Glaciers may be melting elsewhere, but here in Humboldt County, the District Attorney’s Office has earned a reputation for moving at glacial speed on cases.

It has been more than two months since a motorist crossed the median on U.S. Highway 101 and hit County Supervisor Roger Rodoni’s pickup head-on, resulting in his death. It has been established that alcohol was not involved. No matter what may have caused the woman to drive into the oncoming lane, doing so was illegal. No charges, however, have been forthcoming from the district attorney.

In another case, nearly two months ago, Arcata Chamber of Commerce officials noticed irregularities in their bank account. It was alleged that their former executive director, Kerri Malloy, had embezzled $8,000 from the chamber in the form of two forged checks which he deposited to his own business account.

The funds were subsequently recovered. Nevertheless, the Chamber reported the incident to the police who turned it over to the District Attorney’s Office, which is still mulling it over.

When asked by the Eureka Reporter why it was taking so long to make decisions on these two cases, a District Attorney’s Office spokesman, thinking our reporter had just fallen off a turnip truck, said: “We have thousands of cases.” In Humboldt County?