April 25, 2002 Sheriff's Calls
POINT REYES STATION – A Marshall resident at 8:44 a.m. Monday complained that someone had defaced an anti-consumerism, anti-technology, anti-child-bearing mural that she and a friend had made to cover the front of the Grandi Building.
INVERNESS PARK – A resident of Drake’s Summit Road at 8:40 p.m. Tuesday reported a vandal had stolen two of her house signs.
INVERNESS – A man at 10 a.m. Friday reported two vandals had spray-painted the word "Nark" in large letters on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard with an arrow pointing to his girlfriend’s home. At 12:15 a.m. Saturday, his girlfriend called to say the man had caught the vandals again spray-painting at her home and had grabbed one of them. The two then punched him, sprayed orange paint in his face, and fled in a dark pickup truck. The woman, however, did not cooperate with deputies and began arguing with her boyfriend, officers reported.
INVERNESS – A deputy on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at 12:17 a.m. Saturday arrested a woman on charges of being an unlicensed driver, of giving false information to a officer, and of using a false license.
NICASIO – A deputy on Nicasio Valley Road at 8:10 a.m. Saturday arrested a man on charges of violating a court’s restraining order that grew out of a domestic-violence case. The man was arrested after he allegedly violated a child-custody order that barred him from drinking alcohol while his son was in his custody. At 8:30 a.m. the next day, the man notified deputies he and his ex-wife had a child-custody dispute, and an officer gave him advice.
STINSON BEACH – A Calle del Piños resident at 11 a.m. Friday reported that for the fifth time since late February a vandal had slashed a tire on her car.
HICKS VALLEY – A deputy at 11:30 a.m. last Wednesday arrested a 40-year-old man on charges of battery against his spouse. His wife had earlier called deputies to say he was going after his family but that she had locked herself and her children in a bedroom and that his guns were also locked up.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman at 12:20 p.m. last Thursday reported she had lost a camera downtown.
STINSON BEACH – A Calle del Piños resident last Wednesday reported receiving an annoying message on her answering machine.
BOLINAS – A deputy on Brighton Avenue at 4 p.m. last Thursday arrested a homeless woman on a warrant.
BOLINAS – A Mesa Road resident at 1:15 p.m. last Wednesday reported losing a cellular phone.
NICASIO – A Los Piños resident at 10:19 a.m. April 16 reported his wife’s necklace had been stolen either while she was being transported to a hospital or while she was in the hospital.
BOLINAS – A Horseshoe Hill Road resident at 10 a.m. April 16 reported a burglar had entered the man’s garage by force and had stolen two pumps together worth $1,500 off a workbench.
STINSON BEACH – A state park ranger at 7:43 p.m. Monday notified deputies that a woman had reported a burglar broke into her car while it was parked at Red Rock nude beach. While he was at the scene, the ranger said, several other skinnydippers reported their cars had also been broken into, with a variety of property including electronic gear stolen.
STINSON BEACH – A Marine Way resident at 8:10 p.m. Monday said a 32-year-old woman was looking in the windows of his neighbors’ house. He told deputies the neighbors have secured a court-issued restraining order against the woman for stalking, and they had asked him to call officers if he saw her at their house while they were away. The previous day, one of the owners complained to deputies that the woman was trespassing and had tried to enter their house, but the door was locked. Earlier in the week, the owner said, her husband had been visited at work by the 32 year old, who brought him a plate of cookies.
WOODACRE – The Highway Patrol at 11:02 p.m. Monday asked deputies to look for a stalled Chevrolet blocking a lane at Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Railroad Avenue. The car was gone when a deputy arrived.
LAGUNITAS – An Arroyo Road resident at 7:02 a.m. Monday reported a man had broken into her house the day before and two times the previous week. She said little items were missing, as well as lots of paperwork. The woman said the man had been stalking her, but deputies noted the claim was unsubstantiated. At 12:40 p.m. Friday, she asked a deputy for advice regarding a temporary restraining order that someone was threatening to seek against her.
BOLINAS – A woman at 10:25 a.m. Monday reported that people who had stolen her credit cards have been opening accounts using her identification. She asked a deputy for advice.
BOLINAS – A county Parks Department worker on Brighton Avenue at 11:27 a.m. Monday reported there was a drunk man with a hat and beard on the beach. The man was gone when an officer arrived.
CHILENO VALLEY – A man at 7:21 p.m. Sunday reported numerous guns had been stolen from his home by someone who appeared to know where they were kept. Nothing else in the house was touched, he said. The man added that his 20-year-old daughter has a drug problem.
LAGUNITAS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 7:31 p.m. Sunday reported her estranged husband, 34, had phoned her and called her obscene names. Deputies took a supplemental report for additional threats.
WOODACRE – A Railroad Avenue resident at 10:46 a.m. Sunday asked deputies for advice regarding a phone call the previous day from a boyfriend of 30 years ago. The former boyfriend had looked her up on the Internet and contacted her, the resident said. She asked for extra patrols around her house.
LAGUNITAS – A woman at 11:48 a.m. Sunday reported a bicycle and motor vehicle had collided on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. The bicyclist, who is in her 20s, suffered arm and shoulder pain but was wearing a helmet and remained conscious. Medics went to her assistance.
INVERNESS – A woman at 11:57 a.m. Sunday reported two boys, about five and 10, were hitchhiking on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at Inverness Way. A deputy could not find them.
HICKS VALLEY – A man at 4:19 p.m. Sunday told deputies that a businessman had ordered some custom tables, which the man delivered a few days earlier. However, he had not been paid in full and had been unable to contact the businessman. He asked a deputy if he could repossess some of the property.
INVERNESS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 8:37 p.m. Saturday reported a very large bonfire on Chicken Ranch Beach. A deputy found some "cooperative out-of-state campers" who were unaware their fire was illegal. The deputy decided to let the fire burn itself out so as to avoid leaving half-burned wood on the beach.
DILLON BEACH – A deputy at 9:46 p.m. Saturday quieted a party of "cooperative subjects."
STINSON BEACH – A Francisco Patio resident at 9:48 p.m. Saturday reported seeing several people trespassing on his neighbors’ land. They were gone when a deputy arrived.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Morelos Avenue resident at 10:23 p.m. Saturday reported he had "shot [a raccoon] with an arrow and smacked it with an ax [because he] thought it had rabies." The Humane Society, which picked up the dead raccoon, took a cruelty-to-an-animal report.
BOLINAS – A man on Wharf Road at 11:29 a.m. Saturday passed along to deputies a second-hand report of a man who may have tried to run over a female with his car but had hit a trash barrel instead.
NICASIO – A Nicasio Valley Road resident at 1:02 a.m. Sunday notified deputies he had received three calls from a man who told him his house "was surrounded...Don’t get authorities involved. It is up to me whether you live or not." The resident told officers the man said he was calling from Denver, where the resident’s wife was at the time.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – A sheriff’s sergeant at 10:06 a.m. Saturday notified West Marin deputies he had received "several complaints about bicyclists riding in groups of 20 to 25 that are not obeying traffic rules, not stopping at traffic signs, and are not riding in single file." A deputy located the bicyclists, but they were not breaking any laws when he found them.
WOODACRE – A woman on Carson Road at 10:34 a.m. Saturday told deputies her children had run into the house saying that a man near a shed on their property was slaughtering a deer and had "lots of blood on him." The Humane Society notified deputies the slaughtering was illegal, and officers advised the state Department of Fish and Game.
STINSON BEACH – A surfer at 11:15 a.m. Saturday received a head injury.
MUIR BEACH – US Park Police at 11:40 a.m. Saturday reported that a visitor had fallen at Muir Woods and was bleeding "quite a bit" from one leg.
POINT REYES STATION – A citizen at 12:27 p.m. Saturday walked into the firehouse seeking medical aid for a fractured arm.
BOLINAS – Deputies at 3:43 p.m. Saturday received a report of a homeless man and woman quarreling on Wharf Road. Officers, however, found the noise was coming from two men who were "singing but not yet drunk."
POINT REYES STATION – A man at 11:06 p.m. Friday complained that a loud chainsaw had been operating near Highway 1 and Viento Way for 90 minutes. A deputy found a group of people cutting wood, and they agreed to stop for the night.
TOMALES – A deputy at 9:01 a.m. Friday cited a 16-year-old student on charges for bringing a knife onto the high school grounds.
HICKS VALLEY – A woman at 1:04 p.m. Friday notified deputies that her husband had violated a court-issued restraining order.
HICKS VALLEY – Deputies responded at 2:49 p.m. Friday when the Highway Patrol notified them there was a drunk man on a hill. Officers took the man to a detoxification center.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Tamal Road resident at 3:44 p.m. Friday claimed a tree service had damaged her fence on April 9.
LAGUNITAS – A woman at 5:42 p.m. Friday reported receiving harassing calls from her husband, who has been threatening her. She gave deputies her phone number which, however, turned out to be at Samuel P. Taylor State Park.
SAN GERONIMO – A man at 6:54 p.m. Friday notified deputies that he had left his home unlocked so a Realtor could show the house and so a friend could walk his dog. When he returned home, the man said, he found that someone had forced their way into his house. His papers had been disturbed, he said, but he didn’t know if anything had been stolen. However, he added, there was evidence that someone had eaten a banana in his kitchen.
BOLINAS – A woman on Wharf Road at 8:03 p.m. last Thursday asked deputies to notify her parents that she is being evicted and that their son, who lives with her, needs shelter.
HICKS VALLEY – A rancher at 7:17 a.m. last Thursday complained about vandals driving onto his property and spinning donuts in his pasture. He added that he is renovating a house on the property, and vandals have been breaking its windows.
NICASIO – A resident at 8:04 a.m. last Thursday notified deputies that his 17-year-old son had been involved in a traffic accident the previous night but that his son and ex-wife were refusing to tell him what happened.
BOLINAS – A Cedar Road resident at 5:30 a.m. last Wednesday complained that a man was breaking up the resident’s trailer, where the man used to live. The resident told deputies he could hear pounding and sobbing coming from the trailer. A Rosewood Road resident at 2:37 p.m. the same day reported the man had just been let out of jail and asked for extra patrols in her neighborhood. At 8:23 p.m., a resident at Dogwood and Elm roads said he could hear the man yelling in the street after being "kicked out of a trailer on Cedar." At 8:58 p.m., the Cedar Road resident complained about the man yelling obscenities at him and asked for advice in getting a court to issue an order restraining the man from trespassing on the resident’s property. And at 8:43 last Thursday morning, the same resident complained that the man had again used the trailer overnight despite being told to stay off the resident’s property. The resident said he found cigarette butts in the trailer and its door open. He too asked for extra patrols in the neighborhood.
NICASIO – A woman at 11:58 a.m. last Thursday reported receiving a cell phone call from her husband, who was riding a motorcycle on Lucas Valley Road. Her husband had told her, she said, that a van and another vehicle were involved in a "bad accident" east of Big Rock.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman at 12:27 p.m. last Thursday told deputies she had lost a $250 camera on April 14.
BOLINAS – A youth at 2:51 p.m. last Thursday called deputies from a movie theater to complain that his father hits him when they get in arguments. The previous day, his father had hit him in the jaw, he said, and he does not feel safe in his house.
LAGUNITAS – A Portola Avenue resident at 3:56 p.m. last Thursday complained that six juveniles in a blue Toyota had trespassed on her property. When she told them they were trespassing, she said, the six were polite but refused to give their names. The resident said she wanted the youths’ parents contacted.
INVERNESS PARK – A Portola Avenue resident at 4:16 p.m. last Thursday complained that a "bunch of teenagers" in a purple van had been "shouting obscenities at [her] son." The teenagers were gone when a deputy arrived.
FOREST KNOLLS – Deputies at 7:15 p.m. last Wednesday received a report that a woman in a sports utility vehicle with its doors locked was having a seizure on Tamal Road. A passerby said the woman was "non-responsive and drooling but conscious." The SUV was in drive, but the woman’s foot was off the gas pedal, the passerby said.
SAN GERONIMO – A pickup truck carrying four juveniles hit a utility pole at Nicasio Valley Road and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. One girl received a compound fracture of a hand.
STINSON BEACH – A Belvedere Avenue resident at 7:55 a.m. last Wednesday complained about a man sleeping in a vacant lot. She said the man has threatened children and families. She added that she has seen him urinate and defecate in the lot, the owner of which is 94.
POINT REYES STATION – An A Street resident at 8:17 p.m. last Wednesday reported that on Monday morning, he found that a vandal had stuck a stop sign over his gate. He said he didn’t know where the sign belonged. The sign was too large for a sheriff’s patrolcar, so a county road crew was dispatched to pick it up.
NATIONAL SEASHORE – A motorist at 11:11 a.m. last Wednesday reported there was a large amount of mud on Pierce Point Road, covering an entire lane. She said that when her car hit the mud, it slid into a tree and almost hit another car. The roadway needed to be cleaned up, she said.
BOLINAS – Deputies at 4:08 p.m. last Wednesday charged a man with felony infliction of injury on a child.
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.
April 18, 2002 Sheriff's Calls
TOMALES – High school staff at 3 p.m. April 9 notified deputies they had found a female student in possession of marijuana and cigarettes.
STINSON BEACH – A state park ranger at 7:51 p.m. Sunday asked deputies to provide a device for checking a motorist’s breath to see if the driver was intoxicated. The driver wasn’t.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – Deputies at 9:26 a.m. Monday received a report that a vehicle had run off the road but that no one had been injured. Officers could not find the vehicle but sent for a streetsweeper to remove broken glass from the roadway.
INVERNESS – An Emeryville man at 11:12 a.m. Monday notified deputies that he and three friends were returning from a visit to the lighthouse the previous evening when they attempted to eat at a Sir Francis Drake Boulevard restaurant, but the owner took exception to his dreadlocks. The man, who noted he is white, claimed the owner yelled across the restaurant, "Where are you from, Africa? Take those things off." The group then left, the man said. Deputies took a report on alleged racial slurs toward the customer.
BOLINAS – A man on Wharf Road at 3:07 p.m. Monday reported a woman was either getting in or out of a vehicle while screaming at the male driver, "Let me in." The caller said the vehicle left with groceries falling out the back. He said he did not know if the woman was in the vehicle when it departed.
STINSON BEACH – Medics responded to Highway 1 at 6:15 p.m. Monday when a 70-year-old man tripped and cut his head on a rock. The bleeding man was transported to Marin General Hospital.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Tamal Road resident at 9:19 p.m. Monday told deputies a 50-year-old drunk man was walking up and down the street yelling "at nothing." The resident said the man usually carries a Bowie knife.
TOMALES – Sheriff’s Lt. Rich Ginnodo on Tuesday said that an investigation by deputies and the Highway Patrol into an April 8 traffic mishap at Tomales High found it was not the fault of the driver, a female student. An 18-year-old male student told officer he thought the girl had deliberately tried to strike him with her car. However, said Lt. Ginnodo, witnesses told officers the accident resulted from teenage "horseplay" in which two boys on foot tried to block the girl from driving away. Apparently fearing he might become pinned between her car and a parked car, the boy jumped onto her car, breaking the windshield with his head, witnesses reported.
LAGUNITAS – A woman at 8:57 p.m. Sunday told deputies her 41-year-old husband and 14-year-old son had gone fishing at North Kent Lake earlier in the day but had not returned on schedule.
STINSON BEACH – A woman at 7:10 a.m. Sunday complained about a large bus with people sleeping in it parked in a vacant lot at Buena Vista Avenue and Calle del Mar. While she was on the phone, she noted, a man was urinating in the lot. She described the situation as an ongoing problem. A deputy contacted the property owner and advised him that vehicular habitation is illegal in Marin County.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman at 12:15 p.m. Sunday notified deputies that juveniles "are back on Friday and Saturday nights in the [town] park drinking and breaking bottles." She said she had cleaned up broken glass that morning but would like extra patrols around the park on Friday and Saturday nights.
WOODACRE – A man at 12:55 p.m. Sunday complained that a white van with Oregon license plates was partially blocking a roadway. The van was gone when a deputy arrived. However, the caller also complained about a blue van parked at Carson Road and Madrone Avenue with a man in his 40s living in it. That van was also gone when a deputy arrived.
BOLINAS – A caller at 3:38 p.m. Sunday complained about loud music coming from a dark colored pickup truck that was parked with its door open. A deputy contacted the truck’s owner, who turned off the music.
TOMALES – A repo man at 5:33 p.m. Sunday notified deputies he had tried to repossess a vehicle on Valley Avenue when the owner came running out in his bare feet, lay down under the repo man’s towtruck, and began to fake an injury. When the towtruck drove forward, the vehicle owner began throwing rocks at the truck. The repo man left and asked deputies to stand by while he repossessed the man’s vehicle.
OLEMA – An off-duty Park Service ranger on Highway 1 at 7:23 p.m. Saturday reported a suspicious vehicle was parked at a trailhead. The ranger said she had received second-hand reports that people in the vehicle were driving recklessly at the trailhead. A deputy could not find the vehicle.
WOODACRE – County firefighters at 9:14 p.m. Saturday responded to a fence fire on Oak Grove Avenue next to the firehouse.
BOLINAS – A Brighton Avenue resident at 9:18 p.m. Saturday complained that a red Chevrolet was blocking his driveway. A deputy traced the car’s ownership to a man from Myrtle Creek, Oregon.
INVERNESS – A 42-year-old resident of Camino del Mar at 2:23 a.m. Sunday reported that while she was asleep she developed pain in her right arm, as well as nausea. She said she is not pregnant, not sick, and not on any medication. She was transported to a hospital.
WOODACRE – A woman called deputies from San Geronimo Valley Drive at 8:30 a.m. Saturday to report her back window had been broken but nothing had been stolen.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – A deputy provided traffic control at 12:34 p.m. Saturday while the Highway Patrol dealt with a motorcycle accident.
POINT REYES STATION – A main street merchant at 12:53 p.m. Saturday complained about a motorcycle parked on the sidewalk in front of the old Cheda Building. A deputy ticketed the motorcycle.
BOLINAS – A caller at 1:19 p.m. Saturday notified deputies that a horse, which appeared to be injured, was heading up the Bolinas-Fairfax Road from the Bolinas Wye. After the Humane Society asked a deputy to check on the animal, the officer reported the horse was back home and a veterinarian was en route.
MUIR BEACH – Deputies at 2:42 p.m. Saturday received a report of a traffic accident on Highway 1. The driver was crying outside her car, whose airbag had deployed, but no one was injured, officers were told.
BOLINAS – Medics responded to Pine Hill Road at 3:01 p.m. Saturday when two of a woman’s fingers were partially amputated. Deputies said the woman cut her finger while cleaning grass from under a lawn mower that was running.
POINT REYES STATION – A man at 5:42 p.m. Saturday turned over to deputies a woman's wallet, which he had found. The woman was contacted and said she would pick up her wallet Sunday.
BOLINAS – Deputies at 9:17 p.m. Friday received a report of 10 juveniles on the beach with a 20-foot-high bonfire. A Stinson Beach resident at 9:40 p.m. reported he too could see the fire. Firefighters said the fire did not threaten anything and could just burn itself out. Deputies meanwhile admonished the juveniles for building the large fire.
HICKS VALLEY – A rancher at 9:50 p.m. Friday reported a car was parked at one-room Lincoln School. When he drove up, he said, the car sped off. The rancher said vandals had previously broken windows at the school. A deputy could not find the car.
OLEMA – A woman at 10:20 p.m. Friday reported hearing a female in a vehicle screaming as the vehicle drove up Olema Hill. A deputy could not find the vehicle.
BOLINAS – A woman at 10:51 p.m. Friday complained of 25 loud people at the town tennis courts. They were gone when a deputy arrived.
STINSON BEACH – A citizen at 10:58 p.m. Friday walked into a restaurant and reported a car had run off the road at Panoramic Highway and Highway 1. Four people were hurt, one suffering a head injury, the citizen said.
SAN GERONIMO – Deputies at 11:19 p.m. Friday were notified that a silver-colored Jeep was driving on the golf course, damaging the turf.
DILLON BEACH – A Cypress Avenue resident at 12:03 a.m. Saturday notified deputies that four juveniles had a bonfire on the beach. A deputy found a quiet group of youths, moved them along, and had the fire extinguished.
MUIR BEACH – A motorist called from Pacific Way at 12:08 a.m. Saturday to report being the target of rock throwers. The alleged culprits’ vehicle was traced to Mill Valley.
STINSON BEACH – A man at 12:34 a.m. Saturday reported five or six youths were starting a bonfire on the beach near Calle del Occidente.
POINT REYES STATION – A merchant at 3:26 a.m. Saturday notified deputies he had seen a vehicle with its lights off pull away from another business, drive around the block, and return to the business.
STINSON BEACH – Two callers around 10:30 a.m. Friday complained that a gray bus with a red devil painted on it had been in the area for a few days. The bus owners told a deputy they had permission from a property owner to park on his land, and the officer said he would check with the landowner.
POINT REYES STATION – A Highway 1 resident at 4:19 p.m. Friday told deputies that when the father of her granddaughter failed to pick the girl up after school, the school asked her to do so. The grandmother took the girl home, she told deputies, but the girl’s father then called and yelled at her to drop the girl off in Nicasio. The grandmother said she drove the girl to Nicasio, but the father wasn’t there.
NICASIO – Deputies last weekend received a report that there had been a vehicle accident on Los Piños and that a woman was in bushes and could not move. The woman was taken to Marin General Hospital’s crisis unit and put on hold for psychological observation.
BOLINAS – A 12-year-old girl home alone called deputies at 11:42 a.m. last Thursday and said she was having trouble swallowing, that she had hives below her buttocks, that her fingers and toes were swollen, and that her throat was swelling up. Deputies reported the girl had a "bad reaction to vitamin C." She was transported to a hospital by helicopter.
SAN GERONIMO – A woman at 12:10 p.m. last Thursday reported her 54-year-old brother had called and threatened to hurt her. She said there was an ongoing family problem over some property of a late parent. A deputy determined there had been no threat and that she was in a dispute with a brother in Sacramento over distribution of the property.
SAN GERONIMO – A motorist notified deputies at 7:11 a.m. last Wednesday that she was driving on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard when her windshield was broken by a golf ball. She said no golfer would accept responsibility for the slice.
NATIONAL SEASHORE – A rancher on Pierce Point at 10:46 p.m. last Wednesday complained that a truck-and-trailer rig had jackknifed in his driveway and he wanted it removed. The rancher later called back to say he had reached the truck’s owner, who was sending a large towtruck to free the vehicle.
SAN GERONIMO – A deputy at 11:16 p.m. last Wednesday cited a motorist at San Geronimo Valley Drive and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard for allegedly driving despite a suspended driver’s license. Her car was towed away.
TOMALES – High school staff at 10:14 a.m. last Wednesday reported a fight between two students. One of the pair was cited to Juvenile Probation on battery charges.
NICASIO – A woman on Nicasio Valley Road at 4:19 p.m. last Wednesday reported a horse had stepped on the chest of a 15-year-old girl. The girl was not bleeding, the woman said, but was in "a lot of pain."
NICASIO – Two vehicles collided on Nicasio Valley Road at 4:25 p.m. last Wednesday. No one was injured, but the crash blocked an intersection.
INVERNESS PARK – An 84-year-old man fell down three stairs and possibly dislocated his shoulder. Paramedics at 12:25 a.m. last Wednesday transported him to a hospital.
LAGUNITAS – A man at 10 a.m. April 9 notified deputies that his girlfriend’s son was at his house and that he wanted the son to leave. A week ago, the man said, the son had torn up the house. The man later reported the son had left.
LAGUNITAS – A man who identified himself as Jesus Christ at 12:44 p.m. April 9 complained that he was unhappy with the way deputies talk to him. When an officer explained that deputies were only trying to meet his needs for assistance, the man thanked the officer for the explanation.
STINSON BEACH – Deputies at 1:06 p.m. April 9 received a report from Arenal Avenue that a blue Ford Taurus had left the scene after colliding with a Toyota. Deputies were unable to find the Taurus.
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.
April 11, 2002 Sheriff's Calls
INVERNESS – A resident at 6 p.m. last Wednesday notified police that someone had used his credit card number to buy a Gateway computer, which was shipped to New Jersey.
BOLINAS – A resident at 4:25 p.m. last Wednesday reported someone obtained an American Express credit card using her name and phone number.
SAN GERONIMO – A Meadow Way resident at 2:10 p.m. Sunday reported that a thief had stolen $2,000 worth of CDs from his vehicle.
SAN GERONIMO – Deputies were notified at 5:12 p.m. Sunday that a vandal had used a wooden post to break a van’s windshield and other windows.
TOMALES – An 18-year-old Tomales High student at 7:31 p.m. Monday reported being struck in front of the school by a car driven by a female student. A deputy said the youth "flew up" from the impact and cracked the car’s windshield with the back of his head. The student told deputies he thought the driver deliberately tried to hit him although he didn’t know why. He was transported to Kaiser Hospital in Santa Rosa for x-rays and treatment of scrapes on his right arm. Sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday questioned the driver and were continuing to investigate the incident.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Rosario Road resident at 10:32 p.m. Monday reported seeing a neighbor dump garbage on the road. He added he could hear "a lot of yelling" from the neighbor’s house. All was quiet when a deputy arrived on the scene.
INVERNESS – Deputies at 8 p.m. Sunday received a report of a blue SUV stuck in a ditch at Inverness Way and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. The driver had reportedly gotten out of the sports utility vehicle. A deputy was unable to find any vehicle in a ditch although he drove the length of Inverness Way.
INVERNESS PARK – A 12-year-old resident of Portola Avenue at 8:30 p.m. Sunday saw juveniles in a blue or purple van throwing manure and other items along the road in his direction. The juveniles were gone by the time a deputy arrived.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman at 9:17 p.m. Sunday called deputies from a payphone on Castro Street to report she just heard a "gunshot in Forest Knolls." Then she immediately hung up. A bartender told deputies that although she herself had not heard any shot, customers reported hearing what sounded like a shotgun "somewhere in the hill area." A deputy checked the area but found nothing amiss.
SAN GERONIMO – A man at 3:26 p.m. Sunday notified deputies that three 12 year olds were fishing for salmon in San Geronimo Creek, using a net and Tupperware containers. He gave the location as Creamery Road and San Geronimo Valley Drive, but an officer found no youths in the area. In addition, neighbors told him that the salmon stopped running in mid-March.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 3:54 p.m. Sunday complained that the neighbors had been shooting a small-caliber gun, possibly as target practice, for more than an hour. Her husband told deputies it was a matter of kids playing with a taser stun-gun.
INVERNESS – An Inverness Way resident at 9:14 p.m. Sunday complained of receiving 10 harassing phone calls from an acquaintance. A deputy reported this was not a dispute over money owed but rather that the resident wanted the caller to stop complaining about not getting a loan.
INVERNESS – A man at 4:13 p.m. Sunday found a wool vest and a cellular phone at Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Vision Road. He dropped the items off at the sheriff’s substation in Point Reyes Station to be returned to the owner.
WOODACRE – A woman at 9:48 p.m. Saturday reported a 28-year-old man, who had been drinking, was in her house and she wanted him out. She said he was upset because she would not drive him to Marin City and was now pouring beer on her carpet.
STINSON BEACH – A man at 9:54 p.m. Saturday notified deputies that along Highway 1 south of town, there was a van with a driver bleeding from the face and sounding somewhat disoriented. "His face is split in half," the man explained.
DILLON BEACH – A woman on Marine View Drive at 10:30 p.m. Saturday reported that 40 juveniles, including one driver who appeared to be drunk, had been turned away from a campground.
FOREST KNOLLS – An anonymous caller at 10:44 p.m. Saturday complained of a large gathering with loud music in a bar. A deputy contacted the bartender, who agreed to turn the music down.
LAGUNITAS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard man at 3:32 a.m. Sunday complained of very loud music in the neighborhood. About the same time, another caller complained about the music. A third caller said she could hear "music and screaming." A deputy contacted the host, who agreed to keep the music down.
SAN GERONIMO – A man at 3:51 a.m. Sunday reported that a male driver was asleep in a car with its radio on. He said the car was parked facing in the wrong direction near Creamery Road and Meadow Way and that he suspected the sleeper was a drunk driver.
MARSHALL – A deputy armed with a warrant at 8:23 a.m. Saturday arrested a man on charges of burglary and failure to appear in court for a hearing.
NICASIO RESERVOIR – A deputy at 1:15 p.m. Saturday stopped a blue Firebird along the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road at Willow Road and cited the driver on charges of letting the Pontiac’s registration expire.
TOMALES – A woman called deputies from Highway 1 at 1:49 p.m. Saturday and reported a brother, 35, and sister, 32, had been fighting but were separated for the moment. The sister told deputies her brother hit her with his fist during a dispute over dogs left in "the truck."
TOMALES – Deputies at 2:48 p.m. Saturday received a report that a vehicle had run into a ditch along Dillon Beach Road. Officers arranged for a tow truck.
BOLINAS – A resident at 6:25 p.m. Saturday called deputies from Brighton Avenue to report that a man and woman, both in their late 40s, kept getting in and out of a green Cadillac and that the man was yelling at the woman. The caller said the man left for a moment but then came back.
MARSHALL – Pacific Grove Police at 6:49 p.m. Saturday asked West Marin deputies to take a missing-person report on a 40-year-old woman with a history of drug abuse. Police said the woman’s mother hasn’t heard from her since mid-February. The mother told Pacific Grove Police the woman lived with her boyfriend, 51.
POINT REYES STATION – Deputies received a report at 10:22 p.m. Friday that vandals had turned on all the faucets at the school. The water had been turned off at several spots, but a special tool from the fire department was needed to turn off the rest.
INVERNESS – A Camino del Mar resident at 10:11 p.m. Friday complained about a large party on the beach. There were "several cars with radios blasting," he added. A state park ranger was advised of the situation.
STINSON BEACH – An anonymous caller at 1:11 a.m. Saturday complained about several families partying and "making too much noise." A deputy advised a group of hot tubbers of the complaint, and they agreed to keep the noise down.
STINSON BEACH – A deputy at 4:32 a.m. Saturday reported he was "still looking" for a white Chevrolet pickup truck, which supposedly had overturned near Panoramic Highway and Highway 1. So far, he said, he could not find anything amiss.
FOUR CORNERS – Deputies at 7:14 a.m. Friday received a report that a vehicle had run off the road, but they could not find it.
DILLON BEACH – A man on Friday complained that teens were drinking at a campsite and had taken items from another campsite – but returned them. Nonetheless, there was still a problem between people at the two campsites, the man reported.
BOLINAS – A woman at 8:57 a.m. Friday told deputies there was a parking dispute among neighbors at Alder and Iris roads. She asked where parking is legal on Iris Road.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman at 1:30 p.m. Friday reported that while she was away, a thief stole her bonsai trees.
POINT REYES STATION – A deputy near Highway 1 at 7:35 p.m. Friday told a 40-year-old man that for his own safety he should not walk in the traffic lanes of the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road. The road was "dark and narrow," the deputy pointed out.
STINSON BEACH – A man at 9:31 p.m. last Thursday complained of being "kicked out" of his Belvedere Avenue lodgings although he has "paid the rent."
BOLINAS – A man at 10:59 a.m. last Thursday called deputies from Wharf Road to say another man, who is in his 40s, had been accusing the caller of stealing his watch the previous night. The confrontation stopped, he said, when the accuser went into the restroom at the community center.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Juarez Avenue resident at 6:26 p.m. last Thursday notified deputies of a neighborhood dispute over garbage cans and recycling bins. A deputy gave her advice.
MUIR BEACH – The Highway Patrol at 8:50 p.m. last Wednesday reported a green Ford Mustang car had collided with a black Ford truck near Slide Ranch. CHP officers said no one was injured.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman at 12:04 a.m. last Thursday complained of a loud party on Forest Drive. The problem was abated when the host’s mother returned home and dispersed the guests.
BOLINAS – A resident at 3:45 a.m. last Thursday complained about a loud TV on the third floor of a building where, he said, nobody is supposed to be living.
WOODACRE – A woman at 12:11 p.m. last Wednesday reported that a van on San Geronimo Valley Drive appeared to be casing the neighborhood.
NICASIO – A Lucas Valley Road resident at 12:30 p.m. April 2 accused his neighbors of "dumping stuff" in his horse corral. However, when a deputy called him back, the resident hung up on the officer. At 1:01 p.m. last Wednesday, the resident, whom deputies said sounded intoxicated, phoned deputies again to complain about a "neighborhood problem." Two weeks ago the man complained that the neighbors were "terrorizing" him and asked deputies how to get a court to issue a restraining order against them.
LAGUNITAS – A resident at 9:54 p.m. April 2 reported that two vehicles, each driven by teenage boys, were stopped on Rodeo Drive. When she went outside with a flashlight, she said, "they took off in a big hurry." She said she "didn’t see them doing anything, but since they took off in such a hurry, they must be up to no good."
STINSON BEACH – A man at 8:51 a.m. April 2 reported that a burglar stole three propane tanks and a filling hose by forcing his way into a building on Buena Vista Avenue.
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.
April 4, 2002 Sheriff's Calls
FOUR CORNERS – A rancher at 9:02 a.m. Sunday notified deputies he had found equipment and chemicals for making methamphetamine at his deer camp four miles north of the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road. A deputy who took part in the backcountry raid, along with the county Major Crimes Taskforce, said some of the contraband was in a shed and some was under a sheet of plastic nearby. No arrest was made.
INVERNESS PARK – A builder at 8:50 a.m. Friday reported that a burglar had entered a locked home under construction on Portola Avenue and stolen various tools.
MILLERTON STATE PARK – A man at noon Friday told deputies a burglar had smashed the right-front window of his parked vehicle and had stolen an expensive jacket and a pair of gloves.
MARSHALL – A man at 1:45 p.m. Saturday notified deputies that a thief had stolen a $2,500 outboard motor off a sailboat in storage.
OLEMA – A woman at 7:15 p.m. Saturday positively identified a television as the one stolen from a delicatessen. A former worker for the owners allegedly gave the television to a female friend, who notified deputies when a co-worker told her it had been stolen.
TOMALES – A citizen at 7:28 p.m. Sunday walked into the Tomales firehouse and reported a trailer appeared to have slid off Dillon Beach Road, and someone had put out flares. A Highway Patrol officer responded from Freestone, Sonoma County.
WOODACRE – A woman at 8:32 p.m. Sunday notified deputies that $3,000 in institutional funds and $120 of her own money were missing and that she wanted an officer to take fingerprints. She told deputies she would wait in the lower meditation hall to show an officer the scene.
STINSON BEACH – A merchant at 9:16 p.m. Saturday complained that a man with a bicycle and bedroll had been intermittently sleeping on a bench in front of his business for two days. He asked a deputy to move the man along, which the officer did.
POINT REYES STATION – A mainstreet merchant at 9:15 a.m. Sunday complained that there were motorcycles "parked all over the sidewalk in front of the Grandi Building."
LAGUNITAS – An Arroyo Road resident at 10:02 a.m. Sunday reported that her cell phone and a sack of groceries had been stolen from her vehicle. The resident later called back to say she had found them.
BOLINAS – A caller at 5:31 p.m. Sunday notified deputies that two men were hitting golf balls into a pasture at the end of Poplar Road. An officer determined there was nothing suspicious going on.
NICASIO – Deputies at 8:27 p.m. Saturday received a 911 hangup call from a home on Nicasio Valley Road. When they called back, a man said he and his wife were arguing over the kids, but the altercation was not physical. A deputy nonetheless went to the house but found no evidence of domestic violence.
LAGUNITAS – Deputies at 9:01 p.m. Saturday found a white Mitsubishi with its airbags deployed parked along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. There was no driver around.
MUIR BEACH – Deputies Saturday night were notified that an upside-down vehicle was on the verge of sliding off a bluff along Highway 1 a mile north of Slide Ranch. The vehicle’s owner was waiting nearby and was not seriously injured although he had complained of minor pain, officers were told.
POINT REYES STATION – A man at 8:56 a.m. Saturday told deputies he wanted to talk with an officer about the process for evictions.
MARSHALL – A Highway 1 resident at 12:11 p.m. Saturday notified deputies that a Jet Skier was riding between Miller Park and Hog Island. Personal watercraft are not allowed in the bay; however, a state park ranger could not find the Jet Skier.
LAGUNITAS – A woman at 12:37 p.m. Saturday told deputies a previous tenant had left ammunition in her apartment. She asked that an officer pick up the ammunition, and a deputy took it for destruction.
DOGTOWN – A deputy at 2:18 p.m. Saturday helped a Highway Patrol officer deal with a vehicle off Highway 1. The vehicle was finally repaired to the point it could keep moving.
OLEMA – A woman at 2:38 p.m. Saturday reported two vehicles had collided on Highway 1 and that the drivers were exchanging information.
NICASIO – An Open Space District ranger at 3:02 p.m. Saturday asked for a deputy to back him up when a motorist with Washington license plates was "uncooperative" along Nicasio Valley Road. The problem was "abated," and "the people were sent on their way after being admonished," deputies reported.
BOLINAS – A Brighton Avenue resident at 4:24 p.m. Saturday complained about a small, red vehicle blocking her driveway.
STINSON BEACH – A man at 9:33 a.m. Friday reported receiving a fraudulent check for $500.
MARSHALL – A black Honda ran into a ditch about 10 a.m. Friday at Highway 1 and the Marshall-Petaluma Road. A towtruck was summoned.
DILLON BEACH – A woman at 8:10 p.m. Friday reported many juveniles were entering the campground and that she feared they might start drinking. A deputy agreed to make regular drives past the group.
BOLINAS – A resident at 9:21 p.m. Friday reported that carloads of juveniles were arriving for a large beachparty, that there were bonfires, and that some of the youths were refusing to leave. By the time a deputy arrived, more of the youths had left, and he dispersed the rest.
LAGUNITAS – Deputies at 9:37 a.m. Friday received a 911 call from a Lagunitas Road man who had intended to dial 411.
STINSON BEACH – A motorist lost control of his vehicle at Highway 1 and Panoramic Highway at 9:52 p.m. Friday and slid into a ravine. A towtruck was summoned.
STINSON BEACH – A Calle del Piños resident at 2:57 a.m. Saturday reported her boyfriend was outside knocking at her door and refusing to leave her alone. She told officers there had been no physical altercation nor had they had a history of violence. However, she said, she did not feel safe.
NICASIO – A Lucas Valley Road resident at 7:58 p.m. last Thursday told deputies he felt his neighbors had been "terrorizing" him. At 5:54 p.m. he called officers again, wanting to know how to get a court to issue a temporary restraining order against them.
BOLINAS – A woman on Wharf Road at 8:48 p.m. last Thursday said two drunken men and a drunken woman were outside and became verbally abusive when she asked them to leave.
WOODACRE – A resident at 11:53 p.m. last Thursday complained about loud music coming from a home in the Railroad Avenue-Park Street neighborhood. After a deputy determined an ashram was holding a drumming circle and poetry reading, he contacted the host, who said the music was done for the evening.
OLEMA – Deputies at 10:47 a.m. last Thursday received a report that a woman’s face had been badly injured and was bleeding. The woman, who was in front of a retreat along Highway 1, did not know what had happened to her, but a deputy determined a horse had kicked her in the face.
NICASIO – A Lucas Valley Road resident at 11:19 a.m. last Thursday reported a man hanging around some mailboxes where mail has been stolen. The man was gone when a deputy arrived.
WOODACRE – A woman at 12:35 p.m. last Thursday complained about a man living in a vehicle in the neighborhood of Castle Rock and Laurel avenues.
SAN GERONIMO – A man at 6:09 p.m. reported a youth on a dirt bike was riding off-road in the East Silvestris Drive neighborhood and was trespassing. A deputy notified the youth that someone had complained about the noise he was making, and the youth agreed to stop.
DOGTOWN – A deer was injured in traffic on Highway 1 at 7:49 p.m. last Wednesday. After checking with the Humane Society, a deputy shot the deer to put it out of its misery.
NICASIO – San Anselmo Police at 9:36 p.m. last Wednesday asked deputies to help them find a vehicle involved in a hit-run accident. Deputies found a white Accord with fresh left-front-end damage and a black-paint transfer.
STINSON BEACH – A woman last Wednesday notified deputies she had lost her camera bag around Steep Ravine the night before and that her car keys were in the bag. Deputies gave the woman the phone number of park rangers who might help her search for the bag.
WOODACRE – A Carson Road resident at 10:36 a.m. last Wednesday told deputies his landlord had just called and given him until 5 p.m. to vacate his rental. A deputy gave the man advice.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Tamal Road resident at 12:36 p.m. last Wednesday complained to deputies about a transient staying on his property.
BOLINAS – A Hawthorne Road woman at 1:51 p.m. last Thursday reported that an unwanted 51-year-old man was at her residence.
OLEMA – A motorist at 4:42 p.m. last Wednesday notified deputies of two calves on Highway 1.
FOREST KNOLLS – Deputies assisted medics at 6:01 p.m. last Wednesday when a 70-year-old resident of Tamal Road fell and struck her head on a table. A deputy noted she was bleeding from the face.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Montezuma Avenue resident last Wednesday reported that on March 23 a cab driver had solicited her and a female friend of hers for sex.
POINT REYES STATION – As a courtesy to Stanislaus County sheriff’s deputies, West Marin deputies took a report from a woman who said her purse had been stolen in Modesto by her son-in-law.
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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