Meth, guns, junk and trash found when POP serves search warrant in greenbelt area near Bayshore Mall

On March 17, 2015, at about 7:30 AM, Eureka Police Department officers and
detectives with the Problem Oriented Policing Unit served a search warrant at a
well-entrenched transient encampment located in the greenbelt area just north of
the Bayshore Mall. The warrant was obtained after EPD received information
from multiple sources that the residents of the illegal camp were in possession of
a cache of firearms and dealing methamphetamine.
The suspects, Timothy Lynn Stockhoff (age 53 of Eureka) and his son, Joshua
Allen Stockhoff (age 27 of Eureka), are both convicted felons with extensive
criminal histories. Timothy Stockhoff was located inside his tent and detained
without incident.
During a search of the encampment, which included multiple tents and
structures, officers located ammunition and 5 firearms including a Ruger .45
caliber semiautomatic pistol, a sawed-off Mossberg 12-gauge pump action
shotgun, a Ruger .22 caliber semiautomatic rifle, a .30 caliber M1 carbine with
high capacity magazines, and a Ruger .17 HMR scoped bolt action rifle. A
records check on the Ruger pistol confirmed it had previously been reported
stolen in the City of Eureka. Additional records checks are pending on the other
firearms.

Officers located several grams of methamphetamine in Timothy Stockhoff’s tent
along with ammunition and 4 of the 5 firearms. Additionally, a bicycle “chop
shop” was located in another nearby tent and dismantled. Approximately a
dozen bicycles, several bicycle frames, and a number of miscellaneous tools
were collected for safekeeping as suspected stolen property.
Timothy Stockhoff was arrested and booked into the Humboldt County
Correctional Facility for the following offenses: felon in possession of a firearm,
felon in possession of ammunition, possession of stolen property and possession
of methamphetamine.
Joshua Stockhoff was not located at the time the search warrant was served. He
is believed to have fled from a makeshift wooden shack (where officers located
the sawed-off shotgun and ammunition) located to the rear of the encampment
as officers approached. Stockhoff remains outstanding at the time of this release
and a felony warrant will be sought for his arrest alleging felon in possession of a
firearm and ammunition.
Investigators also located a Del Norte County woman and her two children, ages
4 and 6 years old, at the camp. The children were taken into protective custody
by Child Welfare Services pursuant to Protective Custody Warrants issued for
them by the Del Norte County Superior Court.
Following the execution of the search warrant, the entire campsite was
completely removed down to the dirt with assistance of other City staff and a
frontend loader. Two large dumpsters (60 yards total) were nearly completely
filled with junk and trash from the campsite.


POP Search Warrant on Methamphetamine Dealer Nets Two Arrests (2010 Press Release)

On 5-24-10, Officers with the Eureka Police Department’s Problem Oriented Policing Unit (POP) served a search warrant on a suspected methamphetamine dealer in Eureka. At about 1:06 PM, officers spotted the suspect, Joshua Allen Stockhoff (22 of Eureka) walking with another subject near a motel in the 2200 block of Broadway. Stockhoff was the subject of an on-going POP methamphetamine sales investigation, and the POP Unit had recently obtained a signed search warrant from a Humboldt County Superior Court Judge for his person. Stockhoff was stopped, detained, and searched pursuant to the warrant. Officers subsequently located approximately ¼ ounce of suspected crystal methamphetamine, numerous drug packaging baggies, a digital gram scale for weighing controlled substances, and two methamphetamine pipes on his person. During a later interview, Stockhoff also confessed to dealing methamphetamine in Eureka over the past month in addition to using the drug himself. Stockhoff’s companion, Aaron Jay Weimer (28 of Eureka), was also searched after officers observed evidence he may be in possession of controlled substances as well. Weimer was found to be in possession of numerous drug packaging baggies, a digital gram scale, a methamphetamine pipe, around 1-2 ounces of processed marijuana, and a small quantity of methamphetamine. Stockhoff was arrested and transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility where he was booked for possession and transportation of methamphetamine for sale and possession of drug paraphernalia. Weimer was arrested and transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility where he was booked for possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.