Articles by Hank Sims

November 2016

CANNA-CLAUS NOT COMING TO TOWN: Eureka Man Busted on Ohio Freeway With 71 Pounds of Xmas-Wrapped Weed, Extracts

Father and Son Plead Guilty to 2015 Hoopa Murder; Suspected Light Package of Weed Led to Shooting of Three People, Prosecutors Say

Helicopter Circling Ridgewood Drive/McKay Tract Area With Searchlight

Suspect in String of Ten Armed Robberies Arrested After Hiding From Police in the Woods

The Jail’s New High-Tech Mail-Scanning Gear Caught Someone Trying to Smuggle In Narcotics, Sheriff’s Office Says

Someone Seems to Have Smashed Their SUV Into Petco Last Night

(UPDATE: CLOSED AGAIN!) Highway 299 Closed in Trinity County After Rock Slide

Benbow Inn Held Up at Gunpoint Last Night; Sheriff’s Office Seeking Suspect

Felony Warrant Suspect Tried/Failed to Evade Arrest Via Subfloor Hidey-Hole, Police Say; Guns, Burgled Items Found

(PHOTOS, VIDEO) Arcatans Turn Out To Afternoon Trump Protest, Marching from HSU to the Plaza

‘We Are Investigating to the Fullest Extent’: Fortuna Police Chief Speaks to Yesterday’s Alleged Planned Attack on School Rally

(UPDATES) ‘Not My President!’ About 200 Attend Anti-Trump Rally Tonight in Eureka, March From Gazebo to Courthouse and Back

Two Fortuna Students Arrested for Planning ‘Mass Casualty Event’ at Fortuna High School Today

Trinidad Car Burglary Suspect Taken Into Custody at Moonstone; Gun, Drugs, Burglary Tools Found on His Person

(VIDEO) At Least Three People Reported Injured After Explosion, Fire at Rio Dell Home

Garberville Beat Deputy Spots, Arrests Suspect in Domestic Violence/Robbery Case

Unknown Thousands of Votes Still Left to Count, But Most Humboldt County Races Can Be Definitively Called

ELECTION NIGHT RESULTS! Live all night! Follow along!

BREAKING NEWS (CAR): News Channel 3 Rig Involved in Two-Vehicle Crash Near the Elections Office

Another Late-Night Stickup: Tall Man Robs Central Avenue 76 Station at Gunpoint, Flees

Two Alleged Weed Ripoffs Took Numerous Law Enforcement Agencies on A Wild Chase Around Highway 36 Yesterday

PG&E Assures You That Those Helicopters Flying Around This Week Are Not Jade Helm

ELECTION DAY! Today’s the Day When Everything Goes to Hell, Or Maybe Not

Catburglar or Catburglars Snatch Wallet and Keys From Elderly Fortuna Man, Who Was Sleeping

Blue Lake House Burglar Nabbed in the Act Thanks to Alert Neighbor, Sheriff’s Office Says

Would-Be Jail Smuggler’s Body Cavity Found to Contain Self-Harming Substance or Object, Sheriff’s Office Says

Today’s House Fire in Eureka Human-Caused, Suspicious in Nature, Says Humboldt Bay Fire

Eureka Gas Station, Motel Both Held Up at Point of a Shotgun Last Night; Suspect At Large

Sheriff’s Office Probation Search Reveals King Salmon ‘Drug House’

Eureka POP Unit Finds Weed, Meth and Guns in L Street Drug House; Three Arrested

(PHOTOS) Willits Bypass Ceremoniously Opened Today With Huge, Dignitary-Filled Party on a Freeway Viaduct

(GRAPHIC PHOTOS) Sheriff’s Office Releases Gallery of Satanist Graffiti That Adorned Fields Landing Church on Halloween Night

Hoopa Valley Tribe Inks Deal With Wood Products Manufacturer to Fill Old Hoopa Modular Facility

Mobile Hash Lab Suspected in Arcata Car Fire; Two Ohio Residents Taken to San Francisco Burn Center for Treatment

Police, Fire and Insurance Agencies Offer $1,000 Reward to Find Person(s) Responsible for McK Fire

Vandals Graffiti Fields Landing Church With ‘Vulgar Words and Depictions,’ Sheriff’s Office Says

(UPDATE: TWO INJURED) Burning Car Sends Up Plume of Smoke Over Arcata

WHOOPS! Public Works ‘Smoke Test’ in Old Town Prompts Large Emergency Response From Eureka Firefighters

October 2016

LoCO Voted Early, and So Can You! Here Is How to Do That.

A Car Put a Great Big Hole Through One of Humboldt State’s Mission-Style Entrance Signs Last Night

Woman Arrested For Attempted Homicide For Assaulting Drug Store Employee With Hammer

The Skies Above McKinleyville are Filled With Unusual Aircraft

SHERIFF’S OFFICE: Suspect in Yesterday’s Hoopa Standoff Fired Weapon ‘In the Direction Of’ Deputies

DISTRICT ATTORNEY: Arcata Police Officer Justified in May Shooting of Stick-Wielding Man

(UPDATE) Law Enforcement Massed in Hoopa for Barricaded Subject; Highway 96 May Be Closed

Fugitive From 24-Year-Old Federal Case Apprehended After Scuffle With Fortuna Police Officers

Look Out, Garberville! There’s A New Deputy in Town

Suspicious Fire on Eureka’s Union Street Early This Morning

It is Time, Once Again, For SOHUM’S MOST WANTED

MALL LIVES MATTER: Walmart Evacuated After Poison Freon Gas Spewed From Broken Freezer Pipe