Crime & Safety
Blotter: Woman Chokes Maid in Hotel
The following information was supplied by the Redwood City Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
From the police blotter:
Tuesday
3 a.m. - Suspicious Circumstances - Someone saw two men breaking windows on a car that was parked at Hess and Geneva.
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10:40 a.m. - Petty Theft - An unknown suspect stole a woman's cell phone and began calling her other phone demanding money in exchange for the stolen one. She even received calls from the thief while reporting the theft to police.
3:23 p.m. - Suspicious Person - A woman reported that a heavyset man stared at some kids playing in a park for about 20 minutes somewhere on McEvoy Street. She told police he then entered a home nearby and she heard a slap and a kid screaming from inside.
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8:29 p.m. - Suspicious Person - A man was reportedly hiding behind a gas station at Oxford Street and Woodside Road, watching women as they entered and left the station.
9:26 p.m. - Domestic Violence / Battery - A woman reportedly choked a maid in a hotel on El Camino Real. The maid reported the situation to police from the front office.
Wednesday
1:16 a.m. - Intoxicated Person - Police arrested a man in his 20s for being drunk in public after he fell asleep in a movie theater on Middlefield Road and failed to wake up when urged by theater workers.
2:57 p.m. - Disturbance - A man walking across the intersection of Maple Street and Veterans Boulevard with a woman tried to fight a driver who honked at them.
4:27 p.m. - Disturbance - Police arrested a shirtless, 25-year-old man on Nevada Street and Madison Avenue who was trying to fight someone who had a restraining order against him.
9:09 p.m. - Intoxicates Person - Police tried to find and arrest an extremely drunk man in his late 20s who was taunting and trying to fight people doing laundry on Roosevelt Avenue.
10:35 p.m. - Disturbance - Someone called police after hearing yelling and screaming from a nearby room on Veterans Boulevard. The person told police a woman was in the room and several men kept coming and going. Police had received an earlier domestic violence call about the address, according to records.
Thursday
8:35 a.m. - Occupied Suspicious Car - Someone saw two people smoking marijuana in a parked Jeep Grand Cherokee on Adams Street.
9:47 a.m. - Suspicious Circumstances - Someone reported a 19-year-old female was likely engaging in prostitution in a room on Veterans Boulevard. The person told police the room had excessive foot traffic and that the woman is listed on a prostitution Web site.
11:19 a.m. - Found Property - Someone found drugs at a school on 10th Avenue.
3:28 p.m. - Domestic Disturbance - A woman reported that a male acquaintance assaulted her while he was helping her move a couch on Alden Street. The man later denied the assault and told police he had been in her apartment since it supposedly happened.
5:25 p.m. - Intoxicated Person / Medical Response - Medics responded to reports of a heavily drunken man who was laying down and banging his head on the sidewalk near a bus stop on Veterans Boulevard.
9:09 p.m. - Domestic Violence - A woman called police to report that she and her boyfriend got into a fight. She told police the man later fled.
10:12 p.m. - Suspicious Person - A man on Oak Avenue was reportedly staring at his 9-year-old neighbor, a boy, and making him feel uncomfortable.
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