Two Arrested For Allegedly Ransacking, Defecating in Storage Building in Eureka

This is a press release from the Eureka Police Department. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:

On June 28, 2017, at about 6:15 a.m., officers with the Eureka Police Department responded to the 70 block of West 2nd Street for the report of a burglary to a large storage building. Dispatchers received second hand information that transients were taking property from the building which stores goods belonging to the Betty Kwan Chinn Center.

Chinn responded and reported that the building had been completely ransacked, defecated in, and a large amount of property had been stolen. The stolen items included supplies and goods collected for about twenty college bound, low-income students.

At about 1:30 p.m., the Problem Oriented Policing Unit (POP) was patrolling the area of West 3rd and Commercial Streets when they noticed a large amount of property on the sidewalk near a group of transients. Chinn responded and identified the property as hers but said there was a large amount of property still outstanding.

27 year old Brittany Johnson and 49 year old Daniel Gurley were sitting with the property when officers arrived. They were transported and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility for possession of stolen property. Gurley had an additional charge for violation of probation.

This is an ongoing investigation. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the outstanding property or identity of any additional suspects is asked to contact the Eureka Police Department.

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Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago

Eeeeewwwwwww! Ggggggrrroooosss!

jmarie
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6 years ago
Reply to  Guest

I’m sorry this happened to your wonderful cause for helping out low income college bound students. Man oh man. Glad u got your supplies back.
What is with these people!!!!!! Meth heads. Tweakers. Damn.
May your days be brighter

Momba
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Momba
6 years ago
Reply to  jmarie

No , they are homeless an not asking for help. More like the M.O. for heroin not meth.

charles engebretson
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charles engebretson
6 years ago
Reply to  Momba

Meth.. And they weren’t alone…I know those two…they are not too bright.. Prolly left to watch the crap while the rest went to go sell some of it..there were way more people involved

Dave
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Dave
6 years ago

A very methy situation… There on every corner on a good one. They could of built a mansion behind the mall with all that stuff…

Momba
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Momba
6 years ago
Reply to  Dave

Wrong end of town .they are in the heroin district

Jacob
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Jacob
6 years ago

I think I remember that guy from school. If it’s the same person I’m thinking of, he would be more like 39. Just looking at the photo he don’t look almost 50. And that chick sure don’t look 27.

sick of stupid
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sick of stupid
6 years ago
Reply to  Jacob

he’s 38. something doesn’t add up. maybe this is why Mills is leaving.

judi
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6 years ago

talk about biting the hand that feeds ya.

Ben Round
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Ben Round
6 years ago
Reply to  judi

Or shitting on the hand…..

charles engebretson
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charles engebretson
6 years ago
Reply to  judi

She doesn’t feed those people anymore… At all

Shelly
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Shelly
6 years ago

Wow, that’s pretty damn low, right there with stealing from a church

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago

Rudolf the red nosed tweaker had very irritated nose, and if you ever saw it you would even say it’s gross, all of the other tweakers used to laugh and call him names, they wouldn’t let poor rudolf play in any tweaker games, then one foggy eureka day he pooped an Betty chins storage building, and now he’ll go down in hissstttoorryy.

1stMarDiv
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1stMarDiv
6 years ago

Send them to pelosi or moose knuckle brown for a hug.

They’ll be out in a few days. Scoring dope and back to thievery.

Until the laws get tougher. This scourge will keep incubating more of the same.

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  1stMarDiv

Yes siree, ridiculous times we live in, hopefully some change comes and people will be held accountable for their actions.

Momba
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Momba
6 years ago
Reply to  1stMarDiv

Heroin is everywhere in this town

charles engebretson
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charles engebretson
6 years ago
Reply to  1stMarDiv

They were out within hours

G-MAS
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G-MAS
6 years ago

I’m so sorry Betty,your kindness and willingness to help the down on their luck folks is a blessing.Thank you,and bless your heart.💙

Christopher Henson
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Christopher Henson
6 years ago
Reply to  G-MAS

Fuck Betty chin, she’s only out to help her self, I asked her for help to get in one of her places so CPS wouldn’t take my son and she said she couldn’t help us. Does that sound like she’s out to help people down on their luck when someone with a two year old son asks for help and she turns her back on them. Knowing that she has places she could put them.

MOGTX
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6 years ago

This is a prime example of the police not putting a all out war on meth .The zombie s get the speed ,and they will do anything say anything .to keep there psychosis going ,and to steal from a charity is low down dirty .Now if the police would do proactive policing which is in my opinion non existent. it’s like job security for them ,so they can arrest the addict zombies over and over again. If i was sheriff .id go all buford pusser on the main supplyers.

Momba
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Momba
6 years ago
Reply to  MOGTX

It’s heroin people…. The get sick if they don’t support there habit

Christopher Henson
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Christopher Henson
6 years ago
Reply to  MOGTX

Only if you knew the truth about Betty you [edit] wouldn’t be saying the shit you guys are saying.

Trillium Hummingbird
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Trillium Hummingbird
6 years ago

WHAT a lovely couple. Well adjusted adults. Don’t think I ever saw the the word “defecating” in a news headline before…

Huh uh, huh uh huh… you got arrested for pooping!

Knucklehead tweakers! 5 minutes in jail for stealing, and pooping in a naughty place! I hope you are in custody long enough to go into withdrawal, and then be embarrassed…

visitor
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visitor
6 years ago

“Don’t think I ever saw the the word “defecating” in a news headline before…”

No sh!t? Well, just three daze ago…

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2717974-justine-kish-tweets-joke-after-defecating-during-ufc-loss-to-felice-herrig

Joe Pendleton
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Joe Pendleton
6 years ago

People have been deficating on trumps Hollywood star

visitor
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visitor
6 years ago
Reply to  Joe Pendleton
Momba
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Momba
6 years ago

It’s heroin people…. The get sick if they don’t support there habit .withdrawls on heroin not meth

Anonymous
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Anonymous
6 years ago

And people actually try to help these losers. Waste of time and resources.
Save Eureka, help our seniors not the tweakers.

Bushytails
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Bushytails
6 years ago

Maybe Chinn will finally figure out that she’s not actually helping society? Also, want to bet this incident will be forgotten next some someone blathers about how they’re just people down on their luck, rather than criminals who’ve made a conscious decision to be a harmful to the public?

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  Bushytails

Ya they are the victims right? Sick of hearing that trash too.

charles engebretson
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charles engebretson
6 years ago

Not everyone that lives outside steals and does drugs…but the ones that do need to be gone..sorry but stealing is wrong no matter what…no excuse except hunger I guess…

Choppdog
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Choppdog
6 years ago

That’s the f…. Up part of it,I’m sure those two people have on more than one occasion filled there bellies on Bettys behalf God bless you betty.pretty chicken s it if u ask me and most of the homeless around there that count on bettys generosity. Betty i hope this does not discourage you from continuing helping people like you and I because one day at any given moment any one of us could find ourselves homeless and needing one of betty hot meals.I know I found myself in need of a few of those life saving meals.And as for you two pieces of shit thieves all I can say is carma’s a bitch and stop giving us old school tweakers a bad name! Dumb ass’s

It takes all kinds
Guest
It takes all kinds
6 years ago
Reply to  Choppdog

Are you for real Dog?!?!?!????
“Old school tweaker”?????
I’m so confused🤔
So you’re a an oldER tweaker, that doesn’t like the new tweakers ruining your reputation? -which I assume you think is good?-

Yeah I’m not sure what’s going on here, but I think you may be a bit mixed up, just a tich.

charles engebretson
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charles engebretson
6 years ago

Remember that old man heroin dealer they arrested last week that kym posted?saw him today walking down the street…

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago

Really? That’s messed up, the same one that was arrested like a moth before that too, smoking meth in front of the cops when there were looking for someone else?

Trillium Hummingbird
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Trillium Hummingbird
6 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Watch who you are calling old, sonny…

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago

Check your dementia, I didn’t call anyone old.

Zaniah
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Zaniah
6 years ago

I’m so done with the laws protecting these shit heads.
Looking into how to repeal Prop 47 &57. Any advice or direction is appreciated.

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  Zaniah

Ya write a letter and mail it to Santa, has about the same outcome.

Humboldt1980
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Humboldt1980
6 years ago

Wow! She’s 27! She’s been doing meth a long time! And I agree I’m sick of seeing nothing being done about it! I pray for my children growing up with this shit, addiction isn’t a damn disease only you can say no to dope!

Conceded blue
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Conceded blue
6 years ago

Wow stealing tents then taking them to homeless shelter that’s fucking poetic justice that they end up in jail why didnt they just shit in the bathroom??????mabey the cops can get DNA samples from the shit that they left behind lol

River Rat
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River Rat
6 years ago

Her looks remind me of a mean chicken we had when i was a kid. At least the chicken didn’t steal. It was also a whole lot prettier.

Notsure
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Notsure
6 years ago

Jail will be a clean environment for them to recharge. Doubt they will cop any shiet in jail, since others just waiting to be released early for being good..and wired.

Olaf
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Olaf
6 years ago

Brittany needs to clean up her act,..she looks like she’s been roughing it up a bit,..that Damn meth doesn’t help from keeping your face off of the local news,..💩💩💩💩💩
The poo burglar gang right here, I wonder is this a signature they leave behind on every crime scene??

Shak
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Shak
6 years ago

If all members of a community have to be penalized for a vandal along a road, then why aren’t all the homeless people arrested and held accountable for the actions of a few?
Selective bias.
(no, I don’t want them arrested, that’s not my point).

Mike
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Mike
6 years ago

That lil [edit] stole from me and my mother and had someone named frost but a gun to my head she told them I stole it here’s the kicker I was sleeping she is pregnant and doing meth.. she wants to go to jail for all that shit

DAVID COX
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DAVID COX
6 years ago

These individual’s are seriously sick, mentally and physically. Its the bath salts that their smoking. It not even drugs, bath salts that you buy at Walgreen for using in your baths… Lol. What a society

charles engebretson
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charles engebretson
6 years ago

Out within four hours

Memy Selfandi
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Memy Selfandi
6 years ago

Those people need help and “Charity” isn’t cutting it…consistent, reliable, accessible help not random acts by denominational entities with religious agendas is what is needed. So many comments here are expressing the exact calloused disregard that the perpetrators have and the perpetrators were likely weaned on that attitude and then our culture continues to teach them that when in Rome… Except, other articles state they were caught while handing out stuff to other homeless so perhaps part of their “Problem” is they are sick of seeing others in need and suffering as is Chinn (except she also sees herself as a victim when her victimhood is a result of our community neglect and hero worship and her mental health issues from trauma as much as if not more so than due to any of the suffering addicts and homeless).
Slapping band-aids on people who are hemorrhaging is not productive nor humane in the long-run. We ignore and dismiss their pain and needs and expect them to care about ours. We are dumping on Ms. Chinn the outcome of our neglect of a community health issue long ignored; lose-lose approach. Sad all the way around.

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  Memy Selfandi

Waaaaa poor them, it’s that attitude that has them back on the streets within hours, why don’t you take them in then? O your too busy or some other excuse, lead by example then!

It takes all kinds
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It takes all kinds
6 years ago
Reply to  Memy Selfandi

I agree. It’s a very sad cycle on both ends of toleration. But mental health care is key! And charity is certainly not the same as help. I pray for help for all of us!

Sugarmag
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Sugarmag
6 years ago

Wow Brittany…..what the f happened to you?

Suzanne Cyr
Guest
6 years ago

Now they will get 3 hots and a cot.
While i froze in Eureka all last winter looking for work that i never found
These thieves are crazy but not lazy
People need jobs not food stamps
How hard would it be to hand out some dignity
Instead we are at civil war with the poor
We need to build green houses to grow food in winter and to save electricity!
We need Hot houses to get warm in.
To dry clothes in
Come on, get a clue!
Quit entertaining ourselves kicking growling dogs!
We need Jobs and a warm place to live
And we need out houses with solar heated water to wash our hands.
People in jail have time on their hands to do it,
Those upward bound students really needed those supplies as any starving student will tell you!
If a criminal can be provided with a 6 by 10 foot room then others should be able to build a 6 by 10 green house to camp in,
I couldn’t believe last winter i went every day to the labor ready places and the fisheries and Walmart and Betty Chinn Center and Unemployment office and CO OP and I didn’t get one hour of employment and i have 5 years of college!
With a GPA of 3.8
People need JOBS
I love you betty chinn
Im sorry they hurt you