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Top 5 From the Los Altos Police Log, April 16: Graffiti That Wasn't

Plus, things that go bump in the morning (not night) and other noises needing attention. And, someone decides to make good on his warrant and turns himself in for arrest.

 

On Monday, graffiti turns out not to be graffiti. Suspicious noises turn out to be not so suspicious, and other noise must be handled. The biggest event was a 41-year-old man, who waited two years, and finally turned himself in shortly before midnight on a misdemeanor warrant for driving under the influence of drugs or alchohol.

1. Graffiti

8:44 a.m., 200 block of Covington Road, Graffiti cold report; Unfounded.

2. Noise

8:48 a.m. 00 block of Cielito Drive, Suspicious noises in a residence; Officers responded and determined no emergency.

6:53 p.m., 1000 block of Mercedes Avenue; noise complaint, officers responded, assistance rendered 

11:02 p.m., 500 block of Tyndall Street, report of disturbance, officers responded, assistance rendered. 

3. Vehicles, not moving

9:02 a.m., 600 block of Palm Avenue; municial code violation; officer tagged abandoned vehicle. 

9:06 a.m., 600 block of Palm Avenue; abandoned vehicle, officer tagged.

12:29 p.m., Frederick Court & Almond Avenue; parking violation complaint; officer cited vehicle. 

4. Tree down

12:59 p.m., 1400 block of Ravenswood; Tree down, officer responded for traffic control, referred to municipal services. 

5. Warrant Arrest 

11:51 p.m., 1 N. San Antonio Road (police station); Misdemeanor warrant arrest on an outstanding driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol warrant. 

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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
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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.