Plans for Courthouse Gathering and Vigil Today as Miranda’s Rescue Investigation Continues
Compilation of courthouse photo by Ryan Hutson and poster for Courthouse gathering today.
As questions continue to swirl around Miranda’s Rescue and the fate of hundreds of dogs transferred to the Fortuna-based nonprofit over the years, community members are organizing two public gatherings today at the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka.
The events come amid an ongoing Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office investigation into allegations that dogs accepted by the rescue may have been euthanized and buried after being reported as adopted. No criminal charges have been filed, and investigators have said the case remains active.
The controversy has drawn national media coverage and sparked intense discussion throughout the animal rescue community. According to reporting by Redheaded Blackbelt, a growing online group has been working to identify and track dogs that were surrendered or transferred to Miranda’s Rescue, with many owners and shelters still seeking answers about what became of animals they entrusted to the organization.
Organizers are encouraging supporters to attend the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors meeting at 9 a.m. today, June 2. A flyer circulating online urges members of the public to arrive before the meeting begins if they wish to speak during public comment. The event is focused on the Miranda’s Rescue investigation and the broader issues it has raised about animal welfare and oversight.
Later in the day, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., organizers plan a candlelight vigil outside the courthouse. The vigil is being offered as a quiet gathering to remember animals that may have been affected and to show support for efforts to determine what happened to dogs and other animals connected to the rescue.
The gathering’s organizers ask participants to remain peaceful, bring signs if they wish, and avoid directing comments toward law enforcement or the District Attorney’s Office. Promotional materials describe the event as “a community united in sadness, remembrance, and love for the animals we lost.”
The events reflect the depth of public reaction to allegations that have shaken confidence in an organization that for decades was viewed by many as a refuge for animals with nowhere else to go. As investigators continue sorting through records and evidence, many former supporters, pet owners, volunteers, and shelter partners say they are still searching for answers about animals they believed had been given a second chance.
Earlier:
- Puppies and an Older Brindle Pitbull Stolen From Miranda’s Rescue
- Another Day, Another Save: Miranda’s Rescue Helps Hundreds of Animals a Year, Says Its Founder
- Search Warrant Served at Miranda’s Rescue in Fortuna Amid Animal Abuse and Fraud Investigation
- Paid to Save Them, Accused of Killing Them: The Investigation of Miranda’s Rescue
- HCSO: Miranda’s Rescue Investigation Remains a Priority
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I can’t believe people are still shopping at miranda thrift store boycott them run this dude out of Humboldt.since I’ve lived in Ferndale in the early 2000s there were rumors circulating that this has and been going on for a long time.
Something else that needs to be looked into is this.
The Humboldt County Planning and Building Department failed to enforce Miranda Rescue permits, allowing the Fortuna facility to operate out of compliance for 23 years.
Kris, do you have any type of proof that the Humboldt County Planning and Building Department failed to enforce the rescue permits for 23 years?
The planning department made a press release about it, calling it an oversight/mix up.
I did not see the press release No Joke. Thanks for the update.
It was in a news story the week after this horrible report was made public. Look here or on LoCO for the story in which John Ford admitted that the planning department did not ensure compliance.
i agree. something wrong there.
I want nothing to do with that man and his fake kill rescue. I will not blame the employees of the thrift stores they are victims too. Please don’t blame them. They are going to lose their jobs and have no choice.
I thought a lot of welfare to work clients were sent to the thrift stores and the actual rescue by social services. I feel really bad for those people. This must all come as a terrible shock…
I lived in Eureka for thirty years. I love Humboldt County!!! I have never heard any rumors that anything was possibly wrong at Miranda’s Rescue. I am very surprized!
There have been stories floating about regarding Shannon Miranda’s short fuse with animals forever. But to counter balance those, there were stories too about how he came forward to take animals that were not being cared for when officials and other rescues wouldn’t step up. He was a resource of last resort and was given his due for that.
The taking of money with the promise of finding good homes is something I had never heard before this brouhaha.
Please note that there are other people whom have also been around 30 years that have claimed otherwise. 23 of those years were spent out of compliance, so at least that long ago they were on someone’s radar.
In my opinion…
This article needs to be closely proof read for it’s unfortunate inaccuracy, (resulting in an unsupported, nonexistent allegation), and then corrected, with a retraction, as necessary, at the editor’s discretion, of course…
Trust me…
It contains a pretty significant error that is entirely unsubstantiated, and/or certainly not previously alleged, and not ever before even an accusation, until now…
I’ll just let y’all try and figure it out…
It should not be overlooked, as it simply isn’t true, as a matter of fact…
Words matter…
Accuracy matters…
Because truth matters…
I’m a stickler for that, which is why I’m still in hot water around here…
But I’m not trying to win a popularity contest…
I’m telling the truth, and that’s not very popular here in the comment section and beyond…
The proof of that will be in the number of down votes this comment receives, by those unwilling and/or unable to find the error, and the extent to which the error is corrected and/or retracted and acknowledged…
Normally I offer my proofreading services, (for what they may, or may not, be worth) unconditionally…
They are not always well received, and have ceased to even even be aknowledged…
So I will dutifully notify y’all of the error’s existence, but I’ll go ahead and let y’all try and figure it out and find it on yer own…
Hints:
It ain’t just a typographical error…
It amounts, as a matter of fact, to being an entirely unjustified, false allegation…
Good luck.
Consider it a challenge…
Your welcome…
The question is…
How long will it remain uncorrected…???
Drop a request for more hints in the comment section, if/as necessary…
No promises, however…
Give it a rest.
Be my guest…
You must have been a schoolmarm in a past life, just sayin’.
How about you first proofread your own comment for its excessive and improper use of ellipsis.
“Consider it a challenge…”
Or just more nonsensical rambling followed by an obscene use of ellipses and double spacing. Yeesh, are you typing to fit a store receipt? Don’t sit and lecture people on typography when you just made a couple dozen errors of your own. It’s bad form.
Challenge unmet…
I think I’d better place a Polymarket bet on how many ellipses you’ll use in tomorrow’s posts.
Hopefully, if there is enough evidence against Shannon Miranda this case should go to court. I have also heard rumors about the treatment of dogs, and probably other animals at his place. If his is found guilty, he should spend some time behind prison bars to think about what he did!
I was at the Courthouse today and attended both the meeting and the gathering outside. While I am not familiar at all with Miranda’s Rescue, I am concerned about what the future will bring with animal rescue here locally. If guilty, there is no way I want Miranda’s Rescue close to any animal !!! What is missing in the conversation is what the county is going to do to improve all County rescue/shelters? My hope is the Supervisors finally make significant improvements in this area with both money and community involvement with them becoming more engaged with their constituents.
this should have been posted at least June 1st or earlier if notified, not 26 minutes before the 9am meeting.
Unfortunately, we were just notified.
You “were just notified”, by whom, exactly…???
You “were just notified” by “A flyer circulating online…”…???
Because that is the only “source” of notification that has been identified…
Or did you just arbitrarily elect to pick up the ball on your own, and run with it, one way or the other, so to speak…???
Because depending on the chosen direction towards which goal you’ve decided to run with it, you have clearly taken a side, and joined a particular team, against the other…
If this isn’t a press release, then by publishing the “plans” without request, (with no other organizers identified), haven’t you actually become the de facto organizer, leader, coach, and quarterback, calling and signaling the play for a team you have clearly joined, in order to dog pile on an opponent, right along with everyone else on your chosen team…???
Simply publishing the upcoming event, by request, without a primary emphasis on the “PLANS” would have been neutral news…
Unrequested publication of an event with unidentified organizers, complete with “plans”, becomes your baby, as much as or more, than it would be theirs, doesn’t it…???
No way to really and or realistically attribute these plans to anyone else identifiable, besides RHBB, is there…???
If so, who are we to rightly attribute these “plans” to that have remained unnamed and unidentified…???
In the interest of full disclosure, that is, of course…
Does journalistic confidentiality of, “A flyer circulating online…” source really apply here…???
The headline could have simply read …
“DOG PILE ON SHANNON MIRANDA AT THE COURTHOUSE…!!!”
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P.S. …
(First sentence of the second paragraph in the article needs careful proofreading, for you have put the cart before the horse, so to speak, and you have used the word “after” where the word “before” actually belongs, making it an inaccurate, incorrect accusation/incorrect allegation…)
The word “after” could remain, but only if the written order of the alleged events were reversed…
So, either “after” is corrected to “before”, as in…
“The events come amid an ongoing Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office investigation into allegations that dogs accepted by the rescue may have been euthanized and buried BEFORE being reported as adopted.”
Or…
“The events come amid an ongoing Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office investigation into allegations that dogs accepted by the rescue may have been reported as adopted AFTER being euthanized and buried.”
Either way…
If and how you correct this allegation error is entirely up to you…
Dude. If you were a DA prosecuting an obviously guilty murderer, by the time you finished proving his guilt beyond the shadow of a doubt, the jury would hate you so much they’d let Charlie Manson walk.
Anosognosia……
Dang. That’s unnecessarily nasty.
It’s just more habitual projection…
Innocence abused more like.
Considering the 8 shot dogs in just one mass grave, I myself lean to the side of the dogs.
Love the caveat on the notice about No curse words or comments directed at law enforcement or DA. You know what you call people who put that on their notice for a public demonstration?
ADULTS
Adults who don’t believe in free speech?
Let me guess…
You’re missing the hypocrisy, after already trying to silence me…???
SMDH….
Nobody was trying to silence you.
You’ve seemed really stressed about this topic lately, and I was wondering if you’re doing okay. Maybe need a rest?
Link to “A flyer circulating online…”, please…
Why aren’t the organizers of this event even being mentioned…???
Without the names of the actual organizers of this event even being mentioned (that this article is being printed on behalf of), doesn’t Redheaded Blackbelt effectively become the de facto organizer of this event…???
Especially with this headline…
‘PLANS FOR COURTHOUSE GATHERING AND VIGIL TODAY AS MIRANDA’S RESCUE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES’
I definitely think so…
Wouldn’t the headline..,
…”COURTHOUSE GATHERING AND VIGIL TODAY AS MIRANDA’S RESCUE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES”…
..have sufficed…???
The first headline is providing the “PLANS” of an operation or action, as if coming from RHBB, in what would appear to be a non neutral, influential, coordinating alliance…
The second headline would have simply been providing totally neutral information with no such appearance of a bias, nor a preconceived popular and/or preferential allegiance, let alone the appearance of Redheaded Blackbelt inappropriately adopting a non neutral “planning”, and therefore leadership role, in a non neutral action intentionally adverse to Shannon Miranda and Miranda’s Rescue…
Words matter…
As written, with no other organizers or organizations mentioned, the headline:
‘PLANS FOR COURTHOUSE GATHERING AND VIGIL TODAY AS MIRANDA’S RESCUE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES’
Sure has the appearance of Redheaded Blackbelt having electively “manned the helm” of the organization, publication, and dissemination of said “PLANS FOR COURTHOUSE GATHERING…”, so to speak…
It seems to me that the line has been crossed from RHBB providing news neutrally, over to electively and selectively providing biased advocacy of “this” unidentified organization by way of the unrequested distribution of “their” “Anti Shannon Miranda/ Shannon Miranda hater” activism battle plans…
So much for journalistic neutrality…
Identify your source to a far greater, more accurate degree than simply…
…”A flyer circulating online…”…
Or you actually have become your very own, convenient, “source”…
Is this a press release, or is it just an unrequested favor to the otherwise unidentified organizers of this one sided, biased, prejudicial activism/event…
If any dogs are present on courthouse grounds, as a result, current proof of rabies vaccinations and licensing should be STRICTLY ENFORCED…!!!
WITH NO EXCEPTIONS WHATSOEVER…!!!
Why conceal and/or otherwise leave unmentioned the actual identities of the true organizers of this event..???
Unless otherwise mentioned, you have assumed the role of being the actual organizers of this event…
And there is nothing neutral and/or unbiased about that, to be sure, in my opinion…
Should you really be taking a side, and an organizational role, in this matter…???
Why don’t you do something productive with your self inflated intelligence? Maybe you could volunteer at the Humboldt literacy project?
What are the names of, and what is the contact information for, the organizers of this event, for further information…???
And why isn’t that very important, highly relevant information, being duly provided within this article…???
Is it being intentionally kept a secret, for some “unknown”, unexplained reason…???
Do tell…
Loose group of hastily assembled, upset and concerned humans.
The hub appears to be this FB page
The flyer admittedly lacks vital information, (and the weird collar on the dog and the bottom banner are both giving unfortunate and mixed messages. But their intentions are pure; something you might not be able to relate to, yet.
Hastily assembled, my ass…
Pure intentions, my ass…
More like witch hunt, lynch mob…
Never forget where legend has it, that is the final destination of where the road actually leads, that is paved with such good intentions, Testy…
Why do I distinctly smell a couple of really nasty “J’s”…???
What would you know about the purity of their intentions…???
The only intentions you could even possibly vouch for accurately would be yours and yours alone, and even that might be a stretch…
Maybe that is something that you are not ready to relate to yet..
As far as assessing other people’s intentions, your self proclaimed abilities certainly do not exceed mine…
Sigh, Ok. Whatever.
Oh, I get it now this is personal to you. It’s not about a large amount of fraud committed by a man who took a lot of money for a lot of dogs, and now some those dogs disappeared and some of those chipped dogs were found in a mass grave allegedly shot by that man. The man who said they were adopted, lied, and admitted he shot Zora (one of the dogs in the mass grave) in the head. All 8 dogs and the 9th that had to leave behind were shot and killed. You seem to want to discredit the women that exposed the evidence of eight shot dogs bodies who were put in a mass grave. You’re just discredit yourself by making this personal.
Is law enforcement digging up the property? I wonder if there are more than just the eight dead dogs that are already known about…
Lisa
Way to compresses several concrete reported facts into a soft puffy cloud of uncertainty for Shannon to hang out on.
What about Miranda admitting he shot Zora in the head? What about him admitting he lied about that dog being adopted? What about the statements documented in the sworn affidavit by Detective Aguilera?
Why is this piece framed as though investigators are trying to solve that part of the mystery?
The remaining mystery is how many….
That’s why vigil.
What about the fact that …
…”…allegations that dogs accepted by the rescue may have been euthanized and buried after being reported as adopted.”…
… actually aren’t the true allegations, at all, as a matter of fact…???
That’s why…
“Unsubstantiated…”
Shannon’s own words.
I do think it’s hilarious you and I both appear to be fixated on the same rhetorically compressed phrase -;but from 180° different angles. 😆
You are so clearly wrong…
How many time would you have to reread your italicized quote before you realize it’s obvious inaccuracy…???
You should keep re reading it at least until you realize it is totally backwards…
It took me exactly once, long before you cut and pasted it…
What you have cut and pasted is an obvious error…
There is no possible way those are “Shannon’s own words” as you so errantly alleged…
I think it’s hilarious that you are so confident that your totally backwards version is the one that somehow isn’t the one that is 180° in the wrong direction…!!!
LOL…!!!
Here is “your” bogus quote…
“allegations that dogs accepted by the rescue may have been euthanized and buried after being reported as adopted”
Now, flip the “after” in “your” errant quote, “180°” into the word “before”, and you get…
“allegations that dogs accepted by the rescue may have been euthanized and buried before being reported as adopted”
And then honestly ask yourself, which is correct…???, and then if you are the one that is actually wrong, “180°”…???, and then honestly answer both questions here…
Were they “euthanized and buried”, “after” being “reported as adopted”, as you have so haphazardly quoted, or actually “euthanized and buried” “before” being “reported as adopted”…???
The truth shall set you free, Testy…
Meanwhile, you are just digging yourself deeper into your misunderstanding, when you are clearly already in over your head…
Can you admit it when it’s actually you that is, in fact, 180° wrong, as a matter of fact, Testy…
How hilarious is that…???
Something tells me that you still won’t honestly admit it, Testy, even as plainly obvious as it now is…
I already acknowledged that my POV was skewed 180° from yours; does that make me wrong? We’ll find out.
Truth and facts are different things, ask any history professor.
Thanks for proving my point…
Ffs I spent three comments discussing ideas while you remained locked in mortal combat with a preposition. I’m out.
There is nothing hilarious about animal, cruelty, and fraud. It is actually horrendous.
Sheriff says no crime. Animal control says animals are well and checked every other day. Wing nuts still spinning out of control. Hmmmm. I don’t do drama or irrational people so I won’t be there. This is not newsworthy it’s more of a soap opera.
Actually, according to the HCSO it’s a Major Crimes investigation that other agencies including the Attorney General are involved in.
Just a heads up so you know who doesn’t go on a 100 word rant about it.
As far as I know the AG has not been involved yet. But yes the AG could get involved at a later date, as fraud is involved.
Actually its on Q&A document, where someone directly asked HCSO:
“What other agencies are involved in this investigation?”
And the answer given was:
(The California Department of Justice (DOJ) is the agency headed by the California Attorney General)
Thanks, didn’t know that.
https://www.times-standard.com/2026/05/23/humboldt-county-sheriff-responds-to-questions-about-mirandas-rescue-investigation/
What other agencies are involved in this investigation?
“A: Humboldt County Major Crimes Division is working with our Animal Control, County Code Enforcement, Humboldt County District Attorney, and the CA Department of Justice.”
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“It is also important to understand that nonprofit organizations and charities may still be subject to other legal requirements, including oversight through the California Attorney General’s Office. The Attorney General has responsibility for supervising charities and charitable solicitations in California
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The HCSO does not say that the “Attorney General is involved in” the investigation of Miranda’s Rescue at this time…
Only that nonprofit organizations may be subject to AG oversight…
Big difference…!!!
Nit-picking…Again. And it appears you are not understanding the AG’s job.
The California Department of Justice (CalDOJ) is an executive department within the state government, and it is under the direct leadership of the elected California Attorney General
Wiki-
The AG assigns other divisions to handle things. For example the Charitable Trusts Section would be looking into the fraud allegations. The AG signs off on things but many more personal are involved.
“Actually, according to the HCSO it’s a Major Crimes investigation that other agencies including the Attorney General are involved in.”
-Testy-
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FFS, Testy…
Cut the crap…!!!
You are really on a tear…
Seriously..???
It’s really a “Major Crimes investigation that other agencies including the “ATTORNEY GENERAL” are involved in, according to the HCSO”…???
I’m gonna have to call total bullshit on that complete nonsense, Testy…
Be so kind as to provide some sort of documentation whatsoever, for that, will you please…???
Good Luck…!!!
No charges have even been filed, so what exactly is it that you are ridiculously alleging that have reached the “Attorney General” for investigation…???
Link please…???
Evidence please…???
I think you have greatly exaggerated the facts, again, Testy…
How about a simple link to back your claim…???
L-I-N-K
Thanks Jenna. Try commenting with your own name
I just want to know why his property is not being dug up by the Sheriff Dept., if there were 8 dogs buried at once, there are properly 100’s out there, if it was anyone else they would have dug it up the first day! Not give him a chance to removed the evidence, he is a bad person and always has been, it’s suppose to be a animal rescue , not a pay to take and kill your pet. Really bad, and unforgivable by God and all humans that love pets!
and if there are (100s)? How do you prove he committed a crime? Fraud is about all you got. Animal cruelty if the fraud is a conviction. Shooting a viscous dog is AoK. Shooting a sick dog is humane. When the dog is dead, it must be disposed of. What is your solution? The glue factory?
Nobody ever told me that Shannon Miranda was a bad person before. I am very surprised. Does he show evidence of bad character in general?
Over 50 people attending so far.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2026/jun/2/photos-pro-dog-anti-mirandas-rescue-courthouse-vig/