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Last night, starting at around 5 p.m., several Myrtletown-based Outpost readers alerted us to a major police presence on Searles Street, behind the CVS pharmacy and neighboring businesses. There had been a report of shots fired in the neighborhood. The Eureka Police Department and allied law enforcement agencies had arrived in large numbers and closed down the road while they investigated.

It turned out to be nothing, basically.

Eureka Police Department spokesperson Brittany Powell tells the Outpost this morning that it started when police received a call from a woman who said she had located her stolen car on the 1100 block of Searles. The woman said that she heard a gunshot when she tried to recover the vehicle, then fled the scene.

Police arrived and set up a perimeter. They detained four people, one of whom was later arrested on an outstanding warrant unrelated to the case at hand. But they did not find any guns, and they did not find any damage to property or persons. And it turned out that the car in question had never been reported stolen. 

And that was pretty much it.