Humboldt State University ARCATA – The Humboldt State University Police Department was awarded a $20,150 grant from the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to battle alcohol-related crime. The grant funds will be used to reduce the number of alcoholic beverage sales to minors and obviously intoxicated patrons, illegal solicitations of alcohol, and other criminal…
Police gunshot victim to be named Thursday
UPDATED at 9:24 p.m. Wednesday, May 18 with additional details. Paul Mann Mad River Union ARCATA – Arcata Police Chief Tom Chapman expects to release the name on Thursday of a 26-year-old male shot four times by one of his officers in a parking lot confrontation early Tuesday evening, May 17. The shooting occurred at…
Humboldt’s cavernous abyss of drugs
Paul Mann Mad River Union HUMBOLDT – Humboldt County’s drug scourge remains stubborn and unyielding, a mirror of the newest red flags hoisted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the nation’s foremost public health institute. “Heroin is an epidemic in Humboldt County,” Undersheriff William Honsal said in an interview and subsequent…
Sheriff’s Log: ’High Gravity’ elixir draws drinker earthward
• Tuesday, October 7 12:18 a.m. Deputies took a report for documentation purposes after they responded twice to Wesley Dove’s apartment on Reasor Road in McKinleyville for complaints of loud “people noise.” 11:32 p.m. It was just another hazy dazy falling-down-drunk evening for Gregory Taggart, who was down on the edge of the road near…
SHERIFF'S LOG: Booze takes its toll in Mack Town
Tuesday, May 7 11:02 a.m. – On Hidden Terrace Way, a 13-year-old girl was arrested on suspicion of assaulting her grandmother. She was booked into Juvenile Hall. Thursday, May 9 8:13 a.m. – A man on a bicycle was reportedly trying to steal stuff from garages on the 1100 block of Hiller Road. 11:06 a.m.…
Alcohol Enforcement Nets Three Violations
The Arcata Police Department cited a store clerk for selling alcohol to a minor and cited two adults who purchased alcohol for minors on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. The actions were the result of a Minor Decoy Operation and Decoy Shoulder Tap Operation.
Minor Decoy, Shoulder Tap Nets But One Violation – July 1, 2010
This project is part of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control’s Minor Decoy/Shoulder Tap Grant Project, funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
APD Shoulder Tap Op Nets Kid-Booze Buyers – December 20, 2011
However, at two locations adults purchased alcohol for the minors. Those individuals were then contacted by officers and cited for providing alcohol to minors.
Alex Silvers: An Apology To Arcata – September 12, 2011
I would like to offer you my condolences to any victims of Alex “Alboy” Silvers of my years of alcohol abuse.