March 20, 2003 Sheriff's Calls
INVERNESS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 6:52 p.m. Friday notified deputies she had returned home to find items in her house moved around but nothing taken.
LAGUNITAS – A resident told deputies at 7:04 p.m. Monday that he had lost his dog two hours earlier and that a resident uphill from him is known to shoot dogs. He said neighbors reported hearing gunshots that day and the day before.
POINT REYES STATION – Deputies and medics were summoned to a Highway 1 residence at 8:56 p.m. Monday when a falling 55-gallon drum broke a man’s leg.
WOODACRE – A resident at 12:06 a.m. Tuesday complained about loud music coming from the stereo of a car parked at Central and Railroad avenues. She then called back to say the car had taken off, screeching its tires. All was quiet when a deputy arrived.
STINSON BEACH – A deputy on Arenal Avenue at 8:38 a.m. Monday served a court-issued restraining order on a man in his 50s.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman boarding her horse on Mesa Road called deputies at 11:21 a.m. Monday to report a colt and its dam had gotten through a fence and were heading downtown. She later called back to say the horses had been returned to their field.
STINSON BEACH – A Calle del Mar resident at 8:51 a.m. Sunday reported that homeless people in town are becoming violent. She said one homeless man has established an encampment in the area and that the previous evening two homeless men created a disturbance downtown. Nothing was going on at the moment, she said.
ALPINE DAM – Two fishermen at 12:54 p.m. Monday told deputies they had found broken branches, as well as tire tracks leading down to the reservoir. They noted there was an oil slick on the water. Deputies sent a dive team to look for a submerged vehicle.
POINT REYES STATION – A man at 10:07 a.m. Sunday reported windows had been broken at the Dance Palace, and two loudspeakers had been stolen.
LAGUNITAS – Following a chase, deputies at 11:03 p.m. Sunday stopped a young motorcyclist at Corona and Mountain View avenues. The boy was booked into Juvenile Hall, and a towing company was summoned to haul off his dirt bike.
BOLINAS – Deputies at 11:44 a.m. Sunday received a report of people drunk in public on Wharf Road. An officer took one man into custody and placed him in a 72-hour hold at the county crisis unit so his sanity could be evaluated.
BOLINAS – A woman at 10:34 a.m. Sunday complained about a loud car stereo and a male "hollering" from the vehicle, which was at Brighton and Park avenues. Deputies quoted her as saying the man "does not sound like a person in distress [but merely] sounds ‘obnoxious.’"
POINT REYES STATION – A deputy at 11:56 a.m. Sunday responded to a vehicle accident on the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road at the base of Black Mountain. The deputy left before a Highway Patrolman arrived and arrested the driver on drunk-driving charges.
BOLINAS – A woman at 3:29 p.m. Sunday asked for extra patrols around her residence, saying various items had been taken from her property.
MARSHALL – A man at 6:13 p.m. Sunday complained that two men without permission have been living in his travel trailer parked on private property.
FOREST KNOLLS – Berkeley Police at 7:14 p.m. Sunday told West Marin deputies a townswoman’s purse had been found in Berkeley. The woman’s wallet, credit cards, and Social Security card were still in the wallet, Berkeley Police said, but her money was gone.
STINSON BEACH – A rescue helicopter was summoned at 7:41 p.m. Saturday when an 80-year-old man had difficulty breathing.
NICASIO – A woman on Nicasio Valley Road notified deputies at 9:34 p.m. Saturday that a burglar had smashed the back window of her car and stolen a duffel bag containing clothing.
POINT REYES STATION – A man on Highway 1 at 11:07 p.m. Saturday reported youths had thrown eggs at his car as he drove by, but no damage was done.
TOMALES – A woman at 11:11 p.m. Saturday complained about a loud party with music at the Town Hall. She said the party was supposed to end at 11 p.m. When a deputy checked, the party was breaking up and the guests were "leaving peaceably."
POINT REYES STATION – A man at 1:03 a.m. Sunday reported that someone, possibly juveniles, had taken plastic chairs from a restaurant and used them to block Highway 1. A deputy removed 30 chairs from the main street.
DILLON BEACH – A Beach Avenue resident at 7:45 p.m. Friday reported a case of apparently malicious "mischief" in which someone opened his propane tank. The man told deputies he closed it himself.
WOODACRE – A resident at 10:44 a.m. Friday reported his 40-year-old son had come home the previous evening and vandalized the resident’s house, damaging an interior door.
CHILENO VALLEY – A Chileno Valley Road resident at 12:25 p.m. Friday told deputies she was in a verbal dispute with a towtruck driver and he had threatened to "push her off his truck," officers quoted her as saying. She later told deputies she had, indeed, been pushed. The towtruck company said it would send another driver, and deputies took a report.
SAN GERONIMO – A resident at 2:55 p.m. Friday complained that a truck regularly drives past the intersection of Meadow Way and San Geronimo Valley Drive spinning its tires and kicking up dirt. She described the vehicle as a blue Ford with a "crew cab." The vehicle was not around when a deputy checked.
FALLON – Deputies received a report Friday that a street sign was lying on the shoulder of the pavement at Fallon-Two Rock and Gericke roads.
BOLINAS – A man at a construction site on Terrace Avenue at 8:47 a.m. last Thursday reported he had been pushed by a man nextdoor. The caller said the neighbor was upset because someone had moved some boards he had put up the previous day.
FOREST KNOLLS – Deputies and medics were summoned to Morelos Avenue at 2:05 p.m. last Thursday when a 10-month-old girl’s face and eyes began swelling and she started to get hives on her face. Her mother told officers the girl’s father had eaten a peanut-butter sandwich a couple of hours earlier and the baby’d had "a few bites." At first the infant seemed fine but suddenly began to cry, the mother said.
FOUR CORNERS – One person received minor injuries in a traffic collision at 7:38 p.m. last Wednesday.
TOMALES – A motorist cut his head at 2:38 a.m. last Thursday when his Buick ran off Highway 1 and into a ditch at 50 mph, causing the driver’s head to hit the windshield. The Highway Patrol responded.
WOODACRE – A resident at 9:56 a.m. last Wednesday reported hearing screaming and tires squealing at Railroad Avenue and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. She subsequently told deputies she could hear a man and woman screaming about children, adding that the woman was now walking eastbound on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. A deputy could not find her.
HICKS VALLEY – A deputy at 2:01 p.m. last Wednesday attempted to contact a Marshall-Petaluma Road rancher "about misappropriation of county road gravel." An officer said he talked with one of the woman’s ranchworkers, who offered to return the gravel and said he would tell his boss about the deputy’s call. The deputy meanwhile advised the county Roads Division to mark the gravel pile with signs and to put a fence around it.
NATIONAL SEASHORE – A Pierce Point Road rancher at 7:01 p.m. March 11 notified deputies that a motorist had driven into a manure pile. He said the driver, who was in his 20s, was acting "irrationally" and might be drunk or high.
INVERNESS PARK – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 11:11 p.m. March 11 told deputies he had received a call after a wheelchair-bound friend and her companion, who after eating dinner in downtown Inverness had gotten lost. The two called from an unidentified market.
HICKS VALLEY – A passerby at 11:58 a.m. March 11 notified firefighters who notified deputies who notified the Highway Patrol that a cow was loose on the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road. The Highway Patrol responded that it already knew about the cow.
INVERNESS –A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 5:01 a.m. last Wednesday complained about a noisy milk truck with its lights on idling its engine near her house for an hour. The truck was gone when a deputy checked.
POINT REYES STATION – Sheriff’s Lt. Rich Ginnodo, 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. Ginnodo said the Sheriff’s Office will arrange to have abandoned vehicles towed off private property, as well as public property, if the landowners signs a release. The substation’s phone number is 663-1151.
March 13, 2003 Sheriff's Calls
MUIR BEACH – A Pacific Way resident at 2:25 p.m. Monday reported that a neighbor had dug a deep ditch that is filled with water on her property. She said she would notify the Golden Gate National Recreation Area but in the meantime was concerned about liability issues. A deputy gave her advice.
STINSON BEACH – A girl in the Calles neighborhood at 2:24 p.m. Sunday accused a man of sexually molesting her. However, the girl’s account of the incident repeatedly changed, making a deputy on the scene suspect her account was fabricated. Nonetheless, the case was turned over to juvenile authorities for investigation.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 1:15 p.m. Saturday told deputies that a second woman had trespassed in her house and stolen her journal, transcribed it, and emailed parts of it to the resident’s friends and family as if the email came from the resident. Included in the email was an entry about suicide, she said.
BOLINAS – A Horseshoe Hill Road resident at 6:45 a.m. Sunday told deputies she had found 100 rounds of 38 caliber ammunition in a home and asked that the bullets be destroyed.
BOLINAS – A Wharf Road resident at 4:28 p.m. March 4 told deputies a man had given her a gun to hold for him but that she did not want to keep it around. A deputy took the firearm for destruction.
INVERNESS – A Via del Vista resident at 2:52 p.m. Sunday reported someone had stolen a three-foot-high statue from her family’s front yard.
FOREST KNOLLS – After a tree branch fell onto the roadway, an 83-year-old Montezuma Avenue resident moved it off payment but notified officers she considered it to still be a traffic hazard. A deputy could not find the branch.
INVERNESS – A Woodhaven Road resident at 11:06 a.m. Sunday notified deputies that a tree had fallen across her driveway, bringing down overhead lines. Firefighters handled the mishap.
BOLINAS – A man at 10:25 a.m. last Thursday told deputies that a man across Wharf Road from him was insane and threatening people’s lives. The caller then hung up, and when deputies called back, a woman answered. Asked what was going on, she put the phone on hold. A few minutes later, she told deputies that two men were fighting, "but it was okay," an officer quoted her as saying. She refused to give deputies more information.
BOLINAS – Deputies at noon last Thursday received a report that two men on Wharf Road were having a physical fight.
LAGUNITAS – A man at 4:26 p.m. last Wednesday called deputies from Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, saying his head was bloody after he was "body slammed" by a second man. He said the second man was now in the parking lot of a business. Officers took an assault report.
FOREST KNOLLS – A man at 11:21 a.m. Friday reported a young man in the house was throwing things around. He then hung up, saying he had to make sure the mother of the young man did not get locked in her room by the out-of-control suspect.
POINT REYES STATION – An A Street resident on Friday asked deputies to remove her boyfriend/roommate from her home but would not give officers his name. The fellow left on his own.
INVERNESS – A Kehoe Way resident at 1:03 p.m. Monday complained that a 29-year-old resident of Point Reyes Station, whom she dated for a short time, keeps harassing her and had left 150 to 200 messages on her voice mail.
FOREST KNOLLS – A man at 12:21 p.m. March 4 told deputies he’d had a quarrel with his girlfriend the previous night and wanted to know how to get a court to issue a restraining order against her. A deputy gave him advice.
STINSON BEACH – A Calle de la Onda resident at 11 a.m. Saturday notified deputies that a vandal had scratched the left-rear panel of her truck.
HICKS VALLEY – A rancher at 5:54 p.m. March 4 notified deputies that he had caught youths vandalizing his field and was detaining them. A deputy cited one of the youths.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman at 3:48 p.m. Sunday called deputies from Highway 1, saying that three teenagers were throwing eggs at a parked car. A deputy, however, found no evidence of vandals throwing eggs and reported that what the woman may have seen was ordinary trash.
STINSON BEACH –A man at 7:59 p.m. Sunday called deputies from Highway 1 to report that while he was hiking, a burglar broke the windshield of his car to steal a suitcase and its contents together worth $800, plus $90 in cash and a backpack whose contents were worth $300.
OLEMA – The Highway Patrol at 8:59 p.m. Friday reported a car had run into a ditch and up an embankment along Highway 1 a mile south of downtown. No one was injured.
MARSHALL – A motorcycle overturned on Highway 1 at 11:54 a.m. Sunday, landing on top of a passenger. However, both the passenger and driver left before an officer arrived.
INVERNESS – A man on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at 12:10 a.m. Saturday told officers a car had hit his motorcycle while it was parked. He said he confronted a couple driving a dark sedan, but they denied being involved.
LAGUNITAS – A man at 1:36 p.m. Sunday called deputies from Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Lagunitas Road to complain that a man driving a gray Ford Explorer had followed him for five miles, driving recklessly. He gave deputies the Ford’s license plate number.
BOLINAS – A man at 10:02 p.m. last Wednesday accused a second man of violating a court order to leave the first man alone. The first man said the suspect had driven by him in a teal Toyota on Wharf Road, honking and blasting his stereo. He also accused the second man of phoning him numerous times.
DILLON BEACH – A camper called deputies from Marine View Drive at 12:31 a.m. Sunday to complain about loud music and voices elsewhere in the campground. A second camper then called to report she was in a campsite adjacent to the revelers and "asked them very nicely to please quiet it down, and she was told to f-ck off, that it was someone’s f-cking birthday." She said the revelers had a white, four-door pickup truck at their campsite.
INVERNESS PARK – A Buena Vista Avenue resident at 8:03 p.m. Friday reported hearing 12 gunshots. Another resident at the same time reported hearing what sounded like fireworks. Deputies could not find anyone shooting or setting off fireworks.
STINSON BEACH – A woman’s black, cloth purse was found at Calles del Arroyo and del Occidente at 1:35 p.m. Saturday.
WOODACRE – Deputies and medics at 12:43 a.m. Monday responded to Railroad Avenue when a 49-year-old woman had an allergic reaction to codeine.
INVERNESS PARK – Deputies and medics at 8:06 a.m. Monday responded to Roberts Drive when a 57-year-old man dislocated a hip "while bending the wrong way," an officer reported. The man was transported to a hospital.
POINT REYES STATION – Deputies and medics responded to Knob Hill Road at 1:36 p.m. Sunday when a horse knocked over a 52-year-old woman, possibly dislocating her shoulder.
WOODACRE – Deputies and medics were summoned to Central Avenue at 10:29 a.m. Saturday when a 76-year-old woman slipped and fell out of a bathtub, hitting the back of her head on a chest of drawers.
BOLINAS – An 89-year-old Horseshoe Hill Road resident at 5:17 p.m. March 4 reported being barely able to walk because of pain in her hip. Medics transported her to a hospital.
POINT REYES STATION – Deputies and medics responded at 2:27 a.m. Sunday when an 83-year-old woman’s pulse shot up.
STINSON BEACH – Deputies and medics responded to Calle del Arroyo at 5:13 a.m. Sunday when at 74-year-old man complained of trouble breathing.
INVERNESS PARK – Deputies and medics responded at 2:34 p.m. Friday when a 77-year-old resident of Laurel Street fell down, causing pain in her leg and hip.
TOMALES – Firefighters and deputies were summoned to Railroad Avenue at 9:33 p.m. last Thursday when a 66-year-old man, who’d had a heart attack six years ago, reported tightness in his chest, nausea, and heavy sweating.
BOLINAS – Firefighters were summoned at 10:22 a.m. March 4 when an 11-year-old girl fell down on the lawn of the school playground. The girl, who landed on her back, had the wind knocked out of her but was later able to return to class.
DILLON BEACH – An Oceana Drive resident at 8:36 p.m. last Wednesday reported hearing a strange sound in a field as if dogs were being killed. A deputy found nothing amiss but concluded from the woman’s description of the sound that it probably came from coyotes.
TOMALES – High school staff at 10:31 a.m. last Wednesday reported catching a 14-year-old girl in possession of marijuana and tobacco. A deputy cited the student on charges of possessing both substances.
NICASIO – A woman at 9:53 a.m. March 4 reported a case of Internet fraud involving her bank account. A deputy gave her advice.
STINSON BEACH – A Calle de la Onda resident at 10:41 a.m. Monday reported that someone was fraudulently using his credit card.
WOODACRE – A Maple Road resident at 10:26 a.m. March 4 reported that a neighbor had cut six or seven trees on her property and left them there. Deputies took a littering report.
POINT REYES STATION – Sheriff’s Lt. Rich Ginnodo, 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. Ginnodo 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 6, 2003 Sheriff's Calls
INVERNESS – A woman at 2:10 p.m. Monday notified deputies that a thief had stolen a backpack from her car parked on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard.
DILLON BEACH – An Oceana Drive resident at 12:07 p.m. Sunday reported that a vandal had damaged both her cars, scratching the paint and writing "slut" on the hood of one vehicle. She told deputies she suspects her 35-year-old ex-husband is to blame.
POINT REYES STATION – A Cypress Avenue resident at 3:30 p.m. last Wednesday told deputies a thief had stolen a hand-held computer and a mirror from his vehicle.
BOLINAS – A Larch Road resident at 2:45 p.m. Sunday reported finding a 10-inch bone of unknown origin on Brighton Beach.
WOODACRE – A Grant Avenue man at 7:33 p.m. Monday reported a burglar had stolen two rings together worth $5,000 from his home.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman at 2:59 p.m. last Wednesday complained that a man had violated a court’s restraining order that he stay away from her.
FOUR CORNERS – A motorist at 7:12 a.m. Monday said a red sedan had overturned at the intersection and may have been burned. Within minutes of her call, a Coast Guard officer reported evidence of a serious traffic accident in the same location.
SAMUEL TAYLOR PARK – Deputies and medics responded at 11:04 a.m. Sunday when a diabetic woman at the Madrone Campground became sick. She was transported by ambulance to a hospital.
INVERNESS – A woman at 12:57 p.m. Sunday complained that some Inverness Way residents were playing loud music, which she described as an ongoing problem. She said deputies had asked her to notify them whenever the music became a problem. A deputy abated the disturbance and gave advice.
BOLINAS – A woman at 6:53 p.m. Sunday said a townsman, 53, had been harassing her and other people on Wharf Road. A deputy looked for the man but did not find him.
LAGUNITAS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 8:48 p.m. Sunday complained about a man staying at his house. The man’s name was not on the lease, he said, and has a history of drug and alcohol problems.
WOODACRE – A deputy at 9:24 p.m. Sunday gave a stranded motorist a ride from Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Railroad Avenue to East Marin.
HICKS VALLEY – A passerby at 11:06 p.m. Sunday told county firefighters that a car had run off the road at Novato Boulevard and Point Reyes-Petaluma Road.
POINT REYES STATION – A Knob Hill Road resident at 8:37 p.m. Saturday complained about a loud band playing for a birthday party on the Mesa. A deputy contacted a man, who said the party was for his son, and the crowd would cooperate in keeping the noise down. However, at 10:08 p.m., the woman called back to complain the party was still too loud. The deputy re-contacted the host and warned him to quiet the band or the party would be shut down. For the moment, the officer said, the band stopped causing a disturbance. However, at 11:08 p.m., a Mesa Road resident said she too was being disturbed by the nose. The deputy reported some of the guests then relocated to a house on A Street where they were making noise. The officer then dispersed the second event and checked the identification of an adult at the residence, advising the adult about noise and teenage-drinking laws.
MARSHALL – Deputies at 11:32 a.m. Monday received a report that powerlines had fallen onto Highway 1 between Blakes Landing and Clark Road, blocking the roadway.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Guadalupe Place resident at 11:47 a.m. Monday reported losing his cell phone on Sunday.
BOLINAS – A woman at 12:41 p.m. Monday told deputies her 18-year-old son was being "very argumentative" but "not violent." She said she would like him removed from her house.
POINT REYES STATION – A Highway 1 resident at 12:25 a.m. Sunday complained about numerous cars in the area. A deputy responded that she was probably hearing noise from a four-wheel-drive vehicle he had just ticketed in her area on charges of being too noisy.
SAN GERONIMO – A woman at 11 a.m. Saturday said a burglar had within the past five minutes broken her car’s passenger-side window. The car was parked near the intersection of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Nicasio Valley Road. The woman said she believes the culprit was a man in his 20s, whom she saw leaving in a white Chevrolet driven by a blonde woman in her 20s. At 9:05 p.m., another woman told deputies she too had parked in the same area to go for a hike with a friend. When they returned 90 minutes later, she said, her car’s rear window had been smashed and her purse stolen.
WOODACRE – A man at 10:08 p.m. Saturday reported a suspicious person with a towel or turban wrapped around his head was squatting at the intersection of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Railroad Avenue. The suspicious man then started walking toward the firehouse, the first man said.
DOGTOWN – A 40-foot-long, white, flatbed truck traveling southbound on Highway 1 hit a gray Nissan pickup truck at 1:47 p.m. Saturday but did not stop.
HICKS VALLEY – Firefighters at 2:59 p.m. Saturday reported a rancher had complained about trespassers tromping his silage crop. A deputy could not find them and was told they had left.
BOLINAS – A Wharf Road resident at 3:33 p.m. Saturday reported an orange van had parked in front of her home. The driver had tied his dogs to her fence and hung clothes on it, she told officers. When she asked him to move the van, she added, he started yelling profanities.
STINSON BEACH – A deputy was summoned at 10:41 p.m. Friday when 100 youths showed up on Golden Gate National Recreation Area property. When the officer arrived, he found the throng had grown to 200 youths with more cars arriving. Although the location was within US Park Police jurisdiction, the deputy parked conspicuously on Arenal Avenue and before long reported, "The crowd is almost all gone now."
POINT REYES STATION – A member of the staff at 8:05 a.m. Friday reported there had been an intruder in West Marin School during the night. Doors and windows had been left open, and there were obvious footprints. Staff had not yet noticed anything missing, she added.
POINT REYES STATION – A Sixth Street clinic at 10:48 a.m. Friday reported a vandal had discharged a fire extinguisher onto a door.
POINT REYES STATION – A resident at 11:10 a.m. Friday reported that sometime Wednesday night a burglar opened a door of his car, ransacked the glovebox, but took nothing. He said other people in his neighborhood reported similar incidents.
NICASIO – A Nicasio Valley Road resident at 4:26 p.m. reported seeing around her house a man in his 40s carrying a camera with a telephoto lens. She said she was "very scared," and a deputy noted the suspect might be a San Rafael man whom a deputy had run out of the area earlier.
STINSON BEACH – A bartender at 12:30 a.m. last Thursday told deputies he was concerned for the well being of a homeless man last seen heading toward the beach despite being "very intoxicated."
DOGTOWN – A sheriff’s patrolcar struck a deer on Highway 1 at 1:08 a.m. Friday, severely injuring the animal. With authorization from the Humane Society, the deputy that had been driving shot the deer to put it out of its misery. The collision damaged the patrolcar’s foglights.
WOODACRE – A resident at 8:20 a.m. Friday reported hearing a "snap" or a "pop," possibly in the hills, and a woman screaming, "No! No! No!" Four minutes later deputies and medics were summoned to the same neighborhood after receiving a report that a 12-year-old boy was bleeding from his head and fingers and could not feel his fingers."
BOLINAS – A man, who has made repeated complaints to deputies that a second man is harassing him, made another complaint Friday. He said the second man had been standing outside a business screaming at him, "I’m going to get you, boy!" The man added that the second man had just driven out of town at about 70 mph in a teal Mercury. Deputies have previously noted the two have a dispute over money, and the first man has accused the second of threatening him with a truck.
LAGUNITAS – A pregnant woman at 5:28 p.m. Friday accused a 58-year-old resident of raping her last May. A deputy determined the sex was consensual. The woman, who is homeless, is currently staying in San Geronimo, and the deputy is trying to find her help.
LAGUNITAS – A Chimney Lane resident at 7:05 p.m. last Thursday complained that her neighbor’s car is blocking her driveway. Officers noted there is a history of disputes between the women.
STINSON BEACH – A caller at 7:07 p.m. last Thursday notified deputies that two men were in a vacant house on Calle de la Sierra and had a fire in the fireplace. A deputy went to the house where a resident said he had no idea why anyone would claim their house was vacant since they live there.
BOLINAS – A man on Wharf Road at 11:20 a.m. last Thursday accused a woman of battery, saying she had hit him in the jaw and then ran off down the street.
LAGUNITAS – A woman at 1:49 p.m. last Thursday asked deputies to check on the sanity of a second woman who was screaming in her backyard. A deputy determined the second woman merely "had opera up real loud while doing laundry."
POINT REYES STATION – A Mesa Road resident at 2:17 p.m. last Thursday reported she had found her car’s door open that morning and that her purse was gone. She said when she returned from work, the purse was hanging on her door with everything in it except for $20.
POINT REYES STATION – A Mesa Road resident at 2:37 p.m. last Thursday reported a laptop computer and a wallet had been stolen from his car the previous Sunday.
STINSON BEACH – A man at 5:42 p.m. last Thursday complained that he had been storing a $500 power washer at an inn and that a person at the inn had given permission to a second man to take it. He said this amounted to theft.
POINT REYES STATION – A Mañana Way resident at 9:39 p.m. last Wednesday told residents her purse had been stolen from her vehicle four hours earlier. She said she had lost $400 and her identification papers.
BOLINAS – A hiker at 9:58 p.m. Wednesday reported he had parked his car somewhere in the Point Reyes National Seashore but now could not find it.
POINT REYES STATION – Sheriff’s Lt. Rich Ginnodo, 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. Ginnodo 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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