MARSHALL - A deputy cited a green Triumph for not having license plates.
BOLINAS - A resident complained at 11:20 p.m. of loud drumming all day downtown. A deputy checked and was told that an event at the community center was about to end.
BOLINAS - A woman complained that a recreational vehicle with someone living in it has been parked on private property near Locust and Poplar roads. A deputy reported the RV will be cited.
POINT REYES STATION - A resident complained of two men possibly duck hunting on state park property. A deputy found the men walking toward their van. They had a boat with guns in it. The officer detained the men until a park ranger arrived.
INVERNESS - A woman reported problems with an ex-roommate, who she said has admitted to taking some of her property. A deputy gave her civil-law advice.
HICKS VALLEY - A vehicle ran off the roadway at Chileno Valley Road and the Marshall-Petaluma Road with possible injuries to one passenger. Deputies referred the matter to county firefighters.
STINSON BEACH - A Bolinas resident reported spotting a dozen stripped computers dumped beside Highway 1 near Bolinas Lagoon.
FOREST KNOLLS - A woman reported illegal dumping in the town park.
FOREST KNOLLS - The new owner of a home phoned deputies to say the former owner was on his way over to retrieve property he had left behind. However, the new owner said she considers the property now hers since escrow on the sale has closed. A deputy gave her advice.
BOLINAS - A resident complained at 12:15 a.m. of loud reggae music coming from a parked vehicle. All was quiet when a deputy arrived.
FOREST KNOLLS - A woman complained at 1 a.m. of two dogs barking for the past two hours. All was quiet when a deputy arrived.
STINSON BEACH - A resident complained at 4 a.m. of loud music and talking coming from a neighbor's home. All was quiet when a deputy arrived, and there was nobody at the neighbor's home.
BOLINAS - Deputies received a report of teens drinking in front of a business on Elm Road. Officers did not find the group but did cite two juveniles to traffic court.
BOLINAS - Deputies were asked to provide extra patrols behind the community center on weekends to counter teenage drinking and vandalism.
TOMALES - A woman complained of people driving on the high school football field during a dance. By the time deputies arrived, the motorists had left. Officers determined no one had driven on the turf.
WOODACRE - A man complained that a white panel truck is being parked for long periods on Redwood Drive. Deputies have repeatedly tagged the vehicle for towing, but the owner keeps moving it.
FOREST KNOLLS - A resident reported that a man in his 30s had been in the park for the past three days and was currently sitting on a log in the park in the rain. A deputy found the man, who was dry, and said he had been sitting on the log for only an hour.
FOREST KNOLLS - A woman said she was having emotional problems and wanted to turn herself in to the county crisis unit. A deputy told her to arrange for the Humane Society to pick up her dogs. He then took her to the crisis unit. Previously she had reported receiving annoying phone calls, possibly from her landlord.
INVERNESS - A woman reported that two sisters in their 40s were fighting. One had been drinking, and both were in front of the house they share, the third woman said.
BOLINAS - A man told deputies he had lost his wallet in Petaluma.
SAN GERONIMO - A tenant on Juniper Avenue told deputies that neighbors below him are being evicted and might try to threaten him in some way, such as aiming a microwave dish at him. A deputy determined there was no merit to any problems.
POINT REYES STATION - A property owner asked for advice in dealing with ongoing problems with a renter.
TOMALES - A deputy took a report of $275 worth of fencing being stolen from a business along the Tomales-Petaluma Road.
WOODACRE - A vandal slashed a tire and cracked the windshield on a woman's car, which was parked on Fir Avenue.
BOLINAS - A landlord asked a deputy how to keep an unwanted subject, the boyfriend of a tenant, off his property. The officer gave advice.
BOLINAS - A 16-year-old girl left her foster home to spend a weekend with her homeless mother and did not return.
DILLON BEACH - A San Francisco man reported that during the night someone took $47 worth of property from his campsite and vandalized the items.
DILLON BEACH - A Sacramento County man reported that someone during the night took a blue ice chest containing 48 cans and bottles of beer from his campsite. The loss was estimated at $55.
POINT REYES STATION - A landscaper told deputies a thief stole six chainsaws and two leaf blowers from his truck parked at ranchworker housing on Mesa Road.
INVERNESS - A deputy cited a motorist for driving with a suspended driver's license and using a 1996 license-plate tab although his registration had expired in 1993.
RED ROCK - A deputy admonished a 30-year-old man for living in his vehicle and then arrested him on a Solano County court warrant.
BOLINAS - A 20-year-old woman complained that a man in his 30s had exposed himself to her in front of her residence.
BOLINAS - Deputies were notified that two men, aged 20 and 52, were engaged in mutual combat at the Laundromat.
MARSHALL - A motorist knocked down 50 to 100 feet of fence on the Marshall-Petaluma Road and then left, county firefighters reported.
POINT REYES STATION - A woman on Los Reyes Drive said an ex-cop had threatened her.
SAN GERONIMO - The school reported that the playfield had been torn up, possibly by a vehicle. Two young men had been seen in the area.
POINT REYES STATION - A young woman said a man, with whom she had been involved, had tried to run her down.
OLEMA VALLEY - Three loose horses were returned to their pasture.
CHILENO VALLEY - A woman told deputies she had found a bunch of bottles at her front gate, indicating someone had been having a party.
FOREST KNOLLS - A woman said her female ex-roommate and her boyfriend had broken into her house on Montezuma Avenue. Deputies later reported there was no merit to the complaint. The roommate later asked deputies to stand by while she got the rest of her possessions out of the house.
DILLON BEACH - A man complained of an ongoing problem with loud and reckless Jet Skiers on Tomales Bay. A deputy determined that no crime had occurred.
LAGUNITAS - Deputies received a complaint about a loud party at 3:15 a.m. at Lagunitas Road and Mountain View Avenue. An officer contacted the celebrants, who agreed to keep the noise down.
BOLINAS - A merchant asked for advice in dealing with transients.
WOODACRE - A resident reported that live wires had fallen into trees, starting a fire on Oak Grove Avenue. Deputies referred the matter to county firefighters.
BOLINAS - Deputies received a complaint of loud people and loud music coming from a car. All was quiet when an officer arrived.
Pt. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD - Four boulders fell onto the roadway.
FOREST KNOLLS - A woman said that she and her child had been threatened by another woman over an incident in a bar.
BOLINAS - An employee reported that three water filters, each worth $340, had been stolen from a home on Olema-Bolinas Road.
STINSON BEACH - A vehicle struck a deer, but the Humane Society could not find it.
WOODACRE - A burglar broke into a car on Carson Road and stole football jackets, a backpack, and a tape player.
NICASIO - A Lucas Valley Road landlord reported ongoing problems with his female tenant.
NICASIO - A man along the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road asked deputies to check on two vehicles parked on his cattleguard. The vehicles were gone when deputies arrived.
INVERNESS - A woman moved out of her home after a dispute with her landlord, who threw her belongings onto the lawn, she told deputies. She asked for an officer to stand by while she retrieved items that had not been thrown outside.
LAGUNITAS - The Los Angeles Coroner's Office asked Marin deputies to notify a resident that her brother had been murdered. Deputies arranged for a chaplain to counsel her.
FOREST KNOLLS - A woman asked deputies for extra patrols around her house after again receiving threats.
NICASIO - Someone dumped garbage on a Lucas Valley Road resident's property.
NICASIO - A man told deputies his former landlord would not give his cat back and asked for advice.
INVERNESS - A man, who had been drinking, was injured in a single-vehicle crash. He told deputies he was only a passenger and that the driver had fled on foot. Officers referred the case to the Highway Patrol.
SAN GERONIMO - A deputy cited a driver whose vehicle had no license plates.
TOMALES - Deputies found a stolen car on the Tomales-Petaluma Road.
INVERNESS - An Inverness Way resident complained that 60 blossoms had been cut from her hydrangeas during the night.
LUCAS VALLEY ROAD - A disturbed motorist stopped in a man's driveway, told the man he was in a "terrible situation," had done some "terrible things," and needed help. He then drove off heading west.
STINSON BEACH - A Calle del Mar resident complained of a neighbor's dog barking every night. A deputy went to the dog's house, but no one was home, and all was quiet.
POINT REYES STATION - A woman, who was having a hard time at home, took an overdose of Tylenol. She was transported to a hospital.
POINT REYES STATION - A woman complained of a four-wheel-drive passing over a double line on the levee road and almost causing an accident. Deputies traced the vehicle's license to a Stinson Beach man and forwarded the information to the Highway Patrol.
FOREST KNOLLS - A woman reported that her landlord had threatened her. A deputy found no merit to the complaint.
WOODACRE - A woman told deputies her ex-husband had not yet returned their daughter. Deputies noted the parents had not set a time for the return and gave her advice.
POINT REYES STATION - A bartender said an unwanted customer was in the bar. The female customer left voluntarily when a deputy arrived. Officers noted the woman was not drunk.
TOMALES - A vehicle ran into a hillside along the Tomales-Petaluma Road. The vehicle was unattended when a deputy arrived, but a Tomales woman's purse was inside it.
NICASIO - A woman told deputies her daughter's dog had gotten loose and killed a neighbor's chickens. She said the neighbor told her he had taken the dog and felt like killing her. A deputy gave the woman advice.
BOLINAS - A merchant complained about an aggressive panhandler. Deputies could not find him.
HICKS VALLEY - A loose cow was returned to its pasture.
FOREST KNOLLS - A woman reported receiving a "strange call."
POINT REYES STATION - A woman threatened to commit suicide. A deputy noted she did not have any weapons, and she had not been drinking.
STINSON BEACH - A vandal damaged a septic-tank alarm for a Joaquin Patio home, which a woman rents out.
BOLINAS - A woman told deputies an over-the-hill veterinarian had charged $740 on her credit card without permission and had worked on her dog without approval.
WOODACRE - A man on Fir Avenue reported that a delivery service had dropped off three packages at his house while he was away, but they were stolen before he got home.
FOREST KNOLLS - An emotionally disturbed 18 year old, who was not taking his medicine, got into a physical fight with his brother and threatened other family members.
LAGUNITAS - A woman complained that a truck, with a man and woman inside, was emitting loud music at 3:30 a.m. Deputies checked the pair's identification and sent them on their way.
BOLINAS - Deputies received a complaint that a homeless woman was outside the polling place harassing people. Officers gave advice.
POINT REYES STATION - A deputy saw a 17-year-old Inverness girl throw an egg from a moving car at a group of juveniles gathered at A and Fourth streets. He cited her and released her to her mother.
POINT REYES STATION - A deputy arrested a 14-year-old Cazadero boy for throwing eggs. The youth was then found to be carrying a small amount of marijuana. He was also cited on pot charges and then released. Other youths from Cazadero "were shown the way out of town."
BOLINAS - A vandal throwing rocks broke two windows of a house on Overlook Drive.
BOLINAS - Postal staff found two bicycles on the roof of the postoffice. The bicycles were retrieved and returned to their owners.
POINT REYES STATION - On Halloween night, someone shot a horse in the chest with a paint ball. Two other horses, which were also pastured beside Mesa Road downtown, suffered injuries to their hocks, and the owner said it appeared they had been clubbed. This week, an Humane Society officer was investigating. Sheriff's Lt. Jim Riddell asked anyone with information to contact the Sheriff's Office.
BOLINAS - A man reported that his ex-girlfriend had mailed him a "strange card."
POINT REYES STATION - A deputy arrested a Nicasio man on charges of public drunkenness after he caused a disturbance in a bar.
DILLON BEACH - A man called deputies to say a neighbor was upset about an automobile-security light disturbing him at night and had threatened to shoot the man's son. A deputy determined the neighbor did not have a gun and mediated the dispute, suggesting a solution. After apparently having some drinks, the neighbor later called deputies to report someone might be throwing rocks against his house although he saw no one.
SAN GERONIMO - The school reported someone had tampered with a parked bus' brakes, causing it to roll into a cyclone fence. The vandalism caused no damage to the bus.
WOODACRE - County firefighters reported a black and white cow was in the intersection of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Railroad Avenue.
LAGUNITAS - A woman again reported that her 15-year-old daughter is out of parental control and has been hanging out in Fairfax. She said the daughter may have tried to get into their house, but they have changed the locks.
LAGUNITAS - A man complained that 25 parked vehicles were blocking West Cintura Avenue. A deputy, however, found only six and noted the roadway was passable.
WOODACRE - A resident complained of a loud party on Garden Way at 2:40 a.m. A deputy found the party was breaking up and advised people to "keep it down."
DILLON BEACH - Campers reported that 12 other campers were threatening to fight with them and had taken their coolers and food.
CHILENO VALLEY - A man asked deputies for advice in evicting a tenant.
BOLINAS - Deputies received two calls from different people who said an emotionally unstable man had been harassing a merchant, only to have another man with a machete attack him. In a separate incident, the reportedly unstable man was accused of stealing a leather jacket and sunglasses, together worth $350, from a man in Stinson Beach.
LAGUNITAS - A resident reported trespassers at the home of a deceased man.
WOODACRE - A resident reported that a man with dreadlocks and camouflage pants walked up his driveway and lunged at the resident's dog.
POINT REYES STATION - A woman on A Street complained of loud drums downstairs. A deputy agreed to talk with the drummer.
OLEMA - A very drunk woman lost her keys in a parking lot. She was gone when a deputy arrived.
FOREST KNOLLS - A caller, who sounded drunk, notified deputies of a fall victim. County firefighters were dispatched.
INVERNESS PARK - A black-and-white cow was spotted on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in front of the deli. A deputy notified the cow's owner.
POINT REYES STATION - A woman on Mesa Road reported that 30 juveniles were around her house, throwing eggs and yelling at her. A deputy could not find them.
DOGTOWN - A resident told deputies three or four people were walking through town shooting paint balls and throwing eggs.
BOLINAS - A man complained of people playing loud music outside the community center at 2 a.m. A deputy contacted them, and they turned off their stereo.
MARSHALL - A man reported that a 16-year-old boy had been found with a plastic bag of white powder and a straw on the Marshall-Petaluma Road.
SAN GERONIMO - Deputies were notified that a woman in her 30s was outside the postoffice asking passersby if they knew where she could spend the night. Officers could not find her.
LAGUNITAS - A man got into a non-violent argument with his 17-year-old son. A deputy gave them advice.
LAGUNITAS - A woman reported her 15-year-old son had gone joyriding in her husband's vehicle.
STINSON BEACH - Following a burglary at a Seadrift Road home, the owner reported fraudulent phone charges.
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