September 27, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
STINSON BEACH – A Seadrift Road resident at 12:45 p.m. Sunday reported a thief had stolen a chaise longue from his front yard.
HICKS VALLEY – Two brothers were hunting near a deer camp when one of them balled his brother’s son out for shooting too close to him. The boy’s father then hit his own brother with a broken fence post, deputies were told at 12:45 p.m. Sunday.
TOMALES – A Tomales-Petaluma Road resident at 9:40 a.m. Monday called deputies to report her landlady’s grandson had come into the resident’s mobilehome and stolen some toys. Deputies noted they could hear the boy’s mother screaming in the background although she was outside the mobilehome. The resident said she’d had other problems with them in the past. At 3:40 p.m., a deputy was speaking by phone with the resident when he heard the grandmother screaming in the background.
TOMALES – A Tomales-Petaluma Road resident at 8:30 p.m. last Thursday complained she was being harassed with annoying phone calls.
OLEMA – An Inverness resident at 11 a.m. last Thursday told deputies she had lost her wallet containing $130 in the vicinity of the campground.
OLEMA VALLEY – Firefighters at 7 a.m. Monday asked deputies to provide traffic control after a large tree fell across Highway 1 a mile south of Olema Cemetery.
SAN GERONIMO – A San Geronimo Valley Drive resident at 10:40 a.m. Monday told deputies a pair of purple boots and a cell phone had been stolen from her home last week.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Candelero Avenue resident at 11 a.m. Monday notified deputies he had found a women’s mountain bike in front of his house. He suspected it might be stolen. Officers took the bicycle for safekeeping.
WOODACRE – A Ridge Rock Road resident at noon Monday told deputies she is having an ongoing problem with her neighbors’ dogs "attacking" her. An officer advised her to contact the Humane Society.
INVERNESS – The assistant manager of a Sir Francis Drake Boulevard hostelry on Monday complained that a customer in his 40s was refusing to pay his bill or to leave. The man and his wife paid the bill after the Sheriff’s Office was called.
INVERNESS – A man at 4:40 p.m. Monday complained that new neighbors on the Mesa have been parking two trucks so that he can barely get past them without going into the ditch. The trucks were gone when a deputy checked.
BOLINAS –A woman on Wharf Road complained at 9:40 p.m. Monday that a generator behind the garage was making too much noise and that she wanted it shut off. The garage shut off the generator, but a deputy noted that other generators were operating in the area because of a blackout.
INVERNESS – Firefighters responded at 1:23 a.m. Tuesday when a woman had trouble breathing.
MUIR BEACH – The Highway Patrol at 7:45 p.m. Sunday reported that someone, whose 1991 Acura Integra was parked in the federal parking lot, was lost on seaside cliffs. Deputies referred the matter to US Park Police.
SAN GERONIMO – A business reported a shoplifter in his 30s had taken wine and tried to leave without paying for it. The business detained the man, and a deputy determined the man was emotionally disturbed. The officer placed the man on a 72-hour hold in the crisis unit of Marin General Hospital.
TOMALES – A Dillon Beach Road resident at 8:45 p.m. Saturday complained about 12 to 14 "mixed-race" people handing out printed materials. She said she believed they were from a cult and was unhappy about their presence. A deputy later determined the group were Falun Gong members from Seattle. They were traveling to San Francisco, with frequent stops for marching with placards, to draw attention to the People’s Republic’s mistreatment of their members.
MARSHALL – A man at 10:20 p.m. Saturday complained that a group had a bonfire beside Highway 1. A deputy responded that he had already seen the group. He said they were fishermen with a lantern but no fire.
DILLON BEACH –Deputies at 10:30 p.m. Saturday received word that 100 campers were setting off bottle rockets and refusing to leave the area. (Bottle rockets are small skyrockets mounted on sticks. The sticks are typically held upright by sticking them down the necks of empty soda bottles.) When a deputy arrived, the group quieted down.
DILLON BEACH – The Highway Patrol at 10:40 p.m. radioed deputies that a vehicle at Dillon Beach and Middle roads needed a tow truck, but the motorist had no cash or credit cards. Deputies left the matter to the discretion of the CHP, which pulled the vehicle off the roadway and put out flares.
STINSON BEACH – A resident of Calle del Sierra at 11 p.m. Saturday complained that more than 40 juveniles with a bonfire were drinking and partying on the beach. The resident dispersed most of the group himself.
WOODACRE – A resident at 11:15 p.m. Saturday asked for extra patrols around his home because a van or a pickup truck with camper shell had sped through a parking lot. The motorist left when he saw the resident, who said he was concerned about possible vandalism.
STINSON BEACH – Deputies at 8:33 a.m. Saturday assisted the Highway Patrol in recovering a vehicle that had been stolen in Tiburon.
NICASIO – A man went to the Camino Margarita home of another man, who was going through a divorce, and found the second man was dead, the first man notified deputies at 11:35 a.m. Saturday. A gun was found near the body, and a deputy reported that it appeared the second man had been dead for "awhile."
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – A woman at 1:15 p.m. Saturday complained that some kids uphill from her house were bothering her horses and dogs. The kids were gone when a deputy arrived.
NICASIO – A woman on Camino Margarita at 4:40 p.m. Saturday reported there were "three Jamaicans" on nearby property and that they appeared to be "burying something and having a fire." A deputy determined the fire was legal.
POINT REYES STATION – Deputies at 6 p.m. Saturday received a report of two or three people refusing to leave the Coast Guard housing complex. They were gone when an officer arrived.
FOREST KNOLLS – A homeowner at Resaca and Sinaloa avenues complained that two horseback riders may be vandalizing his property. He asked deputies to notify the riders that under a court order, only 10 people per day can use the road behind his house for access to Open Space District land.
WOODACRE – A man at 2 p.m. Friday asked a deputy for advice regarding an ex-girlfriend who had entered his residence a few days earlier and had thrown books at him, as well as bit and struck him, causing him to bleed.
FOREST KNOLLS – A man at 2:40 p.m. Friday complained about a neighbor’s dog, which continually enters the man’s property and behaves aggressively toward the man. He said he had contacted the owner several times, but the owner has refused to control his dog. A deputy gave the man advice.
MARSHALL – A man on Highway 1 at 3:30 p.m. Friday asked deputies how close to a residence can someone legally shoot a firearm. A deputy told the man that Marin County law perversely allows people to shoot firearms closer to houses and roads than air rifles, 450 feet v. 500 feet.
FOREST KNOLLS – A 55-year-old Rosario Road man at 5 p.m. Friday reported an AM-FM cassette player was missing from his vehicle. The cassette player was later found on a bench in the man’s carport.
NICASIO – A motorcycle spilled its rider on the Road to the Ranches at 9:10 a.m. last Thursday.
DOGTOWN – A resident at 7:20 p.m. last Thursday notified deputies he had heard three gunshots a second apart five minutes earlier.
MARSHALL – A man at 8 p.m. last Thursday told deputies there were four black-and-brown cows on Highway 1.
WOODACRE – A 37-year-old woman with a history of anxiety was staying with a couple when at 12:20 a.m. last Thursday, she slipped out of their home, taking their cell phone, and called deputies. She said she wanted to voluntarily commit herself to the crisis unit at Marin General Hospital. A deputy took her there.
CHILENO VALLEY – A woman at 11:42 p.m. last Thursday reported there was at least one cow on the pavement at Chileno Valley and Tomales-Petaluma roads. A deputy found a motorist had crashed through a pasture fence and left.
SAN GERONIMO – A deputy at 10 a.m. last Thursday assisted the Highway Patrol when a car and pickup truck collided on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard.
CHILENO VALLEY – A man at 2 p.m. last Thursday told deputies he had just seen a helicopter land on his property, drop someone off, leave and then quickly return, pick the person up, and take off. The man said he would like to talk with a deputy about it.
LAGUNITAS – A Charles Lane resident heard a gunshot in his area, but a deputy could not find anyone shooting.
DOGTOWN – A man on Highway 1, who was cleaning up an estate, asked that a deputy pick up some boxes of old ammunition. An officer took them for destruction.
WOODACRE – A woman at 2:35 p.m. last Wednesday called a deputy to say she was supposed to be housesitting but couldn’t get into the house, where there were two cats and three birds. A deputy helped her get inside.
LAGUNITAS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 4:30 p.m. last Wednesday complained about a homeless man camping out in her area. A deputy found the campsite, but the homeless man was not there.
BOLINAS – A rancher on Mesa Road told deputies he was upset about his neighbor’s dog coming onto his property. He said he would shoot the dog if it happens again. An officer advised the man to contact the Humane Society and noted that the dog’s owner lives on National Seashore property.
POINT REYES STATION – Deputies assisted firefighters at 7:15 p.m. Sept. 18 when a wooden water tank belonging to North Marin Water District sprung a leak. The tank is located uphill from Highway 1.
WOODACRE – A deputy at 11:40 p.m. Sept. 18 arrested a man on charges of domestic abuse and false imprisonment.
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.
September 20, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
TOMALES – A Highway 1 resident at 12:48 p.m. Sunday complained that three men with dogs were hunting within 10 yards of a creek in violation of a court order.
TOMALES – High school staff at 7:30 a.m. Monday reported that a burglar had stolen $100 from the cafeteria over the weekend.
POINT REYES STATION – A vandal slashed a tire on a man’s car parked along Highway 1, the victim reported at 5:45 p.m. Saturday.
INVERNESS – A woman at 5:45 p.m. Saturday complained that her boyfriend had held her down, choked her, and banged her head against the floor, leaving bruises.
BOLINAS – A man on Wharf Road complained at 1:30 a.m. Sunday that another man had hit him about the head several times with a closed fist and then had thrown a beer bottle that broke the windshield of the victim’s truck.
POINT REYES STATION – A deputy on Commodore Webster Drive at 4:25 p.m. last Thursday arrested a man on a charge of injuring a child. The man’s 10-year-old daughter said he threw a water bottle at her, striking her on the right cheek.
STINSON BEACH – A caller reported hearing yelling and items breaking in a vacant house. Several windows of the house were broken, and there was minor damage to a window screen that is inaccessible from the ground. A deputy was unable to determine if a crime had occurred, and the owner said he would check.
LUCAS VALLEY ROAD – A man at 12:36 Sept. 11 slapped another man’s hardhat, knocking it off.
BOLINAS – A woman on Wharf Road at 3 p.m. Sept. 5 reported being assaulted by a man.
BOLINAS WYE – Deputies at 5 a.m. Sept. 10 received a report that a naked man was yelling in the roadway. He was taken to Marin General Hospital’s crisis unit by a deputy, whom the man believed was "the Demon."
BOLINAS – A man, who manages a vacant lot on Elm Road, reported at 8 a.m. Monday that a neighbor had bulldozed dirt onto the property and removed plants and flowers.
SAN GERONIMO – A man at 7:10 p.m. Saturday called deputies from the golf course to report that two sports utility vehicles had been broken into. One vehicle was entered through the driver’s window, and a briefcase was taken. The burglar took nothing from the second SUV.
LAGUNITAS – A woman on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at 7:25 p.m. Saturday reported hearing two gunshots on a hill north of downtown. A deputy told her deer season is underway, but the woman said the site was private property. Whoever was shooting was gone when a deputy arrived.
FOREST KNOLLS – A caller at 8:15 a.m. last Thursday requested extra patrols around the town park, saying that homeless people were living there. At 8 p.m. deputies received a similar call. This time they were told a man was camping in a van across the street from the San Geronimo postoffice. A deputy found the man in the van and told him it is illegal in Marin County to live in a vehicle. The same caller at 9:20 a.m. Friday complained that "the town drunk" and another "huge" man were in the town park and that the first man was drinking from an open container of alcohol. A deputy found only one man, who was not drunk, in the park, and he said a friend would pick him up. At 5:50 p.m., the same caller complained about a man drinking in the park. A deputy determined the suspect was drinking only soda. Nonetheless, the officer asked the man to leave. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday the caller complained about four men in their 40s using excessive profanity in the town park. He said he believed they were drunk. The men were gone when a deputy arrived, and local residents said the four had gone home.
LUCAS VALLEY ROAD – A woman at 8:10 p.m. Saturday notified deputies that a deer had been struck in traffic and that someone had placed a flare by the side of the road. She said she was afraid the flare would start a wildfire. A deputy put the flare out.
SAN GERONIMO – County firefighters at 10:35 a.m. Monday reported that people in a Chevy camper were sleeping between the upper and lower campuses of the Lagunitas School District. They were gone when a deputy arrived.
BOLINAS – A man at 12:15 p.m. Monday reported two 25-mph signs along Alder Road and Overlook Drive had been sawed off at their base. Deputies notified the county Department of Public Works.
BOLINAS – A man at 4 p.m. Monday complained that his power was partly out and that his neighbors were refusing to let an electrician check the fuse box.
POINT REYES STATION – A Highway 1 woman at 4:40 p.m. Sept. 7 asked for a deputy to stand by while she removed some belongings from a house.
STINSON BEACH – A Buena Vista Avenue man at 2 a.m. Monday complained to deputies that a 34-year-old woman from Berkeley, who once was an associate, had come into his house uninvited.
BOLINAS – A Wharf Road resident at 8:13 a.m. Saturday told deputies a car with approximately two men sleeping in it was parked in front of her house. She said her main concern was the debris they were leaving on the ground. The resident later called back to report the sleepers had awakened and were cleaning up the area around them.
MUIR BEACH – Deputies at 10 a.m. Saturday were notified a purse had been found along Highway 1.
MARSHALL – a woman at 11:23 a.m. Saturday reported that a male and female had been "parading around naked all day outside their residence and now are bathing each other in the bay." A deputy determined this was not a case of public nudity.
INVERNESS – A woman called from Stinson Beach at 2:25 p.m. asking for a deputy to stand by at a Sir Francis Drake Boulevard residence once she got there. A sheriff’s report also mentioned someone throwing up blood on the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road, but deputies at the West Marin substation were unclear on the connection, if any, between the two incidents.
BOLINAS – A Horseshoe Hill Road woman at 3 p.m. Saturday complained that two men were cutting down eucalyptus trees without a requisite coastal permit. A deputy determined nothing was amiss.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Rosario Road resident at 8 a.m. Friday reported a Marin Municipal Water District lock had been cut and people have been dumping trash in a vacant lot. A deputy determined the lock had not been cut but that people had indeed been dumping trash and vehicles on the property. Such illegal dumping has been widespread in West Marin ever since the West Marin Sanitary Landfill closed in 1998 and Supervisor Steve Kinsey blocked creation of a dropoff station for coastal trash.
BOLINAS – A woman on Brighton Avenue at 8:40 a.m. Friday asked a deputy for advice regarding where her neighbor stacks wood on his own property.
OLEMA – A car rear-ended a motorcycle at 5 p.m. Friday. When a deputy arrived, the cyclist was "up and walking around." The two drivers exchanged information.
STINSON BEACH – A man connected with Shakespeare at the Beach accused another man of threatening him, but deputies reported they had no further information on the accusation. An officer said he would speak with the second man.
BOLINAS – A woman at 5:45 p.m. Friday complained that her 48-year-old son had just come to her house in violation of a court order. A deputy noted the order had expired.
STINSON BEACH – A woman on Calle de Piños at 8:30 p.m. Friday saw a man place an item in the back of her neighbor’s pickup truck. Twenty minutes later, she saw another man lift the truck’s hood. When she approached him, he ran onto the beach, she told officers.
OLEMA – A motor seized up and started a small fire in a restaurant at 9:50 p.m. Friday. The electricity was turned off, and the only damage was to the motor.
STINSON BEACH – A Calle del Mar resident at 2 a.m. last Thursday reported hearing two gunshots west of Seadrift. A deputy concluded the noise possibly came from firecrackers.
LAGUNITAS – A woman at 1:40 p.m. last Thursday asked for information on pressing battery charges against someone. When a deputy called her back, no one was home, so he left a message on her answering machine.
NICASIO – A woman at 8:40 a.m. told deputies she had almost been hit by a speeder on her own property. The motorist was driving a pickup truck with a silver camper shell, she said. The resident added she believes the motorist had been poaching deer because she had heard shots 15 minutes earlier.
SAN GERONIMO – A man at 10 a.m. last Wednesday reported losing his wallet in a business two days earlier.
SAN GERONIMO – A female reported she was riding a bicycle on San Geronimo Valley Drive when a man driving a silver pickup exposed himself to her. She said the man, who was in his 20s, was now parked downtown.
BOLINAS – A caller at 7:40 p.m. Sept. 11 complained of neighbors having a bonfire in a pit. When a deputy told the neighbors the fire was illegal, they agreed to get permission from the Bolinas Fire Department before having another fire.
POINT REYES STATION – Sheriff’s Lt. Ritchie 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. Brunslik said the Sheriff’s Office will arrange to have abandoned vehicles towed off private property, as well as public property, if the landowner signs a release. The substation’s phone number is 663-1151.
September 13, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
NICASIO – A woman at 6:30 p.m. Monday reported she had lost a cell phone on Nicasio Valley Road.
BOLINAS – A Wharf Road businessman at noon last Thursday told deputies that an ex-employee had forged his name on several checks and cashed them. The ex-employee also used the businessman’s credit cards without permission.
STINSON BEACH – A business at 9:30 a.m. last Thursday notified deputies that a burglar had stolen property from his office on Laurel Avenue.
STINSON BEACH – Deputies received word at 9:30 a.m. last Thursday that a burglar had entered a home and stolen property.
INVERNESS – Deputies at 5:10 p.m. Aug. 30 found two large pot plants growing in an Inverness man’s yard. Five days later, the man asked deputies to provide a civil standby while he picked up belongings at the house, where his ex-domestic partner still lived.
TOMALES – A deputy at 12:30 p.m. Aug. 31 cited a juvenile on charges of possessing marijuana at the high school.
BOLINAS – A man at 8:10 a.m. Monday on Wharf Road told deputies he had repaired a sailboat for a resident and that the resident had taken his tools. The man said he then went to the resident’s business and took the tools back. He said he believes the resident has filed a criminal report against him, so he asked for advice.
SAN GERONIMO – A vehicle ran into a utility pole at San Geronimo Valley Drive and Nicasio Valley Road, sheering off the pole and causing wires to fall across the roadway. The driver refused medical attention.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman at 11 a.m. Monday told deputies she had found flowers at her gate two weeks ago and found pornographic material in her orchard a week ago. A deputy said no crime had been committed.
BOLINAS – Deputies were notified at 1:30 p.m. Monday that someone had tampered with the front door of an Oak Road residence.
FOREST KNOLLS – A caller at 1:30 p.m. Monday notified deputies that three regulars were in the town park and that the men might be drinking alcohol. The previous night, one of the men had been reported as suicidal.
SAN GERONIMO – A San Geronimo Valley Drive resident at 2 p.m. Monday reported finding car panels, car-stereo speakers, and plastic gloves near the recycling center. A school employee told deputies he had found the discarded auto parts, which apparently were left behind by someone working on a vehicle.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Juarez Avenue resident at 2:35 p.m. Monday told deputies that a neighbor had threatened his wife, saying he would have someone beat up her family because of a dispute over barking dogs.
FOREST KNOLLS – A vehicle damaged a Montezuma Avenue resident’s fence, he told deputies at 3:30 p.m. Monday. A deputy determined no criminal act had occurred because the driver had left his name.
BOLINAS – A woman at 5 p.m. Monday reported her 16-year-old son had left home.
WOODACRE – A Redwood Drive resident at 8:40 p.m. Monday notified deputies she had been hearing pounding outside her house near her top deck for the past few minutes.
WOODACRE – A woman at 10 p.m. Monday told deputies property had been taken from her cabin four days earlier. She said she did not report the loss then but was calling now because she could hear footsteps on one side of her house, making her think a prowler is lurking around her residence.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman at 10:40 p.m. Monday told deputies her barn had been burglarized and that she has information on a suspect. She said she has made a tentative arrangement with the suspect for the return of the property but wanted to talk with a deputy first.
STINSON BEACH – A Buena Vista Avenue caller at 11 p.m. Monday reported hearing voices from a neighbors’ house that was supposed to be vacant. The caller was sure the voices were not the neighbors’ and said that yelling and the sound of things inside the house breaking could be heard.
WOODACRE – A Fire Road resident at 11:58 p.m. Monday complained of loud music coming from a vehicle parked at the end of the road. A deputy found a vehicle with a loud, booming stereo. A deputy moved the motorist along.
MARSHALL – A Highway 1 resident at 1 a.m. Tuesday reported hearing a cow bellowing in distress just north of Millerton Point. A deputy found several cows "crying," but none were in distress.
BOLINAS – A game warden at 11:35 a.m. Sunday reported a fiberglass boat was long-line fishing. He said long-line fishing within a mile of shore is illegal on weekends.
WOODACRE – A Carson Road resident at 12:45 p.m. Monday reported two kids had thrown sticks at her. A deputy contacted one kid and the kid’s mother.
DILLON BEACH – A tenant while moving out of an Oceana Drive home reported having a dispute with her landlords over the amount of money owed. She asked for a deputy to provide a civil standby.
SAN GERONIMO – A woman at 9:20 p.m. Sunday reported a big rig stranded off the pavement at San Geronimo Valley Road. She said the truck was pulling two trailers.
LAGUNITAS – A woman at 11:10 p.m. Sunday told deputies she had received a note from a friend that he was contemplating suicide. She said she had gone to the friend’s house, and he was not there.
BOLINAS – A Highway 1 resident at 5:30 a.m. Monday told deputies that an "obviously" drunk man was walking around her porch singing.
OLEMA – A deputy at 8 a.m. Saturday helped the Highway Patrol recover a pickup truck that had been stolen in Santa Barbara.
FOREST KNOLLS – County firefighters responded to a Hemlock resident’s home after she reported, at 10:45 a.m. Saturday, that there was a dead animal or dead child under her house. Firefighters removed a dead raccoon.
POINT REYES STATION – County firefighters responded at 11 a.m. Saturday to the levee road when someone had heart pains at a baseball field.
LAGUNITAS – Fairfax police at 11 a.m. Saturday said they wanted to meet with sheriff’s deputies to discuss a sexual-assault case.
BOLINAS – An Olema-Bolinas Road resident at 11:25 a.m. Saturday notified deputies a fawn was stuck waist deep in the mud of Bolinas Lagoon a half mile north of the Stinson Beach Water District office. The caller said the Humane Society was needed, for the fawn was injured and too tired to get up.
SAN GERONIMO – A Meadow Way resident at 1:15 p.m. Saturday complained about a very loud band. A deputy determined the music was not improperly loud. The problem, reported the deputy, is that the resident lives uphill from school , making the music sound louder where she is.
STINSON BEACH – Deputies received word at 1:45 p.m. Saturday that a disoriented woman was walking on Highway 1 in traffic. She was taken to a friend’s house.
BOLINAS – A deputy at 3 p.m. Saturday provided backup for a Highway Patrol officer who found a stolen truck and couldn’t see if it was occupied.
WOODACRE – A woman at 7:15 p.m. Saturday reported a man had come to her house claiming to be with AT&T. When she asked what the man, who was wearing an AT&T badge around his neck, was doing on a Saturday night, he replied, "The same thing I do on a Monday morning." She said he left on foot.
POINT REYES STATION – Deputies at 7:25 p.m. Saturday received two complaints about loud music coming from the Red Barn on Mesa Road where a large wedding was underway. An officer advised the host to keep the doors shut. At 8:45 p.m., deputies received another complaint about the loud music. An officer told a disk jockey to turn down the music.
SAN GERONIMO – Deputies at 7:35 p.m. Saturday received a complaint of loud music coming from the BEAN Festival at the cultural center. An officer was told the festival was closing and the music was shutting down for the night.
TOMALES – A Gericke Road resident at 9:35 p.m. Saturday reported a group of kids had driven down the street and smashed mailboxes. The kids told her they had also hit a deer, she said.
NICASIO – A Nicasio Valley Road resident, 61, complained at 10:15 p.m. Saturday about loud music. She told deputies they could find the site by all the cars parked along the roadway.
TOMALES – A deputy at 10:20 p.m. Saturday helped a motorist change a tire at Burbank Lane and Fallon-Two Rock Road.
WOODACRE – A resident at 11:35 p.m. Saturday complained about a loud party in the vicinity of Carson Road and Madrone Avenue. An officer told the host about the complaint.
SAMUEL TAYLOR PARK – A motorist at 11:40 p.m. Saturday told deputies he had run into a deer in the middle of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at Devil’s Gulch. He said he was not sure if the deer was dead.
MUIR BEACH – A man at 11:30 a.m. Friday asked to talk with a deputy because he received a ticket on Labor Day for parking in a no-parking zone. There were no signs marking the zone, he said. A deputy told him to seek a parking-ticket hearing.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – Deputies received a report at 3:30 p.m. Friday that horses were on the roadway. Officers subsequently reported the horses were back in their pasture.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Montezuma Avenue woman at 8:40 p.m. Friday complained about speeders on White’s Hill.
FOREST KNOLLS – The manager of property on Castro Street at 2:10 a.m. Friday complained about homeless people staying on the property and that there may be several people inside a building on the property. A deputy moved the people along, but the woman called back at 4:40 a.m. and said the people may have stolen her digital camera, as well as tools. A deputy advised her to stay off the property.
MARSHALL – A Highway 1 resident at 9:40 a.m. last Thursday noted that a week earlier he had complained about people trespassing on his property. He asked deputies if they had contacted people living in vehicles on his property.
SAN GERONIMO – The school district superintendent at noon last Thursday asked for extra patrols during the night because several carloads of people camping in the school parking lot in two vans and a pickup with camper shell, all in poor condition.
FOREST KNOLLS – A man at 1:30 p.m. last Thursday reported his brother was causing a problem in a bar. When a deputy arrived, the brother was cooperative and left.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – A woman at 5:45 p.m. last Thursday said she had seen a large purse beside the road for two days. A deputy could not find it.
BOLINAS – A woman at 6:15 p.m. last Thursday reported that two Jet Ski riders were 100 to 200 yards offshore of Duxbury Reef. A deputy could not find them.
LAGUNITAS – A woman at 6:30 p.m. last Thursday reported being harassed by a man and said she is staying in a motel.
STINSON BEACH – A woman at 8 p.m. last Wednesday reported a burglar had stolen clothes and a computer from a Belvedere Avenue home.
STINSON BEACH – A woman at 9:40 p.m. last Wednesday reported seeing a green flare over the ocean and told deputies she was not sure if a boat was in distress. Deputies and the Coast Guard determined no vessel was in trouble.
LAGUNITAS – A King Mountain Road resident said she had heard a neighbor shoot three times. A county firefighter also asked to speak to a deputy. An officer could not determine where the shots came from.
BOLINAS – A woman at 12:50 p.m. last Wednesday reported someone had been battered, but deputies did not learn where it had happened.
INVERNESS – Deputies at 4:45 p.m. last Wednesday received word that two dogs were tangled together in their leashes. One was choking, and there was blood around, officers were told. Inverness firefighters freed the dogs.
STINSON BEACH – A woman at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 4 said she had lost her driver’s license and Social Security card.
POINT REYES STATION – Sheriff’s Lt. John Brunslik, commander of the West Marin Substation, has asked The Light to let readers know that a campaign to remove abandoned cars is underway in West Marin. Lt. Brunslik said the Sheriff’s Office will arrange to have abandoned vehicles towed off private property, as well as public property, if the landowner signs a release. The substation’s phone number is 663-1151.
September 6, 2001 Sheriff's Calls
OLEMA – A deputy at 3 p.m. Monday arrested a man on charges of driving with a suspended license. His vehicle was impounded for 30 days.
BOLINAS – A man at 7:23 a.m. Saturday reported losing his wallet, possibly while he was on Bolinas Beach.
CHILENO VALLEY – A deputy at 10:34 a.m. Sunday found a stolen vehicle that had crashed on Wilson Hill Road, leaving the pavement strewn with car parts. A mailbox was also destroyed in the crash.
DILLON BEACH – An Asian woman told deputies that during the weekend she had been discriminated against by a merchant because her group didn’t speak English. A deputy counseled both parties, and the woman’s money was returned to her. The officer advised the woman that if she wished to press the issue further, it would have to be in civil court.
WOODACRE – A Buckeye Circle resident on Sunday told deputies she was concerned about two men, who were camped a five-minute walk up an Open Space District trail. She said they were smoking, creating a fire danger. After a deputy found no one in the area, the woman said the two men had left.
BOLINAS – Deputies at 1 p.m. Labor Day responded when a car got stuck in a ditch at Brighton and Park avenues. The car was towed out of the ditch, and the motorist was cited on charges of driving the wrong way on a one-way street.
POINT REYES STATION –A merchant at 1 p.m. Labor Day complained about three motorcycles parked on a strip of dirt between the main street and the sidewalk. A deputy noted that the area was "congested" and there was "no other parking available." The motorcycles were not blocking any traffic or pedestrians, reported the officer, so "citations are inappropriate."
BOLINAS – A man, who owns vacant lots in the area of Elm and Kale roads, at 5 p.m. Labor Day told deputies there were people with a pickup truck that had a camper shell on his land cutting down trees. He said he had learned this from his Realtor and that he wanted them off his land. A deputy checked the lots for anyone cutting trees, taking wood, or trespassing – but found no one.
BOLINAS – A caller at 8:20 p.m. Labor Day complained that a band had started playing "again" on Wharf Road. A deputy reported abating the band, which was actually at the town park.
NATIONAL SEASHORE – A wife at 10 p.m. Labor Day told deputies her husband was drunk and upset with her. She asked them to come to the family’s mobilehome and settle him down.
WOODACRE – Firefighters responded when a woman at 4 a.m. Tuesday reported she was assaulted by more than one person. She said she had been put in a "control hold" and "knocked down." The woman said she did not want to discuss details of the incident except with a physician.
BOLINAS – A Larch Road resident at 11 a.m. Sunday told deputies he had heard four rifle shots.
STINSON BEACH – State park rangers at 11:17 a.m. Sunday reported they may have interrupted a rave party near Steep Ravine. Rangers radioed that they were out of their vehicles with four subjects.
INVERNESS PARK – A Vallejo Avenue woman at noon Sunday complained about juveniles littering and speeding on Portola Avenue. She said "lots of trash" had been left along the road, a deputy reported.
PLATFORM BRIDGE – Paramedics at 4 p.m. Sunday radioed from an ambulance en route to Marin General that they were transporting a suicidal woman, who had cut her wrist. Paramedics wanted a deputy to meet them at the hospital.
STINSON BEACH – A woman complained at 4:25 p.m. Sunday that so many vehicles were parked on Calle del Pradero that other vehicles couldn’t pass.
STINSON BEACH – A resident in the area of Avenida Farallon and Belvedere Avenue at 6:25 p.m. Sunday told deputies that some of his neighbors were out of town and that their college-age son was having a party. The party had been underway since 10:30 a.m., he said, and when he asked the partygoers to turn down their music, he heard some of them cheering, "Get the pellet gun and shoot the neighbor." A deputy told the host about the complaint and explained to him the legal definition of a public disturbance.
FOREST KNOLLS – A resident at 7 p.m. Sunday complained about a motorcyclist driving up and down Resaca Avenue and Rosario Road without a helmet.
INVERNESS – A Madrone Avenue woman at 9 p.m. Sunday reported hearing fireworks in her neighborhood. All was quiet when a deputy arrived.
WOODACRE – A resident at 9:30 p.m. Sunday notified deputies that his ex-girlfriend, 47, was refusing to leave his house. He said she "has been drinking but no drugs tonight," a deputy reported. The man said the woman doesn’t live at his residence and never did. A deputy spoke to the woman, who said she would leave as soon as her blood-alcohol level got low enough to drive.
STINSON BEACH – A Seadrift Road resident at 9:40 p.m. Sunday reported a bonfire on the beach. Seadrift Security officers told deputies they had been receiving calls about bonfires on the county beach. The fires were abated upon his arrival, an officer noted. The officer contacted everyone with a fire, and all of them were put out.
BOLINAS – A caller at 4:25 a.m. Labor Day complained about a male-female quarrel behind a Wharf Road building. The caller said the quarrel was "mostly the female screaming at the male." A deputy abated the problem, and the quarrelers said they would be quiet.
SAN GERONIMO – A woman at 10:35 a.m. Sunday complained about someone without a license selling produce on the corner of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and San Geronimo Valley Drive. The woman asked that the vendor be moved along, adding that the vendor "leaves a mess each week," a deputy reported. The officer also noted that the woman "feels [some vendors] are taking away from the Farmers Market" held nearby. A deputy contacted them, and they "agreed to pack up and leave."
SAN GERONIMO – A horse trailer with two horses inside overturned on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at 2:50 p.m. Saturday. One horse was seriously injured. When a deputy arrived on the scene, the Humane Society was en route, and both horses were standing, but it was unknown if one horse had a broken leg. People were trying to get the other horse out of the trailer. Eventually, a veterinarian took over care of the injured horse.
POINT REYES STATION – A Tomasini Canyon Road resident at 3 p.m. Saturday reported hearing two or three gunshots behind her home. A deputy determined the hunters were far enough away that they were not in violation of the law.
INVERNESS – A man at 4:15 p.m. Saturday complained that two vehicles had been parked in a no-parking zone most of the day. A deputy cited both of them.
DILLON BEACH – A Cypress Avenue resident at 5 p.m. Saturday complained that two Jet Skiers were in the vicinity of the day beach.
NICASIO – A Los Piños resident at 6:30 p.m. Saturday reported hearing five gunshots very near her house.
DILLON BEACH – A man at 8:10 p.m. Saturday called deputies from Marine View Drive to report a fight had been underway for five minutes, with a 30-year-old man hitting a woman’s 60-year-old mother.
DILLON BEACH – A woman called from Marine View Drive at 11 p.m. Saturday to complain of males and females screaming. A deputy contacted more than one group of people.
BOLINAS – A deputy helped when the Highway Patrol at 12:22 a.m. Sunday pulled a car back onto the road at the wye.
STINSON BEACH – A merchant at 1 a.m. Sunday reported a man was sitting in the middle of the intersection of Highway 1 and Panoramic Highway. He said the man appeared to be high on something or mentally unstable. The merchant added that he had moved the man onto the shoulder of the road. Deputies subsequently went to the intersection and arrested a man on three warrants.
FOREST KNOLLS – A landlord at 7 p.m. Friday told deputies he had evicted three tenants from a house, but someone had broken his new locks and was now inside the residence. He said he did not know the trespassers’ names. The tenants, he said, had been using the residence for a "drug house," which is why he evicted them.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – A deputy at 11 p.m. Friday came upon a crash, in which a driver was ejected when his vehicle plunged into the woods. The driver was lying in the roadway when the deputy arrived, but when he saw the officer he fled on foot – possibly toward Hicks Valley. The deputy concluded he had been the only occupant of the vehicle.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman driving a truck westbound on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at 11:25 p.m. Friday was rear-ended by a car when she stopped. Two residents independently reported the collision to deputies.
NICASIO – A deputy at 11:55 p.m. Friday reported he "broke up a party and got the music turned down" at the Druids’ Hall.
BOLINAS – A landowner at 11 a.m. Friday reported that trees on his Queen Road property had been vandalized with some kind of spray that is killing them. A deputy advised the man to have a professional determine if the trees had been poisoned.
MARSHALL – A Highway 1 resident at 12:45 p.m. Friday complained that a neighbor had put a metal speed bump on a road they share. The bump is damaging vehicles, he said, and asked a deputy how to get it removed. The officer gave him advice.
BOLINAS – Deputies at 1 p.m. Friday learned that a woman moving into town had received a threat. They said they would provide extra patrols around her house.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – Deputies at 2:30 p.m. Friday received word there was a horse on the roadway between Highway 1 and Platform Bridge.
TOMALES – A woman at 6:20 p.m. Friday complained to deputies that while her ex-husband and their 10-year-old daughter were in Oregon, he had spanked her hard enough to leave a red mark.
LAGUNITAS – An Arroyo Road resident at 7:15 p.m. last Thursday told deputies she had heard a possible gunshot and seen a flash. She might instead have heard an electrical transformer blow, she added, because her power was now off.
MARSHALL – A man at 9 a.m. last Thursday complained about trespassers on his property. He said deputies had previously responded several times when he complained, but he wasn’t happy with the outcome because people continue to trespass.
SAN GERONIMO – A man at 3:12 p.m. last Thursday complained that a gold-colored pickup truck had lost some of its load on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard because the truck’s bed was not covered. He said he had picked up a lot of debris and wanted to talk about it with an officer.
BOLINAS – A woman at 8:35 p.m. last Thursday complained to officers that her husband is "abusing me again" verbally. She said he started yelling at her when he got home.
INVERNESS – A deputy at 9 p.m. last Thursday took a report on a pot patch growing near Inverness Way.
POINT REYES STATION – A man at 9:45 p.m. last Thursday reported someone was hammering in his basement. There should be no one down there, he said.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman at 6 a.m. Friday reported someone had stolen her husband’s wallet, containing credit cards and money, out of his pants during the night. She said their 18-year-old daughter might be responsible for the theft.
LAGUNITAS – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident at 11 a.m. last Wednesday reported getting bills for cellular phone calls he had not made. The phone company was providing no help, he added. A deputy gave him advice.
SAN GERONIMO – A resident at 9:25 p.m. last Wednesday received a call from another man who claimed the resident owed him money. The resident, who told deputies he doesn’t know the second man, hung up. The second man then called back and told the resident to look out the window at his vehicles if he wanted to see him. The resident looked out and didn’t see anyone. The second man then called back again.
BOLINAS – Crying hysterically, a 12-year-old girl called deputies and said her mother had pulled her hair and made her bleed. She said her mother has done this before. A deputy spoke by phone to the mother.
POINT REYES STATION – Sheriff’s Lt. John Brunslik, commander of the West Marin Substation, has asked The Light to let readers know that a campaign to remove abandoned cars is underway in West Marin. Lt. Brunslik said the Sheriff’s Office will arrange to have abandoned vehicles towed off private property, as well as public property, if the landowner signs a release. The substation’s phone number is 663-1151.