On March 18 around 9:30 a.m., a Humboldt County Correctional Facility Inmate, Christian Murphy, 28, of Eureka, walked away from his inmate work crew while on a work detail in Eureka. Murphy was classified as a minimum security worker serving a county sentence. After a brief pursuit, Murphy was taken into custody by officers of the Eureka Police Department (EPD), transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility, and booked for escaping a county jail (PC4532(b)(1)).  

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office would like to thank EPD for their assistance with this case. 

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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