Drug Dealer Arrested At Arcata Motel

Joshua Gillette already on probation for 2005 hash fire

Humboldt Sentinel
3/15/09
By Sentinel Staff

ARCATA -- Last Friday evening, trouble once again caught up with a man previously convicted of destroying part of an apartment building when his hash manufacturing lab blew up and started a fire.

Joshua Gillette, a 30-year-old Iowa resident, was taken into custody at about 11 p.m. last night, when the Arcata Police Department was tipped off that a probationer with a felony arrest warrant was at the Motel 6 on Valley West Boulevard. He was taken into custody without incident, and according to APD officials, offered no resistance.

On his arrest, Gillette was found in possession of hash, a substance suspected of being methamphetamine, hypodermic syringes, unlawfully possessed prescription medications and materials for drug sales. He was charged with drug possession, drug sales and probation violation.