UPDATE, 4:38 p.m.: News Channel 3 reports from their Facebook page that the victim in the case is 24-year-old Trinidad resident Jesse Alvin Ruiz.

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UPDATE, 11:30 a.m.: Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

On 1-10-2014, at approximately 10:00 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s Detectives arrested

 Larry Clinton Morrow, 33 years old from Trinidad for homicide. Morrow was booked into the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Correctional Facility where he is being held on one million dollars bail. The cause of death and the victim’s name are not being released at this time. Detectives are still investigating the crime.

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UPDATE, 11:22 a.m.: The suspect arrested this morning was Larry Clinton Morrow, 33, Lt. Wayne Hanson of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office tells the Outpost‘s Andrew Goff.

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UPDATE, 11 a.m.: Scanner traffic indicates that police were called to the scene at around 3:10 a.m. A woman from Orick, whose mother lives at Hidden Creek, called 911 to say that her mother was in “hysterics” because a man was pounding on her door. While sheriff deputies responded to the scene, additional 911 calls reported that a man had been stabbed.

Police arrived within minutes and medical personnel shortly thereafter. The stabbing victim — the same man who had been reported as pounding on the woman’s door — was quickly located, and law enforcement reported back that a case was a possible “1144” — a fatality. One male suspect was taken into custody at the scene. Medical personnel attempted CPR on the stabbing victim, but soon after called on other first responders en route to stand down.

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UPDATE, 10:05 a.m.: The Outpost‘s Andrew Goff reports that residents of the park are saying that the suspect arrested by sheriff’s deputies this morning was also a park resident, but that the victim lived “down the street.”

Crime scene technicians have not yet arrived, and some residents are angry at the police over this. Why does it take them so long, they wonder? Why do police leave the victim’s foot exposed? At least one child — a resident of the park, presumably — stood staring at the scene this morning.

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UPDATE, 9:35 a.m.: The Lost Coast Outpost‘s Andrew Goff, at the scene of the investigation, reports that sheriff’s deputies are currently standing guard over the body while crime scene investigators arrive to properly process the scene. Residents of the RV park are upset the body is still laying in plain view hours later, Goff writes.

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UPDATE: From the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

On 1-10-2014, at approximately 3:00 a.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office was notified of people yelling in the Hidden Creek Trailer Park, Trinidad. Deputies responded to the area and located a deceased 24 year old male victim near a trailer. Detectives were notified and responded to the scene. Detectives have a male detained and currently interviewing that person, along with witnesses. The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office is assisting in the investigation. Additional information will be released as more information becomes available.

Anyone with information for the Sheriff’s Office regarding this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Sheriff’s Office at 707-445-7251 or the Sheriffs Office Crime Tip line at 707-268-2539.

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Police are currently investigating a homicide at Hidden Creek RV Park in Trinidad, according to Lt. Steve Knight of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office.

“We have someone in custody, and we have a body,” Knight said.

More information will be released shortly. A Lost Coast Outpost reporter is traveling to the scene.