That’s not the tow hitch. Photo submitted by Harry Wolford.

A stolen U-Haul truck was recovered after a traffic stop late last night, and the cargo on board included a wide variety of drug paraphernalia and sex toys, the truck’s owner reports.

KSLG DJ and LoCO colleague Sabina Gallier stumbled upon this saga, which she would later describe as “the best Humboldt story ever,” when she stopped by Brian’s Smog, Brake and Tune in McKinleyville this morning to get her car smog-checked. 

While there, the shop’s employees told her that a U-Haul truck that had gone missing months earlier had been recovered the previous night by deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department.

Sabina recounted the details later in a Facebook post. “When they recovered the truck they found jewelry, knives, needles and HELLA SEX TOYS AND BONDAGE TIES,” she wrote. “They showed me a few and I have never seen a gnarlier spiked billy club in my entire life. And there are videos….naaaaaaasty videos.”

We contacted Harry Wolford, general manager of the McKinleyville business, who confirmed the story. The shop serves as a licensed U-Haul rental site, and employees reported the truck missing nearly three months ago. 

“I got a mysterious phone call at midnight [last night],” Wolford said. “It was the Sheriff’s Office saying, ‘Come get your U-Haul.’”

The truck had been pulled over for having a broken license plate light, Wolford said. He was told that the thieves had been living in the back of the truck somewhere in Oregon and were getting ready to head back north when they were pulled over. Wolford was taken aback by what was inside.

“I’ve never seen this many syringes in one little area,” he said, adding that there were “sex toys out the yin yang.” (In a follow-up message sent with the above photo, Wolford mentioned finding anal beads that he described, reasonably, as “disgusting to pick up.”)

Two people were reportedly arrested. Lt. Wayne Hanson with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that deputies contacted subjects in a U-Haul last night but said the official report had not yet been written. Wolford said one subject was wanted in southern California and was being pursued by either a bounty hunter or a bail bondsman. We were unable to confirm that particular tidbit.

But Gallier was happy to report that her car passed smog. And she got the “best Humbodlt story ever” for free.