Benicia Police Log: A Residential Burglary and an Arrest for Vandalism

 This is the crime bulletin for May 14, 2012 from the Benicia Police Department. Click the "Keep me posted" button below for an alert when we publish this report. 

7:53 a.m.: Someone rummaged through a car parked on Bayshore Road.

11:52 a.m.: A solicitor working in Solano Square was told he had to leave if a business requested it.

1:42 p.m.: A burglar alarm at a business on Goodyear Road malfunctioned.

3:13 p.m.: There was a report of a suspicious person in the parking lot of a business located on East Second Street.  The person was gone when officers arrived.

3:38 p.m.: The people in the suspicious vehicle spotted in the vicinity of Hawthorne agreed to leaved the area after speaking to officers.

4:58 p.m.: Police began an investigation into a residential burglary on McAllister.

7:51 p.m.: A 21-year-old Benicia man was arrested for vandalism and resisting arrest.

8:16 p.m.: The kids who jumping on a dumpster and throwing rocks on Military East were gone when officers arrived.

8:59 p.m.: Officers talked to a 19-year-old man who was having an argument with one of his parents.

9:31 p.m.: Officers were unable to locate a suspicious vehicle on Steven.

9:43 p.m.: A resident on Riverhill reported receiving threatening messages from an ex. 

10:14 p.m.: A Solano Square business asked officers to talk to a man who’d been barred from the business for shoplifting.  The man left the area before officers arrived.

Editor’s Note:  Even though I inject a bit of humor into these police logs, please remember, the men and women whose job it is to protect us rarely find it funny when they are approaching a drunk person or a building where the alarm is going off.

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