University Police Arrest Eureka Man With 40 Grams of Cocaine at Off-Campus Location, According to Officers ⁠2%

By LoCO Staff⁠24%

8/4/2026, 4:28:23 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Fundamental Attribution Error, and Halo Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 8.7% saturation with 18 hits. Analysis detected 55 faulty-reasoning hits from 208 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 6.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠2% (27,877 of 28,361 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.30% of the article peer group.

Press 
release from the Cal Poly Humboldt University Police Department: 
On 
Tuesday, August 4, 2026, at approximately 1:00 a.m., an officer with 
the Cal Poly Humboldt University Police Department (UPD) was 
conducting a property check on university-owned land when they 
observed a vehicle parked on Jackson Ranch Road in an area posted as 
no parking during nighttime hours. 
The 
officer contacted the vehicle’s occupant, who was identified as 
46-year-old Colin Baldridge of Eureka. 
During the contact, the 
officer determined Baldridge was on felony probation for narcotics 
sales and subject to a probation search condition requiring him to 
submit to searches of his person and vehicle. 
During 
the probation search, the officer located approximately 40 grams 
(about 1½ ounces) of suspected cocaine inside the vehicle. 
The 
suspected cocaine was packaged in multiple individual baggies. 
Officers also located digital scales and packaging materials 
consistent with the sale of narcotics. 
Baldridge 
was arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional 
Facility on charges of possession of narcotics for sale and violation 
of probation. 
He is being held without bail.  
The 
investigation is ongoing. 
Anyone with additional information is 
encouraged to contact UPD at (707) 826-5555. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 4.3%LoCO Staff: 1.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.6%Confirmation Bias4.3%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.7%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 1.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.9%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 2.9%LoCO Staff: 0.3%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.3%Representativeness Heuristic2.9%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.2%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 3.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 2.7%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.7%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.2%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.2%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 3.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 2.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 1.4%LoCO Staff: 0.5%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.1%Pessimism Bias1.4%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 2.1%Lost Coast Outpost: 4.2%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 4.3%LoCO Staff: 0.2%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error4.3%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 1.7%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.9%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 4.3%LoCO Staff: 2.5%Lost Coast Outpost: 2.3%Halo Effect4.3%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.5%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.6%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.1%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 8.7%LoCO Staff: 2.2%Lost Coast Outpost: 2.2%Appeal to Authority8.7%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.3%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.1%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.7%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.3%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.2%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 5.4%Lost Coast Outpost: 4.3%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.5%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.8%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.3%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.7%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.1%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.5%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.3%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.5%LoCO Staff: 4.9%Lost Coast Outpost: 3.9%Biased Writer Voice0.5%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 5.3%Lost Coast Outpost: 2.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.0%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 0.1%Lost Coast Outpost: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%LoCO Staff: 2.2%Lost Coast Outpost: 1.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

208 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers9.1%attributed speech189writer words
100%flagged-word coverage
18 attributed words95% of attributed speech20% writer coverage
0%2.5%5.0%Biased Writer Voice-0.5 ptsWriter: 0.5%Cal Poly Humboldt University Police Department: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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