Driver of Fleeing Vehicle Arrested After Striking Patrol Car and Downed Trees

This is a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:

Frans Albert Nelson III

Frans Albert Nelson III

On August 4, 2020, at about 10 p.m., a Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputy on patrol in the area of Murray Road and McKinleyville Avenue, in McKinleyville, attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle for a vehicle code violation.

The driver of the vehicle failed to yield to the deputy. The deputy pursued the vehicle approximately one mile, terminating the pursuit due to community safety concerns. The deputy lost sight of the vehicle as it continued east on Murray Road toward Fieldbrook. Deputies continued to patrol the surrounding areas in an attempt to locate the vehicle.

At about 11:20 p.m., sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the 800 block of Arthur Road in McKinleyville for the report of a suspicious vehicle with two occupants. Deputies arrived in the area and recognized the vehicle as the suspect vehicle of the pursuit earlier that night. Deputies attempted a traffic stop on the vehicle. The driver again attempted to flee from deputies in the vehicle, striking a patrol car and downed trees before coming to rest.

Sheriff’s deputies performed a felony traffic stop and detained both occupants of the vehicle. During a search of the vehicle, deputies located approximately 1.9 grams of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and an open bottle of alcohol.

The driver of the vehicle, identified as 32-year-old Frans Albert Nelson III of Anderson, CA, was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm (PC 245(c)), resisting arrest (PC 69), hit and run (VC 20002(a)), felony evading (VC 2800.2), reckless driving (VC 23103(a), possession of a controlled substance (HS 11377(a)), possession of drug paraphernalia (HS 11364), driving with a suspended license with a prior conviction (VC 14601.2(a)), possession of an open container (VC 23222(a)), driving under the influence of alcohol (VC 23152(a) and VC 23152(b)), violation of Post Release Community Supervision (PC 3455(b)(1)), unsafe speed for prevailing conditions (VC 22350) and failure to stop at a stop sign (VC 22450(a)).

The passenger of the vehicle, identified as 22-year-old Destiny Justine Bell of Redding, CA, was cited and released on charges of possession of a controlled substance (HS 11377) and possession of drug paraphernalia (HS 11364).

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

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Puest
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Puest
3 years ago

Lock Him Up???!!!!!

Buster
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Buster
3 years ago
Reply to  Puest

Oh no!
Can’t do that, he might become infected with who knows what and that is inhumane treatment.

Puest
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Puest
3 years ago
Reply to  Buster

Doesn’t hurt to wish!!! ;-]]

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Buster

He hit a patrol car.

Martha
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Martha
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

You people are a bunch of Hippocrates. I suppose all of you guys talking shit about this guy were on the dean’s list all through school. Never ever did anything wrong in your entire life. Your perfect angels righ? I hate to burst yu bubbles but there is no such thing a perfect. Just coming from a bunch of potheads and drug addicts 11 Humboldt County come on give me a brake.

sam
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sam
3 years ago
Reply to  Puest

Tree Killer!!

Humboldts finest
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3 years ago

Meth smoker geez here we go again…

Willie Bray
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3 years ago

🕯🌳No book and release for that boy. And no tree setter was hurt during this pursuit. 🖖

Steve Parr
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Steve Parr
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

I don’t know about no book-and-release. I was assaulted outside my back gate last week by some tweeker on a bicycle who bear-maced me twice for telling him to stay out of my house. They caught him two blocks away — felon on parole with felony warrants, plus the new charges of felony assault, etc. He was booked and released.

Smoking
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Smoking
3 years ago

Really hope there is no frans the forth.

Brent Peeck
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3 years ago

you should just say possesion of methamphetamine. Destiny is a good stripper name.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Brent Peeck

Brent is a good stripper name.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago

On Wednesday morning, Chigago-based JKC Trucking co-owner Mike Kucharski appeared on “Fox and Friends First” to talk about a company policy to direct truck drivers to avoid picking up or delivering loads to cities that are pushing to defund or disband police departments.

In the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, a growing number of cities are pushing to defund or disband police departments.

“Our first priority is to support our drivers and their safety when they are on the road,” Kucharski explained.

Kucharski points to the fact that truckers haul valuable goods and says that when you’re out on the road, “there’s no safe place” for drivers to go. Without police to protect drivers, he says it’s just too dangerous.

The Fox and Friends First segment highlighted a CDLLife poll that found that 79% of respondents said they would refuse loads to cities with disbanded or defunded police departments.

Kucharski admits that the impact of refusing to deliver to certain cities could have a major impact on his business.

When asked if he had a message for the trucking community, Kucharski said:

“Defunding the police is not the solution. We all have to work together with critical thinking and find a solution. The problem, during this time of crisis, is that the government has been behind the steering wheel. It’s time for small businesses to take over the steering wheel and make the right decisions, to sit down with the politicians. I welcome the politicians to sit down with us so we can educate them on what is best for the economy and small businesses. Last time I checked small businesses were the backbone of America.”

https://cdllife.com/2020/no-police-no-delivery-trucking-co-owner-tells-fox-news-his-drivers-wont-deliver-to-defunded-cities/

Willow Creeker
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Willow Creeker
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Get a better news source. First of all, if one company stops serving major cities they are going to lose a lot of business. And plenty of other companies are going to step right in and eat their lunch. It’s just a scare tactic and unfortunately you aren’t smart enough to see that. I personally don’t support defunding the police, I think we should pay them more, so we attract the best and brightest. But that’s beside the point.

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago
Reply to  Willow Creeker

Sometimes businesses are willing to lose money for their moral convictions. The left and gun control is a prime example of that. Besides, the hypothetical situation if a driver is killed in a highjacking after a company sent him to a known danger zone, the lawsuit settlement would likely offset their profits from said area. Not saying If believe it but I could definantly see it as plausible. I would find t funny if they did. It’s your right in America to conduct business where ever you see fit, provided you pay the government for the privelage.

Angela Robinson
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Angela Robinson
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Not speaking hypothetically, most truck/shippng thefts happen in truck stop and rest stop parking lots. Not in cities.

By career criminals who specialize in it. In the United states.

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago

So there has never been a truck robbery in an urban area? And you’re obviously willing to state that there never will be? Here’s another one, the urban areas that are pushing for defunding also have the highest level of protests, in the united states. What’s the civil payout for a protestor ran over and killed by a company big rig? Which has come dangerously close to happening. My guess is your entire company.

Local farmer
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Local farmer
3 years ago
Reply to  Willow Creeker

Trust me, the best and brightest don’t want to be cops. Pay them more, what a joke! Go ahead w c donate your money to the police. I’d rather have the money in the hands of someone who will actually protect my family, me. Defund the police!

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Yeah, good luck with that… lol