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Humboldt Sentinel
Tou Cheng, a 28-year-old Eureka resident, was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of attempted burglary, resisting arrest and being under the influence of a controlled substance.
At about 4:52 a.m. Wednesday Eureka police officers were sent to a house on the 300 block of 15th Street, where a caller said a someone was trying to force their way through the back door. As the homeowner spoke to the dispatcher, the burglar tried to get in by breaking a window. When officers arrived Cheng fled to the roof and held them off with a large piece of pipe, threatening to jump from the roof if they tried to arrest him.
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EUREKA -- A distraught man who held off police for two hours as they talked him down from the roof of a house has been jailed for attempted burglary and drug charges.