People contact the Outpost many, many times a day to ask what is going on right now in this or that portion of the county. Many times, what they want to know about is what the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is up to right in front of their eyes.
This can be hard to do in the moment, or even well after the moment. Right now the Sheriff’s Office does not have a fulltime person solely dedicated to taking calls from the press or public. Members of the office are always incredibly helpful and forthcoming when we get hold of them, but we can’t always get hold of them. We understand — after all, they do have other jobs to do.
So we’re going to give the following a shot. Here, in very brief and sometimes woefully incomplete form, are some of the highlights from yesterday’s day of crime and emergency in Humboldt County’s unincorporated areas, taken from the Sheriff’s Office’s daily calls-for-service log and filled out with other sheriff’s office documents and audio of dispatch communications with officers in the field.
At the end of the post: The entirety of yesterday’s calls-for-service log.
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9:48 a.m.: Deputy M. Anderson was called to investigate a vandalism at Redwoods Rural Health Center, just up the block from the California Highway Patrol office. No arrests made. Case #2015-00367.
11:13 a.m.: Some kind of narcotics investigation on the 1200 block of Central Avenue, McKinleyville. Deputy D. Nielsen on the case. No arrests. Case #2015-00368.
12:01 p.m.: Deputies were called to the home on the 2600 block of Central Avenue, McKinleyville, on reports that a man there was threatening suicide. The man told dispatchers that he had already shot himself in the neck, and was considering shooting himself in the head. Reportedly, a child was present. Medical personnel were summoned to the scene, where they found the man with a .22 caliber gunshot wound to the lower jaw. He was transported to Mad River Hospital.
6:19 p.m.: Burglary reported on the 6800 block of London Drive, Humboldt Hill. Case #2015-00375.
6:44 p.m.: The Sheriff’s Office was called to assist the Hoopa Valley Tribal Police Department on a report of an knifepoint robbery of a television from a home on tribal property. A victim of the robbery was reportedly cut with a knife during the robbery. At 8:26 p.m., Deputy Tory Siipola booked James George Lamar Smith into jail in connection with the incident. Smith was held on charges of being in illegal possession of ammunition.
Audio of the dispatch below. Case #2015-00377.
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All these items, plus 141 more, are available for your perusal in the following PDF document, which lists all the calls for service received by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Reporting parties and specific addresses are redacted. Sorry about the large file size. This will be fixed in future episodes.
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