New Year’s Eve?
Initially, I assumed the weekend “crime roundup” on NYE would be chock full o’ DUI and “controlled substance” arrests. How wrong I was! Apparently, the new blue moon led to some very creative illegalities and incidents. Here are a few of my favs.
>>Early celebration. Police found Ukiah resident Jesus Alvarez Jr., 19, shirtless and dancing when they responded to a report of erratic behavior at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday. Alvarez allegedly damaged a bystander’s cell phone and dented two nearby cars by kicking one and dancing on top of the other. Alvarez was cooperative with officers at first, then became agitated and physically confrontational before he again became cooperative and was arrested without incident on suspicion of vandalism.<< He was probably just auditioning for SYTYCD.
>>1959 grenade found in attic. Police responded to the report of a grenade found in the attic of a home in the 200 block of East Standley Street at about 5 p.m. Wednesday. They called in the Sonoma County Bomb Squad to dispose of the device, which Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office experts determined was a military grade, high intensity distraction grenade made in 1959. It is unknown how long the device was at the location or how it got there.<< I blame an early adopter of the 1960s counter-culture.
>>Evidence of grass. Officers stopped a car Wednesday night that had obviously been driven recently in a grassy field, after responding to a 10:45 p.m. report that the car had driven in circles on the athletic field at Ukiah High School. Police arrested Andrew Allan Ford, 20, on suspicion of vandalism. The damage to the field included multiple tire tracks in the mud and grass ripped and dislodged from the ground.<< Psych! And you thought it was the Other Grass!!!
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