Benicia Police Log: Woman Walking in Street, Alarms Sounding for No Apparent Reason

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

12:14 a.m.: A citizen on First Street alleges he was threatened by a man who left the area before officers arrive.

12:58 a.m.: There was an accidental activation of a burglar alarm at a business on First Street.

1:11 a.m.: Officers couldn’t find a reason for an alarm activation at a Columbus Parkway business.

2:35 a.m.: It is a mystery why there was an alarm activation at a Bayshore Road business.

8:46 a.m.: A resident on McAllister failed to turn off the burglar alarm in a timely fashion.

10:35 a.m.: Officers received a report of metal being stolen from a utility pole on East Industrial.

11:02 a.m.: The guy taking the screen off a window at a West Ninth Street home was there to wash the windows.

12:00 p.m.: Officers took the time to explain the proper places to ride skateboards to a group of juveniles on East Fifth Street.

12:47 p.m.: Officers talked to a woman who was walking in the street and suggested she might be safer on the sidewalk.  She apparently agreed.

2:06 p.m.: Officers talked to the man who was lying in the back of his truck clothed only in his underwear.  The man was catching some rays.

3:59 p.m.: An employee at a business on Bayshore Road failed to turn on the alarm properly.

5:52 p.m.: There was a verbal altercation on Rose Drive.

6:59 p.m.: Officers helped a family on West L Street resolve a dispute.

10:50 p.m.: A burglar alarm at an East Second Street business malfunctioned.

11:21 p.m.: The suspicious persons spotted on Jackson Street were gone when officers arrived.

11:26 p.m.: The guys who’d been hanging out in a car parked on Kearney were not in the car when 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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