January 16
9:13 a.m.: Officers had a talk with a woman who would not leave the Starbucks on Scotts Valley Dr. Employees said she was harassing customers and had been asked to leave several times.
4:03 p.m.: A man on Christel Oaks Drive called Scotts Valley Police to report his vehicle was damaged overnight. He told officers he parked on the street and had noticed that trucks associated with construction workers at the nearby Scotts Valley Middle School site also parked on the street frequently. He said someone who was parked in front of his vehicle had damaged the headlights and left front fender. The man told officers he had been in contact with the construction foreman. And officers took a report.
January 15
9:32 a.m.: A woman called 911 after a girl wandered into her Mt. Hermon Road business. The woman said the intruder was in her 30s with blonde hair and a wandering eye. She had one blue backpack and one black backpack and said she was looking for her son. She left the business but officers found her a short time later and warned her not to return.
10:35 a.m.: a woman was arrested after several people reported a possibly drunk driver near the Best Western on Scotts Valley Drive. One caller said they saw the driver of a van hitting a tree and running over trash cans. A second caller reported a hit and run involving a van on the 100 block of Bordeaux Lane. An employee at the Best Western reported seeing a guest leave the hotel in an apparently intoxicated state, get into a minivan and hit a parked vehicle in the lot before driving away. The driver of the reported vehicle was arrested for driving under the influence, hit and run and violation of a restraining order.
January 14
10:41 p.m.: An officer had to arrest a man after a traffic stop at Scotts Valley Corners on La Madrona Drive. When the officer searched the man’s records he found a misdemeanor warrant for his arrest. The man was taken into custody and booked at jail without incident. His vehicle was left in the possession of his friend.
January 13
8:31 a.m.: A woman who lives on Estrella Drive came home to find her house ransacked. Officers took a report.
3:25 p.m.: Officers were called to the Scotts Valley Skate Park on Kings Village Road when someone saw people smoking marijuana there. The subjects were gone by the time police arrived.
8:08 p.m.: A woman who lives on Meadow Way called to report she believed she was a victim of identity theft. She said another person keeps using her name when being arrested in Santa Cruz and that those arrests are now showing up on employment background checks. The woman said she had already contacted the courts regarding what was occurring as well.
January 12
9:22 a.m.: Officers filed a report after someone said they saw a possible student from Scotts Valley Middle School selling marijuana at Vine Hill School.
11:05 p.m.: A man and his friends had to chase off another man they said threatened them with a knife. The knife-wielding man was driving a blue Toyota at Metro Center on Kings Village Road and allegedly brandished a knife. The man who called police said he had a crowbar and chased the man away. He was worried the man would return and threaten him and his friends again.
January 11
12:21 p.m.: A worker at Scotts Valley Property Management on Scotts Valley Drive called police and hid in a back office after a man wearing green military-style clothing started banging on the front door of the business. Police responded and found that the man was just trying to pay his rent.
2:35 p.m.: A signature gatherer outside Nob Hill Foods on Mt. Hermon Road called police to say they were “intimidated” by the store manager. The police took a report.
4:51 p.m.: A man dining at Maya Restaurant on Scotts Valley Drive said his truck was stolen from in front of the eatery. The truck was possibly begin driven to Boulder Creek.
5:01 p.m.: Police arrested a man who was jumping over the wall from Kings Village after they found drugs on him.
January 9
12:22 a.m.: Police arrested a man and a woman on drug related charges after officers found the pair sitting in a parked vehicle in front of a business on Scotts Valley Drive. They were on searchable probation and taken into custody.
1:19 p.m.: A woman came into the Scotts Valley Police Department to report an attempted scam. She said she received an email text alert from Transunion on Jan. 4 advising that an unknown person was attempting to open an account with US Bank in Fargo, North Dakota in her name. The Fargo branch put out a statewide alert. The woman called Fargo police and was told to report the incident to her local law enforcement. The woman did not lose any money but wanted the incident documented.
1:30 p.m.: A caller told police that a grey Dodge pickup truck with a lumber rack just hit a vehicle parked in the lot in front of Kmart on Mt. Hermon Road and had driven off, westbound.
