Saw Humboldt Bay Fire by the jail, as I was walking up, I saw Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal. I asked him training ? He said it was a medical call at the jail.HBF does several a day. At 12:22 HBF is leaving. No one was transported out of the jail and no ambulance.
If you read my blog and have followed my reporting of courts for the past 12 years, you don't need stats because this also applies to California criminals in general.
Governor Newsom's Press Office responded. I have included that tweet. Shortly before 1 p.m. today, Governor Newsom's office issued a press release with stats of their own.
21 year old Anthony Ramirez was arrested yesterday morning by Eureka Police Department on a Ramey warrant for PC 311.11 (a) possession of child pornography, PC 288.3(a)contacting a minor to commit a felony, PC 261.5(c) unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, PC 647.6(a) annoying or molesting a child, PC 272 contributing to the delinquency of a minor and PC 632 (a) eavesdropping. At booking, it is on a no bail warrant.
Until there is more information, I cannot tell if this is the same Anthony Ramirez who had an assault case filed in March 2025 for assault which was dismissed in May 2025. The birth month matches and the age is similar but still do not know yet if it is the same person.
Federal charges filed against Teamsters Local 63 which is in CA by employee who claims union officials threatened to fire her if she refused to join the union and pay dues.
The National Right to Work Foundation posted a lengthy statement earlier this week about this action against the Teamsters by Veolia Environmental Services worker Alexus Villanueva.
Federal jury in Phoenix found Uber liable for the sexual assault by a driver of a 19 year old woman and ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million to her. Uber plans to appeal. Uber claims U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer erred in instructions to the jury.
California for Equal Rights Foundation, Rchard Greenberg and Arthur Ritchie are suing California Human Rights Commission and the City and County of San Francisco.
On page 1, the lawsuit alleges "San Francisco is engaged in a sordid and unconstitutional enterprise—it is administering funding and wielding public authority to distribute government benefits explicitly based on race and ancestry."
Starting on page 1 and continuing on page 2, the plaintiffs state, "Through its Reparations Plan, San Francisco has abandoned the principle of individual equality in favor of collective racial entitlement and disadvantage. Though presented as a response to slavery, San Franciso’s plan will impose sweeping racial classifications on present-day residents who neither endured enslavement nor inflicted it. "
California for Equal Rights Foundation has headquarters in San Diego. Greenberg and Ritchie are San Francisco residents.
FBI is offering $50,000 reward for any information leading to the recovery of Nancy Guthrie or arrest and conviction in that case.
California resident Derrick Callella was arrested by the FBI today sending texts to one of Guthrie's daughter and her son-in-law for bitcoin after an Instagram video was posted by the family.
Callella used an internet protocol app which generated the same area code and worked similarly as the numbers in local school threats suspect Daryl Jones' case.
Joseph Raymond Shinn of Humboldt County was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley to 10 years in federal prison for attempted enticement of a minor.
"In addition to the prison term, Judge Corley also ordered Shinn to serve eight years of supervised release which will begin after his term of imprisonment."
I covered Shinn's case in Humboldt Superior Court. In Humboldt, Shinn was charged with 25 felonies including 600 images of child pornography. The local case was dismissed when charges were filed in federal court.
I have included my previous coverage and the press release just issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California. I requested his November 2024 booking from HCSO.
The press release acknowledges the FBI, the Humboldt County District Attorney's Office, Eureka Police Department and Humboldt County Sherrif's Office.
The Transparent Humboldt Coalition just issued a press release seeking additional board members.
Since 3/12/25, there have been 14 continuances in alleged molestor and rapist Root Birimisa's case because defense wasted time getting him another mental health evaluation at taxpayer's expense which resulted in diddly. I have been adding updates to the last post I did including dates set today. For those who are still interested, Readiness Conference is on 5/14 and jury trial is on 5/26.
This is the kind of nonsense that happens daily including right now for weeks with useless continuances due to the defense or Humboldt judges that results in me checking 20 plus court cases a day; some defendants have multiple cases and I report other news and national news. At least when the Humboldt DA requests a continuance; it is for good cause.
Yesterday, the DA filed a complaint for Shawn Kolpak's 2026 arrest by SPD charging him with Count 1 attempted murder of William Gratwick Spenceley with a special allegation of great bodily injury and paralysis as well as great bodily injury of an elderly victim. Count 2 is aggravated mayhem.
Kolpak is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon in the 2026 case. Kolpak was arraigned; Public Defender's office appointed; People filed amended complaint and Kolpak is on a no bail status. The amended charges are not in e court. If they are added later, I will update.
I did a post yesterday about Kolpak who already has a previous and open case for assault with great bodily injury special allegations. Kolpak should never have been granted supervised release in that case by Retired Humboldt Superior Court Judge Christopher Wilson given the charges.
HCSO just issued this statement about a possible murder-suicide.
"On Feb. 3, 2026, at 8:47 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff deputies responded to a residence located in the 900 block of Lewis Rd., in Weitchpec to a reported possible murder- suicide.
I verified the middle name of both men arrested last weekend during the protests. Gary Herbert Beckett and Joseph Roland Hough were both booked and then released on O.R On Vinelink, these two are the only ones without a booking photo.
It is the practice that Eureka Police Department releases their own booking photos. I don't know if they still take their own booking photos. Both these arrests were by EPD. Due to the Ninth Circuit ruling, I doubt EPD will release the booking photos, especially since both were released because these are misdemeanor charges.
Convicted sex offender Amos Nuckols was standing by the traffic light near the Humboldt County jail this morning when I went to the Courthouse to check on today's cases; including his review hearing to confirm status of sex offender registration.
Exclusive details only reported here include that he has to register because he has priors for similar offenses and the alleged victim died before she had her day in court which is why the DA had to offer him a plea on what could be proved. It takes a while for the registration to show up on Megan's law.
He was not in an orange jumpsuit since he is out of custody and on probation.
Deputy District Attorney Whitney Timm is the prosecutor for the case. Gregory Kreis is Nuckol's attorney.
The hearing was continued to 2/9. Nuckols claims he has registered but did not bring proof to court. He was ordered to bring written proof to the next court hearing by Judge Lawrence Killoran. I checked Megan's Law and he is not listed.
There are two jury trials going on this week and I will not identify which courtroom but I agree 100% with the male juror who remarked to a fellow female juror this afternoon about the energy at the Courthouse and how draining the building is; there is a reason I call it the toxic den of evil. I deal with the trauma, darkness and negativity to report on vile, heinous cases and bring information to the community. The lack of ventilation, no functioning water fountains on the second floor and people hacking and sneezing without covering their mouths makes it worse. People who are not in that building every day have no clue what it is like. I have spoken to so many people who relate to my experience of never being sick and exhausted before they started being in that building. There isn't enough sage, holy water that can cleanse that place. Prayers help but the negative people suck the life out of those of us who are spiritual and strong. Many Humboldt buildings are the same.
Rory Kalin's appeal in his Humboldt Superior Court against the Humboldt County Public Defender's Office, current Humboldt County Public Defender Luke Brownfield, former Public Defender Marek Reavis and Gregory Kreis just had the following notifications.
I have reached out to Kalin's lawyer, Mr. Johnny Rundell. I do have contact information for Rory Kalin but sometimes it is better to contact the lawyer first. The County was represented by Angelo, Kilday & Kilduff LLP.
I briefly spoke with Mr. Brownfield but it was an off record conversation. In Humboldt, people are very familiar with the case, the people involved.
Kalin already settled with Kreis. He was appealing Mendocino Superior Court's ruling and denial of the motion for a new trial against the others.
I am not adding 27 pages of the tentative opinion later. You can check it yourself online. I have added some relevant pages. I did too many posts over the years to link all of them. You can access prior coverage via the search feature on the blog.
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Today, oral arguments and the evidentiary hearing continued in murder suspect Tyler Robinson's hearing.
Utah's KUTV has been assigned to have a camera and is broadcasting the hearing via livestream. Salt Lake Tribune is the pool for still photography.
In addition to defense asking disqualify the Utah County Prosecutor's Office, constant attempts to limit and deny media access; now defense.
Utah Fourth District Judge Tony Graf denied Tyler Robinson's defense team request to disqualify the Utah County Attorney's office.
Judge Graf is proceeding with the continuation of evidentiary hearing & will issue a ruling on February 24.
Status of discovery & Mrs. Erika Kirk's filing was briefly addressed. Judge Graf laid out timelines of how Court will proceed and time for arguments today.
Once again, the defense whined. The video camera had already been moved to the rear of the courtroom. Defense request to move the still photographer was granted but not to the location requested by defense and Judge Graf reiterated no violation.
Utah County Attorney General Counsel and Chief of Staff, Mr. Christopher Ballard's remark, "This feels like groundhog day" sums up yet another Tyler Robinson hearing & the same defense tactics.
The evidentiary hearing resumed with the testimony of Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray.
Mr. Chad Grunander who is the Chief Deputy at the Utah County Attorney's Office and one of the prosecutors on this case and his daughter took the stand. She did not witness the shooting of Charlie Kirk but was at the event. She
Judge Graf did not close the courtroom for testimony of Mr. Grunander and his daughter. He did briefly have the public exit the courtroom before she testified and stated her identity on record.
I will add a few more details from my notes when I have time.
I have linked every post of the arrest and every court hearing and often have information and court documents not provided in other coverage. After today, I will not be linking previous posts.
