Multiple Reports of Illegal Parking Lead to Two Arrests
Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies at the door of an RV on Redway Drive in Redway this morning. [Photo provided by a reader]
Around 11:45 a.m. today, deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office responded to an RV parked on Redway Drive near the intersection with Empire Avenue for what spokesperson, Samantha Karges called “multiple citizen complaints regarding illegal parking.”
According to Karges, “The occupants of the RV, 50-year-old Michael Joseph Ringheimer and 36-year-old Heather Lynn Dufay, were arrested on charges of County Ordinance 314-81.1.1.1, illegal residence in a non-designated area, which is a misdemeanor.”
One of the occupants, Michael Righeimer, had a warrant already for the same offense.
The two are being booked into the jail.
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What did they do with RV? I hope it was towed away. Thank you sheriffs.
Move the RV blocking the view of a left turn
So…parking too long in one spot is now the same level of crime as burglary or drug possession.
Shit – no wonder so many of them park, get high, and go out robbing houses. It’s all the same to them.
Living their best life….
If these people aren’t druggies, or causing problems, then the real crime is arresting someone just for being homeless. I hope the wealthy pigs that called enjoy a warm Christmas while these poor people may be losing their only home 🙁
This RV has been in garberville for months. It hauls around a trailer of trash behind it. No good junkies live in it. Thank you LE, now tow that POS out of here!
It’s garbage on wheels. It needed to go. Oh and one does not need wealth to have a warm Christmas. Just pay your electric bill instead of buying more drugs.
They were previously leaving dirty needles at the elementary school playground.! Good riddance to those scumbags!
He had a warrant out for him. What part of that didn’t you get besides the illegal camping.
There is a special place in hell waiting for those that call the police on people because they are poor.
Do you want this mess parked on your property? Probably not. Getting this pile of shit RV and car trailer full of shit out of our town would be great. It starts with law enforcement harassing them unfortunately, I guess. Dont bitch about a problem if you’re not okay with, or part of the solution.
We have the same problem in Santa Cruz and many of them throw their human waste into the street,
People fall on hard times or hard times fall on them, that’s real. But give up and litter our community is bullshit. I personally have had to clean up too many disgusting,litter filled camps from of people who dont care this is where we live, make a living and raise our families. I’m sick of it!!
Agree!
Shawn…well said!
Ummm , sohum invited this mess. Whether it’s home invasions, bum camps and everything in between. If you live in a community based on drug culture from mega grows to meth deals in rays, this is the outcome. I don’t understand the surprise and shock.
So the larger population of homeless and drug addicts in eureka was invited there by the people up north ? I highly doubt it.They gather in and outside towns that have lax addict enforcement and provide free food and spare change.No ne in and part of this county or another INVITED them.
This problem is across the whole country. It’s not just centralized to So Hum. Pull your head out of the ground.
Way too many visitors disagree with you. They find the drug addict- mental illness- homeless situation so out of control they commonly say that Eureka is the most depressing place they ever visited. This despite all the effort to pretend otherwise. I’ve heard the same from virtually every person who came to visit.
But I Guarantee you, where they live, these problems are there in big #’s also. They just live on a bigger block, where they can push their problems to the back. Out of site, out of mind.
Exactly. Happens everywhere.
Have you been to the bay area? Or the central coast? It is everywhere and it’s caused by people who charge to much for rent on there rental property. Not every two bedroom slum is a mansion with a price that reflects it
Yes they do, but it’s more because the houses are so run down and there isn’t much to look at on the waterfront. Plus it’s not usually very sunny.
lol. Right. Just traveled up the Oregon coast. Every single small town I came across, you didn’t see the trash that garberville supports on a daily basis. Why? Because the locals and more importantly law enforcement don’t accept it. Your wrong. It’s not a nation wide thing, it’s a California thing. It’s called Democratic/socialism. Why work when you can steal unpunished and get sh!t for free!
I’ve been to several small places myself, Oregon, Washington, Nv, Ohio. It’s there. Seen it, not assuming or just listening to propaganda.
That’s not True G. Cheese. Oregon and Towns on the Oregon coast have simular issues with homelessness and homeless encampments. Actually, Oregon has way better health programs available, and is better off for it. Portland OR has a large homeless population, but also homeless villages. Also Eugene has large homeless population but also better services to help.. like this one..
https://www.eugene-or.gov/3705/Opportunity-Village
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365342403/
Might want to look a bit harder next time you’re up this way then.
FYI-meth is the maga-righties drug of choice up here after booze.
You are wrong. Just plain wrong. It’s everywhere. I’ve seen it in England and France. It’s in Thailand. It’s in Argentina. but it is happening everywhere and it’s in your face everywhere you go.
Exactly
so, in the places you have had to clean up , has there trash bins where folks who do not have a place to live could have accessed to clean up after themselves ? restrooms or portapotties ? i am merely asking as if there was something for these people to use maybe you wouldnt need to clean up behind them. homelessness is a huge problem across the country and in this entire state. jailing them costs several times more than it would to get them help. not to mention that the fines and charges makes it even harder for people to overcome the things that are holding them down. very rarely is drug addiction the begaining of these peoples problems and in a way it is bred into our being here in America. have a tough or bad day at work ? relax with a beer or drink . we have all seen these sort or type of commericals most of our lives yet it is rarely pointed out that this is encourgaging addictive behavior. no most drug addicts have serious problems be it physcial or mental that have been unaddressed either because they havent saught help or they recived help in the form of pills that merely mask the underlaying problem or the help they received was never thorough enough to figure out what the problem or problems were in the first place. often never followed up on. most addicts end up either self medicating for either mental or physcial problems and some just are trying to get something to help make it through the day hoping that they might be able to over come things the next day.
there is not a simple answer to the problems these people have as there are to many differances however we have been attempting to do or treat these people the same way for decades and expexting differant results.
weither we agree with these peoples lifestyles or not we must agree that they have the right to live. they have the right to do that reguardless if they have the resources to pay rent or own land, unless you beleive that is a requirement to live in the state unharassed ? homeless in america is a huge problem that gets worse by the day. there are many who work jobs and still can not afford to live in a appartment or house or even pay the reg on their auto. many still are veterans that have been shuffled around misunderstood and have had less than steller treatments.
there are many reasons this is a growning problem in america and i have personal ideas as to why it is growing so fast but it is a long one with no workable soluations as of yet however if this country keeps being driven by the stockmarket where labor is the greatest expense and profits are the only thing that matters to the retirement fund manager and the forgein investors this problem will get worse in ways that are unscalible and i just hope that one day it isnt one of you who is being arrested for living in a rundown rv becouse it is thw best you are able to do at the time.
do something productive, it’s all about choices
I watched the process once. At first I did not realize what was going on. A car was pulled up to a “rundown rv” in a turn out and people were loading up the car up with stuff piled at the side of the road. The next day RV and the piles were mostly still there but the car gone. The piles (and the wind spread some of it) remained for a long time until some one cleaned it up. Somehow people always find a way to accumulate stuff but too many of them are quite willing to leave it for someone else to clean up.
Expecting others to be responsible and fix their own issues is frequently how people get in that position in the first place. While there are certainly a few incidences of horrendously bad luck causing a devolving ability to cope, there aren’t enough resources in the world to supply many people with the sort of behavior they should have for themselves.
Does mental illness lead to drug abuse? It can but more often it’s drug abuse that leads to mental illness. Even mental illness does not make a person necessarily helpless. People with everything from depression to schizophrenia spend their lives coping with it yet maintaining some level of self care. All the things you mention are what humanity has had to cope with since the first people made a semi permanent village. Those that succeeded did not wait for someone else to solve problems. Being alive means solving problems because life proceeds smoothly for almost no one.
You are correct to a point , however mental illness is still being defined so certain mental illnesses are seen as livable while others are still not even named. Add to the physical injury and or disabilities. Take the example of the veterans admin receiving 3 billion to push pain pills on vets, once caught those vets were just as many others with chronic problems cut off from them. There is a perfect example of illness causing drug dependency which can also lead to mental health issues in which nothing has been done to effect a correction for the damage caused. I am not saying to give hand outs I am saying it is failure on the part of all of us to sit back and judge without offering a helping hand. The solutions are as complexing as the problems there is no one size fits all. However if the waste from homeless seem to be a problem then how about providing a way for them to get rid of their waste that isn’t a extra burden on their extremely limited resources. Certainly it is cheaper to pay for their dump fee than it is to pay to clean it up and also pay to get rid of it.
Good points Anarchist!
A lot of activity on the corner of Redway Dr/Empire Ave today.
This guy was my ‘neighbor ‘ he trashed the parking lot behind blue room near my apartment. Bridgette Terry was harassed and threatened by him multiple tomes. He was up at all hours of the night tinkering with random stuff, many nights I had to ask him to keep it down. I hate to sound judgmental but his girlfriend who had no teeth,very skinny and covered in sores seemed like an addict, as did he. Often he would not respect others by being noisy and messy.
I don’t think this person was a good guy, he would steal the padlocks off the trash bin multiple times and who knows what else. Glad he’s in jail to he honest he made me, a young woman, feel unsafe on my own property I paid rent at…while he trashed the place,stayed up on drugs all night doing drugs and making a disturbance and finally theft.
Bout time…
Round em’ up
Make em’ work if they wanna slouch around in public.
We got things to do people
Most teenagers even can’t be made to work by their parents. The amount of effort needed to make the unwilling productive eliminates any chance of it happening. To say ” make them work” is the same magical thinking that people have who say give people a house and it ends the homeless problem. It just that not one homeless person would be homeless if they were willing to do what needed doing to keep a home in the first place. But they make other choices and there is no way other than physical violence to force them to make better choices once they are set in their says.
Everybody knows that the threat of physical violence has maximum coercive power.
Of course it can backfire or be abusive, but some form of corporal punishment is needed to clear the streets of unfixable adults.
Working people built the streets, but bums run them?
Not sustainable.
Time for us to take back our streets and sidewalks from those that belong in mental wards or prisons
Thank you Humboldt Sheriff Dept. Been a long haul for you with this one.
No teeth and covered in sores? You, my friend are clearly a racist! RACIST, I tell you. OBAMA 2020! Fucking racists are ruining this place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
“the comments have led to her being called a racist”
Please educate yourself before you speak.
🕯🌳Wow a whole mess of rejects from the darkroom. 🎄🗽🇺🇸
But ole gavin Newsom just gave a billion to the homeless I guess this guy didn’t qualify. Maybe now that he lost his rv he will get his share !!!!!
But 750m of that has to be skimmed by the man. So that leaves 250m for the cause
Actually this problem in Redway Garb was around long before Gavin, and you rednecks and hippies are all just as much part of the problem as the other! Stop being ignorant, right wing politics create poverty, and left wing politics tolerate and even subsidize shitty behavior.. this is literally the entire community’s fault! Own up!
When these losers can’t afford to get their motorhome out of impound, they will be living outside for the winter.
Foreigners are eating our lunch while we produce countless entitled low productive idiots.
🕯🌳The key phrase in your comment is “while we produce countless entitled low productive idiot’s “, so why is it that way? And why don’t you step up and try to change it instead of putting people down that have to use the system. 🎅🎅🎅🕯🕊🛐
Why don’t you? It’s probably the same reason. “Have to” is a very rare bird. “Why shouldn’t” is more common.
I was homeless for about 5 years before a homeless advocacy group got me into the VA system. Let me tell you the vast majority of homeless are lazy and dirty and just dont give a shit. Like most of the non homeless.
I saw homeless camps that were horrible conditions. People just shit right next to their camp. They left their trash everywhere. They stole everything, horrible drug and alcohol use(was my poison) its shitty and 99% just dont give a shit. It reflected poorly on myself as a homeless person and it made me retreat up into the woods.
You can be poor, homeless, w/e but you dont have to be a unmoralistic trash dirty scumbag while you are doing it.
Level,
thanks.
Right on levelheaded! It’s called life choices. Much respect to ALL vets.
Oh I didnt pull it together at all. The VA healthcare system, the social security system, and now my beautiful and extremely strong and caring wife, are helping me somewhat stay together. As evidenced by my posts on here, I have good days and alot of bad days. Either welfare leech, or w/e someones personal views are, that safety net system is keeping me from not walking out into those woods and disappearing forever.
I am grateful that my service in the Marine Corps has allowed me to have that safety net. Many on the street do not and while the vast majority are like the shitbags in this article. There are some that are not, and often in my experience within this system, those are the people that are not getting the help the need, while the loudmouth druggie scumbag thief idiots use and abuse the system. Many of our fundamental systems are broken here in the US. Dont even get me started on the VA system(note local clinic workers are awesome here I dont mean them).
Oops ranting…..
THX for sharing your experience gen X! I have vets in my family who have been thru simular ordeals! Props on rising out of your situation and making a better life for yourself!
In Eugene, there are different levels of Homeless camps. I think there is a difference in degrees of mental health, and mental stability, or just where people are in thier journey in life per say. And I think there is a difference then say, someone who is maybe transitioning thru life circumstances, and someone who just refuses to take options offered. I can understand that people are in a hard place sometimes, and are actually good people.. And sometimes there are seriously messed up individuals who maybe are at were they are at for a reason. Either way, I think a compassionate response and or solutions make life better for everyone, in the long run..
But for the grace of the higher power, there go any of us.
Not really. A lot of graceless people, most people by far, manage to avoid such issues. Sometimes by the skin of their teeth for decades- life can be a struggle- but by their own stubborn refusal to go there.
I’d hate to live in a world where nothing I could do makes any difference. Sometimes that is what I need to cope with. But as long as I can work on it, taking care of my own shit rather than leaving it for others is my goal.
Social Parasites is all they are. Stop being polite to them. Sh!tbags like this need to be harassed on a daily basis. If that guy tried to live next to me I would paint ball his ass every day!
The first thing that needs to happen for an addict is if they want to help them selves. If thats not going to happen theres nothing you all can say or do thats going to help or change them. Its sad others have to suffer for others actions.
Yeah, IDK. Even if these folks where not good houseless neighbors, it seems to me, that if their registeration and Drivers license were in order, towing their vehicle is extreme. If they litter, fine them for littering, if they are under the influence and driving that is a whole other issue. And even if they did litter, which is messed up, guess what is probably going to happen now, they will just move to another vagrant spot.. bum camp, and trash that. At least in an RV, they can dump their waste at a rv sewage spot, and have a way to get their trash to a trash can. If they are bad neighbors, make them move on, but towing their vehicle seems extreme to me, and just compounds the problem. At least these folks were somewhat holding some sort of assemblance of a roof over their head.
We have these all over Arcata. You can tell what’s going on. Plus they dump trash all over, or store their trash underneath it. If they happen to move, they leave it for someone else to clean up. Police do nothing, so sad
That POS is parked at the north end of redway now. Wonder how much contamination ends up in OUR water due to junkie homeless camps in humboldt. The ones around redway n garberville are disgusting. Unfortunately LE goes after the person with property, paying taxes, and a house becuase they want to grow a plant and spend its money in the community. Hmmm
it does happen everywhere, but it is much worse in Humboldt County!
“Ee gads, Eureka! There’s drugs in them hills”.
Nothing sadder than the American Dream reduced to a beat up pos broken down low on gas RV with 2 down trodden ‘adults’ trying to fix the curtains cause the view’s so nice.
Sounds like the front cover for a ‘mooch off america’ travel guide lmao.