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Police Calls: Thefts, Grand & Petty, Loose Dogs

The Los Altos Police log saw a few thefts, a few fender benders, arrested some on misdemeanor warrants and took care of some disturbances over the long holiday.

 

Jan. 18 - 21, 2013

 

Theft

  • 12:37 p.m., walk-in, 100 block of Sylvian Way, petty theft, cold report, report taken
  • 6:13 p.m., walk-in, 00 block of Sylvian Way, petty theft, cold report, report taken

Malicious Mischief

  • 1:15 p.m., Foothill Expressway and I-280; malicious mischief in progress, officers made contact

Traffic Collision

  • 11:47 p.m., Foothill Expressway and Magdalena Avenue; accident, no injuries, gone on arrival

 

Jan. 19

Traffic Collision

  • 2:27 a.m.,  1200 block of Granger Avenue, non-injury accident, information

Animal Call

  • 9:30 a.m., 1575 Holt Avenue; reports of dogs off leash at park, officer responded, made contact, advised of municipal code

Burglary

  • 2:20 p.m., 1100 block of Covington Road; vehicle burglary, report taken
  • 8:28 p.m., 1400 block of Redwood Drive; residential burglary, cold, report taken

Construction Noise

  • 5:14 p.m., 2000 block of Crist Drive; report of construction noise after hours, officer responded and advised homeowner of municipal code

Misdemeanor Warrant

  • 8:20 p.m., 1600 block of Stevens Place; misdemeanor warrant, subject arrested and booked into jail

Suspicious Vehicle

  • 9:41 p.m., 100 block of W. Portola Avenue; suspicious vehicles, unfounded
  • 11:39 p.m., 1 N. San Antonio Road; suspicious subject, unable to locate
  • 11:57 p.m., 100 block of W. Portola Court  and Jordan Avenue; suspicious vehicle, vehicle unoccupied, tagged as possible abandoned vehicle

 

Jan. 20

Battery

  • 12:52 a.m., 1400 block of Elnora Court; battery, just occurred, report taken

Driving on Suspended License

  • 8:35 a.m., El Camino Real & El Camino Way, Palo Alto; driving on a suspended license, vehicle impounded, driver issued misdemeanor citation

Traffic Collision

  • 10:47 a.m., Cristo Rey Drive and Foothill Boulevard; minor injury accident, report taken

Animal Calls, Misc.

  • 10:53 a.m., Oakhurst Avenue and Holly Avenue; loose dogs in the area, information only

12:03 p.m., 1100 block of Covington Road, loose dogs, referred to Animal Control

Theft

11:27 a.m., 1700 block of Oak Ave., theft, undefined, cold report

Suspicious Circumstances

  • 2:34 p.m., 400 block of San Luis Avenue; theft, undefined, cold report

Found Property

  • 2:55 p.m., El Camino Real and Ortega Ave.; found property, report

 

Jan. 21

Misdemeanor Warrant

  • 12:59 a.m., Rengstorff Avenue and W. El Camino Real; misdeameanor warrant, subject arrested and booked into jail

Gunshots Heard

  • 1:28 a.m., 1300 block of McKenzie Avenue; report of gunshot heard, officers checked area, and were unable to locate suspicious activity or evidence of gunshots

Family Disturbance

  • 1:12 p.m., 911, 1600 block of Wakefield Terrace; family disturbance, officers responded and made contact, assistance rendered
  • 1:46 p.m., 600 block of Belden Court; family disturbance, officers responded and made contact, information only

Theft

  • 2:33 p.m., 2100 block of Stonehaven Drive; grand theft, cold report, report taken

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Joan J. Strong May 22, 2013 at 11:21 am
Corrections: 1. Straw man attack: nobody is blaming BCS for district-wide growth. Nobody. 2. BCSRead More does not get "half the funding" of LASD. BCS gets about 6500 and LASD gets about 9500. The BCS program for typical children costs about twice as much as the comparable LASD program. BCS is simple an expensive hybrid public/private school, nothing more. 3. Mr. Roode pointed out that there are about 100 or so special ed. students at LASD (I cannot verify this but it seems very low). LASD calls out an annual expense of $7.5 million for special ed. meaning each of these students cost LASD $75,000, not $1,000 as he implied. 4. The law and the courts have ALREADY compelled LASD to give reasonably equivalent facilities and they have. BCS has a lower student/teacher ratio meaning that they have more classrooms for the same number of kids. This is not, legally speaking, LASD's problem. 5. Mr. Roode has yet to explain how the Covington campus could be 16 acres. Further, he continues to spread the fallacy that campuses ACREAGE is even remotely relevant to its student capacity. Campuses are limited by their location and traffic, not how many acres of grass there is in the back. 6. Were it not for BCS, we would have passed a bond in the last election, as the polling shows. BCS litigation has ripped our community apart and has left it with a mountain to climb when it comes to operating in a normal fashion.
L.A. Chung (Editor) May 22, 2013 at 10:37 am
@David R. I think Homestead uses EarthCare Recycling, based on its April 6 E-Waste collection dayRead More publicity (http://bit.ly/10mIV14) : www.earthcarerecycling.com "Recycle FREE your old electronic equipment - working or not! Anything with a plug or PC board inside. Also accepted are non-household batteries, VHS tapes and other media, and scrap metal. Visit www.earthcarerecycling.com for a list of accepted items. "
David R. May 21, 2013 at 10:26 pm
What kind of bins are there? Do you take used CDROMs? How about VHS tapes? Cables and wire?
David R. May 20, 2013 at 01:18 pm
I saw a public report that said most of the discussion related to carpooling and so forth, sinceRead More Blach is separated so much from the rest of the school. You know, things like dropping off both kids at Egan, and then a group of kids headed for Blach share a ride or vice versa. I don't see how any nonparents can really help with that.