The State or location where this occurred should have been in the keywords section of this post. This is especially true since the FR posted portion of the article also does not provide more information than “Arcata”, wherever that may be.
Humboldt county California.
Agree.
Arcata is in far Northern California, just north of Eureka, in Humboldt County. At first I thought it was Arcadia, which is in Southern California.