William Dee Love arrested on meth possession, illegal camping charges
Staff Report
Humboldt Sentinel
Acting on complaints from the business community and residents, Eureka Police Department’s Problem Oriented Policing Unit (POP) investigators swept out camps of homeless people in the greenbelt along the south end of Broadway on Dec. 7.
Officers spoke to 28 people in several illegal camps, busting or ticketing four of them. The rest were given warnings and ordered to leave. Large amounts of scattered and piled trash were found and a clean-up crew will come through the area in the near future.
William Dee Love, 36, was taken into custody in the greenbelt area west of the 4300 block of Broadway and jailed for possession of a half gram of methamphetamine and illegal camping. Three other people were given tickets for illegal camping and trash dumping; one was also cited for not having their dog registered.
During the week before the sweep, officers posted notices warning campers to leave. EPD’s homeless liaison, Pamlyn Millsap, came along with officers during the sweep to give campers information about local resources and services available to them.
The sweep included the area behind K-Mart and the marshland west of Broadway from Lithia Dodge to the Bayshore Mall, where illegal campers were reportedly dumping trash, trespassing, breaking and entering into buildings, committing vandalism such as cutting holes in fences as well as stealing from vehicles, aggressively panhandling, fighting and abusing drugs and alcohol.
