Followup: From Multi-Person Drug Overdose to Raid in Shelter Cove Last Month
Readers often have questions about stories–What happened next? Or they wonder about incidents that never get written up–What happened over there? Sometimes we get answers that aren’t really an entire story but are of interest to us and, we believe, to our readers. Sooo, here’s a short recap of three stories we think you might want to know more about:
Mass Overdose Near Pepperwood:
Background: About 9:30 p.m. on October 13, scanner traffic carried a panicked report of nine people overdosed on some sort of drug. When it was all sorted out that night we learned that five individuals had taken LSD and three individuals went to the hospital. (See earlier story here.)
Followup: According to Lt. Wayne Hanson of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, “All nine subjects were traveling through Humboldt County looking for work. They stopped along the road and met a possible employer.”
The potential employer offered the crew what they believed to be LSD. “Five ingested what they believed to be LSD and the four smoked marijuana,” said Hanson. Multiple possible overdoses were called in. Three were taken to the hospital and one male, Jesus Alberto Garcia, was arrested for being under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
“Everybody was listed as transients,” Hanson said. Mostly, he said, the incident involved “people not using common sense… .”
Fickle Hill Raid September 28:
Background: About 8:30 a.m. on September 28, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant on a home in Fickle Hill. Originally, it was reported that three people were arrested. (See earlier story here.)
Followup: One man was actually booked. Randall Gomes was charged with:
- HS11358 Cultivation of Marijuana
- HS11539 – Possess marijuana for sale
- PC29800(a)(1) – Felon/Addict/Possess/Etc Firearm
- PC12022(a)(1) – Commission/Fel/Assault Weapon
- PC30305(a)(1) – Prohibited person own/possess/etc Firearm
Shelter Cove Raid September 30:
Background: Readers told us that a caravan of Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office vehicles were in the Lost Coast on the afternoon of September 30. Law enforcement raided one home. (See earlier story here.)
Followup: According to Selena Zorrilla-Mendoza, a Community Service Officer with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, deputies confiscated 144 growing plants, 15.8 pounds of drying marijuana, and 30.6 pounds of manicured marijuana.
“Documentation showed that they were selling,” Zorrilla-Mendoza said.
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So was the pregnant lady dosed up or wasn’t she?
Patient protection laws means that we can’t usually find out information like that. Once something leaves the criminal and goes into the medical, unless the individual or their family offers us that information, we’ll never know.
Thanks!
Would you happen to know who Mr. Gomes uses for a hairstylist?
I’m certain this might be a hot topic.
How about his dentist.
He looks sort of like a meth fueled mad scientist. Surprised they didn’t find his stash of shards…
kym, this site just gets better. are you the only news source who does follow-ups on stories they placed in the public venue?
YES YOU ARE!
thank you for all your hard work and time you spend letting up know.
Thanks! I figure I can’t be the only one that wants to know what happens next. The fires this summer took a lot of time but now I should be able to do more followups.
What about a follow up on the last wood ranch and panther gap raids?
I’ve tried to get information on the Panther Gap raid or at least a raid out the Mattole Road. BLM, the agency in charge, says the case is still under investigation and they can’t give me any information. This case may be different, however, I have noticed that with the notable exception of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office (and our other local agencies) which rarely says this and then tries to follow up and give information when they can, government agencies tell media that a case is under investigation when they never ever intend to tell us anything at all. At this point to my chagrin, I don’t have the resources to fight for information. I hope to change that in the future.
Can you tell me which day the Wood Ranch incident occurred (or even the general time period)? I think it must have dropped off my list of followup stories.
Kym… I think the Wood Ranch raid was the day the Sheriffs worked off the river bar on Maple Hills Rd…
https://kymkemp.com/2015/09/22/law-enforcement-again-staging-at-maple-hills-river-bar/ It must be this one. I don’t show any final report on that. I’ll see what I can find out.
Kym you did a very good job on cover those fires over the summer its been a wicked Summer but we’re still not out of harms way don’t know if you heard but Southern California just paid for it with rain & mudslides its not surprising though I grew up down there so heavy rain storms & mudslides are common lol
The mudslide photos from yesterday were terrible.
Thanks. These updates help almost as much as the posts about happy/pretty things.
Luv your site kim
Wow Kym thank you for the Fickle hill follow up story, I see karma has caught up with Randy Gomes… Guess he should have just stayed in Idaho haha
Ha! Sounds like you know him personally. 🙂
I heard that gomes is only 25 yrs old
I may get a T-shirt printed with that picture on it.
Kym should sell shirts with these classic photos off her site.
Who wouldn’t want one?
Haha we need this on a t-shirt. Only in humboldt
Kym-
You need to carry shirts like this. People want them and you could make a few bucks.
Grrrrrrrrrreat!
We were wondering what happened.Thanks for the follow up.The photo is kinda funny,looks like he stuck his finger in a light socket.
Maybe he’s born with it… Lol
Maybe he helped fake the Apollo “landings”!
Awesome use of the web!
That’s velly good.
Thanks for the follow up info. Your the best Kym
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If he had a white lab coat and black horn rimmed glasses he’d look like Claud Crashcup.
I got lost in there someplace. Must be my new found sobriety.
Either way if that dude rolled up on the set while was all dosed up I might need medical help too.
Did they find a flux capacitor on site? Those go for big bucks on eBay these days.
What does gomes have to do with lsd overdose the raid in shelter cove ? I’m confused ,or maybe gomes was on the raid list . Can you tell me kym
Followup is a post where I take some stories that I have a some information about–not really enough for a post on their own and report the new facts.
Each bold title shows a new story. There are three different stories here.
How does a guy donate to red headed black belt newspaper I don’t even read lost cause out post I go to your paper first everyday
While I gladly will accept donations (some folks have sent me money via Paypal to [email protected]) the best thing you can do to support me is tell the advertisers on my site that you support them for supporting the site. (Also clicking on their ads and going through to their websites is helpful.) And you can encourage other businesses to explore advertising with me.
I’m no literary genius but it would help me if those bold headings were just a bit more bold. I honestly thought he was the dude w the doses. Like the mad professor making acid in his garage and then puddling his trimmer crew.
Either way this site rocks. Keep up the good works KK
I enlarged the headlines and added a bit about there being three stories in the italicized parts. Hopefully, your suggestions help others.
You got it kym I’ll do my best to tell everybody I know got to keep the best informative on line paper in my opinion the best in the world I’m addicted to the red headed.black belt . As kids I would have never thought you kym would be so talented merna must be so proud of you
Thank you.
Glad you asked and happy to let the advertisers know. Thanks.
BTW, it probably wasn’t LSD, it was an NBOME compound, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25I-NBOMe
Good job Kym!
You should see what he’s putting his family through! Get off the hill already!!!