Category: Sheriff’s Dept

By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – May 23, 2022 It is with great respect and anticipation retired Crescent City Lieutenant Garrett Scott is appointed interim Sheriff for Del Norte County, Tuesday, May 24 in the Board of Supervisors Chambers. The swearing in ceremony is at 1pm. The public is invited to attend…

By Linda Sutter – May 13, 2022 On or about May 9, 2022 at approximately 0900 hours on Peveler Avenue in the Bertsch tract, it is alleged the Del Norte Sheriff responded to a 5150 call which resulted in death. The sheriff’s office to date has not sent out a press release. The residents of…

By Linda Sutter – May 12, 2022 Former Sheriff Waltz pled no contest to three charges regarding falsifying his place of residence while running for Sheriff Judge Goldberg read his rights to waive trial for the felony criminal charges. Waltz pled no contest to make it sound as though it was a minor infraction, however,…

By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – April 30, 2022 A miscarriage of justice continues in what I can only call “malicious prosecution.” The Del Norte County Board of Supervisors appointed undersheriff Randy Waltz to the vacant Sheriff position when Erik Apperson unexpectedly resigned, last year. The newly appointed Sheriff announced his candidacy…

By Linda Sutter – April 22, 2022 Deplorable unsafe conditions! The pictures you are looking at is one cell in the Del Norte County Jail. The inmate who resides in this cell is mentally ill. In the pictures you can clearly see approximately 20 milk cartons, and 10 trays which implies this has been built…

By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – April 5, 2022 It is not often that so much is made of news out of the Del Norte CountySheriff’s Office, yet that has changed in rather dramatic fashionrecently.  Following a Sacramento Bee article, some time ago titled ” NoLaw North Of The Klamath.  Dysfunction, Scandal Plague…

March 14, 2022 There is currently NO Sheriff in Del Norte County. More news later.

By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – March 14, 2022 The recent charges brought against appointed Sheriff Randy Waltz, DelNorte County’s current occupant of the County’s highest law enforcementposition is curious at best.  When Sheriff Waltz was hired back in Juneof 2020 in a newly created position of undersheriff, someone must haveasked for certain…

By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – March 7, 2022 Retired Crescent City Police Lieutenant Garrett Scott has filed papers for Del Norte County Sheriff. Locally born, raised and educated in Del Norte schools, Garrett Scott was a Del Norte Law Enforcement Cadet Program graduate and Criminal Justice major at Cal Poly Humboldt.…