March 29, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
STINSON BEACH – A woman called deputies from Mountain View at 9 p.m. Saturday to say a burglar had smashed a window of her car while it was parked at Red Rock nude beach and stole a backpack containing keys and a checkbook.
BOLINAS – A man at 7:30 a.m. Saturday on Wharf Road placed a second man under citizen’s arrest on battery charges. When deputies were notified of the fight, they reported hearing a female yelling in the background. The first man received a bloody nose, and Bolinas firefighters were summoned to determine if it was broken.
MARSHALL – Deputies at 3:20 p.m. last Thursday received a complaint that a man at Walker Creek Ranch on the Marshall-Petaluma Road had grabbed the buttocks of two 11-year-old boys.
STINSON BEACH – A man at 11:15 a.m. Saturday called deputies from Panoramic Highway to report two threatening phone calls. The man said that when he answered his girlfriend’s cellular phone, a stranger warned, "Sleep with an eye open."
OLEMA – A deputy on Highway 1 at 12:30 p.m. Friday located a boy whom Novato Police had listed as a runaway.
BOLINAS – An intoxicated woman at 12:15 p.m. last Thursday cut her wrist with a pair of scissors and told her caretaker she wanted to die. Deputies reported the wounds were not serious.
POINT REYES STATION – A Nevada City man at 5:40 p.m. last Wednesday notified deputies a laptop computer was stolen from his unlocked car parked at Fourth and B streets. He said the $1,500 computer was on loan from Northern Michigan University.
BOLINAS – A man at 10:30 a.m. last Thursday said a second man on Wharf Road picked up a board and chased him around. At 8:45 p.m. the first man called back to say the second man had punched him in the chest and vandalized his car before fleeing. The first man asked a deputy how to get a court to issue a restraining order against the second man and was given advice.
POINT REYES STATION – A Highway 1 resident at 10 a.m. Monday reported his son, along with a female companion, was missing.
STINSON BEACH – Deputies and firefighters at 10 p.m. Sunday responded to an electrical-fire report when smoking wires were reported at a home on Sonoma Patio.
NICASIO – A restaurant worker at 11 a.m. Monday reported a stranger had been sitting for the past 30 minutes in her car parked outside the restaurant.
OLEMA – Deputies received word at 7 a.m. Sunday that a deer had caught its head in a barbed-wire fence at the cemetery. A Highway Patrol officer, who was near the cemetery when the call came in, reported the deer freed itself in about 15 minutes.
LAGUNITAS – A young man was taking care of a family’s dogs while they were away when the dogs got out and a neighbor on Mountain King Road shot them. The neighbor later told officers the dog and its seven-month old puppy were chasing his goats. California law allows people to shoot dogs "worrying" their livestock. The man, whose property adjoins Samuel P. Taylor State Park, has had several run-ins with his neighbors, including the county fire lookout.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman on Tamal Road at 3:40 p.m. Sunday complained of being harassed by her 55-year-old aunt. She said the aunt has been continuously trespassing at a drug-treatment center and taking photos of her and her family.
LAGUNITAS – A resident at 8:30 p.m. Saturday complained that a car with occupants was parked on Corona Avenue where it would block other traffic on the road. He said he thought the car’s occupants were "up to no good." A deputy found the car, and its lone occupant said he was merely resting on his way home.
BOLINAS – A bartender at 8:30 p.m. Saturday reported that two or three people who’d had too much to drink were acting "drunk and stupid." He asked a deputy to disperse them before a physical or verbal disturbance occurred.
HICKS VALLEY – A man at 10 p.m. Saturday reported a two-vehicle accident with injuries on the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road. One vehicle was in a ditch, he said. Deputies summoned two tow-trucks.
SAN GERONIMO – A woman reported finding a pair of women’s beige underpants with black electrical tape and a small white sock, also with tape, two miles into the Gary Giacomini Open Space Preserve. She said there might be dried blood on the underwear.
FOREST KNOLLS – Deputies received a 911-hangup call from Tamal Road at 9:20 a.m. Saturday. They found a child playing with a phone.
WOODACRE – A resident on Saturday complained about a teenager, who has only a provisional driver’s license, driving around town after midnight.
NICASIO – A flatbed truck eastbound on Lucas Valley Road repeatedly dumped debris at turnouts between two and three miles west of Big Rock. Plastic bags, a microwave oven, and other debris were found. Since the West Marin Sanitary Landfill closed in 1998 and Supervisor Steve Kinsey decided that creating a dropoff site for coastal trash wasn’t worth the cost to the county, there have been almost constant complaints from West Marin residents that scofflaws are dumping trash in the dumpsters of stores and nonprofits, as well as at recycling sites and along roadways.
WOODACRE – A woman on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard told deputies a homeless man has been on her ranch for two days and that she wants him to leave. A deputy later reported, "Subject abated."
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman at 2:25 p.m. Saturday asked a deputy how to get a court to issue a temporary restraining order against her ex-husband, 54. The officer gave her advice.
TOMALES – A vehicle ran through a fence at Highway 1 and the Tomales-Petaluma Road at 3:20 p.m. Saturday.
WOODACRE – A man at 10:20 p.m. Friday reported that six to eight juveniles were trespassing at an abandoned home on North Fire Road. A deputy could not find them.
LAGUNITAS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 11 p.m. last Thursday complained that juveniles were playing with the intercom at his front gate, causing his phone to keep ringing.
FOUR CORNERS – A deputy at 11:15 p.m. received a report that someone was possibly poaching deer but found no one.
BOLINAS – A woman on the Big Mesa complained about loud music coming from a trailer. All was quiet when a deputy arrived.
WOODACRE – A Fir Avenue resident complained to deputies that a neighbor was in the process of cutting down a very large tree near the resident’s property and that a few large branches had already fallen and damaged his fence. A deputy gave him advice.
TOMALES – A Highway 1 resident reported there was a Jeep on his property with two men, who were taking photographs of dogs. The resident gave deputies the Jeep’s license plate number, and officers found it was registered in Glendale.
WOODACRE – A man at 4 p.m. last Thursday complained about a transient lying on a mattress behind a blue truck. The man was gone when a deputy arrived.
TOMALES – An innkeeper reported that a 40-year-old woman had told him she’d cut her nipples off and was bleeding. She did not say how they were cut off, he added but noted she has a history of depression. A deputy called her, but she hung up on him. Two officers raced to the scene, but the first deputy to reach Tomales discovered there was no merit to the incident as described. The woman said her boyfriend had jilted her for another woman even though she was so devoted to him she’d had her nipples pierced for him the previous week.
OLEMA – Deputies at 12:30 p.m. last Wednesday received word of "lots of buzzing and clicking" on a phone line. Officers determined the phone lines were flooded.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman at 1:40 p.m. last Wednesday asked to speak to a deputy about a domestic problem.
PIERCE POINT ROAD – A man reported the driver’s-side window of his rental car had been broken while the car was parked at Tomales Bay State Park. He said he did not know what was missing.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Tamal Road resident at 8 p.m. last Wednesday asked a deputy for advice on getting rid of a person living in his house. The officer gave him advice.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman complained about several motorcycles speeding up and down the levee road, possibly racing. They were gone when a deputy arrived.
SAN GERONIMO – A woman notified deputies that a man in his 30s, who had been drinking, was at Nicasio Valley and San Geronimo Valley roads. She said he was incoherent, his pants were unbuttoned, and that he had a small cut on his head. When she asked if he was okay, he said, "No," the woman reported. He was gone when a deputy arrived.
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.
March 22, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
PLATFORM BRIDGE – A deputy at 12:30 p.m. last Thursday caught a vandal who had poured cement into storm drains for the bridge.
TOMALES – A Highway 1 resident reported a burglar stole three rifles from his house, including a Winchester and Rugger (both with scopes) and a Romanian AK-47.
DILLON BEACH – A man at 8:25 p.m. Saturday notified deputies that a stranger had attacked him and five other victims.
OLEMA – A Highway Patrol officer stopped a motorist at the top of Olema Hill for a traffic violation and then arrested him on charges of drunk driving.
POINT REYES STATION – A bartender at 11:30 p.m. reported finding a credit card and turned it over to a deputy. The officer took a lost-property report, and the credit card company asked that the card be destroyed.
LAGUNITAS – A woman suffering an anxiety attack accidentally called the Suicide Hotline and was referred to 911. A deputy checked to see if she was sane, determined she was, and left when she refused further medical attention.
NICASIO – A rancher at 11 a.m. reported a four-wheel-drive vehicle had been going cross-country on his property and got stuck. A deputy arranged for the firm which removes abandoned cars from West Marin to haul the vehicle away.
FOREST KNOLLS – A man on Castro Street at 10:05 p.m. Monday reported a motorhome with Washington license plates had illegally camped there for three days the previous week and was "back tonight."
INVERNESS PARK – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard woman reported a vandal sprayed blue paint on her car and broke the windshield. A deputy gave her advice. Last week a similar case involving vandalism to a house was reported in town.
MUIR BEACH – A Pacific Way resident at 2 p.m. Friday complained of numerous naked people on Little Beach. When a deputy arrived, everyone had his clothes on.
LUCAS VALLEY ROAD – A caller complained of eight motorcyclists speeding westbound at 11 a.m. Sunday. The caller said the motorcyclists passed close to bicyclists and joggers.
STINSON BEACH – Park Service rangers at 2:25 p.m. Sunday reported loud bongo drums at a home on Highway 1. In directing deputies to the disturbance, rangers advised, "Look for the balloons."
BOLINAS – A man at 2:45 p.m. Sunday complained that cars were parked illegally on Wharf Road and that some were double-parked on Park Avenue.
MUIR BEACH – A Pacific Way woman at 1 p.m. Monday complained that several men on Little Beach were naked. She said this is a constant problem and that she had talked about it before with deputies.
TOMALES – A deputy on Dillon Beach Road at midnight Saturday reported phone lines dangling from a utility pole. The officer said the lines were not a traffic hazard but asked the dispatcher to notify the phone company.
MUIR BEACH – A woman on Starbuck Drive complained at 1:30 p.m. that a tree company hired by her neighbor was on her property cutting down trees. No one was home when a deputy responded. However, the neighbor later complained to deputies that the first woman had given her permission to cut down some trees between their properties but that after she did so, the first woman said it was not okay. The second woman said she had come home to find soap in her outdoor fountain, adding that she believes the first woman was responsible for it.
MARSHALL – A man at 9:45 a.m. Friday claimed he had been the victim of a fraud. He said he had sold roofing supplies to a business and was paid with a $10,000 check. However, the business then put a stop-payment on the check, he said, and he now cannot reach the business by phone.
NICASIO – A woman at 3:20 p.m. Friday reported that youths with boogie boards were playing around the spillway of the Nicasio Reservoir dam.
BOLINAS – A woman at 4:15 p.m. Friday reported hearing two gunshots in the area of Horseshoe Hill Road and Olema-Bolinas Road. A deputy found a disabled vehicle, which had backfired twice, and arranged for it to be towed.
WOODACRE – A Redwood Drive man at 8 a.m. last Thursday complained about a minivan blocking a gate used by Marin Municipal Water District. He said he wanted the motorist cited or admonished.
TOMALES – Two weeks ago, the high school summoned a deputy after a student said he was considering killing five other students. This week deputies said the youth had been arrested and taken to Juvenile Hall on charges of making a threat with the intent to terrorize people. Officers, however, denied a rumor that the FBI had found a bomb in the student’s home. A deputy said that some people had confused the incident with deputies finding a spent Navy flare north of Brighton Beach in Bolinas last week. Two deputies took the phosphorous flare to the West Marin substation, only to have a bomb squad called in to dispose of it.
MARSHALL – A man at 12:45 p.m. last Thursday called deputies from the Marshall-Petaluma Road area to complain about youths driving off-road vehicles in the vicinity of the Three Peaks Satellite Station. A deputy talked with the youths and determined they had permission to be there.
SAN GERONIMO –A woman at 9 a.m. last Wednesday asked a deputy for advice concerning her ex-boyfriend’s driving her vehicle. The officer gave her advice.
NICASIO – A Lucas Valley Road resident at 5 p.m. last Wednesday notified deputies that someone had attempted to burglarize her house the previous night.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman complained that her 18-year-old son was breaking things in her house and was refusing to leave. She said she was calling from a neighbor’s house. She added that her son’s car didn’t work so he might leave on foot.
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.
March 15, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
STINSON BEACH – A woman at 1:30 p.m. last Thursday reported a thief had stolen eight redwood posts that had been stacked in front of her residence.
POINT REYES STATION – A St. Helena woman at 11:30 a.m. Sunday called deputies here to report she had lost her wallet and suspected it fell out of her car when she stopped in town for lunch.
STINSON BEACH – A deputy on Highway 1 downtown at 10:45 p.m. Saturday arrested a woman on drunk driving charges after she backed into a business, breaking its windows.
POINT REYES STATION – A deputy at Fourth and B streets just before midnight cited a man on charges of driving despite his license having been suspended.
WOODACRE – A man at 8:15 a.m. last Thursday reported that Open Space District signs and surveyors’ pins had been removed in the Buckeye Circle area.
LAGUNITAS – A Centura Avenue resident at 10:30 a.m. last Thursday notified deputies that two suspicious males about 19 were in a parked car in somebody else’s parking space.
FOREST KNOLLS – A downtown resident last Thursday told deputies that someone back in February threatened to kill him. A deputy gave him advice.
SAN GERONIMO – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 1 p.m. last Thursday notified deputies that a burglar had entered her house and stolen a telephone and answering machine, along with other property.
INVERNESS PARK – A man at 4:30 p.m. last Thursday complained that a vandal had broken the windows and spray-painted the walls of his Vallejo Avenue home.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – A motorist at 11:20 p.m. last Thursday notified deputies he had hit a 500-pound calf on the road. The calf was injured but still alive, he said. A deputy notified the rancher who owned the calf; the deputy also assisted the Highway Patrol.
HICKS VALLEY – Deputies at 8 a.m. last Wednesday received a report of loose cows on the road.
STINSON BEACH – A mother called deputies from the Peninsula to report that her pre-adolescent child had been the victim of a sex crime, which occurred in Stinson Beach a year ago. Deputies took a report claiming illegal conduct that involves getting another person to behave in a lewd manner in public.
MUIR BEACH – A woman at 9 a.m. last Wednesday reported that a long row of mailboxes had been opened and that there was mail strewn in the Pacific Way area. A Postal Service employee determined that several boxes had been hit (possibly by or from a moving vehicle).
BOLINAS – A woman on Brighton Avenue at 10 a.m. last Wednesday reported losing her wallet. She said she’d had her credit cards canceled.
BOLINAS – A Brighton Avenue resident at 10:40 a.m. last Wednesday complained of a male trespasser accompanied by a girlfriend walking on his property.
TOMALES – A deputy was summoned when the high school reported that half an hour earlier a student had said he was thinking about killing five students.
WOODACRE – A Redwood Drive resident at 10:10 p.m. reported that a couple in their 20s were overdue in returning from Terra Linda. At 11 p.m. he called back to reported they had returned home.
BOLINAS – A Wharf Road resident at 1 a.m. last Wednesday complained of loud music in front of a bar. The problem was abated.
INVERNESS PARK – A Drake’s View Drive man called deputies, saying he was upset at a contractor (at a new development) who was cutting down numerous trees. The man said he believed the contractor had a permit but felt the contractor was abusing his privilege. He insisted on meeting with an officer.
NATIONAL SEASHORE – When the burglar alarm of a Pierce Point Road house went off, a deputy checked and determined a bird in the house triggered the alarm.
SAN GERONIMO – Deputies on Tuesday reported a burglar on Hemlock Way had entered a greenhouse and stolen property.
INVERNESS PARK – Deputies on Tuesday reported a burglar had entered a Laurel Avenue house through a window but took nothing.
INVERNESS PARK – Deputies on Tuesday reported a burglar had stolen property from a vehicle parked on Laurel Avenue.
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.
March 8, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
BOLINAS – A woman at 3:35 p.m. Saturday notified deputies she had received three collect calls from the Cook County Jail in Illinois. She said the caller claimed to be an FBI agent. He hung up, she said, when she told him she was sure he was an inmate.
INVERNESS PARK – Two weeks ago, a tree fell across Roberts Drive, which is a private road in the Paradise Ranch Estates subdivision. Because of a disagreement over who was responsible for removing it, the tree was still lying across the loop-shaped road when a second tree fell (at Roberts Drive and Baywood Place) on Sunday, a deputy reported. He added that this made it impossible for Roberts Drive residents, whose homes are between the two trees, to drive out in either direction.
POINT REYES STATION – Just before noon last Wednesday, a husband and wife got into a fight, and afterwards she secured an Emergency Protective Order requiring him to stay away from her. However, she later called deputies to say he was knocking at her door. At 6:30 p.m. the following evening, the husband, 31, showed up at the sheriff’s substation. He acknowledged being distraught over the couple’s impending divorce and asked that he be transported to the county crisis unit at Marin General Hospital. He was taken there and voluntarily checked himself in.
POINT REYES STATION – A restaurant owner at 8:50 a.m. last Thursday reported that money and receipts were missing from the manager’s office.
HICKS VALLEY – Deputies notified a rancher that three of his brown cows were on the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road at 8:10 a.m. Monday. The last deputies heard was that the rancher was en route to return his cows to their pasture.
SAN GERONIMO – A man at 9:35 a.m. Monday reported a locked storage bin along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard had been burglarized and construction materials stolen.
STINSON BEACH – Deputies laid flares along Highway 1 at 10:35 a.m. Sunday and assisted firefighters in creating a traffic barricade after high winds blew down power lines.
STINSON BEACH – A woman on Calle del Mar notified deputies of a possible fraud. She asked officers if they knew of a company that had told her she had won a contest but needed to send money to cover insurance costs. An officer gave her advice.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard woman at 2:45 p.m. Monday told deputies she had called a Sacramento company about repairing her mobilehome but did not hear back. Two weeks later, two men showed up, saying they had come to do estimates. The woman told deputies she then called the Sacramento firm and was told the men did not work for the company.
NICASIO – A deputy en route from the Point Reyes Station substation to the main office in San Rafael around 2 p.m. Sunday single-handedly cleared one tree that had fallen across the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road and two trees that had fallen across Lucas Valley Road.
DILLON BEACH – A deputy responded when a burglar alarm went off in a Kailua Way house at 2:50 p.m. Monday. The officer concluded that a large dog in the house had set the alarm off.
TOMALES – Deputies at 3:30 p.m. Monday were asked by the district attorney to take statements from both parties in a domestic dispute. The dispute, which occurred in mid-February, sent a woman to Kaiser Hospital in Santa Rosa.
POINT REYES STATION – A school secretary told students to bring a wallet found in the schoolyard to the office. A deputy took a lost-property report.
SAN GERONIMO – Deputies ordered extra patrols on San Geronimo Valley Drive after a woman reported the handle had fallen off her backdoor. She said she was concerned that someone had been tampering with it.
WOODACRE – A man at 9:25 p.m. Sunday reported that a 32-year-old woman and a companion also in her 30s had gone to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, for two weeks and had not returned as scheduled.
STINSON BEACH – A helicopter was summoned at 10 p.m. Sunday when a 40-year-old woman had an allergic reaction to shellfish.
STINSON BEACH – A ranger told deputies he wanted to show deputies some hate mail that rangers had received.
DILLON BEACH – A resident at 8:15 p.m. Friday reported there was an overturned vehicle at Dillon Beach and Franklin School roads. She said no one was injured. The Sonoma County Highway Patrol handled the mishap.
DILLON BEACH – A security guard reported there were 15 juveniles drinking on the beach and that their cars were parked on private streets. He said there were 30 to 40 carloads of juveniles at the beach.
BOLINAS – A man at 11:30 p.m. Friday reported his car, which still had paper license plates, had been stolen while parked on Wharf Road. He later called deputies back to say a friend had moved the vehicle as a joke and that he had now located it.
WOODACRE – A Castle Rock Road man at 9:25 a.m. Friday told deputies that someone had siphoned gasoline from his car in the past two hours and that culprit’s bucket and hose were still there. He said this was the fourth time recently that gasoline has been siphoned from his car.
STINSON BEACH – A Sonoma Patio man at 11:15 a.m. Friday reported that someone had stolen the paper license plates off his car. He was later notified by Golden Gate Bridge authorities that a vehicle using his plates had gone through the Fast Track toll booth without paying.
POINT REYES STATION – A deputy took a report regarding an alleged contempt-of-court violation of a restraining order. The report was sent to the district attorney.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman complained of "loud music and thumping" coming from Highway 1 at 3:15 p.m. Before she hung up, however, she said her husband had decided to go outside and handle the matter so "never mind."
LAGUNITAS – A deputy on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at 10:10 p.m. took a terrorist-threat report.
WOODACRE – A four-wheel-drive pickup truck high-centered on Fire Road at 2 p.m. last Thursday, and a tow truck was summoned.
WOODACRE – A proprietor complained about someone drinking beer outside his store.
WOODACRE – A Redwood Drive man at 4 p.m. last Thursday notified deputies that a truck was "badly stuck" in a ditch and needed to be towed out. Deputies told the Highway Patrol about the mishap.
FALLON – A woman who boards horses on the Fallon-Two Rock Road at 8:45 p.m. last Wednesday called deputies to report problems with evicting a horse. She said she had told the owner to remove her horse and that the owner had tried to load the horse into a trailer. However, the woman said, the horse was refusing to go into the horse trailer. A deputy gave her advice.
LUCAS VALLEY ROAD – Firefighters at 10 p.m. last Wednesday responded when an arsonist placed flares next to mailboxes and set one of them on fire.
BOLINAS – A 78-year-old man had heart problems at 11 p.m. last Wednesday. Medics called for a helicopter but told it was not available.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – Medics and Highway Patrol officers responded when a vehicle overturned into a ditch on Red Hill at 11:45 p.m. last Wednesday. Authorities were told someone might be trapped inside the vehicle, but by the time they reached the scene, the driver was gone. At 12:25 a.m., the Highway Patrol asked deputies to go to the Mesa Road home of the vehicle’s registered owner.
OLEMA – A deputy at 3:15 p.m. last Wednesday reported there was a calf in the roadway at Highway 1 and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. The calf was trying to return to its pasture, and the deputy later reported it was now back home.
BOLINAS – An Ocean Parkway man reported his cat had been stolen and later picked up by the Humane Society. The Humane Society did not charge him the standard fee for getting back cats it picks up.
SAN GERONIMO – A woman on San Geronimo Valley Drive called deputies with questions about a traffic accident last weekend in front of the golf course. She said a car had damaged a bush when it ran up on a curb.
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.
March 1, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
BOLINAS – A bar on Friday reported it had cashed a check which had been stolen in Lake County and then forged.
INVERNESS – A man reported that a thief had stolen a power drill and builder’s level from a pickup truck parked behind his home on Inverness Way.
POINT REYES STATION – Beginning at 3:30 p.m. Monday, deputies received multiple complaints from female motorists who saw a man exposing himself beside a white pickup truck parked along the levee road. After Park Service rangers converged on the scene, a deputy arrived and arrested him on charges of indecent exposure and took him to jail. The man, who turned out to be from Sebastopol, was released from jail that evening.
DILLON BEACH – An Ocean View Avenue resident last Thursday reported a thief had taken a $2,000 laptop computer from her parked vehicle.
BOLINAS – A woman was reported missing when she failed to return home Friday. It turned out she’d had car problems and spent the night in a campground without notifying her husband. She returned home the next day.
POINT REYES STATION – A male driver admitted to vandalizing the grass at the school and made arrangements with the principal to fix the damages.
BOLINAS – A deputy at 11:30 a.m. Friday gave advice to a woman who wanted to get a court to issue a restraining order.
BOLINAS – A woman complained about a motorcycle running up and down Wharf Road, creating too much noise for her. The problem was abated before a deputy arrived.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman at 7:45 p.m. reported hearing a man and woman yelling in the area of Sixth and B streets. She told deputies she believed the disturbance was coming from a homeless couple in a car.
LAGUNITAS – A man at 6 p.m. Sunday told deputies that a pickup truck parked in his carport had been vandalized. A deputy found white powder on the truck’s roof but concluded no vandalism had occurred. Nonetheless, he arranged for extra patrols in the area.
WOODACRE – Deputies at 8 p.m. Sunday received a 911-hangup call. When they called back, someone picked up the phone and hung it up again. The next time officers called back, a man said nobody there had called 911 but a female came on the line and said the two were fighting. She said he had only thrown a pillow at her, and both declined to give their names.
SAN GERONIMO – A San Geronimo Valley Drive resident at 10 p.m. Sunday told deputies her sister is staying with her but is being disruptive. She asked how to get her sister out of her home, and a deputy gave her advice.
LAGUNITAS – Power lines fell down along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard on Monday. Deputies and county firefighters responded.
LAGUNITAS – A woman at 3 a.m. Monday reported a man had just ripped the license plates off her car. She said he has been harassing her and previously ripped out her phone lines. The man had left minutes earlier driving a taxi, she added.
POINT REYES STATION – A restaurant employee told deputies that the previous evening her manager had touched her in an inappropriate way. She told him not to do it again, she said, but he just laughed at her. She asked to know what her rights were. A deputy tried to reach her by phone without success but left a message on her answering machine.
LAGUNITAS – A Cintura Avenue resident at 10:45 a.m. reported two spare tires had been stolen from the back of his trailer.
FOREST KNOLLS – A man at 2:20 p.m. Sunday reported two juveniles were walking down Sir Francis Drake Boulevard setting off firecrackers. A deputy found two boys about 12 years old, but they no longer had any firecrackers. The officer admonished them.
LAGUNITAS – A man at 5:20 p.m. Sunday reported hearing several shots in the area of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in the past half hour. He said he had not seen who was shooting, and that the noise may have come from a BB gun, a pellet gun, or even firecrackers. All was quiet when a deputy arrived.
TOMALES – A resident Sunday evening heard numerous gunshots being fired from what sounded like a repeating rifle. A deputy could not find anyone shooting.
BOLINAS – A woman reported a drunken 41-year-old man on Overlook Drive was yelling at 9:45 p.m. Saturday in front of children. She said the man had broken a CD case and was "forceful" with a chair. She said she did not want to stay in her house.
STINSON BEACH – Deputies at 1:30 a.m. Sunday received complaints of loud music, a banging noise, and possible drug use on Calle del Sierra. A deputy later reported the "one-person rager has been quelled, and he’s going to bed."
SAN GERONIMO – A San Geronimo Valley Drive resident reported that she had paid a handyman $2,200 for work he had done in December and that he was now asking her to loan him more money in order to finish the job. A deputy gave her advice.
MARSHALL – A burglar alarm in a house went off at noon Saturday. When a deputy checked, he found a cat had set off the alarm.
INVERNESS – Firefighters at 1:45 p.m. reported a single-vehicle accident on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. No driver or passenger was around, but the car was registered to two men. Deputies notified the Highway Patrol.
INVERNESS – A man at 5 p.m. Saturday reported eight people had a bonfire on a beach. Deputies reported the matter to state park rangers because the beach was within their jurisdiction.
BOLINAS – A bar at 9 p.m. complained about a drunk man who was outside causing a disturbance and refusing to leave. A deputy who checked reported, "It was a misunderstanding" and that "the subject left the area."
INVERNESS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 10 p.m. Friday told deputies she had read in Sheriff’s Calls that her son’s mountain bike had been found near a store two days earlier. After she described the bicycle, an officer tried without success to call her back but left a message on her answering machine.
TOMALES – A woman at 10:30 p.m. Friday called deputies to say her 43-year-old husband was being violent and that their daughter was also in their mobilehome on the Tomales-Petaluma Road.
INVERNESS – A woman on Thursday evening complained about two men on her premises. She said one had taken a walk, and a deputy told the other they would have to leave by morning. The second man said he would tell his friend, but the next evening the woman again called to complain the men were still there. By the time a deputy arrived, the men were gone.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman went to the sheriff’s substation at 10:45 a.m. and reported a domestic dispute. An officer took a report.
STINSON BEACH – A man at 11:30 a.m. Friday reported a "mixed group" of five or six people were on Calle del Sierra writing down house numbers. The man said they had come to his house, but he did not speak to them. A neighbor told deputies he believed the group were Jehovah’s Witnesses.
DILLON BEACH – A large tree fell onto the westbound lane of Marine View Drive at 3 p.m. Friday. The county Department of Public Works responded.
TOMALES – A deputy at 7:20 a.m. last Thursday took a courtesy report for Santa Rosa Police after a woman, 33, said her husband, 40, had pushed her, causing her bursitis to flare up.
POINT REYES STATION – A man at 7:40 p.m. last Wednesday reported a blue car with its lights out was driving in and out of the parking lot at the Old Creamery Building.
MUIR BEACH – A woman notified officers she was en route to where her mother and sister were living to pick up their mother, who may be the victim of elder abuse. She said she might need help because her sister is uncooperative. A deputy gave her advice.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman on Second Street reported the rear door of her business had been kicked in but that it appeared nothing had been taken.
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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