February 22, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
MUIR BEACH – A Sunset Way man at 9:50 a.m. Monday reported receiving an annoying phone call.
INVERNESS – A man on Monday found a mountain bicycle in bushes downtown and turned it in at a store. The store at 4:30 p.m. notified deputies, who brought the bike to the West Marin substation for safekeeping.
STINSON BEACH – Water district staff at 10:15 a.m. Friday told deputies a burglar had broken into a district shed at Stinson Gulch and stole a pressure washer and other tools.
NICASIO – A woman at 3 p.m. Friday called deputies to say her husband had broken into their house and that she was frightened and afraid to stay there.
INVERNESS – A Madrone Avenue woman at 2:30 p.m. Monday reported receiving eight hangup phone calls in two days and wanted the phone company to catch the caller.
INVERNESS PARK – A Drake’s Summit Road resident at 6:30 p.m. last Thursday told deputies that someone had broken into her home.
POINT REYES STATION – A tree-trimming company at 8:30 a.m. last Thursday reported a man had broken a window on one of its old trucks so he could spend the night sleeping in it. The company asked that the person not be arrested, just removed.
STINSON BEACH – A burglar broke the window of a man’s car parked along Highway 1 south of town in order to steal several items.
SAN GERONIMO – A powerline on San Geronimo Valley Drive fell down at 4 a.m. Tuesday. County firefighters helped PG&E deal with live wires.
BOLINAS – A car hit an embankment along Olema-Bolinas Road last Thursday evening. No one was injured. The Highway Patrol handled the mishap, and the car was towed away.
WOODACRE – A resident at 12:20 a.m. Friday reported two vehicles, one of them a pickup truck with its headlights out, were parked on Fern Avenue and that a male voice was making "strange noises [that were] possibly moaning."
BOLINAS – A Locust Road resident called deputies with a question about an old camper shell (for a pickup truck) that had been left on the side of the road. A deputy tried to call the resident back several times, but her line was always busy.
LAGUNITAS – A woman told called deputies from out of state to say she had gone to a wedding and left her estranged husband, 47, in charge of their 10-month-old baby. She reported that he kept calling her to say the baby wouldn’t stop crying.
WOODACRE – A Garden Way resident reported someone had broken into her home.
SAN GERONIMO – A utility truck crashed at Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Nicasio Valley Road, leaving a branch sticking out where it could injure a passerby, deputies were notified at 1:20 a.m. last Wednesday. The truck was towed away.
POINT REYES STATION – A bakery truck broke a utility pole in two at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday when it ran off the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road almost a mile east of Highway 1. The crash caused major damage to the front end of the truck, which nonetheless continued into town to make a delivery. When a Highway Patrol officer found the truck driver in town, the driver admitted running off the road but insisted he didn’t hit anything. A sheriff’s deputy subsequently pulled a piece of the utility pole out of the truck’s windshield frame. PG&E replaced the broken pole.
POINT REYES STATION – Sheriff’s Lt. John Brunslik, commander of the West Marin Substation, has asked The Light to let readers know that a campaign to remove abandoned cars is underway in West Marin. Lt. Brunslik said the Sheriff’s Office will arrange to have abandoned vehicles towed off private property, as well as public property, if the landowner signs a release. The substation’s phone number is 663-1151.
February 15, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
OLEMA – A woman at 11:30 a.m. Sunday notified deputies that a vandal had cut three tires on her car. She estimated the damage at $250.
LAGUNITAS – A Fairfax policeman last Thursday evening pursued a motorist driving recklessly on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard westbound over White’s Hill. Although it was after 8 p.m., the motorist was driving at speeds of 60 to 70 mph with his headlights out, officers reported. In Lagunitas, the driver abandoned his car and fled on foot, but a sheriff’s deputy caught him behind a Rodeo Drive home. The Fairfax policeman arrested the motorist, who had a lump on his forehead and scraped hands.
MUIR BEACH – A woman on Highway 1 at 2 p.m. Friday reported a male driver had taken her car at 10:45 a.m. and not returned with her vehicle. At 8 p.m., deputies were told he had returned the car.
NATIONAL SEASHORE – A woman at 1:30 p.m. Friday told deputies that on Pierce Point Road she had lost a mini-computer worth $350.
POINT REYES STATION – A deputy at 6:30 p.m. last Thursday found a cell phone on Fourth Street.
NICASIO – A Nicasio Valley Road rancher reported juveniles in four-wheel-drive trucks spinning donuts in his pasture and tearing up the land. Rather than press charges, the rancher agreed to have the juveniles use rakes to repair their damage and then to reseed the area, which was about 100 yards by 50 yards. The work will be done under the supervision of the sheriff’s COPS program (Community Oriented Police Problem Solving).
SAN GERONIMO – The school notified deputies of a drug-law violation, but the incident was handled without a report being filed.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – Deputies at 5:20 a.m. Monday reported a loose cow was back in its pasture.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Castro Street resident at 9:40 p.m. Sunday asked that a deputy check on a parked motorhome, which he suspected was being used for illegal habitation. A deputy initially found nothing amiss but later contacted the motorhome’s owner, who reported being tired but willing to move on after a 90-minute rest.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman at 3 p.m. Friday turned in a .38-caliber, five-shot pistol that she didn’t want.
SAN GERONIMO – The Humane Society notified deputies that a car had hit a deer on San Geronimo Valley Drive at 8:35 p.m. Friday. The animal was "mangled" and "barely alive," officers were told. At the request of the humane society, a deputy shot the deer.
SAN GERONIMO – A driver using a cell phone notified deputies at 11 p.m. Friday she was on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at San Geronimo Drive following a drunk driver. She said the driver was in a red Geo coupe.
LAGUNITAS – A woman at 12:20 a.m. Saturday notified deputies that her son had not returned home after leaving for school at 7 a.m. Friday. She said he was probably hanging out with friends in Fairfax, and a deputy gave her advice.
DILLON BEACH – An Oceana Drive resident at 3:30 a.m. Saturday complained about a loud party near her house. She said about 10 people were talking loudly and playing loud music.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman at 9:30 a.m. Friday complained about a young couple with a large, shaggy dog spending the night in town in an old VW van. A deputy determined the couple is from Benicia and advised them that vehicle habitation is illegal in Marin County.
STINSON BEACH – A Laurel Avenue resident on Friday offered to donate a motorcycle to the Sheriff’s Department, and a deputy gave her advice.
POINT REYES STATION – A San Francisco woman at 1:30 p.m. Friday retrieved a purse she had left in a store on the main street.
BOLINAS – A resident at 10:20 p.m. last Thursday said she could hear several voices talking loudly on Brighton Avenue near a church and wanted it stopped. She later called back to say she thought the people had left.
TOMALES – Deputies at 8:30 p.m. last Wednesday received a 911-hangup call from a home on the Tomales-Petaluma Road. A phone company operator reported the home’s telephone receiver was off the hook, and a deputy determined that an 18-month-old child had "made the call in error." All was well, the officer reported.
LAGUNITAS – A woman at 10 p.m. last Wednesday reported her son was overdue home from school, where he had last been seen playing basketball. The boy’s father later called and said there was no problem.
STINSON BEACH – Seadrift Security reported the front door of a Dipsea Road home was open and its heater was on. No one should be in the house, the guard said. A deputy determined nothing was amiss and that they might merely be dealing with a caretaker oversight.
TOMALES – A ranchworker was stabbed in December, as deputies were notified at the time. Last week, the rancher provided the ranchworker with a microwave oven but two days later, the worker’s brother came to the dairy and damaged the microwave, the rancher complained at 12:45 p.m. last Wednesday. A deputy determined the stabbing and damage were unrelated and told the rancher the damage was a civil-law problem.
OLEMA – Deputies called two ranches last week before determining who owned a cow that was loose on Bear Valley Road. An officer later reported that someone from one of the ranches was en route to pick up the cow.
FOREST KNOLLS – A deputy found a 34-year-old man’s wallet in a Civic Center parking lot and called the man’s father in Forest Knolls to notify him. The father said his son lives in Gualala but was at Civic Center that day for a court hearing. No one knew which judge’s courtroom the son was in, so a deputy left the wallet at the Hall of Justice’s front desk.
LAGUNITAS – A businessman on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard reported there were two very drunk men with an injured pit bull outside in a motorhome. Deputies arrested the men on charges of public drunkenness, and their pit bull and a springer spaniel were turned over to a veterinarian for safekeeping. The men were eventually released without charges being sent to the district attorney.
INVERNESS PARK – A very large tree split in two and fell onto powerlines along Upper Roberts Drive. Deputies assisted firefighters and PG&E.
SAN GERONIMO – A deputy at Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Nicasio Valley Road cited a motorist for driving despite having his license suspended.
POINT REYES STATION – Sheriff’s Lt. John Brunslik, commander of the West Marin Substation, has asked The Light to let readers know that a campaign to remove abandoned cars is underway in West Marin. Lt. Brunslik said the Sheriff’s Office will arrange to have abandoned vehicles towed off private property, as well as public property, if the landowner signs a release. The substation’s phone number is 663-1151.
February 8, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
POINT REYES STATION – A purse, which had been lost by a San Rafael woman two weeks ago, was found in a restaurant. Deputies contacted her, and she said she would make arrangements to have it picked up.
STINSON BEACH – A man, who rents out goats for clearing property, at 11 a.m. last Thursday reported that last November someone stole three wrenches, three post pounders, and five billy goats from a site on Panoramic Highway. In addition, he said, sometime during November or December, a thief stole up to 150 feet of electrical fencing, along with two pruners and three pairs of pliers, at a site on the Olema-Bolinas Road in Bolinas. The man said he has been too busy to report the thefts until now.
TOMALES – A deputy on the Tomales-Petaluma Road at 10:15 a.m. Sunday arrested a man on a Sonoma County warrant. The man was charged with contempt of court for allegedly violating a court-issued restraining order in a domestic-violence case. Bail was set at $7,000.
INVERNESS PARK – A county Roads Department worker at 7:40 p.m. Monday reported a tree had fallen onto powerlines at Balboa Avenue and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, causing a PG&E transformer to explode. A neighbor told deputies of hearing a loud "boom." County firefighters responded.
FOREST KNOLLS – Deputies at 9 p.m. Monday were asked to make extra patrols around a "public encampment" on Castro Street. Officers found "no one there."
CHILENO VALLEY – Deputies at 9:35 p.m. Monday received word of a cow on a roadway. An officer later reported, "Cow back in pasture."
WOODACRE – A Redwood Drive resident a noon Monday reported a large, sickly tree was dropping branches and might fall over. The resident asked officers to notify the Department of Public Works. A DPW employee later reported the tree was "fine," was not a hazard, and was on private property. Deputies noted the tree was part of an "extensive neighborhood dispute."
LAGUNITAS – A resident at 2:40 p.m. Monday called over a fence after hearing a woman screaming. The screaming stopped but later resumed, with the woman yelling, "No! No! No!" for 15 minutes. The resident could not hear any other voices.
LAGUNITAS – A Mountain View Avenue resident at 2:35 p.m. Monday said he had been receiving harassing phone calls and needed to file a report so the phone company would trace the calls.
NICASIO – A motorist on Nicasio Valley Road at 10:45 p.m. Sunday was cited on charges of driving with a suspended license. The motorist had been convicted of drunk driving on Dec. 4 a year ago and had been sentenced to make restitution and spend three years on probation.
POINT REYES STATION – The Highway Patrol at 1 p.m. Sunday was notified of a hit-run traffic accident on Fourth Street. No one was injured.
STINSON BEACH – Deputies at 2:40 p.m. Sunday received word that a man in a wheelchair was stuck in the mud on Arenal Avenue. Firefighters freed the man, who was carrying a boombox on his wheelchair and requesting donations for playing music.
SAMUEL TAYLOR PARK – A San Geronimo woman reported a 24-year-old woman was hyperventilating near Devil’s Gulch. Deputies and firefighters responded.
STINSON BEACH – A woman at 3:45 p.m. Sunday notified deputies of a drunk motorist, who had been passed out on the beach, had crawled to his car and gotten into it with a passenger. Deputies alerted rangers and the Highway Patrol.
SAN GERONIMO – A San Geronimo Valley Drive resident at 7:05 p.m. Friday complained that her ex-boyfriend was causing her emotional distress. The resident said she had asked him to move out, but so far he was refusing to leave. She asked a deputy to take a report so she could get a court to issue a restraining order against him.
NICASIO – An Old Rancheria Road resident at 9:25 p.m. Friday asked for a deputy to come to her house. She said dayshift deputies had earlier turned out her basement light and locked the door, but the door was now open and the light was on. The resident said she had locked herself inside for protection. A deputy reported he would check on her.
POINT REYES STATION – A Highway 1 resident heard a vehicle crash at 2:15 a.m. Friday, but deputies couldn’t find it.
WOODACRE – A Railroad Avenue resident at 10:20 a.m. last Thursday complained of ongoing parking problems caused by abandoned vehicles in her neighborhood. A deputy reported he would tag some of the vehicles to be hauled away.
STINSON BEACH – A deputy on Highway 1 at 4:25 p.m. last Thursday cited a motorist on charges of having an open alcoholic-beverage container in his vehicle. The officer also arrested a passenger, who was already on probation, on charges of possessing methamphetamine.
POINT REYES STATION – Sheriff’s Lt. John Brunslik, commander of the West Marin Substation, has asked The Light to let readers know that a campaign to remove abandoned cars is underway in West Marin. Lt. Brunslik said the Sheriff’s Office will arrange to have abandoned vehicles towed off private property, as well as public property, if the landowner signs a release. The substation’s phone number is 663-1151.
February 1, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
POINT REYES STATION – Specialists in micro-surgery last week were unable to reattach the index finger of a Coast Guardsman’s right hand, which was pulled off by a drill press Tuesday. After the unsuccessful surgery in San Francisco, the victim spent the past week hospitalized.
INVERNESS – A juvenile ran away from her Sir Francis Drake Boulevard home at 3:30 p.m. Friday but was later located.
NICASIO – Juvenile vandals were caught spray painting graffiti on Big Rock at the summit of Lucas Valley Road about 3:30 p.m. Friday.
POINT REYES STATION – Two vandals spray painted graffiti on a gas station, deputies learned at 9:25 a.m. Monday.
INVERNESS – A man, who recently crashed a Jeep in town, donated it to firefighters so they could use it to practice extricating people trapped in vehicles after collisions.
STINSON BEACH – A Highway Patrol officer at 7:30 p.m. Sunday notified deputies that a man and a woman, apparently hikers, were on Panoramic Highway three fourths of a mile uphill from Highway 1 and "looking stressed or tired." Medics looked for the pair but could not find them.
TOMALES – A Tomales-Petaluma Road resident at 8 p.m. Sunday notified deputies that a 69-year-old man living in the Russian River area had called several times in the past day, threatening her and her family. The woman said she had already talked with one West Marin deputy, but the calls hadn’t stopped.
SAN GERONIMO – Deputies received word at 12:20 a.m. Monday that a car had swerved to avoid an animal and run off the road at San Geronimo Valley Drive and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. The vehicle ended up in bushes along a ditch near the golf course.
STINSON BEACH – Deputies at 9 a.m. Monday received a 911 hangup call from a Calle del Mar phone booth. When an officer called back, a man answered, "Bob’s Mechanical." He said there were no problems and that his answer had merely been a joke. He added that there was no one around the pay phone. A deputy checked with a business nearby and was told nothing was amiss.
TOMALES – A police officer on her way to work notified deputies at 9:45 a.m. that a man in his early 20s, who was riding a bicycle, appeared to be casing buildings along Highway 1. The bicyclist was gone when a deputy arrived.
DILLON BEACH – A woman at 11:30 a.m. Sunday complained about three Jet Skiers offshore and asked that a deputy get Lawson’s Landing to tell people that Jet Skiing was illegal in the area. An officer reported that the Jet Skis were not launched at Lawson’s and noted that he had "no way to get to them."
WOODACRE – A woman, who had recently lost her dog, notified deputies at 12:25 p.m. Sunday that she had received a call from a second woman who claimed to have the dog and wanted money to return it. However, no exchange occurred because the second woman subsequently claimed she had lost the dog. Deputies listed the incident as a "possible attempted fraud."
STINSON BEACH – A man at 7:20 p.m. Saturday reported that two women hiking on Mount Tamalpais had apparently taken a wrong turn and might be on the Willow Camp Fire Road.
MARSHALL – A Marshall-Petaluma Road rancher at 10:35 p.m. Saturday complained that a parked vehicle was blocking the entrance to his ranch. He said two men had been seen in the area about 2 p.m. and that they might be hikers. The vehicle was gone when a deputy arrived.
POINT REYES STATION – A Second Street resident at 11:25 p.m. Saturday complained about 20 to 25 people outside a bar "yelling and having a good time." A deputy gave the group advice.
NATIONAL SEASHORE – A ranger reported possible poachers on North Pierce Point Road. A deputy determined there were no poachers, merely some juveniles with adults on private property. They had permission to be there and were not carrying weapons.
TOMALES – A sewage-tanker truck overturned at Middle and Dillon Beach roads at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. The Highway Patrol handled the mishap.
WOODACRE – Fairfax police at 3:20 p.m. reported a Mercedes car was involved in a case of road rage. A deputy determined no criminal act had occurred.
SAN GERONIMO – A vehicle at 7 p.m. ran off San Geronimo Valley Drive and into a ditch. The woman in the car was not injured, and the Highway Patrol handled the case.
LAGUNITAS – An Inverness Park man on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at 7:40 p.m. reported "a big tree blocking the entire highway." County firefighters cut it up.
SAN GERONIMO – A man driving at Nicasio Valley Road and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at 1:15 a.m. Saturday tried to avoid a deer in the roadway and his vehicle crashed into a tree. He walked home and refused medical attention. The Highway Patrol handled the mishap.
WOODACRE – A Redwood Drive resident at 10:15 a.m. Friday complained that a man living at her residence was destroying her property. She asked that he be evicted. A deputy gave her advice.
SAN GERONIMO – A woman at 10:40 p.m. last Wednesday reported her vehicle had gone into a ditch at Nicasio Valley Road and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. She said she was not injured, but her car would need to be towed out of the ditch.
WOODACRE – County firefighters at 10:45 p.m. last Wednesday reported there was a vehicle stuck on a Fire Road and that a tow truck was on its way. "They’re stuck pretty good," firefighters reported.
WOODACRE – A Railroad Avenue resident at 11 p.m. last Wednesday reported two blonde girls about 17 or 18 had come to her door and asked directions to Blueberry Lane. They subsequently left on foot. Deputies noted it was unclear if they were involved in the Fire Road incident.
BOLINAS – A resident at 8:50 p.m. asked to speak to a deputy about a court-issued restraining order that his wife had secured against him. He said the TRO had not yet been served on him, but a deputy said it had been.
STINSON BEACH – A Laurel Avenue resident at 11 a.m. notified deputies that about two months ago he traded vehicles with a second man and that he now cannot find the second man, who needs to sign the "pink slip" in order to establish the resident’s ownership of his new vehicle. He asked an officer for advice.
BOLINAS – A sheriff’s deputy in Placer County asked West Marin deputies to notify a Fern Road resident that her 17-year-old son had been injured in a skiing accident and was now in a hospital at Lake Tahoe. When a local deputy went to her home, she was not there, so he left a business card on her door.
WOODACRE – After an electrical space heater started a fire at a Maple Road house about 10:20 p.m. Friday, firefighters discovered 450 marijuana plants growing in two rental units. Deputies arrested two tenants on pot-growing charges.
STINSON BEACH – A deputy on Highway 1 at 12:15 p.m. arrested a man on a local warrant.
POINT REYES STATION – Sheriff’s Lt. John Brunslik, commander of the West Marin Substation, has asked The Light to let readers know that a campaign to remove abandoned cars is underway in West Marin. Lt. Brunslik said the Sheriff’s Office will arrange to have abandoned vehicles towed off private property, as well as public property, if the landowner signs a release. The substation’s phone number is 663-1151.
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