Vehicle Stolen From Eureka Recovered After Flock System Alerts Ukiah Police
This is a press release from the Ukiah Police Department. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:
On 02/27/2025 at approximately 08:22am, Ukiah Police Department (UPD) Officers were alerted by the Flock automated license plate recognition system that a reported stolen vehicle was traveling the streets of Ukiah. UPD Dispatch was able to verify that the Honda HR-V had been reported stolen by the Eureka Police Department (EPD), and the vehicle was still at large.
A short time later, UPD Officers located the stolen vehicle traveling southbound on North State Street. UPD Officers noted that a female, later identified as a 17-year-old juvenile from Eureka, CA was seated in the driver’s seat. Due to the propensity of vehicle thieves known to carry weapons, a high-risk felony stop was conducted. Inside of the vehicle was a male passenger, later identified as Ahmarri Brown from Eureka, CA, and three other passengers. All occupants of the vehicle were detained without further incident.
After speaking with EPD personnel about their case, it was determined Brown was identified as the primary suspect who had taken the vehicle. It was also determined the 17-year-old female was associated with Brown at the time of the theft.
Brown was arrested and booked into the Mendocino County Jail for violation of 10851(a) CVC – Take vehicle without owner’s consent. The juvenile female was arrested and booked into the Mendocino County Juvenile Hall for violation of 496d(a) PC – possession of a stolen vehicle. The stolen Honda was towed and stored so that it could be returned to the registered owner.
As always, UPD’s mission is to make Ukiah as safe a place as possible, and we are grateful for the help and support that we receive from the community. If you would like to know more about crime in your neighborhood, you can sign up for telephone, cellphone, and email notifications by clicking the Nixle button on our website; www.ukiahpolice.com.
Victims: 47-year-old male from Eureka, CAPeople of the State of California.Suspects: Ahmarri Marquse Brown18-year-old male from Eureka, CA17-year-old female from Eureka, CAViolations: 496d(a) PC- Possession of a stolen vehicle (Felony.)10851(a) CVC-Take vehicle without owner’s consent (Felony.)
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I’ve had two cars stolen in eureka and recovered quickly with the thieves in them. Both times the eureka courts just released them and didn’t hold them accountable.
I’ll take “Something That Didnt Happen” for $100 Alex.
Obviously these Flock cameras are kicking ass in Ukiah. I’m glad to see the private sector teaming up with the police to help make their job easier. Are these cameras in Eureka? If not, then why not? They seem to work. I know a certain billboard that could use one of these cameras.
I looked up Flock Safety, the division of Flock that make these cameras. Good stuff. It’s good to see Motorola have some competition in the field of mass surveillance technologies.
The one good thing about the soft on crime approach is that it helps the public understand the importance of mass surveillance for our own well being. I guess an epidemic level of crime helps to show that we need this medicine in our lives to be healthy, otherwise people would generally not think it’s necessary.
The other good part of the cameras being completely controlled and owned by the private company is that there is less chance the local governments will be paying out big taxpayer funded lawsuits if the cameras are misused. If they are owned by the local city or police then public records requests could lead to lawsuits against misuse being easier to prove but it costs us taxpayers a lot of money. I don’t want to be paying out money from my taxes just for petty things like police officers tracking ex-girlfriends.
Ukiah has problems but maybe Eureka could learn a thing or two and enter the 21st century.
No, our dumbass City voted against it.
Of course…that would help lower crime and make our understaffed police force jobs a little easier. What a bunch of morons! Oh what a minute…my bad, that would be “violating” the criminals “rights”!
JOKE!
Oh crap…I just got a cheeseburger, onion rings and 2 tacos at Jack in the Box for lunch…I’m supposed to be eating healthy – my wife is going to kill me when she sees that!
There are at least two of these deployed in Eureka already, actually. Weird how you can call an entire City government a dumbass on this website, yet not make a similar comment to a person insulting the groups of people. Typical.
Careful! That’s also not true. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has cameras just outside of city limits.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/feb/5/no-license-plate-reading-cameras/
Facts: more complicated than words like “dumbass.”
At the same time, I don’t know for sure, but I would bet at least half the press releases that UPD publishes mention their cameras. Do the cameras stop half the crime in Ukiah? Perhaps, perhaps not. Messaging matters. Don’t get lost in the back and forth the trends might be hiding right in front of you!
I’m seriously considering banning all insults but that is fricking hard to do. People speak insults all the time and wouldn’t know they were doing something wrong. And I’d have to spend even more time moderating than I already do.
But my main concern is to keep the comment section from degenerating into screams of “your mother wears army boots!” Personal insults are the fastest way to go down that road so I ban them.
I’m sure it’s a difficult and unrewarding task. It’s just weird to see someone make a wide comment and then a more narrow one get the ax. That said, many of the commenters, including myself, should do better so that the comments remain and the task is less of a burden. My apologies, Kym and RHBB staff.
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Local criminals taking their show on the road. Eureka is not sending out its finest. A wall around Eureka? Arcata? McKinleyville? Spare millions from our dregs wilth a wall around Humboldt County? Stay klassy.
What boggles my mind is these flock cameras are all up and down the 101 all the way to Humboldt county and they didn’t trigger for that car until it was in ukiah?
There’s a flock camera before the peg house, there’s a camera before avenue of the giants, there’s a flock camera at One log House.
Why didn’t it trigger any of these cameras?
What the Flock!!!
I wondered, too. But maybe it hadn’t yet been reported and entered into the system?
For you wardrivers out there: https://deflock.me/
It makes since for Eureka to not invest in cameras. If you book and release criminals, why waste money on tools to try to catch them. There is no intent on conviction or punitive actions.