Deceased Man Found on Bell Springs Road

Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

On Sept. 2, 2018, at about 6:30 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the area of Bell Springs Road, near the Alderpoint Road junction, for the report of a deceased male subject found on the roadway.

The deceased male appears to have been in his 50’s. His identity has not been confirmed at this time.

This death has been determined suspicious and is under investigation by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division.

This is an ongoing investigation. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office anticipates more information to be released following the completion of the decedent’s autopsy. An autopsy date is in the process of being scheduled.

Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.

Earlier ChapterMultiple Reports of a Body on Bell Springs Road This Morning

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Eldon G. Whitehead
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Eldon G. Whitehead
5 years ago

Another drug deal gone bad? Just about the right location and area where something like this will happen. The Drug Capital of the World.

Shannon
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Shannon
5 years ago

This happens everywhere in the world btw

Perspective
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Perspective
5 years ago

Well certainly not because someone got pissed that he was getting too much zucchini and not enough tomatoes in his CSA box.

James dean
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James dean
5 years ago

Who does drug deals on the side of the road anymore? [edit]

Phoenix Fucking Kasper
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Phoenix Fucking Kasper
5 years ago

Another unnecessary speculation [edit]? I’m sorry you don’t have enough of a life to keep you from making up stories about dead strangers but you know there’s lots of volunteer needing to be done in your county so you can fill up all that bored free time you use bashing dead strangers and instead actually contribute something with your short time on this earth.

Karen hoaglin
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Karen hoaglin
5 years ago

I agree the mans. Still a john for and idiots want to bash him!!! Thinking your better then someone how dare you. I wouldn’t throw rocks when you and your ode family probably live in a few glass houses get a life looser and although the. Volunteering is a good idea I wouldn’t want my loved one being close to an idiot. Like the one that posted this so no looser sit alone in your filthy lil home and talk about everyone

Sue humboldt county
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Sue humboldt county
5 years ago

Drug capitol of the world blaaa. Hhhaa hhhaaa.odviously you arnt from so hum. Ps cannibas isnt a drug its a plant thats been on the planet longer than humans.thats now supposedly lol legal.

Mike
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Mike
5 years ago

Heroins made from a plant also

LostCoastEMT
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LostCoastEMT
5 years ago

Marijuana is a drug. That’s why there’s billions to be made,murder,theft and greed. Drug.

Eric
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Eric
5 years ago
Reply to  LostCoastEMT

Try taking alcohol, bread, or coffee away. Lets see how “Drug Free” you are.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Eric

Yes,mind altering bread has a lot to answer for. And all those people driving in the morning, using coffee to wake up- the horrors! That these things are even slightly equated with pot shows how delusional its users can be. The real interest is what the drug of choice does to you, not whether people use chemicals at all. Besides you left off the greatest drug known to man- chocolate.

LostCoastEMT
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LostCoastEMT
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Is vagina a drug?

Dragonfly
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Dragonfly
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Moldy rye bread?

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Dragonfly

Shades of St. Vitus! Or as Dan C would say !!!.

James dean
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James dean
5 years ago
Reply to  Eric

Ets think like an adult and not pick the seller of assumptions

THC
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THC
5 years ago

Poppies and the cocoa plant have also been on the planet as long as human beings, drugs are also derived from them that have been used in medicine for centuries. How are they any different than the “pot plant”. Any “medicine” is harmful if used Too Much, including marijuana.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  THC

Medicine is taken because an illness has happened, because of its beneficial effects on the symptoms or causes of disease. If a substance is taken when no related illness exists and only to enjoy its side effects, it ceases to be medicine and becomes simply a drug.

A plant does not cause drug use. It is a diversion to imply that they are all equally innocent. A plant is always “innocent.” That is a given. It’s how humans use the plant that becomes ugly.

Mike
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Mike
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

So you’re saying we need to legalize cocaine, right?

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Hmm… a funny way of putting it, now that you said that. But still most people understand what is implied .

Cocaine has a medical use. So by your implication, it is already legal. But it is not unregulated because of its negative effects in the hands of those who use it for non medical reasons. It is not the plant that is illegal but the misuse.

Why not think of pot as similar? A plant with maybe limited medical use but, in the hands of those using it for recreation, capable of doing damage. Recognizing what damage it does would go a way to making is less dangerous. At least for those who care about the damage they do to others.

Outside of that, I don’t know what your point is.

Eloa lodges
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Eloa lodges
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Sounds good to me and how about licking cain toads to¿ lol coke is better than POT any day.tooth acks headacks any acks & ya can get the house cleaned to.

Karen hoaglin
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Karen hoaglin
5 years ago
Reply to  THC

This is a human that was found dead have some class!!

Mogtx
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5 years ago

He could have been taking his morning stroll had a heart attack and fell over what do you think about that scenario yeah right

tnt
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tnt
5 years ago

“Traffic accident or body dump” HCSO. Kym, can we go ahead and move this article to the crime section?

Cowabunga
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Cowabunga
5 years ago

Sorry to hear of this. Condolences to his family.

Michael R Ross
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Michael R Ross
5 years ago

Taking the optimistic view; if he`s dead, he can`t hurt anyone.

Jilly
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Jilly
5 years ago

These comments tho! What if RHB obituaries had local’s comments compilation POSTED FOR ALL TO SEE? 🤭

Shaka
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Shaka
5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Stiffer huh?

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Shaka

Argh!

Ben Round
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Ben Round
5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Kym. Did you just refer to deceased people’s write-ups as ‘stiff-er’! Lol.

Shaka
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Shaka
5 years ago
Reply to  Ben Round

You think that’s funny?

Anon
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Anon
5 years ago
Reply to  Shaka

” Yaaa if u don’t find humor in all this darkness and loss you will surely go mad …” Spoken by grieving mother after cracking a semi macabre joke..

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Shaka

Yes. As should any reasonable human. It was a funny, albeit unconscious, word choice.

Dragonfly
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Dragonfly
5 years ago
Reply to  Shaka

YES!!!

Flatgirl
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Flatgirl
5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Like “modifying” the negative comments on Errol Comma’s obit?
He killed my dog and gave drugs to kids and was inappropriate with young women. Let’s not sully his memory.

Jilly
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Jilly
5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Perhaps obits should publish an archived compilation of the stiffs comments😈

James dean
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James dean
5 years ago
Reply to  Jilly

Chill out, it’s a fucking blabbery news site

Freshwater Girl
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Freshwater Girl
5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

😂😂😂

Helllbilly
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Helllbilly
5 years ago

He was black. Not racist, just facts

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Helllbilly

What a mealymouthed way to racebait. Grow a spine and say what you mean.

James dean
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James dean
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

It will be nice the day we don’t hear’ he was black’ that’s why. I’ll say. No matter race, don’t run and comply, this would erase 95 percent of police/black deaths, or more

James dean
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James dean
5 years ago
Reply to  James dean

Oh shit I dare say!

Mike
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Mike
5 years ago

Where was Kyle Zoellner? It was a Saturday night, just saying.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

The Arcata police are looking into it.

Emily
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Emily
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Not funny. No tact whatsoever.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Emily

None of it was tactful. It was not meant to be. It was however funny. As Cassius would say, the fault that causes a totally selective lack of a sense of humor ” is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.” Especially the underling part.

Emily
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Emily
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

What’s funny? I don’t get it? The fact that a white kid may have gotten away with murder, and there’s another black guy dead? Man you have a sick sense of humor.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Emily

Yes. I totally agree. You don’t get it.

Mike
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Mike
5 years ago
Reply to  Emily

My point has always been very simple Emily, that the most liberal city in the world Arcata only cares when it’s convenient. That the only thing people there do is inflate their own ego. Prove me wrong get your banners and signs and go up AP road and hold your protests.

James dean
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James dean
5 years ago
Reply to  Emily

How would it be if reversed? Black kid got away with murder? Take race away, someone obviously loved died, let’s end it, emily cant.

James dean
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James dean
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

You nailed it

Get a Life.
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Get a Life.
5 years ago

Is it a drug or isnt it? Was he a rip off or not? Was he black or white? These are all useless questions at the moment. I love Kym’s page but hate looking at the comments. Thanks to almost every commenter on here why I don’t look at the comments. They are almost always negative and assuming. If you have this much time to bash people , stories, and other people on here then you must really hate aspects of your own life. So basicly stop your negative tough typing and get a life.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Get a Life.

Yet here you are, reading and commenting. Tsk tsk.

Eric
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Eric
5 years ago

I thought it was an over dose.

LostCoastEMT
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LostCoastEMT
5 years ago

You can buy humboldt county. Make millions and buy protection ,and you can contenuie to make billions.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago

Yup. Couldn’t be anything else.

Tooby
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Tooby
5 years ago

Um that’s crazy isn’t that right above that ranch with all the town bums working that pot farm, that guys nuts, he claims a lot of violence and does really weird thing’s and if you don’t know about him he’s no good and go’s back in forth to L.A to bring illegal drugs into our county.

James dean
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James dean
5 years ago
Reply to  Tooby

Sounds right

James dean
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James dean
5 years ago
Reply to  Tooby

Ol’ mike

Garlic Zkittlez
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Garlic Zkittlez
5 years ago

Smoking a recreational joint legally right now, so am I damaging myself, sure tastes and feels great!

gunther
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gunther
5 years ago

I could have been a hit and run. Where was Marci Kitchen?

localwoman
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localwoman
5 years ago
Reply to  gunther

She is probably on vacation, being she is heading to prison on the 17th. Hope they throw the max sentence at her. But we are in Humboldt, so probably not….

Anon
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Anon
5 years ago
Reply to  localwoman

You are incorrect in that assumption she’s in custody now. Northcoast Journal scooped that story https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2018/09/03/kitchen-surrenders-wont-contest-being-jailed-until-sentencing-in-manslaughter-case

gunther
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gunther
5 years ago
Reply to  Anon

Thanks for the link.

weedageddon
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weedageddon
5 years ago
Reply to  gunther

Any updates on the Hunter Allen hit and run? It was a little more than one month ago.

Sue humboldt county
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Sue humboldt county
5 years ago

Theives have been delt with this way in these mountains for a long time its been are only deterent from people coming up from the city and stealing are livlihoods from us.now the real rip offs we elected and sit in eureka sucking pay checks off our backs while trying to figure every angle/way they can to rip us off and destroy our lives we’ve worked hard for.good luck mountain people and beautiful communitys, the wolves definitely snuck into our feild and with 2 more years of fennel and bone most of us won’t make it.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago

There’s a charming old movie you should watch. It’s called “A Slight Case of Murder”. In it a bootlegger and his gang are faced with the difficulties that the end of Prohibition causes their income stream. Their business model of extortion in an illegal market no longer works, leaving the gang to attempt to adjust to being legal in order to keep any business at all. As the hackneyed phrase goes, hilarity ensues along with a whole bunch of murders. It could easily be remade today with marijuana substituted for alcohol. All the characters remain the same. You too will be asking “Why didn’t anyone tell Marco?”

General Bratt
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General Bratt
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Effing NAILED IT! Maybe “Why didn’t anyone tell Humboldt?”

Some people think Humboldt weed will survive on its legacy. I don’t know Man. CannaCopia in Nevada is selling some seriously nice shit for $200/oz or less if you get in the frequent flyers club. Two years ago you’d pay $350+ for the same oz of Humboldt on the black market in Nevada. And the competition is just starting to pick up steam in Nevada.

Tooby
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Tooby
5 years ago

Ol’mike is no good they need to get that bad situation out of here and that deliver driver guy who thinks he’s mr. law needs to go too!!!!

guest
Guest
guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Tooby

^ R.A.T.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Tooby

Who is Ol’mike?

Al
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Al
5 years ago

Has violent crime increased lately?

Sue humboldt county
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Sue humboldt county
5 years ago

Its gonna abatement will leave too many people desperate to survive

🙂
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🙂
5 years ago

To guest only if u knew he is a registered sex offender who hides on that ranch!!!