Daniel Mintz Mad River Union McKINLEYVILLE – The advance of the local marijuana industry continues to be tested as a McKinleyville company’s proposal for a manufacturing facility is meeting neighborhood resistance. Humboldt County’s Planning Commission was set to hold a hearing on the proposal at its Feb. 2 meeting but voted to postpone it to…
Neighbors oppose Central Avenue hash lab
Jack Durham Mad River Union McKINLEYVILLE – County planners may decide the fate of a proposed commercial hash lab and cannabis food kitchen in McKinleyville at a public hearing next week. The Humboldt County Planning Commission will meet Thursday, Feb. 2 at 6 p.m. to consider a special permit for HMCP Humboldt LLC to open…
Possible butane hash lab explosion burns Manila house to ground
Mad River Union MANILA –Loud explosions were reported coming from a house in Manila before it burst into flames and was completely burned to the ground Saturday afternoon, Jan. 15. At about 4:44 p.m., explosions were reported at a house on Young Lane near Ma-le’l Dunes on the north side of the sandy outpost. The…
Hash lab explodes
Jack Durham Mad River Union McKINLEYVILLE – Cyndi Bainbridge-Wainwright and her husband Bob Wainwright were sitting in their living room Monday, Dec. 26, when all hell broke loose at a clandestine hash lab next door to their home on Ocean Drive in McKinleyville. “It started as a low rumble. We thought at first it was…
Hash lab explodes in McKinleyville
Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office MCKINLEYVILLE –On Monday, December 26, 2016 at approximately 3:30 p.m. Humboldt County Deputy Sheriffs along with Arcata Fire responded to a triplex residence on the 1800 block of Ocean Drive in McKinleyville for a report of an explosion. Upon arrival deputies received information that a 24 year old male was reported…
McK hash lab to get permit without public hearing, unless…
HOOVEN HASH LAB Unless someone demands a public hearing, the Humboldt County Planning Department intends to issue a special permit to Hooven & Co. Inc. to open a small hash lab and food-based cannabis manufacturing facility at its building, located at 445 Central Ave. across from the county’s main airport in McKinleyville. The lab would…
Hash processing in car brings butane blow-up, two burned
Arcata Police Press Release Two Injured in Butane-Related Vehicle Fire On 11/01/16 at about 6:17 PM, officers responded to assist the Arcata Fire Protection District with the report of a vehicle fire in the 1300 block of F Street. Upon the officers’ arrival, they located a 1996 Chrysler coupe fully engulfed in flames. Two people…
Pot facility, hash lab proposed in McKinleyville
Daniel Mintz Mad River Union McKINLEYVILLE – A medical marijuana manufacturing facility whose products will include edibles and concentrates is being proposed by a McKinleyville-based construction company and faces a zoning hurdle related to its proximity to the county’s main airport. A special permit application from the HMCP limited liability corporation, which is owned by…
EPD raids honey oil hash lab; two arrested
EPD EUREKA – On Tuesday, Aug. 25 at about 10:26 a.m., detectives with the Eureka Police Department’s Problem Oriented Policing Unit (POP) served a search warrant at an apartment on the 100 block of I Street in response to numerous citizen complaints. Inside the apartment, detectives located 21 grams of heroin, 24 grams of methamphetamine…