After Short Pursuit, EPD Arrests Man Allegedly in Possession of Fentanyl, Heroin, Firearms
Eureka Police Department press release:
On February 1, 2022, Detectives with the Eureka Police Department’s Problem
Oriented Policing Team (POP) with the assistance from Special Agents with the
Humboldt County Drug Task Force, attempted to apprehend 43-year old Brent Clayton
Lynch of Eureka on the 300 block of D Street in Eureka. Lynch was wanted by State
Parole for a parole violation. Lynch was also reported to be possibly armed with a
firearm and selling illegal narcotics.
As POP Detectives attempted to contact Lynch outside of his vehicle, he began to flee
on foot. Detectives pursued him to the area of 5th and C Streets where he was taken
into custody after a short struggle. Lynch was found to be in possession of Fentanyl and
heroin which was packaged for sales. Inside the vehicle Lynch had been witnessed
driving, Detectives located a 12-gauge shotgun with the serial removed, ammunition for
the shotgun, a stolen loaded .357 magnum pistol, a digital scale and packaging material
consistent with the sales of narcotics. Lynch is a convicted felon and prohibited from
owning or possessing firearms and ammunition.
Lynch was arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility for
felon in possession of a firearm, felon in possession of ammunition, removing a serial
number from a firearm, possession of a controlled substance for sales, being armed
while in possession of illegal narcotics, driving on a suspended license, resisting arrest
and his parole violation warrant.
The Eureka Police Department would like to thank the citizens who stopped and
assisted detectives during the apprehension.