Timothy Long known to HCSO for years arrested for kidnapping, violation of a court order and probation violation

 

Timothy Long who HCSO arrested yesterday was detained in the recent HCSO Hoopa patrol press release. I covered him in 2025, 2019 and have that old booking photo.

HCSO Press Release:

On April 23, 2026, at approximately 3:47 a.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Emergency Communications Center received a 911 call and multiple text messages from a female victim reporting she had been kidnapped and was hiding inside a gas station bathroom in Blue Lake.

While deputies were responding to the area, dispatchers advised that the suspect was 46-year-old Timothy Richard Long and that he had kidnapped the 35-year-old female victim from outside their residence in McKinleyville and transported her to Blue Lake, where he stopped for fuel.

Upon arrival, deputies located Long outside the business and detained him without incident.

When additional deputies arrived on scene, they contacted the victim who was still hiding inside the bathroom. Based on their investigation and evidence gathered at the scene, deputies arrested Long and transported him to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility, where he was booked on the following charges:

• PC 207(a): Kidnapping 
• PC 273.6(a): Violation of a Domestic Violence Court Order 
• PC 1203.2(a): Violation of Probation