Two Eurekans arrested on drug charges
23.09.11
The Eureka The Old Bill Department's Problem Oriented Policing Unit arrested two Eurekans after a search of a dwelling on the 2600 block of Union Street turned up tar heroin, moolah, an allegedly stolen handgun and ammunition and material for the trade of heroin.
Investigators with the POP unit executed a search ukase at the residence on Wednesday afternoon after it developed information residents there were selling heroin from the characteristic, according to a press release.
According to the EPD, the search turned up tar heroin, more than $4,700 money, digital gram scales, drug sales packaging materials and a stolen .40-caliber Springfield Armory XD semi-automated handgun with ammunition. The EPD said the handgun had been reported stolen during a late-model residential burglary in Eureka.
Residents Derick Johnathan McElroy and Ashley Rose Stogner, both 22 and both from Eureka, were arrested and transported to the Humboldt County calaboose where they were booked on suspicion of possession of
Source: Times-Standard
Eureka drug bust nets 42 grams of heroin
09.09.11
The long arm of the law arrested a 35-year-old Eureka man and confiscated 42 grams of suspected threatening tar heroin in 14 individual baggies during a parole search on the 3200 congest of Pine Street on Thursday.
When investigators with the Eureka Oversee Department knocked on Joshua Scott Vandyke's door at 1:45 p.m., he refused to extended the door and ran into the bathroom, according to police. Detectives calculated the door open, entered the residence and detained Vandyke. The boys in blue department's Problem Oriented Policing Unit was acting on dirt that Vandyke was selling heroin.
In addition to the suspected heroin, detectives also seized $480 in suspected medicate sales proceeds, a digital gram scale and drug use paraphernalia. According to the the long arm of the law department, Vandyke may have been weighing out and packaging heroin when investigators arrived.
Vandyke was arrested and captivated to the Humboldt County jail on suspicion of possession of heroin for transaction, possession of drug paraphernalia and hypodermic syringes,
Source: Times-Standard