by Kevin L. Hoover
Monday, January 28 7:38 a.m. 2:05 p.m. There was some telephone back-and-forth between a marijuana clinic and an individual. Everyone was advised to cool out.
3:01 p.m. A hysterical call came in from Western Avenue, with the caller reporting that people all hopped up on marijuana and methamphetamine were going to try to run him over as he blocked their vehicle from leaving the scene. The line then went dead. Police found a more or less routine landlord/tenant dispute; not the dire druggie-drivey sitch earlier described.
10:25 p.m. Wanted on warrants
He scrammed when he saw police
Chased down, cuffed; look – pot!
Tuesday, January 29 9 a.m. A young man out on a sprainting spree, clad in a classic 21st Century hood uniform including the mandatory sweatshirt and identity-concealing hood, vandalized the Ninth and G phone booth and marked the PG&E box there. In this case, they actually snagged the little creepy crawly. Sure, he denied it at first, then admitted and erased the ugliness. Now he’s on file and effectively neutered as a graffiti tagger.
12:05 p.m. Three men in Redwood Park set sail for the cosmos on wings of THC. But like Icarus, they flew too near the sun, or in this case the heat, in the person of Ranger Bob. Those citations were quite a bringdown.
12:39 p.m. Two vehicles had tires slashed on Spear Avenue.
12:48 p.m. A baby girl thought lost on South G Street was found in a truck in the garage. Whew.
5:40 p.m. “If you look in this direction at my daughter, you’re gonna pay for it.” This was the icebreaker one man offered another on Community Park Way, when he thought they guy’d been leering at his kid. Both men were counseled to stay away from each other.
5:55 p.m. A school custodian reported that a parent had dropped off a 6 to 8-year-old child at an unstaffed campus daycare center and gone shopping, leaving the child unattended. The parent returned and picked up the kid before police arrived.
7:02 p.m. A mini-mob of 15 millabouts at Ninth and H reportedly forced a passerby to go around them by walking out in the street. Police checked the place and found nothing especially worrisome.
9:12 p.m. A man was reported to have suffered a blow to the head the previous night, possibly in an assault. An ambulance was requested and police and firefighters responded for medical aid. The verdict was that by combining alcohol and medication, the victim had fallen and hurt the head in question. Assault was ruled out.
10:05 p.m. An officer’s just walking through that Janes Road pattern restaurant helped quell unruly tendencies by boisterous customers.
11:18 p.m. At that same restaurant, a dog jumped into a car and got aggressive. An officer took the pooch to the tiny City pound.
Arcata Eye Newspaper : Police Log 02-19-02
Should you find yourself reading Alex Cockburn, and wondering why he’s so weird, bear in mind that he lives in Humboldt County, the goings-on of which are reported in Hoover’s Cop Log.