March 18, 2004 Sheriff's Calls
INVERNESS – A resident at 9:56 a.m. Monday told a deputy she had been receiving harassing phone calls. She asked how to get a court to issue a restraining order to stop them, and a deputy told her.
STINSON BEACH – A deputy at 3:57 p.m. Monday for two miles on Highway 1 pursued a red Mustang traveling at a "high rate of speed" . After stopping the Ford, the officer cited the driver on charges of reckless driving.
STINSON BEACH – A man at 4:16 p.m. Monday called deputies from a payphone to say he had thrown a rock in the beach parking lot, and the rock had bounced up and hit a 25-year-old woman in the head. The man said he then ran to a restaurant’s payphone to notify officers. He said the woman had "a pretty good head injury" but was not bleeding; however, she was developing a swelling along her hairline. Medics handled the injury.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman, who wished to remain anonymous, at 5:51 p.m. Monday complained to deputies that two men and two women were drinking in the town park. A deputy found four people in the park and described them as "cooperative" with "no alcohol present." There were "no violations" of the law, the officer reported.
BOLINAS – Deputies at 9:27 p.m. Monday received a second-hand report of two women fighting on Wharf Road. A merchant, who checked the scene for officers, told deputies the disturbance had been simply a case of a "young couple arguing" and that the problem was "completely abated."
INVERNESS – Deputies and medics were summoned at 10:40 a.m. Friday when a woman reported a second woman, 90, was "unresponsive but breathing." She said the older woman had opened her eyes and then closed them. The first woman told deputies she did not know the medical history of the older woman, who was now "trying to speak."
SAN GERONIMO – A resident at 11:27 a.m. Sunday asked what to do about the "dumping of garbage by individuals" at the recycling center next to Lagunitas School. She said the last illegal dumping had occurred only three hours earlier. "This is an ongoing problem," she said. A deputy advised the woman about county ordinances regarding the dumping of trash, and she said she would notify Valley residents by email.
BOLINAS – A man at 12:24 p.m. Sunday reported a couple in their 20s at the Bolinas Wye had a campfire next to a stream. He said the fire was three feet high but was "possibly now embers." Bolinas firefighters located the couple at the wye and determined they had no fire.
INVERNESS PARK – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 2:21 p.m. Monday reported that over the weekend a burglar had broken a backdoor window in order to reach a deadbolt and enter her house. She said the burglar "apparently only took a bath [and] nothing else."
BOLINAS – County firefighters at 2:44 p.m. Monday complained that vehicles parked on Wharf Road were blocking access to emergency vehicles. A deputy cited one parked vehicle. Another was moved.
BOLINAS – A woman complained that numerous vehicles were "parked in no-parking zones at Brighton Avenue and Cliff Road, blocking full access to roadways." A deputy ticketed two vehicles on charges of illegal parking.
BOLINAS – A deputy and Highway Patrol officer on Brighton Avenue at 4:31 p.m. Monday arrested a motorist on charges of drunk driving.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman at 6:48 p.m. Monday reported losing her wallet downtown, possibly in a market. She later notified deputies she had found her wallet.
BOLINAS – A man and woman at 8:32 a.m. Friday reported vandalism to a vehicle. They said they suspect an ex-girlfriend of the man is the vandal.
TOMALES – A Tomales-Petaluma Road resident at 8:37 a.m. Friday told deputies her 10-day-old infant was having difficulty breathing and had been sick for two days. The mother said a nurse had advised her to call 911. Deputies and medics responded.
INVERNESS PARK – A Paradise Ranch Estates resident at 9:15 a.m. Friday said she has been receiving threatening and harassing phone calls from another woman. A deputy took a harassment report.
WOODACRE – A resident at 11:42 a.m. Friday reported that her vehicle had been stolen last Thursday by her foster son. Deputies arrested the boy on vehicle-theft charges and booked him into Juvenile Hall.
STINSON BEACH – A man at 9:12 p.m. Friday told deputies that a 42-year-old woman, who had been hiking, had slipped and fallen, landing on her hip and back. He said she was not bleeding and did not lose consciousness. Medics reached her via a "steep dirt road" off Panoramic Highway.
STINSON BEACH – A Calle del Occident resident at 9:37 p.m. complained there were three bonfires on the beach at Calle del Occident and Calle Embarcadero. The man subsequently called back to say one of the fires was 12 feet high and near a house. Park Service rangers responded.
BOLINAS – A Brighton Avenue resident at 11:30 p.m. Friday told deputies that "about 60 adolescents are headed towards the beach" and that "the group is growing bigger with more vehicles arriving." Another Brighton Avenue resident likewise reported there was a "large group in front of her residence, and [the group] has not moved on." The deputy who responded made the group put out a "large bonfire" and leave the beach. However, he added, there was a "gathering still in the road."
March 11, 2004 Sheriff's Calls
POINT REYES STATION – A Highway 1 resident at 1:25 p.m. Sunday notified deputies his camera bag was missing from his studio, a $1,500 loss. The man later found the photographic gear and told deputies nothing had been stolen.
WOODACRE – A Carson Road resident at 1:40 p.m. Sunday reported a vandal had removed a surveyor’s stake from her property and taken the hood ornament off her car.
BOLINAS-FAIRFAX ROAD – The Highway Patrol at 2:21 p.m. Sunday notified deputies a bicyclist and a red Ford Explorer SUV had collided two miles east of Highway 1. Medics and deputies responded.
STINSON BEACH – A woman at 3:48 p.m. Sunday called deputies from Highway 1 to report a 26-year-old man was possibly having an allergic reaction to a nicotine patch. She said his hands were cramping and that his family has a history of allergies, although he doesn’t. She said he smelled of alcohol when he walked in.
STINSON BEACH – A merchant at 4:02 p.m. Sunday told deputies it appeared that a 45-year-old "customer is going to potentially cause a problem." The merchant said the "customer was getting ready to be seated and became verbally hostile to the owner, calling him a racist etc." The merchant, however, then "had to hang up to deal with other customers," a deputy reported.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Candelero Avenue resident at 4:40 p.m. Sunday reported people drinking in the town park and asked what to do about it. A deputy gave him advice.
INVERNESS – A woman at 5:36 p.m. Sunday reported seeing a vehicle that had "dug into ditch" along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and the uninjured passengers’ "drive train into dirt." Deputies notified the Highway Patrol.
STINSON BEACH – A woman at 5:56 p.m. Sunday reported a robbery was underway at a Calle del Mar business. A deputy then called the business, and the manager said there had been no robbery.
FOREST KNOLLS – A resident of the Guadalupe Avenue-Montezuma Road neighborhood at 5:32 p.m. Saturday said four men and for women had been smoking pot and drinking beer in the town park. He said the people had now "put their stuff in a white Toyota." The "very upset" caller said such behavior was an "ongoing problem" in the park, a deputy reported.
TOMALES – A Highway 1 resident at 10:07 a.m. Friday reported problems with his landlord. The resident said he had already called the Sheriff’s Office’s Civil Division, "who referred him back to us," a deputy reported. An officer gave the man "advice regarding tenant-landlord problems."
FOREST KNOLLS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 4:13 p.m. Friday reported a "large" woman in her 30s was "banging on car windows with a rock." He said "the vehicle looked like it had a ticket or white tag on it [and was] parked on Castro Street."
BOLINAS – After deputies at 9:28 p.m. Friday received a report of a water-main leak on Wharf Road, firefighters and a deputy went to the residence and found the water coming from inside the home. A deputy shut off the water main.
POINT REYES STATION – Deputies at 12:30 a.m. Saturday reported a black purse had been found on Highway 1.
BOLINAS – Medics at 7:01 a.m. last Thursday transported a 78-year-old diabetic man by ambulance from Brighton Avenue to a hospital after he suffered shortness of breath.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Guadeloupe Place resident at 11:02 a.m. last Wednesday complained about two men drinking in the town park. When a deputy went to the park, he found no one drinking but did find one of the park’s neighbors "cleaning up beer cans and garbage and trimming shrubs."
FOUR CORNERS – A deputy at 3:49 p.m. last Wednesday cited a man on charges of possessing a small amount of pot while driving.
FALLON – A woman at 5:47 p.m. last Wednesday told deputies 15 cows were loose on Estero Road near Valley Ford-Franklin School Road. One rancher told officers they were not his cows but gave officers the name of the owner. Deputies, the Humane Society, and the Highway Patrol rounded up the cows.
INVERNESS PARK – Deputies at Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Vallejo Avenue at 10:51 p.m. last Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old man on multiple drug and vehicle code charges. Deputies said his white Cadillac had false tabs on its license plate, and its registration had expired.
SAN GERONIMO – Medics responded at 11:34 p.m. when an 85-year-old woman, with a history of heart problems, experienced shortness of breath, clammy skin, a racing heart, and dizziness.
NICASIO – Medics were summoned to Big Rock at 10:33 a.m. last Wednesday when someone swooned.
OLEMA – A man along Highway 1 at 12:44 a.m. last Thursday notified the sheriff’s dispatcher he was "stranded and asking for help." The man "has money but doesn’t have any phone numbers for cabs," the dispatcher reported. "Please check on him. [He’s] saying he is getting frostbite." A deputy reported he had seen the man hitchhiking earlier. The officer gave the man a ride to the intersection of Elm and Grove roads in Bolinas.
BOLINAS – A Kale Road resident at 7:51 a.m. last Wednesday complained about an "ongoing problem" with "construction noise." Deputies said the man was "disturbed over [the] construction crew starting at 7 a.m." A deputy spoke to the general contractor, who said he believed the permitted starting time was 7 a.m. The deputy noted he had left a call with a Planning Division enforcement officer to find out whether the starting time should be 8 a.m. or 7 a.m. He said he would then "re-contact" both parties."
PLATFORM BRIDGE – A deputy at 8:06 a.m. last Wednesday found a man living in a dark-green sedan in a creekbed at Laurel Canyon and Point Reyes-Petaluma roads and arrested the 23-year-old camper on charges of possessing methamphetamine. The officer said that when the man was arrested, he had been in the process of heating the narcotic in order to inhale its fumes. The deputy said the man appeared to have only enough speed for personal use.
BOLINAS – The Probation Department at 10:24 a.m. last Wednesday asked a deputy to arrest a man who was downtown.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman reported that a drunk man in his 40s was sitting on a bench in front of the Dance Palace "talking to kids" but also "falling over." She said the man, who is a friend of some parents, had now gotten up and was "walking toward the Point Reyes Sheriff’s Substation." She noted he was "running into things, falling, and stopping."
HICKS VALLEY – Deputies at 7:56 a.m. Feb. 2 received a report that an intruder had entered Lincoln School during the night by breaking a lock. A screen door elsewhere at the school was torn as well. School staff and a deputy determined nothing had been taken.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 4:49 p.m. March 2 asked a deputy what to do about a neighbor’s cutting down her cypress trees a few days ago. The deputy gave her advice.
FOREST KNOLLS – A bartender at 5:02 p.m. March 2 complained about a 36-year-old drunken man who was causing a disturbance. A deputy later reported that some "subjects have been moved along."
WOODACRE – A woman at 11:10 p.m. March 2 asked a deputy how to go about getting her daughter tested for drug use. The officer gave her advice.
SAN GERONIMO – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 11 p.m. complained about vehicles with "high-revving engines driving back and forth...for half an hour." She told deputies the vehicles sounded as if they were in the area of the former Forest Knolls gas station. She asked that deputies deal with the problem without re-contacting her because she was trying to get to sleep. A second resident likewise reported seeing a "dark vehicle racing." The vehicle, which had "four bright fog lights [was] traveling at a high rate of speed and [was] loud." The vehicle was traveling toward Lagunitas School at that moment, the second resident said.
INVERNESS – Medics responded at 9:53 Monday when an 88-year-old woman, who takes blood-thinning medicine, developed a nose bleed. The "bleeding is not controlled" and had been going on for half an hour," a deputy reported.
BOLINAS – A man at 1 p.m. Monday complained about loud music for the past hour. A deputy determined the music was coming from a residence where students were home on their lunch hour. The officer then spoke to people in both houses.
THIRTEEN TURNS – A dumptruck overturned on Highway 1 at 1:40 p.m. Monday. Rangers, deputies, and Park Service rangers provided traffic control. The driver told the Highway Patrol he had been southbound when an oncoming vehicle crossed the centerline, forcing the trucker to swerve onto the right shoulder. Because the shoulder was soft, the truck tipped partway over and came to rest against an embankment. No one was injured.
POINT REYES STATION – Sheriff’s Lt. Ritch Ginnodo, commander of the West Marin substation, has asked The Light to let readers know 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 new phone number is 446-4418.
March 4, 2004 Sheriff's Calls
SAN GERONIMO – A woman on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard called deputies at 1:53 p.m. Feb. 24 to report a second woman, who is in her 30s and drives a blue Volkswagen, had just "dumped two large, plastic bags full of trash in the recycling center." The first woman contacted the second, who then retrieved her trash. The first woman said illegal dumping at the recycling center is an "ongoing problem."
NICASIO – A woman at 2:24 p.m. Feb. 24 reported a 39-year-old woman had "collapsed" and was "possibly in a seizure." A deputy reported the second woman "has a drinking problem." The officer quoted the first woman as saying once the second woman’s seizure ended, she was "unconscious, and blood has been coming out of her mouth." The caller next reported the second woman "had shallow breathing and appears conscious."
FOREST KNOLLS – A man at 5:09 p.m. Feb. 24 reported that five men were sitting on a log at Guadalupe Place and Montezuma Avenue. A deputy went to the town park at this location, found several people, and did not observe anyone drinking alcohol.
STINSON BEACH – A Calle del Embarcadero homeowner at 6:41 p.m. Feb. 24 reported vandalism in her frontyard and the theft of several items.
BOLINAS – An Overlook Drive resident at 8:08 p.m. Feb. 24 told deputies a woman, who lives on the same property as he, had entered his house, gotten into a quarrel, and hit him over the head with a beer can.
BOLINAS – A deputy at 8:43 p.m. Feb. 24 took an alleged state parole violator into custody.
DOGTOWN – Medics and a deputy responded to a Highway 1 residence at 3:25 p.m. last Wednesday when a 75-year-old woman passed out. However, she regained consciousness, said she was not in pain, and was breathing normally, an officer said. However, he added, her skin was "clammy."
HICKS VALLEY – A Highway Patrol officer at 9:16 p.m. last Wednesday asked that a deputy back him up during an arrest at Novato Boulevard and the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road. The CHP reported trying to detain a motorist on a drunk-driving charge, but the suspect’s "friend showed up and is wishing to take him away from the scene."
BOLINAS – Deputies and firefighters at 9:53 p.m. last Wednesday responded to a reported "structure fire" at Ocean Parkway and Yucca Road. Officers later reported the fire was actually a "controlled, illegal burn" and canceled all emergency vehicles but a firetruck.
NICASIO – A deputy on Nicasio Valley Road at 1:44 a.m. last Thursday found three people who "admitted to racing their cars around West Marin. They stopped here to cool them down." The deputy added that the three were "warned about racing."
INVERNESS – Medics at 8:56 a.m. Friday transported a Sir Francis Drake woman to a hospital by ambulance. A deputy noted the woman has a heart condition.
DOGTOWN – The Highway Patrol at 10:05 a.m. last Thursday reported a tree had fallen onto Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. A deputy later reported a "large branch [had been] removed from the road prior to my arrival. No [utility] wires were involved."
POINT REYES STATION – A rescue helicopter at 2:55 p.m. last Thursday transported a 64-year-old man with lung cancer to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital because of a "lung collapsing."
WOODACRE – A Central Avenue resident at 6:13 p.m. last Thursday notified deputies she had heard an apparent gunshot that morning and now two more gunshots. She said she thought "it was coming from on the hill [and] believes there is someone playing with a gun. This has happened before."
BOLINAS – A man on Wharf Road at 6:27 p.m. last Thursday complained about a motorist who was driving a black car with a dummy’s head, which was wearing a motorcyclist’s helmet, sticking out the roof. The caller said the "driver has been speeding around town all day while holding a beer in his hand. [The caller] told him to slow down, and he yelled out at him and sped off," a deputy quoted the caller as saying.
BOLINAS – A man on Wharf Road at 9:18 p.m. last Thursday told deputies he "was threatened by [someone] who assaulted him one week ago." The caller said the assailant, who was now standing on a sidewalk downtown, had asked if the caller wanted to be assaulted again. The caller added he believes the second man "was arrested for waiving a machete awhile back."
INVERNESS – An Inverness Way resident at 10:45 p.m. last Thursday complained about an "ongoing problem with loud rap music being played every night." A deputy called the man with the music and told him about the complaint. The officer then went to his house and found all was quiet.
POINT REYES STATION – A resident at 12:08 a.m. Friday said another man was pounding on his door and demanding to be let in. The caller said the second man has been violent before and was threatening to break the resident’s front window. The resident told deputies he did not know if the second man had been drinking.
STINSON BEACH – A Calle de la Resaca resident at 7:45 a.m. Friday told deputies her neighbors had threatened to burn her house down. A deputy determined there was "no merit to threats to burn the house down, [but] a report was taken for documentation of the neighbors’ dispute."
POINT REYES STATION – A dark blue vehicle ran into a ditch along Highway 1 at 12:02 p.m. Friday. No one was hurt, and a towtruck removed the vehicle from the ditch.
BOLINAS – A deputy assisted the Highway Patrol in arranging for a vehicle to be pulled out of a Mesa Road ditch at 9:25 p.m. Friday.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – A deputy at 11:49 p.m. /Friday reported a "chocolate-milk-colored, medium-aged cow" was on the roadway. The officer checked with two ranches to see who owned it. The "cow was [then] wrangled and put back in its house," the deputy added.
INVERNESS PARK – A deputy on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at 2:01 a.m. Saturday stopped a blue Acura and cited the motorist on charges of driving despite a suspended license.
INVERNESS PARK – Deputies at 9:03 a.m. Friday received a report that a 56-year-old woman "has not been feeling well for the last several days." She had "very slurred speech, tightness in her chest, [and] no feeling in her left side. When asked [to move] her left side, she moves her right." Deputies were told the woman was "very confused."
WOODACRE – A Railroad Avenue resident at 12:27 p.m. Saturday told deputies her brother-in-law, who was visiting from Ireland, had lost his passport. She asked if anyone had turned it in.
OLEMA – A motorcyclist at 1:02 p.m. Saturday complained that a park ranger had sprayed motorcycles with water as they drove by.
POINT REYES STATION – A merchant at 2:47 p.m. Saturday reported a "Ninja-style" motorcycle was parked on the sidewalk in front of his main street business. He said he wanted the motorcycle ticketed or removed. A deputy found the biker, and the motorcycle was moved.
TOMALES – The Highway Patrol at 4:21 told deputies it had received a report that a Volkswagen Turbo had run off Highway 1 and that the "driver is intoxicated." The driver, a man in his 50s, was not injured. He was gone when officers arrived.
FOREST KNOLLS – A man at 4:43 p.m. Saturday complained that a man in his 40s was drinking in the town park. A deputy said the second man appeared to be gardening, not drinking.
NICASIO – Medics responded to Lucas Valley Road at 8:44 p.m. Saturday when a 75-year-old woman dislocated an artificial hip.
SAMUEL TAYLOR PARK – A caller at 11:19 p.m. Saturday complained of being awakened by people partying at one or two campsites. The caller said there were "a lot of cars, no tents, and a bonfire."
POINT REYES STATION – A man on the south end of the main street at 11:27 p.m. Saturday complained about six drunk males. He said one looked underage and that the young man’s girlfriend was trying to get him to leave the area. The caller said that as the group left, one man urinated on the ground.
WOODACRE – A Redwood Drive resident at 7:55 a.m. Sunday reported a vandal had used a "large felt marker" to write "Vote Bush" on the man’s garage door.
BOLINAS – A woman at 12:31 p.m. Sunday notified deputies she was in the process of moving when a neighbor and her son swore at her and threatened her. The woman said she did not want the other woman or the other woman’s son on her property.
WOODACRE – A Redwood Drive resident at 2:26 p.m. Sunday told deputies a vandal had smashed the passenger’s side window of her vehicle with a large rock. The vandalism occurred at night while the vehicle was parked in front of her house. She said the rock is "still sitting on the driver’s seat [and that] it does not appear anything was taken from the vehicle."
WOODACRE – A Redwood Drive resident at 4:24 p.m. Sunday reported that a vandal had thrown a beer bottle through his rear window during the night."
LAGUNITAS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 3:54 p.m. Sunday said a man was "banging" on her front door. "He was told he was trespassing, but he said he is not," she reported. The woman added that the man "had to jump over two locked gates to get to the front door."
WOODACRE – A caller at 4:25 p.m. Sunday reported a second man had transported a Snowmobile for the caller’s friend. The caller said that when he picked the Snowmobile up for his friend, he gave the second man $300 for the transportation. The second man, however, would not give him a receipt, he claimed. The caller said he feared the second man "will say [he] did not pay." A deputy left civil-law advice on the first man’s answering machine.
NICASIO – A woman at 5:45 p.m. Sunday reported her purse and a digital camera had been stolen from her unlocked vehicle that afternoon. The thieves by then had already charged $400 on her ATM card, she said.
INVERNESS – A Perth Way resident at 6:44 p.m. Sunday told deputies her neighbor’s tree is leaning over her house and she feels it is "dangerous." However, she said, the "neighbor will not do anything about it, [and] the Department of Public Works cannot handle private property." A deputy advised her to contact PG&E and said Public Works would contact her on Monday.
WOODACRE – A resident at 8:58 a.m. Monday told deputies that on Friday she had found her kitchen door open and footsteps leading into the house. A burglar took her kitchen knives, she said. At 9:08 p.m., the resident called deputies a second time, saying someone had broken into her house again that day, left "muddy footprints from [the] kitchen to [the] backyard," and had again taken kitchen knives. Deputies said they would try to confirm that these were "two separate incidents."
BOLINAS – A woman at 10:31 a.m. Monday reported someone had fraudulently used her ATM card.
SAMUEL TAYLOR PARK – Firefighters at 12:35 p.m. Monday asked deputies to provide traffic control after a large tree fell across Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, bringing down powerlines.
INVERNESS – A resident of the Inverness Mesa at 7:17 p.m. Monday told deputies that her husband had violated a court-issued restraining order by phoning her.
BOLINAS – A man on Wharf Road called deputies at 9:15 p.m. Monday to say female friends, who are visiting from Canada, had given him a phone number where they could be reached. However, he said, when he called, "whoever answered wouldn’t let [him] talk to [them]." He gave deputies a description of his friends’ car and their Ontario license plate number.
DOGTOWN – The Highway Patrol just after midnight Tuesday morning told deputies a woman in a green Jeep Cherokee had a flat tire on Highway 1. Citing the safety of a husband and wife at that hour, the CHP asked deputies to stand by while the tire was changed, which it was.
POINT REYES STATION – Sheriff’s Lt. Ritch Ginnodo, commander of the West Marin substation, has asked The Light to let readers know 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 new phone number is 446-4418.
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