Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:
On May 6, 2021, deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Enforcement Team (MET) served multiple search warrants to investigate illegal cannabis cultivation in the Rancho Sequoia and Dobbyn Creek areas. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services Environmental Health – HazMat Unit and Humboldt County Code Enforcement assisted in the service of the warrants.
Six parcels were investigated during the service of the warrants. The parcels did not possess the required county permit and state license to cultivate cannabis commercially.
During the service of the warrant in the Dobbyn Creek area, deputies eradicated approximately 1,200 growing cannabis plants. Deputies seized and destroyed over 171.5 pounds of cannabis bud, approximately 123 pounds of processed cannabis and approximately 454 pounds of cannabis shake.
Seized firearms | HCSO
Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office press release:
On May 4, 2021, at about 8 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant at a business on the 500 block of Edward Street in Trinidad to investigate a restraining order violation.
During a search of the business, deputies located and seized eight firearms and a large quantity of ammunition belonging to 56-year-old
Michael Joseph Morgan. Pursuant to the terms of a court issued restraining order, Morgan is prohibited from possessing firearms. Morgan was taken into custody at the business and was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of prohibited person in possession of a firearm
Continued degradation of our communities and environment. In this case most likely associated with marijuana at some level, can’t say for sure from the press release.
I am going to go out on a limb and say, yes, related to marijuana cultivation in some fashion.
Getting so old and tired of these incidents. I guess nobody else is as fed up as me??? I reach out to Board of Supervisors and more importantly the County Building and Planning Department regularly. Both of these should be hearing loud and clear from all County residents that the growing of marijuana in the hills is done, we are not condoning it anymore! Our votes for legalization and the County ordinance, was not a vote to increase the grows in our hills, remote pristine areas, and ecologically sensitive landscapes (Oak prairies and woodlands); but to permit the grows in true agricultural areas that are zoned as such and contain infrastructure and/or existing agriculture already.
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:
On May 2, 2021, at about 9:45 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a property on the 800 block of Sylvan Glade Road near Blocksburg for the report of a shooting that had occurred earlier that morning.
Surveillance footage captured at the property showed two vehicles arrive at the property at about 4:50 a.m. Unknown suspects associated with the vehicles cut the lock on a gate at the driveway and one vehicle proceeded to drive onto the property. Approximately eight suspects associated with the vehicle are then depicted trespassing on the property. Upon approaching a residence on the property, two suspects began shooting at the residence. Following the shooting, the suspects fled the scene.
Michael Joseph Morgan
On May 4, 2021, at about 8 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant at a business on the 500 block of Edward Street in Trinidad to investigate a restraining order violation.
+ Pursuant to the terms of a court issued restraining order, Morgan is prohibited from possessing firearms. Morgan was taken into custody at the business and was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of prohibited person in possession of a firearm
(PC 29825(a)) and violation of a court order
(PC 273.6(a)).
This case is still under investigation.
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office would like to thank the Eureka Police Department’s Problem Oriented Policing Unit for their assistance with the service of this warrant.