POP makes arrest for drug sales in a motel on McCullens Avenue

On March 11, 2021, at about 10:00 a.m., Detectives with the Eureka Police Department’s Problem Oriented Policing Team (POP) responded to a motel on the 1500 block of McCullens Avenue in Eureka to serve a search warrant after receiving information that 33-year-old Joshua Bennett of Eureka was selling narcotics from his room.  

Bennett and two other occupants were detained inside of the motel room.  During the search, detectives located approximately 3 ½ ounces of heroin and a digital scale. Three ounces of the heroin was located hidden inside a cocoa powder container.  $1,580 in cash was also located and seized as evidence of drug sales.  Bennett was arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility for possession of heroin for sales.