Tipster says Judge Neel rejected the first search warrant by HCSO for Shannon Miranda and says my reporting is 100% accurate

 

I received tip this afternoon. To the person who mailed it, there was no return address, you did not sign the letter and there is no way to trace your identity. There is no reason I should not include this screenshot and put it on the blog. You know that those afraid of the truth question me but not other local media and it is time to start documenting the selective treatment and targeting applied to me and document examples.

The reason you asked me to not to post the screenshot is selfish. I am the one who is constantly attacked, harassed, smeared, lied about and my livelihood threatened; most recently for my reporting on the Miranda's Rescue investigation. It happens a lot in Humboldt because we have cowardly local media. We have others in this county used to controlling the media. My reporting is inconvenient to other local media, the people who want control the narrative and the powers to be. What I do is journalism.

I am the one who risks putting my name and being threatened. You are not the only one who has misused anonymity. I report what other media won't and that is why you sent this to me. 

You also did something that someone who not only misused anonymity but expects me to spend time, getting information and verifying alleged claims. 

I have no free time. I don't make money to cover my most basic expenses in Humboldt; I have to subsidize my reporting because most of Humboldt is cheap and selfish. I lose money and have no time to make money with the constant attacks and distractions. There is money in Humboldt and all my readers, especially the businesses, law enforcement and those at the Courthouse can afford to contribute. 

You made two other mistakes. 1. You had the incorrect p.o. box but I still got the letter. The p.o. box you put is the one for court ops. Which means you looked up my mailing address and wrote down the incorrect p.o. box and knew where to get it and this is a tip from inside the Courthouse because my address is not available to just anyone in the public. 2. You want me to believe that you overheard two deputies on the second floor? I know most of these deputies. They would not do that in such a public place. They are decent, hardworking men and women who take their job seriously.

Even the female deputy who is extremely unprofessional and friends with the out of control male extra help deputy who I filed a complaint about are not that dumb. That obnoxious extra help male deputy who is no longer at a local law enforcement agency I respect and an ingrate. He is someone I defended in the past and HCSO chose to do nothing about my complaint which is  typical for HCSO. Despite my having an attorney and another reporter and camera evidence; despite my telling the Sheriff and Humboldt County CAO I would not go to a lawyer; they chose to allow this guy to stay because the good ole boys think they are untouchable.

No deputy would talk about a high profile case on the second floor. Unless those you claim did it when they thought no one was listening. 

If any deputy was talking about this on the second floor; then that is a problem for Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal to handle. Although, he shouldn't until he addresses potential conflicts of interest.

That is if Billy stops hiding these days and decides to have cajones and answer Ms. Allison Jackson. Billy won't make a statement to media and public about concerns and questions I raised. Why? This is what happens when your daddy, a good ole boy, is buds with your former boss and other good ole boys and they hand you the job. Then power goes to your head. 

Now, tipster  had you said one of the HCSO higher ups was blabbing, I would believe it because there have been loose lips about other investigations outside the Courthouse in public places. How do you think I got my Tyler Colegrove and where the gun was found scoop?

Whoever you are, I do believe you are sincere in your compliment to me and your motivation is to protect the rest of HCSO and the integrity of the local courts. If you don't want to send me more information; don't. 

If you read all my coverage on the Miranda's rescue investigation, I have exclusives on a letter Sheriff William Honsal ignored. I called out Jody Honsal and raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest. There is more. All this before this letter and this tip because I do my job as a journalist.

Why has the other local media not questioned Sheriff Honsal about potential conflicts of interest?

A affadavit leaked to parties and press convenient to the narrative of the pitchfork crowd who attacked me for simply trying to fairly cover the Miranda Rescue investigation. I am not pro any one other than pro truth.

I have submitted a PRA request to the County of Humboldt for the search warrant excecuted May 1 and also a request for any earlier application rejected by Honorable Judge Kelly Neel, Presiding Judge of Humboldt Superior Court.

I have no way of verifying if Billy went up to Judge Neel's chambers. The only way to get that information is for some people to have the courage to contact me and those people deserve anonymity because of the risk involved.

The reason Billybob Honsal and his arrogant wife Jody are so arrogant is because Billy has Bubba good ole boy Rex Bohn constantly defending Honsal. Rex, who has made a career of the most terms by a Humboldt County Supervisor. Rex and his sycophants need to stfu about how hard he works when he is paid by the taxpayers for schmoozing and blubbering. Anyone can network and claim success when they don't have to earn it on merit, their paycheck is guaranteed and their position makes people suck up to them.

I have zero faith in Sheriff Honsal to be the chief law enforcement officer of this county. It isn't just about the Miranda's Rescue investigation. I have covered other cases.

As for the people smearing me, my readers are upset. The pitchfork crowd and gossipmongers who have gone after me recently has bothered many. They see what I go through and your actions show them. I told them to save the screenshots. I was going to write about someone else who doesn't know me but has plenty to say on social media lately. I could have written about her recent court case and used it to show how she "weaponizes social media" and drama is her life. She is irrelevant and not worth wasting space. The quotation marks are words from filings in her court case.

Many of the people mouthing off don't know me. If they do, there is an agenda,  bias or I exposed them. If anyone wants to believe ad hominem nonsense and online drama; they are worse than those stalking, harassing, smearing  me. Trash and sewage in the gutter is cleaner than the mouth, minds and character of the destructive, toxic Humboldt haters who are afraid of truth and independent reporting.