Shane Allen Legendre was arrested by Rio Dell Police Department yesterday for PC 261 (a) (2) forcible rape. He posted bond.
Nathaniel Spey Gee Sanderson and Maile Cheyenne Hunt both arrested by Arcata Police Department at the same time for PC 273.5(a) domestic violence. Hunt posted bond.
I covered convicted molestor Sebastion Hockett's case regularly from arrest to conclusion. The four screenshots are not all the posts I have done in three years.
Deputy DA Carolyn Schaffer is the prosecutor for the case. Public Defender Luke Brownfield is Hockett's attorney.
Today, finally Hockett was sentenced to prison. I have included court minutes.
DA dismisses 6 charges against Georgi Tonev which include the human trafficking and tax evasion charges being dismissed. I was in court this morning and this afternoon. There were charges reduced to misdemeanors including the added Count 12. No other media was in court.
Details from my live coverage and court minutes will be added later.
Exclusive from Ms. Andrea Sullivan, Tonev's attorney after the hearing. Tonev faced 12 years, now max is 4 years, 4 months in local jail if misdemeanors run concurrent; if misdemeanors are consecutive, then 7 years, 4 months. Tonev could also get probation.
Sentencing is on 8/13.
HCSO perp walked and posted Tonev's photo. It made the headlines which other local media ran but then no follow up on the case or his resolution. After I call them out does not count.
Search my blog for complete coverage on this court case.
HCSO issued this information. Thank you. Did the County pay the phone bill? No one else reporting an outage? Or did guy who pulled fire alarm guy sabotage phones too? No FB post from know it all Rex?
Tomorrow, setting of preliminary hearing is scheduled in homicide suspect Tselin Lincoln and William Warren's case. Ms. Andrea Sullivan is Lincoln's attorney.
There is also a motion to compel scheduled which was previously filed by Warren's attorney, Ms. Rebecca Linkous.
Ms. Linkous filed an ex-parte application for supplemental funding for a gang expert. It was rejected by Humboldt Superior Court Judge Kaleb Cockrum because referenced exhibits weren't attached. I am sure that is his signature.
Ms. Linkous, like everyone and anyone at or associated with Humboldt Superior Court is busy, overworked and exhausted. We will find out tomorrow of she will resubmit the application.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Roger Rees is the prosecutor for both cases.
As readers know, there have been several continuances and twists and tomorrow, will Humboldt Superior Court Judge Steven Steward set a preliminary hearing date?
Judge Steward has continued several 8:30 hearings to 1:30 because it has been so busy.
Tomorrow's hearing update will be added to this post.
6/26: Another continuance to July 8. Those who are directly affected by this case were in the courtroom. For the rest, unless you are an advertiser, subscriber or contributor; you will have to wait for live coverage and details on yet another busy day in the courthouse. Other news gets priority because people are fatigued, just like me, with the number of cases and endless do nothing continuances and developments.
On 6/25 , murder suspect Travis Watson had two cases on calendar. In CR2601825, preliminary hearing and OR bail and in CR2500474, a review hearing in his DV case.
Both cases were continued by DA to 7/2 due to witnesses being unavailable. It is a HCSO case, was one of them HCSO "homicide school" detective Julian Aguilera? Maybe if most of HCSO's resources with DA staff having to assist weren't at Mirandas Rescue, court cases and current victims where charges have been filed wouldn't have to wait. You know cases with evidence obtained without Facebook posts where the Sheriff's wife comments and the complaing parties trespass?
As I was headed into the Courthouse a few minutes before 3 p.m. this afternoon, I saw Sheriff William Honsal on his way out on the phone. I would have asked him but I doubt I get an answer. That is only reserved for select media who gives him photo ops.
Convicted molestor Michael Conlee Jr's sentencing has been continued 7 times. On 6/25, Humboldt Superior Court Judge Kaleb Cockrum sentenced Conlee to three years in prison. He has 510 custody credits. Conlee has to register as a sex offender. Criminal protective order served in court. Judge Cockrum noted that Conlee suffers from a drvelopmental disability.
Deputy District Attorney Carolyn Schaffer is the prosecutor on this case. Humboldt Deputy Conflict Counsel R.J. Leohner is Conlee's attorney.
As a former Eureka City Councilmember Jeff Leonard should know it isn't official until he submits paperwork. I check the City of Eureka election page regularly. I also asked City of Eureka Assistant City Manager/City Clerk Pam Powell. "No, I have not received any forms or paperwork for Jeff Leonard."
15 minutes ago, someone pulled the fire alarm at the Courthouse, the building was evacuated, heard he was caught on camera. Some courtrooms are on break. Others done for the day.
2:58 a.m DA Investigator Martin Morris is on his way to Board of Supervisors where the video is located. I was told happened inside or right outside the Board of Supervisors Chambers.
6/26: I don't know if this is connected to yesterday's incident.
Alleged molestor Edward Neagu's new attorney scheduled a motion to continue his preliminary hearing. Ms. Andrea Sullivan, Neagu's former attorney was court appointed. A private attorney is appointed when there are conflicts with the Humboldt Public Defender and Conflict Counsel offices.
The court clerk did an excellent job of details in court minutes with the all the key details that happened yesterday. Her court minutes always include relevant and pertinent information and she is one of the busiest clerks.
I am providing more details, live coverage and observations from covering Humboldt Superior Court for 12 years which includes many sex abuse and molestation cases each year.
I obtained the Ramey warrant for Neagu and provided details no one else had reported.
Ms. Sullivan filed a substitution of attorney on 6/22 and gave Neagu's new attorney, new attorney Glendale based Sarkis Jacob Babachanian the discovery she was provided.
Neagu is going to regret hiring another attorney. Ms. Sullivan does not victim bash like smarmy criminal defense attorneys. She will tell her client the reality, try to resolve a case and if it goes to trial, do the best she can to mitigate her client's bad decision.
Neagu has retained Babachanian. Despite his smarmy, fake politeness in front of Humboldt Superior Court Judge Steward, the negative reviews by people who call him out are accurate. You could barely hear Babachanian. When he headed back to his seat, I wanted to ask him for his business card. I had no idea he was still talking to his client. The case had officially ended in court. My own experience with Babachanian when all I wanted to was ask him for was his business card and my watching him outside court is that he is rude, arrogant and the bad Google reviews are accurate.
I don't use Mr. for certain local attorneys and Babachanian being from LA does not get him different treatment. Babachanian is not all that compared to the top LA lawyers I know, who respect me, my work and this is both in criminal and civil. Having a LA area address means nothing. Humboldt or LA, if you are good at what you do and making money, you don't act like a jerk and you don't need your client to inform you about changes in the law.
Babachanian claims 30 years of experience and a lawyer fresh out of law school knows the basics he wasted time on yesterday.
First, he addressed additional discovery. That is ongoing, especially in serious cases. Said he made an informal request. Then droned on that he could not be here, it was expensive and while there is sensitive information, if the People could drop it on evidence.com or similar digital evidence management system.
Both Judge Steward and Senior Deputy District Attorney Whitney Timm explained why that was not possible, including challenges for staff. Written motion was mentioned. Then Babachanian said he is going to file a 827 petition for victim which is a legal request to access juvenile records. If you read my post on the Ramey warrant, just in the excerpts it shows Neagu sought out vulnerable young victims.
Babachanian said his client told him about a Supreme Court ruling and he wanted to argue bail. Judge steward brought up people being entitled to notice. Ms. Timm said already bail already argued in front of another judge.
Judge Steward agreed and said he found no change in circumstances and that bail can be addressed after preliminary hearing.
Setting of preliminary hearing is scheduled for 7/30. Babachanian was authorized to appear via Zoom but has to be present for the preliminary hearing.
Harmeet to Gav: I will sue you in federal court over CA Glock Ban and Handgun Roster statute.
Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice sent California Governor this letter today citing CA citizen's 2nd amendment rights and what Newsom can do to resolve the matter.
Humboldt Superior Court Assistant Presiding Judge Timothy Canning did not retain jurisdiction as requested by Creditors Adjustment Bureau. The case was dismissed.
I don't need another hearing to know if Ken paid the bill. I will find out just as I do other news and information.
I saw Ken and his wife Linda today and she said she wanted to talk to me. Whether it someone like Ken and Linda who I know before I had the blog or random people who feel entitled to want to speak to me or my time because some don't understand reporting, journalism or news in Humboldt; that is their problem.
Others do and I appreciate those who realize that my reporting on their arrest or case or anything news related is my job and they don't hassle me or demand I take my work down or change the way they interact with me.
Dennis Mayo is one of those people. He knew me when I was more involved in the business and political community. I reported on his DUI arrest. No charges have been filed.
Ken is no different than any other lawyer, suspect or anyone else I write about daily.
Would have posted this Monday or yesterday. On Monday, the California District Attorneys Association issued this statement.
CDAA statement:
Assembly Bill 46 (Nguyen), supported by the California District Attorneys Association (CDAA), passed the Legislature today following concurrence in the Assembly. The bill now heads to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk and will become law in 12 days unless vetoed.
Some things remain constant as the trend of multiple continuances in Humboldt Superior Court.
As I mentioned in my May 23, 2026 post, I have been the only one reporting on convicted felon Logan Brewer-Hearst's 2024 drug and firearm case.
While I did post updates on my Facebook News page including about the daily continuances this week, I added them to the May 2026 post on the blog. It includes live coverage from the courtoom. Brewer Hearst's appearance has changed and I did not even recognize him at a hearing until the case was called.
The case keeps getting continued because there is no judge or courtroom available. It is trailing a misdemeanor trial in Courtroom 5.
Today, the Brewer-Hearst trial was confinued again. Same reason except there is an OR bail hearing tomorrow. No information in e court about who filed it; I am guessing from Deputy Conflict Counsel RJ Leohner with the argument Brewer-Hearst should be released because the trial is dragging on because if it was Senior Deputy District Attorney Roger Rees' motion it would be for increase in bail or no bail. Haven't heard about Brewer-Hearst acting out in jail or a new case.
6/24/26: OR bail on 6/25; jury trial + motion to strike 6/29.
6/25/26: OR & SR denied by Retired Visiting Judge Ksenia Tsenin; Brewer-Hearst remains on no bail status.
Why has HCSO not charged her with PC 148.5? Probably because it is a misdemeanor and she already wasted their time and in CA, there will be no consequences.
Walked up to this at 9:30 this morning. I reached out to Travis Smith, Humboldt County CAO Project Manager ADA Compliance Team since I know him and he is responsive. "I think they are making some repairs to the jail exercise yard mesh. I think Wiley Buck would have more info for you. "
I did reach out to Wiley Buck, County of Humboldt Facilities Maintenance Manager. He said, "They’re installing recreation yard contraband deterrents on all HCCF recreation yards. "