[UPDATE 10:23 a.m.] Family Searches for Missing Man in the Humboldt Bay Region
Taylor Thornton last saw her stepdad, Darren Pettit, on May 27 in Eureka not far from Broadway on Truesdale Street.
“He got out my car,” Thornton told us. She said he was a little tipsy at the time. And she hasn’t seen him since. “He’s being living with me for three years,” she explained and its unusual for him to be gone so long.
“We’ve looked all the places he would be,” she said. Pettit sometimes likes to go the Arcata Marsh, but they’ve looked there without success.
“His EBT card was being used on Humboldt Hill Market,” Thornton said. But she says that she was able to check the store’s camera at the time the EBT card was supposedly being used and the man who was using a card at that time was not her stepdad. She’s afraid that someone else is using his card without his permission.
She is pretty sure that the app is accurate. “I used my EBT card and the app showed up at the time I used it,” she told us.
The missing man, Darren Pettit, is 55 years old. “He was last seen wearing the black/camo jacket and jeans that are in the last picture, his beard is more grown out as well,” Thornton wrote in a social media post.
“If he just wanted to be on his own, then I wouldn’t make the police report,” she said.
The family has reported him missing to the Eureka Police Department. If anyone has any information, please contact the EPD at (707) 441-4060.
UPDATE 10:23 a.m.: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department is now in charge of the search since Mr. Pettit lived in an unincorporated Humboldt County. If you have any information about his whereabouts reach out to them at (707) 445-7251.
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He looks just like a homeless man I have spoken to twice in the past 2 days in Crescent City.
I sure hope they can find him, and he will be ok.
I swear I saw him in crescent city as well.
I hope you find him, his smile wrinkles say it all.
Hope they find Cutie, look at his Smile, he’s afraid of nothing
Probably talking to Elk