Benicia Police Log: Skateboarders Confused Solano Square with Skate Park

This is the crime bulletin for May 7, 2012 from the Benicia Police Department. Click the "Keep me posted" button below for an alert when we publish this report. 

6:38 a.m.: Officers responded to a request to speak to an officer made by a resident on West K Street regarding an ongoing issue with a neighbor.

6:50 a.m.: The suspicious vehicle spotted on Goodyear Road is owned by someone who wanted to give their dog a walk in the area.

7:37 a.m.: A 60-year-old Benicia man was arrested on Southampton Road for petty theft.

9:59 a.m.: There was an accidental activation of an alarm at a business on West 11th Street.

10:05 a.m.: A slow traveling vehicle spotted on East Industrial was being driven by a person who had permission to go through some dumpsters in the area.

12:17 p.m.:  A resident on Belvedere saw an unfamiliar trailer parked in neighbor’s  driveway.  The owner of the trailer turned out to be another neighbor who was parking it there temporarily.

4:06 p.m.: The suspicious character in a car on Bay Vista was doing some computer work.

6:45 p.m.: Officers told the boys who were skateboarding on the parking lot of Solano Square to grind somewhere else.

11:24 p.m.: A 30-year-old Benicia man was arrested for being drunk in public.

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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