Eureka Tattoo Studio Hit by Early-Morning Burglary, Police Seek Suspects

A masked man shattered multiple windows at Sangha Tattoo Studio on Eureka's F Street in the early hours of March 31, 2026, with neighboring security cameras catching him in the act as a gray or silver Ford truck idled nearby.

Officers with the Eureka Police Department arrived at the 500 block of F Street at approximately 8:00 a.m. following a burglary call. They found multiple windows broken and signs that someone may have entered the interior. A search of the building came up empty.

The surveillance footage, obtained from businesses adjacent to Sangha, shows a male subject wearing a facial covering breaking the studio's windows at approximately 1:00 a.m., around seven hours before officers were called. Video also shows the Ford truck parked near the studio before the act and leaving shortly after. The EPD's Criminal Investigations Unit is treating that vehicle as a key lead and is asking anyone with information to call 707-441-4300.

For a working studio with nine tattoo artists and two apprentices on staff, the costs run deeper than window replacement. Sangha carries the kind of assets that define a serious custom shop: client intake records, pigment inventories built for specific work, sterilized equipment, and stencil libraries that geometric artists spend years developing. A forced entry puts all of it at risk simultaneously, and the disruption to booked appointments adds its own financial hit.

The March 31 burglary is not the first deliberate attack on Sangha. In an earlier incident, someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the studio's glass door, prompting co-owner Jackie Silva and artist Ashlie Nichole to publicly announce a postponed grand opening while dealing with the damage.

The investigation remains open. Anyone who can identify the masked suspect or the gray or silver Ford truck seen on camera should contact the Eureka Police Department's Criminal Investigations Unit at 707-441-4300.