Two weeks after he was acquitted in a felony case, Robert Erik Garcia found dead

Exactly two weeks after he was acquitted in a felony case that went to the jury trial, Robert Erik Garcia was found dead.

The acquittal for the felony case was on January 18.



Visiting Judge Graham A. Cribbs, who is from Riverside County, presided over the jury trial. The post I did on the verdict is linked below. I believe this was the first jury trial in Humboldt County that Judge Cribbs presided over.

Garcia still has another misdemeanor DUI case scheduled for pre-trial on 4/3/18.

Previous post:
https://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2018/01/not-guilty-on-all-counts-deputy.html?m=1

Trinity County Press Release:

On Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, at approximately 10:30 a.m. the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office dispatch center received a call that a person had been seen on the embankment on Post Mountain Road, possibly deceased. Deputies responded to the location and found the subject deceased.

The subject was later identified as Robert Erik Garcia, DOB: 11/10/1977. He was from the Eureka area and the family has been notified. Garcia had been released from the Humboldt County Jail on Jan. 18, 2018, and had been traveling in the Eureka area as a transient.

 It is unknown what his connection to the Trinity Pines area or Trinity County was. An autopsy was scheduled for today, Tuesday Feb. 6; Garcia’s cause of death was ruled a homicide, and was due to a gunshot wound.