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Six Dead of Fentanyl Overdose Last Month Alone, Says Sheriff’s Office in Alert Issued to Humboldt County Citizens
Press
release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:
Humboldt
County has seen a substantial increase in illicit fentanyl
distribution, possession and overdose cases, including an alarming
number of overdose deaths.
Fentanyl
is a synthetic opioid and a Schedule II narcotic that is
approximately 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more
potent than heroin. Fentanyl is often added to heroin and other drugs
to increase their potency and can cause accidental overdose.
As
of April 14, 2021, the Humboldt County Coroner’s Office has
Robert Hager We are sad to report that Robert Bob Hager a U.S. Army veteran who detailed his journey from homeless to housed for the
Journal has taken his last walk. Bob died of a heart attack July 24, 2020, alone but surrounded by four walls in his own home, the
Journal has learned. He was 63. In recent years, Bob could be found walking through Eureka at almost any time of day, a U.S. Army hat barely containing his wild spray of gray hair and a coffee cup in hand, chatting up anyone in his path. He was a poet, a writer, a baritone, an artist and a husband. It was the last one that he felt defined him, and his devotion to Kathleen, Kat as he called her, was obvious, both through their 17 years of marriage in which they were inseparable and after her death, when, heartbroken, Bob worked tirelessly to cobble together the funds and move the necessary Veterans Affairs bureaucracy to lay his love to rest in Ocean View Cemetery.
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Humboldt County District Attorney Maggie Fleming has concluded the Eureka Police Department officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 51-year-old Eureka man last summer were justified in their actions. John Karl Sieger, a military veteran, was reportedly intoxicated and suicidal when he raised a pistol at officers during a tense standoff at a home on the 2800 block of Lowell Street last year. “Once Mr. Sieger refused their commands and pointed his gun at them, the officers reasonably believed they were in imminent danger of being killed or suffering great bodily injury, the DA s Office release states. The District Attorney has notified Mr. Sieger’s family of her d
Humboldt County Office of the District Attorney press release:
DA Maggie Fleming has completed her review of the investigation regarding the Eureka Police Department (EPD) Officer involved shooting of 51-year-old John Karl Sieger on July 23, 2020. A Humboldt County Critical Incident Team, with members from EPD, the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department, Arcata Police Department, California Highway Patrol, and Fortuna Police Department, conducted the investigation. The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office and the California Department of Justice – Bureau of Forensic Services provided additional investigative resources.
The investigation revealed that shortly after 5:00 pm on July 23rd, an out-of-county friend of Mr. Sieger called EPD to request a check on his welfare, because she had received texts indicating he was contemplating suicide. Mr. Sieger’s messages to his friend initially included photos of bottles of alcohol; a sub