Honeydew Store Owners Help Cops Capture Suspected Burglars
Humboldt County Sheriff Deputies searching the vehicle. [Photos by Thadeus Greenson]
The Honeydew Store was burglarized last night but it didn’t take long for store owner Bob Shinn to crack the case.
The store’s manager arrived this morning to find the door pried open, the cash boxes gone and several cartons of cigarettes missing. Shinn said he checked the store’s surveillance tapes to find two people had broken into the store at about 7:30 p.m. yesterday. The footage included some good images of their faces and the vehicle they fled the scene in. Shinn said he immediately knew the first place he and his wife should look for the burglars this morning.
“Anytime someone like that has a score they go straight to the casino,” he said.
A backpack full of cash and coins pulled from the suspect vehicle.
So the pair drove up to Bear River Casino and circled the parking lot until they saw the suspect vehicle — a silver sedan. When the suspects — a young couple — left the casino and got in their car, the Shinns tailed them and the couple never suspected a thing.
“We put the sneak on them — we’re from Honeydew,” Shinn said with a smile.
While tailing the car, the Shinns called the sheriff’s office, which dispatched several deputies. When the sedan rolled into Old Town Eureka, the deputies initiated a traffic stop, with a couple of Eureka Police Department patrol cars providing backup, and took the couple into custody.
Inside the sedan, they found a backpack with a stack of cash in it and a bunch of rolls of coins, about a dozen cartoons of cigarettes and a couple cases of soda, all of which the Shinns said came from their store.
Bob Shinn speaks with deputies at the scene of the traffic stop and subsequent arrests.
Honeydew Shines in Earlier Stories:
- Law Enforcement Pursued Homicide Suspect on 101 out to Wilder Ridge Road at Speeds in Excess of 100 MPH; Three Detained
- Attempted Homicide Suspect Wanted in Tennessee Nabbed Near Honeydew
- Residents of Honeydew Honored for Helping Capture Fleeing Felony Suspect and for Protecting Their Community
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BRAVO!
Hell yeah honeydew. Nice!!!!
I love it …very smart….. Tracked their butts to the casino lol good job…. Sometimes you have to think like a criminal….. [edit]
Great job Shinns!
Great job of the sneak job Mr. Shinn and Bravo to our Local Law Enforcement personnel. Proud of all of you.
Have any names been given for the people arresrted?
GOOD JOB. THATS HOW YOU (GET ER DONE)
That’s the second case in 21 days that the Honeydew Store folks have successfully assisted with.
Thank you, Bob. You and your people are making a REAL difference, and I respect and appreciate your efforts tremendously.
Head straight to the casino…..
Nicely done.
We grew up on Kojak, Mannix, Columbo, and Rockford so don’t do the crime suckas!
Hell ya
Good work , Honeydew folks. Smarter than the average bear…..
Don’t fuck with my buddy Bobby
Great job Bobby! Way to get it done…they should deputize you. Not surprised you caught them…don’t mess with him or his family perps!
BOB SHINN FOR SHERIFF 🤗2018👊💥
This is a great story! Vigilantly justice with style!
Bobby for sheriff. Surprised he didn”t cuff them to a pole.
Excellent work Shinns!! Keep it up County folks, see something out of whack call it in. Get the descriptions, vehicles, plates, etc.
Put the criminals away.
Hilarious. Great job to figure out what the hell some low-life ripoff types would do. Hell, the store’s robbed, let’s head out to track down the thieves. Hilarious and wonderful all at the same time.
Nice job Bob. He’s seen enough tweeker habits. Yep, direct to casino. Usually bear river. I woulda looked at Fortuna motel and Valley west. I’m suprized 7:30pm is still light and there are eyes around there most times. Musta been fun to watch it get busted. BTW, it’d be nice to get some fresh vegitables for sale. Seems almost criminal. 🙂 great work yall.
There’s no Justice, just us in Honeydew Ca!
Well who were they? They thieved just to go gamble ,that lame,I hate thieves,good catch bobby , get them off the streets.
Way to go Team Bobby. Yeah, directly to casino. A Columbo phone-in. It’s no secret that if LEO’s are having a slow shift, a slow cruise through any casino parling lot, running plates and just observing, can pay dividends. Way to go police as well.
Mattole folks have grown a bit tired of rip-offs and slime over the years. Gonna do the ‘Dew? Don’t!
Honeydew honey don’t !
Honey will,Honey won’t,,Put up with Theives.”PERIOD”
Starting to sound like the sheriffs should set up a substation at that casino; there’s been several busts there for crime committed elsewhere lately. And, um, yeah, I suspect those folks are not going there to gamble or dine in the restaurant.
Casinos Harbor Meth Heads and Heroin users, does any good people go to these drug dens?
Good thing Bobby solved it, the Sheriff wouldn’t have shown up to even take a report or investigate….. no money to be seized for Department toys- so the sheriff wont bother….
Meanwhile in Eureka real criminals sell Meth and Heroine on every street corner. A house is getting burglarized, 5 cars were stolen. Mentally Ill patients walk around the streets aimlessly with knives and guns, children are being robbed of their lunch money. THE illegal Sex Trafficking continues at the cheap bed bug infested Motels, gangs run the West and East Side of town, and MS 13, Surenos, Northerners and Mexican Mafia run the states largest heroine ring in Fortuna. But hey, go get the pot growers!
I sure am glad they are busting the cannabis farms, It really makes me put faith in the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. I feel a lot safer knowing this Cannabis isn’t growing and destroying the community. What a joke, they have zero priorities, except the priorities of assets forfeiture and filling the deputies pockets with crisp $100 bills, shhhhh don’t tell anybody or they just might show up at your house shoot you and plant a gun on your corpse claiming “the suspect pointed the weapon at me so I had to stop him” They don’t call it shooting any more they call it “stopping the suspect”….. then their “Deputy Coroner” will show up at the mortuary to “examine the body” and claim “yup, everything the deputies say is true”, after all the Coroner is a member of the Deputy Sheriff”s Association, all part of the old ” i’ll scrub your back if you scrub mine
We want to send big Thanks to sheriff dept. my awesome hired help, and my bro. Also Bear River Casino its like shooting fish in a barrel🤠