Man Drives Into Patrol Car, Flees at High Speed, Brandishes Weapon, Before Surrendering
This is a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:
Tsewenaldin Allen Vanpelt
On Feb. 8, 2023, at about 12:24 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies on patrol in the Trinidad area conducted an investigation into an occupied vehicle parked in a no parking zone at Houda Point.
Upon deputy contact, the driver, 48-year-old Tsewenaldin Allen Vanpelt, reversed his vehicle colliding with the patrol car, then fled at a high rate of speed. Deputies pursued the vehicle through Trinidad, onto Highway 101 and eventually onto Highway 299. During this pursuit, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) was requested to assist. The pursuit lasted approximately 85 minutes, with Vanpelt’s vehicle reaching speeds in excess of 120 miles per hour. During the pursuit, Vanpelt brandished a firearm from the vehicle multiple times.
Vanpelt yielded the vehicle to law enforcement at a CHP road block in the area of Bair Road, Mile Marker 14.5, where he was taken into custody. No one was injured as a result of this incident.
Vanpelt was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility by the CHP on charges of evading a peace officer (VC 2800.2), exhibiting a firearm in the presence of law enforcement (PC 417(c)), carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle (PC 25400(a)(1)), carrying a loaded firearm in a public place (PC 25850(a)), driving under the influence of alcohol (VC 23152(a) & 23152(b)) and resisting a peace officer (PC 148(a)).
Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.
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Hi, how are you Mr. Happyface …. err, I mean, how high are you Mr. Happyface?
Listened to this on the scanner, it was awesome. Just like Live On Patrol only no picture. Hard to to chase a local on his own turf.
I bet it was one hell of a ride. They were smart enough to block out of Bair Road, which if he made onto Bair, they might as well have given up. It’s the best place to lose them on the way to the Rez.
He did make it onto Bair, they drove onto Bair from 299 near Lord Ellis and CHP put up a block and spike strips near the bridge on the Hoopa side.
The suspect vehicle stopped multiple times and pointed a rifle out the window and then continued at speeds between 15 and 40 mph.
Yes, I heard one of the chase vehicles ran off the road but stated he had no damage but needed a tow back onto the road.
Jeepers, creepers, where’d you get those peepers?
That’s from the adrenaline rush he got from running from the cops for 85 minutes. Oh, and meth!
Currently “The world’s fastest Indian”
Best Movie for sure, a must see. Please watch, and go piss on a lemon tree, ladies
Way to turn a misdemeanor into a string of felonys mr Vanpelt!
Z will be disappointed.
When he gets out later today after a free lunch and some street cred photo ops Hes gona be singing about the wild wild west!!!! We really need to take guns from lawful citizens and defund the cops becus clearly people will just rely on their conscience to guide them. Its working so far!
You need to change your blog name.
Tsewenaldin Allen Vanpelt ….AKA….VanTsweeeeeekinghard
Just another day in Humboldt. All you parents checking the local news to see if you want to send your children to attend the esteemed Cal Poly Humboldt , take note.
That is stupid. The drinking and the gun was nothing compared to ramming a LEO, getting into a high speed car chase, and brandishing a gun.
And on this episode of Grandpas gone mad…[edit]
Just for fun, let’s try this on: Woman drives into patrol car, flees at high speed, brandishes weapon, before surrendering. Little hard to picture.
Are you sure you are visualizing a woman though? LOL
[edit] Blame the balls, not the drugs. FYI, women in Humboldt have been arrested for even stupider actions than this guy’s. Not because they were born with a vagina, but because they were on drugs. Same as this guy.
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Kym, considering all the disgusting, hate-filled comments that can be found on any of your posts (including tragedies), and the racism that is rampant among the comments to your posts, you heavily edit the post that calls someone out on their hate. I didn’t even cuss.
Have you joined the dark side?
Hard truths are not welcome in the comment section.
Polite lies are completely 1000% ok.
Hard truth: Brian is resentful that his opinion of how this website should be run doesn’t trump the opinion of the site’s owner and her 15 years of figuring out how best to preserve free speech while not devolving into insults back and forth.
Polite lie: Brian’s opinion matters deeply to me. I shall probably not sleep tonight.
Nice try.
You look like a giant squirrel with that comment.
Just to be clear. You would be deleted if you compared any other commenter to an animal in an obviously insulting way.
Attention Kym: I don’t know how to ask this any other way- how do I donate an auto pay donation to your site without giving my card info online. Don’t pay things like this. Do you have another way/address?
There is not a way to auto-pay without a card. You could send a check to
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Thank you!
I compared you to another commenter.
Remember 2 weeks ago when I showed everyone how you are biased?
“I expect better from you” – KK
I’ll just leave it at that.
You don’t know the difference between giant squirrel and Giant Squirrel. Sigh, I expect better from you.
Woops you just broke your Grammer rule.
Can I mention Guests overuse of quotes yet use?
If not I’ll just mention that you used a period instead of a question mark.
Focus on yourself and don’t expect shit from me.
😉
Kym,
I’m allowed to voice my thoughts.
If you don’t like my thoughts, take your OWN ADVICE and don’t read them.
😉
Hard truth: I’ve opined for 5 years that RHBB has too many open doors for commenting and the opportunity for misinformation spreading was beyond radioactive in its property. The owner/operator continues to berate me for that, yet continues to clamp down on commenting with the creation of a handful of new rules that essentially tone down the BS that was complained about. RHBB commenting forum is years behind most sites but is trying to catch up, again, adding fuel to the idea that I was right – and though publicly admonished and berated, privately agreed with.
Polite lie: I think my last donation was worth it.
* And because Kym has made this extremely personal against me, this might be my last post she allows 🤷♂️
I love lamps
Good God Brian. It is her site, her rules. With this degree of entitlement you must be really well liked everywhere you go in life. Don’t like it? Man TF up and act like an American, start your own damn site.
Brian, “Don’t go away sad. Don’t go away mad. Just go away.” RHBB is the best news site on the North Coast, including the comments. And you want to talk about public service, who was it who had information up in the middle of the night,10 minutes after the earthquake. I tell all non locals to look here for North Coast information. With the Southern Humboldt slump, I just hope RHBB can keep it going financially.
I have a well documented commentary of respecting RHBB reporters and reporting.
I am able to voice my thoughts regarding comments, just as you just did.
Brian, Actually I have no sense of entitlement about my posts being accepted and i certainly don’t take it as a personal attack if my posts get cut. It’s someone else’s property and I don’t necessarily get to say what I want. If I don’t like it, I move on. So far, it’s been fair on RHBB. I actually like how Kym joins in as a moderator.
Awesome.
I don’t care to explain myself more than I have done long enough.
I’m not suffering what you’re thinking.
You directly insulted the other commenter. Having hateful opinions on subjects, in general, is allowed as free speech. One can for instance say all marijuana growers are drug-addled, criminals bent on destroying the environment.
One can not say to a person who has just said they are a grower that they are a drug-addled criminal. One could say that in your opinion growing marijuana destroys the environment.
Susan implies that women would be treated differently (I actually agree with her but I think a woman would likely have been treated less harshly.). That’s the way free speech works. In general, on this website, you get to say your opinion on how the world works even if I think you are wrong.
You replied to Susan with personal insults and some solid points of disagreement. I deleted the insults and left the points made.
If that is the dark side, then I’m on it.
Ms Kemp, your patience with Real Brian is astounding. Why not just ban him and be done with it? No one will miss reading his snark and nonsense.
Calling someone a man-hater is a direct insult? Telling someone to go back home is a direct insult?
There are literally hundreds if not thousands of comments on your site telling people to gtfo of Humboldt, and a similar number calling people out on their racism, xenophobia, and misogyny.
But since the hate is directed toward men instead of women, that’s ok with you. You seem to be learning from Hank. How many of your recent posts do not contain the word “arrested”? I’m sure there’s more going on in Humboldt than police reports. But crime baits clicks.
I’m sure my opinion means absolute shit to you. Don’t worry, though- you won’t have to delete it again. I’ll leave your remaining commenters to carry on their online Klan meetings.
No reply is necessary; I won’t read it.
Ah but the rest of us are enjoying the theater. You’re reading it is not any real point.
https://www.thereporter.com/2012/10/15/rio-vista-woman-shot-wounded-by-police-after-high-speed-chase/amp/
70 year old Calamity Jane. There is always one.
https://www.taftmidwaydriller.com/news/woman-takes-plead-deal-in-armed-standoff-with-police/article_adf83094-8d31-11ed-8e53-5b1cd6e3004f.html
The fool is lucky to have survived this.
He isn’t even beat up.
Good job LEOs.
too stoned to fight
Maybe he sobered up enough to realize he could not dig a hole to china.
Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Soupy Sales comes to mind.
Hahaha!!! Nailed it!
Bingo!
We do have a fine class of idiots here on the North Coast. The entrants are truly amazing.
He seems very happy
oh shyt moment
just a native person chillin in a car on a quiet road. Is parking enforcement such a priority for the sheriffs? Certainly lucky no one was hurt. Cant blame him for runnin, considering the way things work in this country when a dark skinned man is stopped by the police
You’re an enabler…
NO. It was a DRUNK person who had been DRIVING, parked where you can’t park (unless it’s an emergency, and at the point a Sheriff will pull over to make sure you’re ok before assuming you’re a drunk buffoon with a a rifle), who then CONTINUED TO DRIVE WHILE INTOXICATED.
village idiot
Former Mayor from Sebastopol?
So he thinks waving a gun at the police is going to make them stop their pursuit……good luck with that.
No it usually does, after they shoot you a few dozen times.
drunk people don’t “think”….
The guy is 48…???
Is that a toupee…???
Either way, it’s awesome…!!!
Emphasis on “Vanpelt”…???😉😂😁
Garfield
Gets my vote for the best mug shot of 2023.
I know this man and know him as being a very good person from a very good family. Sending him and his family strength and love during this hard time. I hope everyone out there never finds yourself in a position like this. Speaking with love and non judgement.
tbh, I hope everyone commenting is smart enough to not drink and drive…
He made a mistake, a very stupid mistake, followed by several more stupid mistakes…they all could have been prevented by NOT drinking while operating a vehicle.