October 26, 2000 Sheriff's Calls
INVERNESS – A deputy at 9:20 p.m. shot a sick raccoon and left the carcass on the side of Vision Road for the Humane Society to pick up and check for rabies.
BOLINAS – The day after a bicyclist claimed a friend tried to run him down with a car at Alder and Dogwood roads, the bicyclist reported he had lost his wallet somewhere in town. The friend last week told deputies he did not try to run over the bicyclist but merely sped away when the bicyclist started throwing rocks at his car. In any case, the bicycle was flattened, but no one was hurt.
BOLINAS – A merchant reported the firm’s money bag containing receipts from the weekend had been stolen.
INVERNESS – A woman at 6:30 p.m. reported that juvenile vandals had let the air out of two tires of her motorhome, which was parked near Chicken Ranch Beach.
CHILENO VALLEY – A deputy at 8:35 a.m. found a calf on Chileno Valley Road and returned it to its pasture. The officer also notified the calf’s owner there was a break in the pasture’s fence.
NICASIO – A vandal cut the phone line to a man’s house on Camino Margarita.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman at 1 p.m. reported two equestrians were riding in the roadway near the Green Bridge and that vehicles were almost hitting them. She told deputies she suspected the equestrians were tourists and unaware they were in an unsafe place to ride. A deputy could not find them.
OLEMA – A sheriff’s deputy in Utah asked a West Marin sheriff’s deputy to notify a person here that the person’s Day Planner had been found in Utah.
BOLINAS – A woman at 8:40 p.m. notified deputies that she had sold a piece of property to friends and that the previous night a man living across the street had threatened them.
POINT REYES STATION – A man at 9:30 p.m. complained to deputies that a 6-foot-6-inch-tall second man, aged 39, was in his house and refusing to leave. However, the big man left on a bicycle before a deputy arrived, and the officer couldn’t find him.
INVERNESS – A burglar alarm that went off at a Park Avenue home indicated glass on the perimeter and in the interior of the house had been broken. Deputies, however, found the house to be secure and could not determine what caused the alarm.
OLEMA VALLEY – A deputy at 10:10 a.m. assisted medics when a rider fell off a horse at a stable.
BOLINAS – A Cherry Drive resident notified deputies at 11:15 a.m. that smoke was coming from her walls because of a previous transformer fire. Officers noted PG&E was en route.
LAGUNITAS – A vandal dented the roof and smashed the door of a truck parked along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard.
STINSON BEACH – A deputy on Highway 1 at 1:35 p.m. closed a home’s window, which may have been blown open by high winds.
POINT REYES STATION – A man told deputies at 2:20 p.m. that his business partner wrongfully got a court to issue a temporary restraining order against him and is now stealing documents from him. The man said she has locked him out of the office where they been developing computer software. A deputy described the case as "very involved."
DILLON BEACH – A woman reported "a cow down" on Dillon Beach-Franklin School Road was creating a traffic hazard. A deputy could not find the animal, which supposedly had been injured in traffic.
WOODACRE – A woman at 10 p.m. notified deputies she heard something loud and saw a flash of light to the south of her kitchen window. She did not know if the sound and flash came from a gun or a car. A deputy found nothing amiss.
LAGUNITAS – Deputies at 4 a.m. received a call from a payphone, but the phone would not take callbacks. When an officer checked the scene, he found the wind had blown over several garbage cans. It was merely an "act of nature," he noted, but "this place is a mess."
TOMALES – A landlord on Middle Road at 10 a.m. reported an ex-tenant, who had been evicted three days earlier, has been vandalizing the landlord’s property, shutting off water and "messing" with the electricity. A deputy later provided a civil standby so the tenant could retrieve personal property.
LAGUNITAS – A father at 12:40 p.m. reported his 15-year-old son was missing ever since a dispute the previous night. The father said his son, who uses marijuana and alcohol, had come home drunk.
LAGUNITAS – Deputies were notified that more than 30 carloads of juveniles were walking from Shafter Bridge toward Kent Lake at 10:10 p.m.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Tamal Road resident asked a deputy for advice, saying she was having a problem evicting a tenant.
TOMALES – A landlord on Middle Road complained about a tenant who had never paid rent and was disputing a long-distance phone bill. The landlord at 10:20 p.m. asked a deputy to be on hand when the tenant showed up, but the tenant didn’t show.
TOCALOMA – A deputy at 12:45 a.m. shot a deer that had been injured in traffic on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard a half mile east of Platform Bridge Road.
STINSON BEACH – A man at 11:20 a.m. reported losing his wallet on the beach.
STINSON BEACH – A deputy on Calle del Piños arrested a defendant who had missed a court appearance.
STINSON BEACH – A resident found a cell phone at 12:30 p.m. and turned it over to deputies.
SAN GERONIMO – A burglar pried open the door of a construction office along Osprey Terrace and stole miscellaneous items.
BOLINAS – A drunk man passed out in a driveway across the street from his house. While he did not seem to be injured, he was taken to a hospital to be checked; his mother accompanied him.
BOLINAS – A woman at 8 p.m. reported that someone was tenting on Fern Road property that belongs to a woman who was out of town.
SAMUEL TAYLOR PARK – Deputies were notified that a car, which had been in a non-injury, single-vehicle accident, was at a campsite. A state ranger handled the matter.
BOLINAS – A man at 8 a.m. reported that a stranger had threatened him with a kitchen knife the previous evening. When a deputy determined the man had never actually seen the knife, the officer concluded the accusation had no merit but gave the man advice.
WOODACRE – A man at 11:35 a.m. asked a deputy to provide traffic control on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard while the man fixed a broken irrigation line. Traffic control was provided.
TOMALES – A woman notified deputies she was looking after animals for a landlord, who was out of town, and that she needed assistance in dealing with an injured animal. The woman also described a tenant on the property as insane.
BOLINAS – A librarian at 7:30 p.m. reported there was a fight underway in the alley next to the library. She told officers she could hear three or four males yelling and glass breaking. She subsequently added that the combatants were now walking toward Brighton Avenue.
INVERNESS PARK – A man at 10:45 p.m. told deputies a friend had said she wanted to kill herself; he added that she might have a gun. Officers were later told the woman was fine and had merely been in an argument.
NICASIO – Firefighters and deputies at 8:40 a.m. responded to a report of an open campfire in the redwoods along Nicasio Valley Road.
OLEMA – A deputy at 9 a.m. found a cow on the shoulder of Highway 1. The nearest rancher said it wasn’t his cow, and the officer reported he would check with other ranchers in the area.
WOODACRE – A burglar tried to pry open a window of a house on Crescent Drive.
October 19, 2000 Sheriff's Calls
BOLINAS – A thief stole a $379 air compressor from under a table, which was behind a fence that is under construction.
BOLINAS – A deputy on Ocean Avenue at 10:40 p.m. arrested a man on three felony warrants growing out of a case involving alleged possession of an illegal weapon, possession of hard drugs for sale, and resisting arrest.
TOMALES – A deputy at 2:30 p.m. cited two boys at the high school on charges of possessing marijuana. The students were then released to their parents.
NICASIO – A neighbor found a woman’s car that was stolen a week ago from her home on Lucas Valley Road. The car was found undamaged on a dirt road near the owner’s home.
DILLON BEACH – A 15-foot aluminum boat worth $900 was stolen from a campground.
INVERNESS PARK – College dormitory roommates reported that a local student had been missing seven days. He was neither depressed nor suicidal when last seen, they said.
BOLINAS –A Dogwood Road resident reported that he and another man had quarreled and that the man was now riding his bicycle back and forth in front of the resident’s home. The resident told deputies the other man previously said he had a .45 caliber gun. The resident did not know if the man had the gun with him, but to be safe, he had locked himself inside.
NICASIO – County firefighters reported an old van with a male driver was swerving all over the road at 6:25 p.m. The closest Highway Patrolman was handling a traffic accident in Hick’s Valley, but the CHP said it would try to find another officer who could respond.
SAN GERONIMO – A San Geronimo Valley Drive resident at 12:30 a.m. told deputies she had just heard five or six gunshots, people running, and what sounded like garbage cans being kicked around.
POINT REYES STATION – A citizen reported that a man and woman were quarreling on the main street.
STINSON BEACH – A woman living on Alameda Patio at 10:40 p.m. told deputies there were several noisy people with a bonfire on the beach. A second woman then reported there were lots of people on the beach holding a very loud party. Next, a man notified deputies there were 75 juveniles with kegs of beer in the group and that they were from an East Marin high school. A deputy contacted the juveniles and found no one was drinking alcohol. The youths said they would keep the noise down. However, deputies subsequently received three more complaints about the party; one said several juveniles were "hiding" on her deck. A deputy cleared the beach, and the party was abated.
BOLINAS – Deputies at 12:30 a.m. received two complaints about a loud party with juveniles drinking at Terrace and Park avenues. Deputies contacted the adult chaperones who agreed to turn the music off and end the party.
FOREST KNOLLS – Deputies at 4:45 a.m. received a complaint about a loud party on Montezuma Road. All was quiet when an officer first arrived on the scene. However, he eventually found a loud party, and the partygoers agreed to turn the music off for the night.
DOGTOWN – A man reported that several cows had crossed Highway 1 and were on his property. The cows were returned to their pasture.
POINT REYES STATION – A rancher at 6:40 p.m. reported there was a cow stuck in cattle guard. The cow was freed from the cattle guard.
DILLON BEACH – A sheep rancher reported eight cows were in the roadway on a blind curve of Dillon Beach-Franklin School Road. A deputy could not find them.
HICKS VALLEY – County firefighters at 8:35 p.m. reported hearing numerous gunshots. A deputy could not find anyone shooting.
BOLINAS – After two residents spent the day drinking and smoking marijuana on the beach, one of them went into town to buy food for dinner. While he was downtown, his friend in jest chucked a rotten pear at him. The pear missed and splattered on a wall. The first man, however, got mad and went home but soon left. While the first man was pedaling his bicycle on the Big Mesa, his friend drove up – intending to apologize for throwing the pear, the friend told deputies later. However, when the bicyclist began throwing rocks at his car, the motorist sped off, he said, to avoid damage. In getting away, he said, he drove over the bicycle. The bicyclist meanwhile said his motorist friend had tried to run over him and would have done so but he dove into some bushes at the last minute. Deputies agreed the bicycle had been flattened but noted the bicyclist had no cuts or scrapes obvious enough to be photographed.
MUIR BEACH – A Pacific Way resident at 10:15 p.m. notified deputies that four or five vehicles were blocking his driveway. When a deputy arrived, several cars that had been parked at the gate to the beach were leaving, and the car that had blocked the resident’s driveway was gone.
POINT REYES STATION – A man with car problems at 10:20 p.m. asked a deputy for help. Because the man spoke little English, the deputy could only surmise the man’s car needed transmission fluid. The officer called a tow company, but by the time a tow-truck operator got there, the man had been taken home by a friend.
BOLINAS – A Wharf Road resident at 12:25 a.m. complained about loud music. The person responsible for it was cooperative in taking care of it, a deputy reported.
STINSON BEACH – A Seadrift Road resident reported she is having ongoing problems with a neighbor. In the latest incident, she said, someone removed three lights on the side of her house that faces the neighbor. A deputy gave her advice.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman at noon notified deputies that a tenant, whom she is trying to evict, broke windows in the residence last week.
POINT REYES STATION – A caller reported having problems with another person who also has a suite in the same office building. The caller asked for advice.
BOLINAS – A resident reported her son, who has a history of mental problems, has stopped taking his medication and is now taking LSD. He is "acting very strange," she said.
BOLINAS – A resident at 7 p.m. reported seeing someone get kicked in the head on Brighton Avenue following a quarrel. He said a man about 40 years old was lying in the street. The resident said he was unsure as to the gender of the man’s assailant.
BOLINAS – A Brighton Avenue resident at 8 p.m. reported a drunk man, aged 30 to 35, had been yelling, "I am going to kill you." The man had then come to her door, she said, and was now on her porch.
INVERNESS PARK – A woman at 7 a.m. reported her husband had left home angry after a quarrel with their daughter.
WHITE HOUSE POOL – An eastbound Petaluma motorist at 5:45 p.m. skidded on a curve and ran off Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. Her car came to rest upside down in a ditch on the south side of the road, but the motorist said she was not injured.
October 12, 2000 Sheriff's Calls
STINSON BEACH - A San Rafael man lost a backpack containing a $300 cell phone at the beach.
CHILENO VALLEY - Two women got into a quarrel, and one told deputies the other had threatened to kill her.
STINSON BEACH - A deputy at 10 p.m. cited a man on charges living in a vehicle parked at Arenal Avenue and Highway 1.
POINT REYES STATION - Deputies at 1 a.m. reported that a man and woman were engaged in mutual combat in a house along Highway 1 north of downtown. No one was arrested.
NICASIO - A man on Camino Margarita at 2:30 p.m. reported his garage had been burglarized.
POINT REYES STATION - A juvenile at 7:25 p.m. reported that a drunk motorist repeatedly insisted on giving him a ride to Tomales High. When the youth refused the ride, the motorist got very angry. Deputies took a report on an adult annoying a minor.
NICASIO - A Lucas Valley Road woman at 7:35 p.m. notified deputies she had returned home to find it burglarized and the family car stolen. The car is a 1985 metallic green Mercury Topaz. Missing from the house are radios and money. The woman also noted the burglar had rifled through her checkbook. She said there had been workmen in the house earlier.
NICASIO - A woman reported being stalked and said a man may have entered her house. She later reported there was a man with a ladder on her property. She said the man disappeared into some bushes and that she believed he was a neighbor. However, she refused to provide further information.
BOLINAS - Deputies assisted the Highway Patrol at 10:20 p.m. when a car ran off the road and its front got stuck in Bolinas Lagoon. A towing company was summoned.
NATIONAL SEASHORE - Deputies received word of a drunk driver at Limantour Beach, but the motorist was not located.
SAMUEL TAYLOR PARK - A woman complained that 15 to 20 teenagers camping near the restrooms were playing extremely loud music at 11 p.m. When she and her husband asked them to quiet down, they refused, she said. By the time a deputy arrived, everyone had gone to sleep.
BOLINAS - After a woman complained of pain coming and going, a helicopter was summoned to transport her to a hospital, but the copter initially had trouble landing in heavy fog.
DILLON BEACH - Three girls, 12 to 13, wandered away from their campsite at 11 p.m. after their parents fell asleep. The girls were located.
STINSON BEACH - A woman returned home and found a man with his hand on her gate. The man identified himself as a neighbor living across the street in a trailer. The woman told deputies she believed he might have been trying to steal her dog. An officer gave her advice.
INVERNESS - A resident at 2:30 a.m. complained about two groups of males shooting off fireworks on Chicken Ranch Beach. The disturbance was abated before a deputy arrived.
FOREST KNOLLS - A resident at 3 a.m. complained about five to 10 people drinking in the town park and creating a disturbance. A deputy dispersed juveniles from the park.
TOMALES - A man at 7:25 a.m. reported his mother was in their barn yelling at another woman, aged 35 to 40, who was in a truck used for hauling large panes of glass. The other woman was refusing to leave their barn, he said.
BOLINAS - A Brighton Avenue man at 12:35 a.m. complained about 20 juveniles going back and forth between the tennis courts and the beach. A deputy dispersed the juveniles and cleared the beach.
FOREST KNOLLS - A Castro Street resident at 2 a.m. notified deputies she could see three males and a female quarreling and that all four sounded intoxicated. She said two males were harassing a third and making threatening gestures.
MUIR BEACH - A Sunset Way resident at 11 a.m. reported that someone was pretending to be him in order to get credit. Deputies took a report and also a report on an alleged crime against "an elective franchise."
POINT REYES STATION - A man showed up at the sheriff's substation to report his 72-year-old father had been hiking in the National Seashore and was now two hours overdue. Deputies turned the case over to the Park Service.
FOREST KNOLLS - A deputy on Resaca Avenue at 10 a.m. warned a man against living in a motorhome.
BOLINAS - An Evergreen Road resident reported he had been receiving hangup phone calls for a day. A deputy determined the calls did not constitute harassment and gave the man advice.
INVERNESS PARK - The Major Crimes Taskforce served a search warrant at 2 p.m. on Portola Avenue, and a man was jailed on charges of having a fairly small amount of marijuana for sale.
BOLINAS - Two men at 5 p.m. became engaged in mutual combat on Wharf Road, a deputy reported. The officer gave one of the men advice.
NICASIO - Deputies at 5 p.m. received a report that a vehicle had overturned on Nicasio Valley Road, coming to rest on its top. A woman was lying in the roadway, officers were told.
FOUR CORNERS - Deputies assisted the Highway Patrol and called for medics when two vehicles collided at 7:40 a.m. Deputies noted three tow trucks would be needed.
POINT REYES STATION - A resident at 8 a.m. notified deputies of a loose horse on Highway 1 just north of the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road.
SAN GERONIMO - A burglar stole $88 from a school classroom.
SAN GERONIMO - A woman at 9:30 a.m. reported that a young girl had threatened her daughter and said she would bring a gun to school. The mother said the girl had already brought a cigarette lighter to school.
NICASIO - A Camino Margarita man reported that a thief stole several packages that a delivery company had left in front of his house a month ago.
BOLINAS WYE - A thief stole a motorist's license plate tabs.
October 5, 2000 Sheriff's Calls
NICASIO - A man reported a vandal had broken four outdoor lights at a business.
NICASIO - A Los Piños resident at 7:30 p.m. reported smoke from a possible wildfire. A deputy could not find it.
WOODACRE - A man at 10:45 p.m. complained of loud music near his home. All was quiet when a deputy arrived.
BOLINAS - A woman on Wharf Road at 10:45 p.m. notified deputies of a maroon pickup truck with a rope and noose hanging off the back. The vehicle was gone when a deputy arrived.
WOODACRE - A Redwood Drive resident at 3 a.m. heard a speeding vehicle hit something and then speed away down Railroad Avenue. A deputy was unable to find either the vehicle or any signs of damage.
MARSHALL - Deputies at 12:43 p.m. responded to a report of a "traffic hazard" on Highway 1, and it turned out to be a motorcycle that had fallen over. There were no injuries in the accident north of Marconi Cove, and a deputy helped the Highway Patrol while the motorcycle was taken off the highway.
MARSHALL - A motorcycle on Highway 1 collided with a four-wheeled vehicle 13 minutes after the previous accident. Although the motorcyclist was conscious and alert, he asked for medical attention.
DILLON BEACH - A man on Cypress Avenue complained about a Jet Ski in the surf at 3 p.m. A deputy could not find it.
STINSON BEACH - A quarrel broke out between two brothers at 4:10 p.m. One brother said the other was upset about an earlier fight with their father. The father was not there at the time, and the second brother calmed down.
FOUR CORNERS - A Highway Patrolman using a radar gun clocked a motorist traveling well over 100 mph eastbound on the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road. The officer said the speeding driver repeatedly crossed double lines but was eventually stopped in Hicks Valley. The officer arrested the man on two reckless driving charges while an off-duty deputy prepared the man's car for storage.
FOREST KNOLLS - A woman at 8:40 p.m. reported two males were fighting on Castro Street. She couldn't see the men well enough to describe them. However, she later called back to say the two had left the area, one in a car and one in a pickup truck.
INVERNESS PARK - A Petaluma tree trimmer in his early 20s was walking near Drake's Summit Road at 10 a.m. when he tripped and landed headfirst on a jagged stump. The impact tore his head open, and the man lost consciousness. Deputies and paramedics responded. A helicopter made a landing at the summit, and the tree trimmer was airlifted to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD - A helicopter at 10:30 p.m. airlifted a man with a head injury from the San Antonio Road area.
NICASIO - A woman at 11:35 p.m. reported a large amount of traffic on Old Rancheria Road and hearing lots of talking. She said juveniles might be having a party. A deputy dispersed it.
SAN GERONIMO - A woman at midnight complained about a loud party in the area of Creamery Road and Meadow Way. She said it had been going on for the last few hours. A deputy abated the disturbance.
LAGUNITAS - A Cintura Way woman at 3 a.m. reported her 16-year-old son was an hour overdue in returning from a party on Creamery Road. She said his bicycle and helmet had been found in the roadway and that she would go looking for him.
LAGUNITAS - A vehicle was towed following a collision at Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Cintura Avenue. A deputy noted he was having trouble communicating with the driver, who spoke little English.
FOREST KNOLLS - A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard landlord asked a deputy if he could enter an apartment to work on it now that he had given the tenants 24 hours to leave. He said he'd had problems with them in the past. A deputy gave him advice.
POINT REYES STATION - A merchant at 12:30 p.m. reported a bank-deposit bag was missing and might have been stolen earlier by an employee.
MARSHALL - A woman at 1 p.m. called deputies on behalf of her "boss" to find out what the law says about people trespassing under tideland cabins on pilings.
OLEMA - A sharp-eyed deputy saved a suicidal man's life Tuesday morning after hearing a "Be On the Lookout" broadcast for the man's car. The deputy spotted the car parked at an inn and went to the man's room, where he found the East Marin man had taken a bottle of medicine and injected himself in the thigh with other drugs. The man, who had written a suicide note, was taken to the crisis unit at Marin General Hospital.
TOMALES - After a burglar alarm sounded at 7:45 p.m., deputies traced the cause to a pair of dogs, who were moved into another room.
STINSON BEACH - A North Calle del Sierra resident at 11:10 a.m. complained about a construction crew, saying they might be using improper equipment. She said their pile driver was shaking the foundation of her house.
STINSON BEACH - A woman living beside Highway 1 at 3 p.m. the next day complained about the noise from pilings being driven into the ground.
STINSON BEACH - Ninety minutes later a Calle del Onda resident complained about noise from the pile driver and said the equipment was shaking her house and endangering its foundations.
BOLINAS - A woman at 10:15 p.m. complained about loud music on Terrace Avenue and said it is an ongoing problem. She said the man responsible for the disturbance turns down his music when deputies arrive and turns it back up when they leave. All was quiet when an officer arrived.
POINT REYES STATION - A woman notified deputies that her 15-year-old daughter was so depressed she had tried to kill herself. The mother talked with the Poison Control Center in San Francisco and then took her daughter to a hospital emergency room.
SAN GERONIMO - A citizen reported hearing someone on the back nine holes of a golf course at 12:40 a.m. The person had disappeared by the time a deputy arrived, but at 6:45 a.m. the next day, a man reported vandalism under the clubhouse.
BOLINAS - A man notified deputies that a person at Overlook and Mesa roads matched the description of the recent escapee from San Quentin. The person was gone by the time a deputy arrived.
BOLINAS - A woman at 11 a.m. asked that a deputy stand by while she moved out of a residence. She said she expected problems with other residents. She received standby protection.
TOMALES - A man at Alexander and Tomales-Petaluma roads heard repeated gunshots at noon, and one bullet whizzed past his head. He told deputies that he did not think anyone intended to shoot at him.
SAN GERONIMO - A thief stole a child's scooter from a field.
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