Sheriff's Calls

APRIL 25, 1996 Sheriff's Calls

TOMALES - Deputies cited a 30-year-old man on the Tomales-Petaluma Road on charges of driving with a suspended license.

POINT REYES STATION - The school principal turned in a boy caught with marijuana in his possession. He was cited and released to his parents.

STINSON BEACH - A woman was babysitting a three-year-old boy when he disappeared from a frontyard of a home on Calle Del Sierra. The little boy had been playing with the babysitter's daughter, also three, and when authorities asked her where the boy was, she said she didn't know. However, when they asked if someone had taken him away, the little girl said a blonde woman in a red car did. A search of town was then organized, officers mounted roadblocks, and a helicopter was called in. Officers eventually found the little boy sleeping under a pile of covers in a bedroom of the home.

BOLINAS - A woman complained of loud music on the beach and a vehicle driving around on the sand early in the morning. A deputy was unable to find the driver or source of any music.

NICASIO - A woman complained that a man, who had been refused service in a bar because he had been drinking all day, then urinated in a parking lot at 4:20 p.m.

WOODACRE - A vandal damaged gates to the Improvement Club's swimming pool area and tennis courts.

BOLINAS - A motorist called deputies from the Olema-Bolinas Road to complain of a car that had twice passed him recklessly at a high rate of speed, crossing double lines and on blind curves of Highway 1. Deputies forwarded the information to the Highway Patrol.

BOLINAS - Deputies received a report of sex involving a minor. An officer determined "no crime" had occurred, just "sexualized play between minors."

INVERNESS - After a woman returned from a hospital in a wheelchair, deputies helped her husband transport her into her house.

NICASIO - The secretary of a homeowner hired a flooring crew to work at his house. However, when they were finishing work, the homeowner showed up and threatened them. The head of the crew said he had not been paid.

POINT REYES STATION - A woman told West Marin sheriff's deputies her 40-year-old daughter in Kona, Hawaii, might be missing. Deputies took the report as a courtesy to the woman and Hawaiian police.

BOLINAS - A resident complained of two or three trespassers going through her fenced yard.

BOLINAS - A woman reported having a verbal fight with a man who, she said, had hit her on a previous occasion. He was gone by the time deputies arrived.

NICASIO - A Nicasio Valley Road homeowner complained of a tree company working on his property. When told the company was working for PG&E, clearing limbs away from power lines, he requested that the company leave until he was properly notified.

FOREST KNOLLS - A woman told deputies another woman was harassing juveniles as they passed by her house. When officers tried to contact the second woman, she was gone. They reported they would try again.

Sheriff's Calls

APRIL 18, 1996 Sheriff's Calls

STINSON BEACH - A man on Alameda Patio said his wallet containing $215 and his driver's license had been stolen, possibly by a 16-year-old boy.

BOLINAS - After a teenager girl began to develop a friendship by phone with a teenage boy in San Diego, he started making sexually suggestive remarks. She said she did not want to continue the conversations.

BOLINAS - A woman accused a man of trying to extort $6,000 from her. She told deputies the man had threatened to sabotage a deal she has with a company, in which he is a stockholder, unless she deposits the $6,000 in his checking account to buy back his stock in the company.

DILLON BEACH - A man accused a resident of using obscene language and making obscene gestures toward him. The same day, a disabled man asked to make a citizens arrest after she parked in a handicapped space at the postoffice. Three days later, deputies received a complaint of her yelling, cursing, and using profanity at 4:10 a.m. on Tahiti Way. Later that day, deputies arrested her after she yelled obscenities at a woman and warned the woman's 16-year-old daughter to "watch your back."

NICASIO - A garbageman parked facing traffic on Nicasio Valley Road to pick up trash. When a Forest Knolls man came upon the garbage truck at the edge of the roadway, he became upset, allegedly pushing and striking the garbageman. The garbageman had no visible injuries, deputies noted, but complained of back pain.

BOLINAS RIDGE - A burglar using a screwdriver broke a passenger's side window of a vehicle parked at Ridgecrest Boulevard and Bolinas-Fairfax Road. The culprit stole a man's Visa card and $120 in cash.

NICASIO - A deputy checking a car on the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road at Nicasio Reservoir about 2:20 a.m. found a "quantity" of marijuana in the vehicle and arrested the driver on charges of possessing marijuana for sale.

OLEMA - A woman reported a cellular phone had been stolen from a locked storage shed along Highway 1.

BOLINAS - Deputies on Wharf Road arrested a woman on charges of public drunkenness.

BOLINAS - A man reported that someone had cut a two-foot hole in the fence of a farm along the Olema-Bolinas Road.

BOLINAS - Without getting the owner's permission, a drunk man climbed into a car parked on Wharf Road to "sleep it off." Deputies arrested him.

BOLINAS - A deputy spotted a car, for which the registration expired in 1993, using a false registration tag. Officers took the license plate as evidence and cited the driver, 24.

STINSON BEACH - Trespassers entered a Panoramic Highway home through a bathroom window and consumed food and beverages.

POINT REYES STATION - A woman reported that a boy about 12 approached her six-year-old son, offered to show the younger boy his "private parts," and then did so.

BOLINAS - A burglar entered a Horseshoe Hill Road home through a window and stole stereo equipment, a CD player, three mountain bikes, and a radio receiver. Deputies dusted the home for fingerprints.

INVERNESS - A woman lost her purse downtown. Friends helped her look for it.

POINT REYES STATION - Deputies received a report of a tree limb hanging over Highway 1 and a utility wire drooping. Officers referred the problem to county firefighters.

BOLINAS - Deputies were notified of two men with a pickup truck apparently stealing goods and furniture from an uninhabited home on Overlook Drive. Later antique books from the house were found on Olema-Bolinas Road.

NICASIO - Deputies received a report of a trespasser jumping a fence along Nicasio Valley Road. Officers found the subject, who turned out to be helping a friend move, but the friend's gate was locked, forcing him to jump the fence.

BOLINAS - Deputies arrest a man on a warrant for failing to appear in court to face charges of driving on a suspended license.

STINSON BEACH - A resident complained of a man standing in Calle del Mar yelling.

POINT REYES STATION - A man found a wallet containing $150 cash, credit cards, and a Nevada driver's license. The victim later retrieved the wallet from deputies.

BOLINAS WYE - A motorist was flagged down by a pregnant woman who said her boyfriend was hassling her. She asked for a ride to a campground. However, when the angry boyfriend approached the motorist, she drove off, and the other woman left on foot.

FOREST KNOLLS - A man at a bar ripped a Lagunitas man's shirt and struck the Lagunitas man's sister. Deputies noted all three had been drinking.

FOREST KNOLLS - Deputies arrested a homeless man on charges of public drunkenness. Two days later, a woman reported the man was drunk and walking into traffic at 8 p.m. Officers arrested him again on public drunkenness charges plus a charge of threatening a government official.

INVERNESS - A man complained that his 50-year-old neighbor was disrupting the man's workers on Highland Way.

WOODACRE - Someone dumped garden waste in the back of a man's yard at Castle Rock and Laurel avenues.

BOLINAS - Deputies responded to a complaint of 10 people yelling and playing loud music on Wharf Road at 1:30 a.m. The problem was abated when officers arrived.

NICASIO - An Old Rancheria Road resident complained that her neighbor had blocked her gate with two boulders.

BOLINAS - A woman on Brighton Avenue complained of four men gathered there and playing loud music at 11:45 p.m. The four were gone when deputies arrived.

STINSON BEACH - Deputies helped National Park Police disperse juveniles drinking alcohol along Highway 1 at 7 p.m.

NICASIO - A woman who lives up a long driveway from the intersection of Point Reyes-Petaluma and Wilson Hill roads reported a man knocked on her door at 8:30 p.m. asking for food. He said he had been camping in the hills but needed to get back to Petaluma to prove himself innocent. The woman said the owner of the ranch was driving the man out to the intersection.

BOLINAS - A man on Brighton Avenue complained of receiving annoying, hangup calls for two months.

SAN GERONIMO - A Tamarack Drive woman reported trespassers taking firewood and said they may be recently evicted tenants. They were gone when deputies arrived.

NICASIO - A horse stable asked for advice in dealing with a tenant problem.

INVERNESS - A woman reported her 15-year-old son had threatened her and had hurt her in the past. She asked deputies to talk with him.

BOLINAS - A woman notified deputies of two people living in a vehicle parked in the postoffice parking lot.

STINSON BEACH - A woman on Calle del Pi–os reported hearing a verbal disturbance. Deputies found the disturbance was a family fight and abated it.

WOODACRE - A resident complained that her ex-husband had struck her.

Sheriff's Calls

APRIL 11, 1996 Sheriff's Calls

BOLINAS - Deputies saw a 25-year-old motorist in a black sportscar run a stop sign at Mesa Road and Olema-Bolinas Road. The car was going so fast that when it crested the top of Mesa Road, "it became airborne," reported officers, who cited the motorist on charges of reckless driving.

OLEMA - Following a traffic stop at Highway 1 and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, a deputy found the driver, 20, to be intoxicated and the car to have been stolen, although the victim had not yet reported it missing. The driver was arrested on seven charges.

DILLON BEACH - A woman complained that a female resident had driven past a 10-year-old girl so closely that the youngster jumped into bushes to hide. The resident then returned to her house and began screaming obscenities from a balcony. In a separate incident last week, a landlord reported the woman was harassing his renters. And in a third incident, another businessman reported he could hear the woman shouting - apparently into the phone - about President Clinton.

MARSHALL - A thief stole a portable fuel tank off a man's boat.

POINT REYES STATION - After a young woman passed a forged check for $29.45 at a market, deputies contacted her by phone, and she admitted cashing the check. Officers noted the woman had been involved in a similar incident at another market in town.

TOMALES - A merchant turned in a wallet lost by a Bodega Bay man. Deputies contacted the man so he could retrieve the wallet.

TOMALES - A man assaulted another man with a hammer on Tomales-Petaluma Road in a dispute over money.

RED ROCK - A burglar broke into a car parked at the nude beach and stole CDs, climbing equipment, tools, jewelry, and clothing.

DOGTOWN - Deputies stopped a 28-year-old man walking along Highway 1, determined he was wanted on three warrants, and arrested him.

WOODACRE - A woman called deputies to complain that her boyfriend's ex-wife was at their residence and refusing to leave. The boyfriend told officers his ex-wife "is running through the house taking photos" but not threatening anyone.

POINT REYES STATION - A real estate office reported receiving a bad check and possibly being burglarized.

INVERNESS PARK - A woman complained that her landlord had threatened her over utility bills.

BOLINAS - A man complained about a loud generator at 7:20 a.m. He said he had contacted the generator operator, but the operator was verbally abusive and refused to turn the generator off.

NICASIO - An employee at a business reported she had received harassing phone calls.

BOLINAS - Deputies received a call complaining about loud subjects yelling and partying on Brighton Avenue at 3:15 a.m. The problem had been abated by the time a deputy got there.

MARSHALL - A restaurateur called the Sheriff's Office to complain of a man bothering customers. The restaurateur put the man on the phone, and he spoke with a dispatcher before hanging up.

FOREST KNOLLS - A woman notified deputies that four or five drunken adults were encouraging two dogs to kill a live chicken while several children watched. She said the gruesome spectacle amounted to child abuse.

LAGUNITAS - A woman told deputies she had been talking with her sister by phone when the sister became scared by someone at her residence. The person turned out to be the ex-boyfriend of someone from the residence. He eventually left.

OLEMA - A business complained of campers, who had been drinking all day, and said assistance was needed. A deputy agreed to talk with a very drunk man.

TOMALES - A citizen informed deputies that a man appeared to be stripping a radio and speakers from a car.

STINSON BEACH - A deputy dispersed 20 to 30 drunken juveniles from in front of the postoffice, where they were being rude and making noise.

MARSHALL - Someone broke into an office along Highway 1. A lock was pried off a door, but nothing was taken.

RED ROCK - A cellular phone and bag were stolen from a man's car parked at the nude beach.

BOLINAS - Three juveniles placed patio furniture in the middle of Wharf Road at 3:10 a.m. However, deputies could not find them.

BOLINAS - Two men in a convertible driving on Highway 1 threw cans that hit a schoolbus.

INVERNESS PARK - A real estate agent complained about a squatter on Portola Avenue property. The squatter had been evicted from property in Stinson Beach the previous week.

INVERNESS PARK - A $160.16 check was stolen from a mailbox, and a woman cashed it at a bank.

FOREST KNOLLS - A mother asked advice for dealing with the schoolmate of her 12-year-old daughter who had threatened the girl. A deputy gave her civil-law advice.

WOODACRE - A woman said she had received a call at 8:30 p.m. from a bicyclist who said his bicycle's light had gone out and that he needed a ride home. A deputy helped the woman locate the bicyclist.

INVERNESS - A man, who had been drinking, told deputies he had slapped his 14-year-old stepson. After hearing considerable profanity, officers transported "one subject" from the residence.

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