Category: Sheriff’s Dept
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Dianna Stanley Retires From Sheriff’s Office
By Donna Westfall – December 9, 2025 At the Board of Supervisors meeting, Diana Stanley was honored for her 30 years of service at the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Department. Chair Joe Borges presented Diana with a plaque honoring her as she retires. The entire audience stood up applauding. I know from personal experience that…
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The Grinch That Stole Christmas (Lights)
By Rose Peasley as Reported to Donna Westfall – December 19, 2024 “On December 18, 2024 at 12:13 am, this guy in these recordings and photos went to my RE/MAX office located at 1072 9th Street in Crescent City, CA and spent over 1/2 hour dismantling my Christmas decorations, stealing trees, net lights, shovel and one…
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BE ON THE LOOKOUT
Office of the Sheriff – October 14, 2023 The Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office along with the Del Norte County District Attorney’s Office is investigating the death of Del Norte County Sheriff’s Deputy, Deanna Esmaeel. Deputy Esmaeel was found deceased in her home on North Bank Road Thursday morning 10-12-2023. The suspect and boyfriend of…
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Driven To Drink?
By Angry Old American – June 2, 2023 Copyright Angry Old American – June 2, 2023 – All Rights Reserved. It is an unfortunate fact that many law enforcement and correctional officers are driven to drink in order to cope with the insanity of our present “legal system;” if it can even be called that.…
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DEL NORTE SERGEANT BOOKED DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
By Investigative Reporter – Linda Sutter – May 31, 2023 Trinity Williams is a sergeant at the Del Norte County Jail, but with a wink of an eye that all changed and she was booked into the Del Norte County Jail on May 26, 2023 and released at 12:34:56 May 27th, 2023. It is unfortunate…
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Smuggled Fentanyl Leads to Search of K Street Residence in Crescent City, Says DNSO
From Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office – April 28, 2023 On 4-25-23 at approximately 4pm, the Del Norte County Sherriff’s Office executed a search warrant at 1030 K st in Crescent City. Roxanne Hamilton was arrested at 1030 K st by DNSO deputies on 4-19-23. It was discovered by Correctional staff that Hamilton had smuggled…
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Sheriff Scott’s Dilemma
Commentary by Samuel Strait – March 27, 2023 Things could be worse for the Del Norte County’s Sheriff, as we haverecently learned the Fresno County sheriff is dealing with the fall outof having a local resident of Fresno, California being arrested andbooked for the tenth time in the last thirty one days. Talk about afrequent…
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INTERVIEW WITH SHERIFF GARRETT SCOTT
By Donna Westfall – February 13, 2023 On Friday, January 27, we spent an hour with Sheriff Garrett Scott. What became apparent is that he loves his job. That was plain as day. He claims to be a Type B personality. Let’s take a look at the the differences: Type A tends to be aggressive,…
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Disassociation of Endorsement of Fifth District candidate for Supervisor from the Del Norte Sheriff’s Employee Association.
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – October 21, 2022 EYE ON DEL NORTE has received a communication from the Del Norte Sheriff ‘s Employee Association it has NOT endorsed appointed Supervisor Susan Masten for the position of Fifth District Supervisor. The DNSEA respectfully demands a retraction. One of the Association’s members appeared…
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Garrett Scott, A Man On A Mission
Commentary by Samuel Strait – June 4, 2022 You can’t help but respect the man. Who you might say? Del NorteCounty has a new man at the helm in the Del Norte County SheriffDepartment, Sheriff Garrett Scott. In a brief but telling conversationon a street corner in Crescent City during Friday’s Street Fair put onby…