On Nov. 2, the Humboldt County Sheriff–Coroner’s office responded to the abandoned power plant in Blue Lake for a death investigation. The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office led the investigation and conducted an autopsy on the decedent. The decedent has been identified as Jason Quinton Miller, age 50, of Blue Lake. 

The autopsy confirmed that Miller’s cause of death is electrocution with extensive thermal burns, terminal fall from heights, and chronic methamphetamine abuse. 

Miller was known to be living in an encampment in Blue Lake before his death. At the time of his death, Miller was trespassing on City of Blue Lake property and appeared to be stealing copper wire from a live power line.

Anyone with information about this case 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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