Crime

June 2017

Eureka Man Arrested After Shooting Victim with Rice Krispies®-Loaded Ammunition

(UPDATE) Suspect Arrested for Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Victim at Benbow’s Summer Arts Festival

Citizen Tip Leads CHP Officers to Suspect in SoHum Car Theft, Shooting

Local Substitute Teacher Arrested For Multiple Alleged Lewd Acts with a Child

Fortuna Man Arrested in Possession of Heroin, Meth for Sale, Says Drug Task Force

CHP is Looking for an Armed, Dangerous and Possibly Delusional Car Thief

Hoopa Woman Arrested After Receiving Pound of Meth Through the Mail

GOOD BOY! Humboldt Sheriff’s K9 Sniffs Out Some Heroin and Chew Suspected to Have Been Strategically Left at a Inmate Crew Worksite

Heroin-Toting Eureka Man Arrested in Old Town After Being Spotted Smoking Meth by Plainclothes EPD Detective

May 2017

Stolen 4Runner Spotted in Eureka Walmart Parking Lot; Arrest Made a Few Hours Later

Leigl Plea Deal Appears to Fall Apart; Eureka Man Will Likely Stand Trial For Accessory to Murder of 14-Year-Old Boy

Latest in Long Line of Robbers of the Alliance Road 76 Station Believed to Have Made Getaway in Truck Toting Appliance

Here is Your Latest ‘Southern Humboldt Most Wanted’ Poster

20 Lbs. of Weed Reportedly Stolen From Northern Mendo Man’s Shed; Sheriff’s Office Seeking Four Possibly Rifle-Toting Suspects

24-Year-Old Hoopa Woman Arrested in Connection With Yesterday’s Vehicular Assault Near K’ima:w Medical Center

Pine Hill Woman Arrested for Assault After Allegedly Stabbing Significant Other With Kitchen Knife

Deputies Locate Shelter Cove Vacation Home Burglary Suspect, Who is Taken Into Custody After Short Chase

SHERIFF’S OFFICE: Be on the Lookout For These Suspects in a Home Invasion Weed Robbery That Happened Near Redway Four Days Ago

One Arrested by Drug Task Force During Heroin Raid in Fortuna

A Good Samaritan Disrupted an Armed Robbery Attempt in Hoopa, But the Suspect Managed to Get Away

Eureka Police Assure the Internet That They Are Investigating the Assault of a Zane Student, a Video of Which Lit Up Facebook Over the Weekend

SoHum CHP Seeking Man Who Fled Arrest, Crashed, Was Tased, Then Ran Off Into the Woods on Shelter Cove Road Yesterday

Arcata Police Nab Serial Tree-Mangling Suspect; Four Cherry Trees On the Plaza Among the Victims

When Traveling Through Arcata, Don’t Leave Your Heroin Gear in Plain View, Two Oregonians Learn

Can You Identify The People Suspected of Using a Stolen Credit Card in McKinleyville?

Slain Zebra’s Caretaker Offering $5k Reward for Information Leading to Killer’s Arrest

Someone Shot and Killed One of the Lost Coast Zebras

DA Finds No Wrongdoing in Last Year’s Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting in McKinleyville

Fourth Street Briefly Closed as Eureka Police Investigate Report of Shotgun Brandished at Old Town Motel

Happy Camp Man Arrested for Murder of Man Whose Body Was Found in Klamath River

Theft Investigation in Rancho Sequoia Comes Up Empty, Apart From Accidental Discovery of Unpermitted Megagrow

Afternoon Transient Fight, (False) Threat of Gun Leads to Massive Police Turnout at C Street Market Plaza

Marin County’s Chief Deputy Coroner Arrested in Eureka for Repeated Molestation of Underage Girl

Foot-Fleeing Fugitive Almost Chokes on the Drugs He Tries to Swallow, Says Drug Task Force

UPDATE: Trinidad Man Arrested in Connection With This Morning’s Fatal Hit-and-Run; CHP Still Looking For Dark Blue Truck

(VIDEO) Who is This, Humboldt?

(UPDATE) Pedestrian Killed By Hit-and-Run Driver Near the Airport Last Night; Police Seeking Suspect With Damaged Vehicle

Suspect Steals Truck, Boards Fish & Game Boat, Jumps Into Bay Before Officers Find Him Clinging to a Pirate Ship

SHELTER COVE HOMICIDE: One Arrested for Yesterday’s ‘Intentional’ Fatal Traffic Collision; Suspect Was Arrested in 2013 For Similar Crime

STABBING IN FERNDALE: Sheriff’s Office Searching for Three Suspects and a Blue Acura

Homicide in Shelter Cove: Police Investigating Fatal Traffic Collision That Was Deemed ‘Intentional’

April 2017

Attempted Murder Suspect Robert Stepp Arrested at Same Location Where Victim Was Beaten With Hammer

Attempted Murder Suspect Still at Large After Beating Man With Hammer, Fleeing Into Garberville Woods

Yee-Haw, DUI Driver Catches Air in Front of Pacific Motorsports

Alliance Road Gas Station Robbed Early This Morning; Arcata Police Seeking Suspect

Man Convicted For Making Criminal Threats, Assault and Battery After 2016 Incident in Arcata’s Redwood Park

Sheriff’s Office: Heroin Sales Operation Discovered in House With Small Children

(UPDATES) SHOOTING IN RIO DELL: Two People Reported Shot at Caltrans Facility on Eeloa Drive This Morning; Numerous Law Enforcement Agencies Investigating

Robber Holds Up McKinleyville 76 Station With Can of Bear Mace, Makes Getaway On a Customer’s Bike

United by Tragedy, HSU Community Celebrates the Life and Mourns the Death of David Josiah Lawson

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