December 28, 2000 Sheriff's Calls
STINSON BEACH – Following a traffic stop on Highway 1 about 12:40 p.m. Friday, a deputy cited a motorist on charges of driving while his license is suspended, driving an unregistered vehicle, and driving without proof of insurance.
STINSON BEACH – Following another traffic stop on Highway 1 about 12:40 p.m. Friday, a deputy cited a motorist on charges of driving without a license and driving without proof of insurance.
BOLINAS – A man reported that his 17-foot-long canoe, which had been chained and locked to the public dock on Wharf Road, had been stolen. He described the boat as green and made by Coleman.
STINSON BEACH – A deputy at 1 p.m. Friday, stopped a motorist and cited him on charges of driving while his license is suspended, having false tabs on his license plate, driving an unregistered vehicle, and having no proof of insurance. The motorist was released, but his car was impounded for 30 days.
OLEMA – At the request of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and San Rafael Police, a deputy at 10:20 p.m. last Thursday investigated the parental abduction of a nine-year-old girl.
NICASIO – County firefighters at 7:10 p.m. Saturday reported a resident was locked out of a Lucas Valley Road house. The firefighters said they were unable to make an entry, and although the caretakers supposedly had a key for the house, it was the wrong one. Firefighters said a neighbor was on hand and the group would try to break into the house.
NICASIO – A woman at 9 p.m. last Thursday reported that even though it was "completely dark," she could hear machinery noise coming from a house that is under construction on Camino Margarita. A deputy could not find anyone at the house.
WOODACRE – A Railroad Avenue resident at 10:30 p.m. Saturday reported there were people outside her house shouting profanities at her. She told deputies she didn’t know who they were. The people were now banging on her door, she said, noting her roommate was also in the house.
BOLINAS – An Olema-Bolinas Road resident at 12:45 a.m. Saturday notified deputies she had just seen a car in Bolinas Lagoon and a man standing beside it with his thumb out. Deputies notified the Highway Patrol.
MUIR BEACH – Deputies at 2 p.m. last Thursday received word of a fire outside a cottage along Highway 1. The report was unclear as to whether the fire was threatening the cottage.
WOODACRE – A woman asked for advice regarding a custody dispute involving her 13-year-old daughter.
HICKS VALLEY – The Highway Patrol at 11:30 p.m. dispersed a group of juveniles that had been hanging around a couple of cars parked beside the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road.
SAN GERONIMO – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident notified deputies he had located some of the items which had recently been stolen from him.
WOODACRE – A Hill Avenue resident at 5:15 p.m. reported that someone had moved a large, blue recycling container "down the street to the top of a hill." He asked for extra patrols in the area.
STINSON BEACH – A Calle del Ribera resident at 8:30 p.m. complained that a neighbor was shining a spotlight directly through her bedroom window. She said she was having ongoing problems with the neighbor. A deputies advised both neighbors to seek mediation.
BOLINAS – Two vehicles collided at Ocean Parkway and Overlook Drive. Firefighters reported there was blood inside one vehicle, but they couldn’t find the driver. The driver, whose head was cut, was eventually located on Cedar Road.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman at 11:45 p.m. reported juveniles were possibly fighting in the vicinity of Morelos and Resaca avenues. She said youths had been speeding around the area and now sounded like they were quarreling. A deputy determined the drivers of the speeding vehicles were somebody’s uninvited guests, and the problem was abated.
NICASIO – An Old Rancheria Road resident at 1:10 a.m. notified deputies by fax that two men with an aluminum ladder were looking in the windows of her house. "One, I believe, is in the back going under the house through the crawl space," she wrote. "They can hear a car coming from a distance and will run into a tree line surrounding – and across the street from – the house."
SAN GERONIMO – A Sir Francis Drake Boulevard resident reported that a thief had taken a box of film negatives that a delivery company had left on his front porch the previous day.
FOREST KNOLLS – A deputy on Sinaloa Avenue at noon arrested a 19-year-old man on a warrant for failing to appear in court. Bail was set at $2,000.
BOLINAS – A woman on Christmas Day notified deputies that items had been stolen from her Fern Road home.
BOLINAS – A resident reported that when a roommate moved out of a travel trailer parked near Wharf Road, the roommate had stolen several items and vandalized the trailer.
December 21, 2000 Sheriff's Calls
POINT REYES STATION – A woman on Monday reported losing a wallet last Thursday in Terra Linda. Since then, she said, someone has made debits to her account from Oakland, Vacaville, and San Pablo. West Marin deputies took a report as a courtesy to San Rafael police.
FOUR CORNERS – A deputy and Highway Patrol officer at 2:30 a.m. Sunday responded to a report of a possible rollover accident. The deputy arrested a motorist on charges of drunk driving and turned him over to the Highway Patrol officer, who transported the motorist to jail.
RED ROCK – A woman at 6 p.m. Sunday notified deputies that someone had smashed a window of her car while it was parked in the lot for the nude beach. Nothing was taken, she said.
MARSHALL – A Marshall-Petaluma Road resident at 10:45 a.m. reported that a man had shown up at her house and proclaimed his love for her. She recalled him as a casual acquaintance from school years ago, said she wasn’t interested, and told him to leave. The man then threw a rock through a window of her house and fled, she said.
STINSON BEACH – A man told deputies that at least three cars have been burglarized in town while Highway 1 has been closed between Stinson Beach and Muir Beach. He said he believes cars in parking lots are being targeted and requested extra patrols in the area until the closure ends.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – A rancher complained about a vehicle parked across the road from her ranch, noting that she has warned the motorist previously that his mushroom hunting on her ranch is trespassing. The vehicle was gone when a deputy arrived.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – Deputies at 8:25 p.m. Sunday were notified of a traffic accident with possible injuries. The caller left the scene, possibly with the injured person, before a deputy arrived, and neither person was located.
MUIR BEACH – A woman at 10 p.m. Sunday reported a full-sized pickup truck was in a ditch at Highway 1 and Muir Woods Road. Its lights were not on, she said. A deputy found that the Highway Patrol had already tagged the truck to be towed away.
POINT REYES STATION – A Knob Hill Road resident at 3:30 a.m. reported hearing about 10 loud bangs in the past five minutes. The caller said the noise might be coming from a horse kicking its stall. All was quiet when a deputy arrived.
WOODACRE – A Carson Road resident at 11:35 a.m. Sunday reported that her car had been burglarized during the night. Taken were a CD changer, six CDs, and a pager – together worth about $400.
INVERNESS – An Inverness Way resident at 3:40 a.m. Sunday reported her video camera had been stolen 10 minutes ago and that her son had seen two suspects. He described them as middle-aged men, one wearing a hunter’s cap with a duck insignia. They were last seen downtown, she said.
STINSON BEACH – A woman at 9:45 a.m. Saturday complained about a black SUV on the beach trying to push a log into the surf. Deputies were told the Park Service Police would not respond. After some searching, a deputy found a resident trying to push a log back into the water. No crime was involved, the deputy reported.
BOLINAS LAGOON – An Olema-Bolinas Road resident at 9:45 a.m. Saturday complained that dogs on Kent Island were scaring seals into the water. A deputy assisted a county Open Space District ranger deal with the problem.
BOLINAS – A man at 1 p.m. Saturday complained about dogs left barking "all the time" on a neighbor’s deck. He said there have been numerous complaints and that the dogs’ owners have threatened his father in the past. A deputy gave advice to all parties concerned.
POINT REYES STATION – A deputy at 4:20 p.m. Saturday found a calf on Highway 1 and returned it to its ranch.
TOMALES – A high school coach at 10:25 a.m. Friday reported there had been a break-in at the school the previous night. Burglars drilled into three soda machines and stole the money inside, he said.
MARSHALL – A man at 11:30 a.m. Friday complained about a travel trailer parked along Highway 1 without electricity or a septic system. He said the trailer is an illegal dwelling because a man and sometimes a woman with two children stay there. A deputy talked to a man who said the property is his father’s, but he agreed to move the trailer.
BOLINAS – A Wharf Road resident at noon Friday asked to speak with a deputy about a man, who just got out of jail and is "hanging around." A deputy gave the resident advice.
STINSON BEACH – Deputies received a call with a baby on the line at noon last Thursday. Officers traced the call to a home on Calle del Arroyo and determined an adult had accidentally left the phone was off the hook.
SAN GERONIMO – A woman at noon last Thursday told deputies she had asked a neighbor, who plays loud music constantly, to "please turn it down." His response, she said, was: "Shut up or I’ll f-ck your grandkids."
BOLINAS – A 50-year-old man with no history of heart problems developed palpitations at 4:20 a.m. last Thursday on Brighton Avenue. The subject was described as "cooperative," and firefighters assisted him.
NICASIO – The Highway Patrol at 8 a.m. notified deputies that a woman had called from her car on Lucas Valley Road to say she was having a medical problem.
MUIR BEACH – By opening a furnace door, a gardener accidentally set off a burglar alarm at a Sunset Way home.
BOLINAS – A woman at 7:25 p.m. reported seeing three emergency flares go airborne a mile off Duxbury Reef. Deputies notified the Coast Guard.
POINT REYES STATION – A vehicle at 1:08 p.m. crashed at Mesa Road and Commodore Webster Drive. Deputies were told the driver, which had been heavily drinking, did not speak English and was "not very cooperative." At 1:35 p.m. a drunk man walked up to the scene and was arrested on charges of public drunkenness. After determining he had an alien-resident card, deputies tried to place him in a detoxification center. However, it was full. He was eventually released and his charges dropped.
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.
December 14, 2000 Sheriff's Calls
BOLINAS – A deputy armed with a warrant arrested a man on Wharf Road at 1 p.m.
BOLINAS – A woman at 1:45 a.m. Sunday called deputies to say a man had placed a ladder against her house near a second-story window. She told officers she saw a man run out from some bushes and head toward a creek. The ladder was still there, she said.
BOLINAS – A man at 6:45 p.m. Monday reported there was a brief drunken fight behind the community center on Wharf Road. One Spanish-speaking man threw a bottle at another, chased him behind the center, and struck him with his hands, the caller said.
BOLINAS – A Fern Road resident at 10:30 p.m. Monday reported finding a man hiding in the resident’s bushes. The resident said the man spoke only Spanish but did manage to apologize before leaving on foot.
OLEMA – A woman at 9:20 p.m. Monday notified deputies it sounded as if there was a male-female fight in a nearby campsite. The woman had heard yelling and banging for 15 minutes, she said. Deputies went to a 24-foot travel trailer hooked to a pickup truck and arrested a man on charges of public drunkenness. While an officer was transporting the man to jail in the cage of a patrolcar, the man managed to slip out of his handcuffs, so the deputy stopped at the Nicasio corporation yard and put the handcuffs back on him.
NICASIO – The manager of a stable asked for extra nighttime patrols, saying that for the past week people had been going into a barn at night, turning on lights, and playing a radio.
FOREST KNOLLS – A woman returned to her Sir Francis Drake Boulevard home Sunday and found some items moved and others knocked over. She said it appeared someone had been prying on the bottom of a door. A deputy gave her advice.
SAN GERONIMO – Two women independently called deputies, one at 10:30 a.m. Sunday and the other at 12:30 p.m., complaining that during the night a pickup truck had been abandoned in a flowerbed of a church after damaging a fence. A deputy determined that a Sebastopol man owned the vehicle. A message on the truck said the driver would return for it after playing a round of golf. However, he hadn’t returned, and the truck appeared to be stuck on a rock. A deputy gave the women advice.
BOLINAS – A resident Sunday reported there might be a corpse off Brighton Avenue along the road to the Resource Recovery Center. A deputy determined there was no merit to the report.
NICASIO – A resident at 12:30 p.m. Sunday reported that while driving west on Lucas Valley Road, she noticed that vandals had spray-painted five roadsigns.
BOLINAS – A woman at 8:45 p.m. Saturday complained about loud music from a house on Terrace Avenue. A man at the house agreed to turn the music off.
BOLINAS – A deputy on Wharf Road Saturday arrested a man on a court warrant stemming from a drunk-driving case.
BOLINAS – A resident at 12:30 a.m. Sunday reported that someone with an unlikely name was "smashing up the house."
BOLINAS – Deputies at 11:50 a.m. Saturday reported falling trees had knocked down powerlines, and PG&E was on the scene.
BOLINAS – A woman on Wharf Road complained that a man bothers her every day. A deputy reported she was "not making much sense" and that the man was not there now. Everything was okay, he added.
POINT REYES STATION – A merchant at 1 p.m. Saturday complained that a vendor was selling items in front of the postoffice without a license or permission from the postoffice. A deputy reported the "subject [was] argumentative and hostile but agreed to leave."
MARSHALL – A member of a film crew at 1 p.m. Saturday reported a thief had stolen his vest and paycheck.
WOODACRE – A resident at 2:15 p.m. Saturday said two people in a white car appeared to be casing his house for a burglary. They were playing a loud boombox, he said.
STINSON BEACH – A woman at 2 p.m. Friday asked deputies for advice regarding a tenant. An officer gave advice and noted the woman might call back for a civil standby. At 1 p.m., a merchant at the same address reported a man was refusing to leave the merchant’s business. The man finally left, and a deputy spoke to the merchant and a tenant next door.
INVERNESS – A homeowner on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard reported someone had cut down trees at the home and stolen three or four cords of firewood. A month earlier, a homeowner on Rannoch Way reported a thief had stolen three cords of firewood from his home.
SAMUEL TAYLOR PARK – A woman at 9 a.m. reported that a theft had occurred under unusual circumstances. Those circumstances were not specified, but the woman said she suspected the culprit was still in the park.
HICKS VALLEY – A county roadworker at 9:30 a.m. reported brown calves on the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road. A deputy contacted a rancher in the area.
FOREST KNOLLS – A resident complained that a red compact car had not left enough clearance for other traffic when it parked. A deputy determined there was "ample" clearance.
INVERNESS PARK – A contractor at 4 p.m. told deputies he had built a house on Drake’s Summit Road and rented it out. However, a neighbor has been verbally abusive and threatening toward subcontractors at the house. A deputy gave the contractor advice.
BOLINAS – Deputies, who were alerted to a fire under a building, found a man whose motorized wheelchair was stuck in mud. Officers assisted town firefighters in assisting the man.
MARSHALL – A Marshall-Petaluma Road resident at 10:45 p.m. reported a large truck was in her driveway, and someone was shouting words she could not understand. Perhaps the person was shouting in a foreign language, she said.
December 7, 2000 Sheriff's Calls
NICASIO – Deputies reported receiving a call from a woman who was "abrupt and quick to get off the phone." Before she hung up, however, she said she had probably misdialed. When a deputy went to the woman’s Willow Road residence, the officer determined that she had, indeed, misdialed.
MUIR BEACH – A 39-year-old Solano county motorist, who told deputies she had been forced to fake her own suicide in Mount Tamalpais State Park, was found by a hiker at 1 p.m. Sunday. The woman reported she had been bound and then made to drive off Panoramic Highway east of Highway 1 at 2 a.m. On Tuesday morning, a car belonging to her 38-year-old boyfriend led a Fairfield policeman on a high-speed chase. The officer stopped when the pursuit entered a school zone. However, the boyfriend was eventually found and detained for questioning. The woman told Marin deputies she had been at the wheel of her minivan when it plunged 100 yards down a steep slope but came to rest upright. Although the driver was dehydrated after being trapped in the van 11 hours, she was lucid when rescued, Investigator Doug Pittman told The Light. It was the second time in just over four months that boyfriend-girlfriend disputes have ended in shocking ways less than three miles from downtown. The body of a San Francisco woman was found beside Highway 1 between Muir Beach and Stinson Beach on Aug. 24. (That length of highway is now closed for repairs.) The next day, her boyfriend killed himself by diving from the Oakland Bay Bridge into a Caltrans maintenance yard.
NICASIO – A Nicasio Valley Road resident at 9:45 p.m. notified deputies that earlier in the day two men in their 50s had taken photos of her family’s home and of her daughter with a friend as the girls went in the front gate. The woman asked for extra patrols in the area.
SAN GERONIMO – A San Geronimo Valley Road resident at 10:45 p.m. Monday reported hearing a loud gunshot northwest of her home. A deputy in checking the area spoke to a second woman, who was walking her dog, and she said the shot sounded as if it were fired on Meadow Way. The officer could not find anyone shooting.
BOLINAS – A man said he had heard a couple quarreling, along with doors slamming, for an hour. He told deputies he feared for the wellbeing of the woman.
POINT REYES STATION – A vehicle at 1 a.m. crashed into the fence of a house on Mesa Road. Deputies and Highway Patrol officers could not find the driver.
LAGUNITAS – A West Cintura Avenue resident at 7:40 p.m. Sunday reported he may now know who vandalized his truck on Saturday.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman complained about motorists speeding on Highway 1 in front of West Marin School. She requested extra patrols.
FOREST KNOLLS – A Resaca Avenue woman at 10:45 p.m. complained about several juveniles outside being too loud. A deputy contacted a small group of youths and asked them to quiet down. The officer reported the group was "cooperative."
MARSHALL – Deputies at 1 a.m. Sunday received a complaint about noise in the area of an oyster company. A deputy later reported the problem had been abated.
STINSON BEACH – A man asked for advice in a child-custody dispute and received it.
POINT REYES STATION – A woman at noon Friday reported her former boyfriend and a friend of his were blocking both entrances to their software business downtown. She told deputies this violated a court-issued temporary restraining order against her ex-boyfriend. A deputy determined the ex-boyfriend was not out of compliance with any TRO.
PT. REYES-PETALUMA ROAD – An employee at 2 p.m. Friday accidentally set off a burglar alarm at Union School.
LAGUNITAS – A Portola Road resident at 2:15 p.m. Sunday complained that someone had cut the chain that locks a gate across his driveway.
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.
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