feelings for her, which she rebuffed. However, she continued to try to help him through the emotional turmoil he was experiencing at the time.

This all culminated at a conference in Sacramento in September 2021, shortly before the rest of the city council removed Watson as the city’s mayor and took a vote of no confidence. According to witnesses quoted in the report, at that conference — which both Watson and the staff member attended, along with other city officials — Watson got upset after the staff member declined to join him for a late night glass of wine. A colleague offered to drink wine with him, and they ended up having a “deep conversation.” 

According to a witness statement:

[Redacted] advised that Watson finished the rest of the wine and left her room, but noted that a short time later, he started sending her text messages saying that he was “tired of being sad” and that sometimes he wished he would “go to sleep and not wake up.” After exchanging text messages for a little while, Watson told [redacted] that he did not think he should be alone and that he was thinking about taking an extra sleeping pill. [Redacted] did not think Watson was suicidal, but thought he was “making a cry for help.” She felt manipulated, but he was “not letting her off the hook.” [Redacted] stated that she agreed to have Watson go back to her room, they chatted for a bit, and then he fell asleep on the second bed in her room. [Redacted] opined that Watson needed a friend that night, but she also felt she was “taken for a ride” and was irritated with him.

In the wake of this incident, the rest of the council learned about Watson’s “obsession” with the staff member, and they urged the staff member to speak to the city attorney about what could be done. 

“I pretty much broke at this point and said while I know that opening this up will be very hard and painful that I can’t keep going and it is clear that I can’t make it stop on my own,” the staff member wrote in her log.

It’s unclear what the next steps are, especially given that Watson is an elected councilmember and can’t be fired. Legal action against him seems a possibility.

In the past, Watson has attributed his erratic behavior to mental health problems he suffered following the death of his father.

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PREVIOUSLY:

The following was printed earlier today in the San Francisco Examiner. It is reprinted here with permission. — Ed.

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Supervisor Rex Bohn and Sheriff Billy Honsal on Fox News today.

Just when I thought Chesa Boudin Derangement Syndrome couldn’t get any worse, it began spreading across the state. On Wednesday, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors decided to take a hit at San Francisco’s much-scapegoated district attorney. Since he gets blamed for every crime in his city, why not start blaming him for crime in other places?

The Humboldt politicians manufactured a publicity stunt that sounded like something right out of The Onion. In a letter delivered to DA Boudin via the press, they blamed San Francisco for the presence of illegal drugs in their foggy forests 300 miles to the north.

“The County of Humboldt refuses to sit idle while this drug pours into our county from the Tenderloin,” read the letter, which claimed that fentanyl dealers from San Francisco are distributing the drug there. “If we cannot reach an acceptable solution, we may consider a legal remedy.”

The letter urged Boudin to support Mayor London Breed’s drug overdose emergency declaration in the Tenderloin. It seems word of the mayor’s decision to end the emergency without explanation and skip off to Europe for 10 days didn’t make it up to Arcata Bay.

I don’t know what they’re smoking up there in Humboldt but … well, actually, I do. Humboldt County has been a world-renowned drug capital for decades. Illegal reefer from the region has long been the gold standard among discerning potheads. How big is the illicit grass industry in Humboldt? So big that, in 1990, the Drug Enforcement Administration invaded Humboldt County, accompanied by National Guardsmen and United States Army soldiers fresh from the 1989 invasion of Panama.

Operation Green Sweep marked the first time that the U.S. government deployed active-duty troops against marijuana growers on American soil. And so it came to pass that military raids eradicated the scourge of cannabis from the land. Yeah, right. The invasion netted 1,200 marijuana plants and tons of growing equipment, but Humboldt growers fought back with violent protests that ended the dubious doobie war five days early.

During my college years in Indiana in the mid-1990s, obtaining a nugget of deep-green, orange-bearded and trichome-encrusted skunk from the so-called “Emerald Triangle” of Northern California was like finding the Holy Grail in a state reliant mostly on cheap gray brick weed. These legendary psychedelic strains enhanced many young brains and, if you buy into anti-drug propaganda, served as the gateway to harder drugs for generations of Americans.

So, the idea of Humboldt pointing the finger at others is pretty rich. That’s like the pot calling the bud green. Or the blunt calling the roach dope. Or the Cheech calling the Chong stoned. You get the point.

The “Devil’s Lettuce” is now legal in California, but authorities in Humboldt still struggle to stop illicit and environmentally-destructive marijuana grows. But no matter how many forbidden drug farms they uproot, more spring up. Imagine that. It’s almost as if the Drug War doesn’t work … but I digress.

Like many rural counties nationwide, Humboldt has also struggled to contain rising levels of opioid and methamphetamine addiction. A 2018 New York Times article made the Humboldt redwoods sound like lower Larkin Street.

“The dirty needles can be found scattered among the pine and brush, littering the forest floor around Eureka, a town long celebrated as a gateway to the scenic Redwood Empire,” wrote Jose A. Del Real. “They are the debris of a growing heroin scourge that is gripping the remote community in Northern California.”

The Times reported that heroin addiction had been sweeping rural northern counties.

“In Humboldt County, the opioid death rate is five times higher than the state average,” wrote Del Real. “The problem is exacerbated here in Eureka, the county seat, by a sizable homeless population that is growing amid an extreme lack of affordable housing and a changing, weakened economy that relies heavily on tourism.”

Sounds like San Francisco and Humboldt had much in common back in 2018 – two years before Boudin took office. No wonder the Eureka politicians want to play “puff, puff, pass the blame.” If they would pool their remaining brain cells and think this through, however, they’d see the gaping hole in their anti-Boudin narrative.

While it’s possible that dealers have transported fentanyl from San Francisco to Humboldt, the drug isn’t manufactured here. Most stories about fentanyl busts in The City indicate that the dealers travel here from Oakland to ply their deadly trade. Since most fentanyl gets to this country via Mexican cartels, the drug supply must pass through multiple federal, state, county and city jurisdictions before it gets to Alameda County.

There are plenty of law enforcement agencies fully authorized to interdict drug traffickers between here and Mexico, and plenty of prosecutors ready to indict anyone they arrest. Yet none of them seem able to stop the drugs from flowing to East Bay mules and dealers who transport it to the Tenderloin.

Why does no one blame Alameda County DA Nancy O’Malley, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol or the DEA for this unchecked fentanyl distribution? Why isn’t anyone putting the chief prosecutor of conservative Tulare County on blast for its proliferation of cartel meth labs? Surely some of that potent crystal makes its way to Humboldt, which has a serious meth problem. The road from Tulare to Humboldt does not run through San Francisco.

Even if Boudin could magically achieve the fantasy of eradicating the drug trade here, the traffickers would simply head north on the 580 and then take Highway 101. Capitalism always finds a way, and according to Google Maps that’s actually the quickest route to Humboldt.

Oh, I know. Logic and reason don’t matter in this debate. This was a basic PR stunt designed earn free media coverage and bolster the recall campaign against Boudin. We’ll be seeing many more like it over the next few weeks.

In reality, of course, it’s impossible to keep drug cartels from providing supply where the demand for drugs exists. Just ask those hypocritical politicians up in Humboldt County.

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Gil Duran writes for the San Francisco Examiner, from which this is reprinted. Find a bunch of his work here.

Back in March, Partnership HealthPlan of California, a Medi-Cal managed service provider serving close to a million beneficiaries in Northern California, announced on its website that it had been hacked. 

A ransomware group called Hive claimed responsibility, boasting that it had stolen private data for 850,000 Partnership HealthPlan members, including names, social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and more.

On Thursday, Eureka law firm Janssen Malloy filed a class action lawsuit in Humboldt County Superior Court on behalf of a Partnership HealthPlan member, alleging that the provider failed to adequately store and protect sensitive medical information of enrollees and failed to give proper notice of the data breach.

In a press release issued Friday, the firm invites Partnership patients who are concerned about the breach to reach out.

Here’s that release:

On May 5, 2022, a member of PARTNERSHIP HEALTHPLAN OF CALIFORNIA (“PHC”), a healthcare coverage provider based in Northern California, filed a class action lawsuit in Humboldt County Superior Court challenging PHC’s failure to adequately store and protect sensitive medical information of up to 850,000 enrollees and failing to give notice of the breach to all impacted enrollees.

When compared to the data reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights during the last 2 years, this would be the second largest health plan data breach in the United States during that time.

A copy of the Complaint can be found here.

According to the Complaint, on March 29, 2022, the Hive ransomware group posted a message declaring the group had been able to access the personal private information of up to 850,000 patients of PHC on or about March 19, 2022, and had encrypted PHC’s computer system.

This data included at least the names, addresses and Social Security Numbers of their patients. The Complaint also alleges that PHC’s negligence in safeguarding the medical information of Plaintiff and the Class members “was exacerbated by the repeated warnings and alerts directed to protecting and securing sensitive data, especially in light of the substantial increase in cyberattacks and/or data breaches in the healthcare and insurance industries preceding the date of this attack.” This included government reports about Hive targeting health care companies such as PHC as early as July 2021.

The Complaint further alleges PHC, to date, has failed to provide notice of this breach to consumers, or even acknowledge this massive data breach occurred. While its operations were brought to a standstill, PHC’s website for several weeks only had the following message: “We are working diligently with third-party forensic specialists to investigate this disruption, safely restore full functionality to affected systems, and determine whether any information may have been potentially accessible as a result of the situation.”

The Complaint alleges violations of the Information Practices Act of 1977 the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, Article I, Section 1 of the California Constitution (Invasion of Privacy), California Business and Professions Code § 17200 et seq. (Unfair and Unlawful Business Practices), and Declaratory Relief.

According to research published in the online journal Healthcare, health-related data “are more sensitive than other types of data because any data tampering can lead to faulty treatment, with fatal and irreversible losses to patients. Hence, healthcare data need enhanced security, and should be breach-proof.” (Seh AH, et al., Healthcare Data Breaches: Insights and Implications. Healthcare. 2020; 8(2):133.)

If you are a patient of PARTNERSHIP HEALTHPLAN OF CALIFORNIA and are concerned about this breach of your personal data and what your options are, contact Janssen Malloy LLP by calling toll-free 888-JANSSEN (1-888-526-7736) or (707) 445-2071.

PREVIOUSLY: Suspected Arcata Drug Traffickers Arrested in Rio Dell 

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Humboldt County Drug Task Force press release:

On Friday May 6th, 2022 at approx. 1 a.m. the HCDTF was serving a search warrant on a vehicle in the 500 block of Wildwood Ave. in Rio Dell for cocaine and firearms violations. During the search warrant agents saw a vehicle pull into the gas station at this location and park. Agents recognized the driver as James Smith AKA: Hollywood (42 years old from Hoopa). Agents had been looking for Smith the previous day as they had information that Smith was trafficking fentanyl into Humboldt County and selling it in the Hoopa Valley. Agents already had a signed search warrant for Smith. Agents contacted Smith and detained him without incident.

HCDTF Agents conducted a search of Smith’s vehicle and located a concealed loaded .38 caliber revolver. Agents located two ounces of fentanyl hidden inside Smith’s pants. Agents also located a digital scale and packaging material inside of the vehicle. Smith was transported to the Humboldt County Jail where he was booked for the following charges:

• 11351 H&S Possession of fentanyl for sale
• 11352(a) H&S Transportation of fentanyl
• 11352(b) H&S Transportation of fentanyl across non-contiguous counties
• 11370.1 H&S Possession of controlled substance while armed
• 29800(a) PC Felon in possession of a firearm
• 25850 PC Loaded firearm in a vehicle
• 25400(a)3 PC Carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle

In the last 24 hours the HCDTF has made three traffic stops, served three search warrants, and arrested 7 people for trafficking fentanyl or cocaine into Humboldt County.

Anyone with information related to this investigation or other narcotics related crimes are encouraged to call the Humboldt County Drug Task Force at 707-267-9976.