Due to the seeming unavailabilty of every police officer in the state of California this Friday, we’re going to have to give you these two stories we’ve been working on in rapid-fire fashion.

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ONE.

The Del Norte Triplicate scoops the hell out of the entire Humboldt County press corps by reporting that the Eureka Police Department cornered Zachary Scott, suspect in last weekend’s armed robbery at a Crescent City Subway franchise and subsequent carjackings, held at gunpoint on Eureka’s West Side late Tuesday night. According to the Triplicate, Scott was discovered in possession of a stolen motorcycle at 14th and A streets. The EPD had him at gunpoint, on foot, when he dodged behind a parked car and gave them the slip.

The Lost Coast Outpost rewound the scanner and found enough to confirm that the EPD found Scott and were chasing him at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night, but the resolution of the incident was unclear on our tape. We could not reach our usual EPD contact for comment.

PREVIOUSLY: Suspect in Crescent City’s Armed Robbery/Epic Chase Believed to Be in Humboldt

TWO.

Today’s “BOOKED” shows that two people were arrested yesterday on homicide charges in Humboldt County yesterday. Those people are Samuel Gerald Whitmore and Branden Scott Forrest. They were arrested by wardens for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and have various vehicle-related charges tagged to their arrests in addition to homicide.

It turns out that Whitmore and Forrest are wanted out of Fresno County on suspicion of having stabbed a person to death outside a bar last week. There is a lot of coverage of the case in the Fresno press — Fresno Bee, KION-TV, KMJ Radio —  but all the latest reports there seem to believe that the suspects were headed to the Central Coast. No one in Fresno yet seems aware that they have been arrested.

Spokespeople for the California Department of Wildlife and the Fresno Police Department could not be reached for comment.