Cocaine, cannabis, meth and Xanax found during traffic stop in Blue Lake

On April 1, 2022, at about 10:30 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies on patrol in the Glendale area, near Blue Lake, conducted a traffic stop for a vehicle code violation.

Deputies contacted the driver of the vehicle, 50-year-old Thomas William Strader Jr., who was found to be on Post Release Community Supervision with a search clause. During a search of Strader and his vehicle, deputies located approximately 20.7 grams of cocaine, 30 pounds of cannabis packaged for sales (not registered through the California Cannabis Track and Trace (CCTT) system), 2.2 grams of methamphetamine, over a dozen Xanax pills and items consistent with the sale of controlled substances.

Strader Jr. was arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of possession of a controlled substance for sales (HS 11351), transportation/sale of a controlled substance (HS 11352(a)), possession of cannabis for sales (HS 11359(b)), possession of a controlled substance (HS 11377(a)) and violation of probation (PC 1203.2(a)(2)).