Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:
On Aug. 10, 2023, at about 11:19 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to Mad River Beach for the report of a vehicle stuck in the sand.
Baldridge
Deputies arrived in the area and recognized the stuck vehicle, which had been reported stolen out of Eureka one week prior. Upon seeing deputies, a male attempting to dig the vehicle out of the sand fled into the dunes.
Deputies searched for the man, later identified as 45-year-old Dale Dodge Baldridge, and located him hiding underneath a bush. During a search of Baldridge incident to arrest deputies located the keys to the stolen vehicle and over two grams of methamphetamine.
Baldridge was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of possession of a stolen vehicle (PC 496d(a)), resisting a peace officer (PC 148(a)(1)) and possession of a controlled substance (PC 11377(a)), in addition to warrant charges of false identification to a peace officer (PC 148.9(a)), possession of a narcotic controlled substance (HS 11350(a)), transportation/sale of a controlled substance (HS 11352(a)), person prohibited in possession of ammunition (PC 30305(a))¸ possession of a controlled substance for sales (HS 11351), felon in possession of tear gas (PC 22810(a)), possession of cannabis for sales (HS 11359(b))¸ possession of greater than 28.5 grams of cannabis (HS 11357(B)(2)), possession of a controlled substance paraphernalia (HS 11364(a)) and Post Release Community Supervision (PRCS) revocation (PC 3455(a)).
Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:
Cory Steven McCauley Booking Photo | Humboldt County Correctional Facility
On Aug. 11, 2023, at about 9:47 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a residence on West Coast Road in Redway for the report of an assault.
Deputies contacted a female victim who exhibited minor injuries. The victim told deputies that her neighbor, 36-year-old Cory Steven McCauley, had entered into her residence without permission and began arguing with her regarding [a] property issue. During this argument, McCauley reportedly physically assaulted the victim, causing injury, then fled the residence.
Deputies located McCauley at a nearby business and he was taken into custody without incident. McCauley was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of elder abuse (PC 368(b)(1)), assault (PC 240), battery (PC 242) and burglary (PC 459/461(A)).
Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.
Yuck. Inland Humboldt is going to roast this week, we’re told.
The sky watchers at the Eureka arm of the national weather service have issued an “excessive heat warning” for the eastern halves of Humboldt and Mendocino counties and all of Trinity and Lake counties through Wednesday evening. Temperatures are expected to soar during that period reaching into the 110s.
The following are NWS-recommended actions to take in extreme heat:
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:
On Aug. 9, 2023, at about 7:14 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies on patrol in Trinidad conducted a vehicle investigation on an occupied vehicle parked in the area of Scenic Drive and Cher-Ae Lane. The occupant of the vehicle, 42-year-old Kathlene Crystal Mellon, was found to be asleep in the driver’s seat with drug paraphernalia in plain view.
Deputies woke Mellon and conducted a search of her person and vehicle. During their search, deputies located approximately 7.3 ounces of suspected fentanyl, over 3 grams of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and pepper spray.
Mellon was arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of possession of a controlled substance for sales (HS 11351), possession of a controlled substance (HS 11377(a)), possession of drug paraphernalia (HS 11364(a)), felon in possession of tear gas (PC 22810(a)) and committing a crime while released from custody on a felony (PC 12022.1(b)).
On August 13, while in custody at the Humboldt County Correctional Facility, Mellon was involved in a physical altercation with another inmate. Due to this incident, Mellon received additional charges of assault (PC 240) and battery (PC 242).
Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:
On Aug. 11, 2023, at about 3:26 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies conducted a vehicle investigation on a vehicle parked at a business on the 700 block of Casino Way in Blue Lake. The vehicle was observed to be occupied by two people, one of whom was identified as wanted felony warrant suspect Mikeala Leejune Smith, age 24.
Smith was detained and a search of her person and the vehicle was conducted incident to arrest. While searching, deputies located 25 grams of fentanyl, approximately .54 grams of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
Smith was arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of possession of a controlled substance (HS 11350 and HS 11377(a)) and possession of a controlled substance paraphernalia (HS 11364), in addition to warrant charges of robbery (PC 211), grand theft (PC 487(a)), theft of property (PC 484(a)), committing a felony with a prior serious felony conviction (PC 667(B)-(I)) and shoplifting (PC 459.5).
The second occupant of the vehicle was detained and released at the scene.
Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.
FWIW:
Going through some old papers last week, I stumbled on this. Seven
months into what turned out to be a nearly two-year sabbatical 23
years ago, it’s my response to an email from my buddy Scott, poet
and fellow-meditator, who “hoped that in traveling, I would
discover a way to ease my pain.” After bristling about this for
awhile, I replied:
Hey,
Scott!
You
write of my pain. I don’t know about all this pain you assign to
me: pain’s pain. Nothing special. I certainly don’t think it’s
useful to “do” anything about it, like traveling the world. Where
did we ever get the idea that we need to discover anything?
Most
of our friends and family don’t seem to understand what this year
(or more…at least 14 months, anyway, since our home is rented out
until the end of this year minimum) is about for us. We barely know
ourselves, but I know I feel more alive here in Tbilisi [Georgia] (I
would have said the same for Guanajuato, Patmos, Mount Sinai, Nablus,
Trabzon [Turkey]…when we were in those places) than I felt in Palo
Alto before we left. I love life unrolling like a scroll. We
literally don’t know where we’ll be from one day to the next. We
decided to go to Patmos [Greece] on a whim (finding a cheap one-way
London to Athens flight on the web and the next ferry from Piraeus
happened to go to Patmos); we took the bus from Jerusalem to Eilat on
an hour’s notice, arriving in Sinai at night, hitched the only
vehicle on the road at 10 pm and were deposited at the sweetest place
for the night-ah, trust!; we flew to Antalya [Turkey] on a day’s
notice, once again exhausted with Israel; we came to Georgia because
an Austrian woman had raved about it in Oaxaca [Mexico], and we
discovered a Georgian consulate in Trabzon…and here we are, in an
apartment, so lucky.
I
seem to love the unexpected, life unfolding. Most of my life I’ve
lived with a sense of purpose. Now “purpose” seems too confining:
when I have a purpose, I set a goal, and move towards that place down
the road…easily blinkered to the flowers and pitfalls off to the
side. Now in my unrealistically ideal world, there are no
distractions, nothing is more important than anything else. Yeah
well, that, as I say, is the ideal. In fact, I check our stocks more
often than I’m willing to admit. I fret when we end up paying more
than $12 a night for a room. (Hey, we’re on a budget, alright?!)
Traffic drives me crazy. I drive me crazy. But that’s not the
point. The point is that, dammit, we upped and we went (with one bag
apiece). Not quite knowing why, except that it would be different.
Scott, this is what I want you to know: I’m so freaking grateful:
(1) that we were in a financial position where we could take off for
a year-plus (as long as we stick to our $40-50/day budget) and (2)
that we did. Everyday, something new, a new encounter, a new
awareness (often about our relationship—imagine that, after 26
years!), an adventure. This isn’t like I used to travel: I used to
think traveling was sightseeing. Now I think it’s listening.
Pain?
I’ll give you pain:
The Palestinian engineer we were in a minibus with, we’d been
having this courteous, fact-filled conversation about the
Israel-Palestine situation, about the daily restrictions and
humiliations the Palestinians have to endure, and I ask one more
question, I forget what, and he loses it, suddenly shouting, says
something like, “I’ll tell you why. It’s because we’re all
so fucking miserable living like caged animals, that’s why!”
Suddenly I get it.
Rebecca, our Mexican landlady and confidante, telling the story of
her marriage: her husband, like many Mexican husbands, took up with
a younger woman, moved out, then he invited Rebecca to join them—as
their maid. She says something in Spanish which I don’t
understand, but with Louisa’s help I get as something like, “In
your dreams, buster!”
Notari, father of a family from Abkhazeti, breakaway province of
Georgia, he and his family fled the fighting there nine years ago,
came to Tbilisi as refugees with two young kids, lost everything,
got their lives going again, still very poor, he and his wife
(they’re both professors) haven’t been paid in six months. The
daughter got a grant from Soros Foundation and spent last year in
Georgia (State!)…she’s translating his toast to the time when
they can entertain us in their old home: and I sense they know he’s
pissing in the wind. They’ll never go home. They give us their
khanzi, drinking horn, to remember them by.
Tblisi: Dinner with family from Abkhazeti, Louisa taking a swig of something potent from the khanzi. (Barry Evans)
It’s
not all like that, of course. But someone said, “Tell me your pain
so I can know you,” and we’ve gotten to know a lot of people the
past seven months. You?
Cape Horn Dam at Van Arsdale Reservoir. Photo: PG&E.
On this
week’s episode of the EcoNews Report our host Tom Wheeler is
joined by Alicia Hamann and Craig Tucker from Friends of the Eel
River to discuss a vague, last-minute proposal from water users to
take over part of the Potter Valley Project. Pacific Gas and
Electric, owners of the two Eel River dams and diversion tunnel that
make up the Project, are in the midst of preparing their license
surrender and decommissioning plan. The company will submit a draft
plan this November, with a final plan due January of 2025.
And PG&E
has been clear that they want to rid themselves of this aging,
liability-ridden project - they’ve told stakeholders that their plan
will call for removal of all infrastructure in the water. But: They
also told stakeholders this spring that the company would be open to
proposals to take over all or part of the project through the end of
July.
Well, a proposal
from Sonoma Water, Mendocino County Inland Water and Power
Commission, and the Round Valley Indian Tribes was published just
last week, but it’s really more of a plan to make a plan. While it
supports removal of Scott Dam, the plan is unclear about the future
of Cape Horn Dam, or how any of their proposed modifications to Cape
Horn Dam will be financed. Leaving the most difficult questions
unanswered makes it all but certain that this proposal would delay
PG&E’s plans for decommissioning and dam removal.
Tune in to learn
about what Eel River advocates think about this proposal, and how
conservation organizations plan to continue holding PG&E to a
swift timeline for dam removal.
