Friday, May 18, 2012
This week's list of fugitives and mug shots from Napa Valley Crime Stoppers, which offers cash rewards for anonymous tips leading to arrests.
From Napa Valley Crime Stoppers: Sought for felony violation of probation on possession of a controlled substance, Kendrick Stan Comstock is described as a 53-year-old white male, 5’11”, 165 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Sought for felony violation of probation on possession of a controlled substance, Thomas James Knudsen is described as a 41-year-old white male, 5’7”, 185 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes. Sought for felony possession of a narcotic controlled substance and providing false information to a peace office, Krystal Lynn Mills is described as a 28-year-old white female, 5’8”, 135 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Sought for felony probation violation for possession of a narcotic controlled substance, …
Alfredo Pedroza, 56, was bicycling home to Napa from work Upvalley when he was struck and killed by a 20-year-old motorist. Drugs and alcohol are not believed to have contributed to the fatal collision.
A 56-year-old vineyard manager whose son is running for Napa City Council has been identified by the California Highway Patrol as the victim of Thursday night's fatal collision on Silverado Trail. Alfredo Pedroza of north Napa was riding his Trek bicycle south on the shoulder of Silverado Trail south of Yountville Cross Road in an unincorporated part of the county north of Napa around 6:30 p.m., CHP officials said. Cammie Mutz, 20, of Calistoga, was driving south on Silverado Trail at about 55 mph when her 2003 Ford Focus drifted onto the shoulder and struck Hernandez, according to the CHP. The Ford then continued traveling 20 feet off the west side of the road and stopped facing east on a hillside, CHP officials said. Pedroza was …
A former Napa teacher and coach, whose unexplained dismissal in 2007 drew a reported "storm of protest," has been placed on leave from his Contra Costa County district job for emailing racist and pornographic jokes.
An American Canyon man whose teaching job with the Napa Valley Unified School District was terminated in 2007 without public explanation has been placed on leave from his latest job in the West Contra Costa County Unified School District, according to multiple media reports. The East Bay Express reported May 2 that Matt Stewart "was caught forwarding numerous racist, misogynistic, and pornographic emails to fellow employees" in West Contra Costa County, where he was athletic director for the school district. The emails — as many as 250 of them, according to one district employee — are difficult to describe in a family publication, but reportedly included graphic images, comparisons of Barack and Michelle Obama to apes and explicit sex …
The 56-year-old bicyclist died after a Ford Focus drifted onto the shoulder of Silverado Trail near the Yountville Cross Road, according to CHP. Alcohol is not believed to have been a factor in the fatal collision. By Bay City News Service.
A bicyclist was killed in a traffic collision Thursday while riding on Silverado Trail in unincorporated Napa County, according to the California Highway Patrol. The collision was reported at 6:35 p.m. near the corner of Silverado Trail and Yountville Cross Road, north of the city of Napa, CHP said. A 2003 Ford Focus traveling at 55 mph on Silverado Trail had drifted into the shoulder and struck a 56-year-old man from Napa riding a bicycle, CHP said. The Focus ended up 20 feet off the road on a hillside. The bicyclist was pronounced dead on the scene. The driver of the Focus, a 20-year-old woman from Calistoga, was transported to Queen of the Valley Medical Center with minor injuries. The southbound lane of Silverado Trail was blocked …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
A bicyclist and two automobiles were involved in a fatal crash Thursday evening near Pine Ridge Winery on the Silverado Trail, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The California Highway Patrol is reporting a fatal collision on the Silverado Trail in Napa County involving a bicycle and two motor vehicles. The crash took place at 6:35 p.m. near Pine Ridge Winery, according to the CHP website. According to Napa Patch reader Henri Bridges, who passed the accident site shortly after the collision: There were two vehicles and one was stuck on top of a vineyard hill. It may have flipped and landed there, it was a very odd place to have landed. Bridges also saw a covered body, he said in an email. Check back with Napa Patch for updates as they become available.
The fire broke out at about 12:30 p.m. on Fourth Avenue and burned an acre and a half including an outbuilding before it was fully contained, according to Napa County Fire. Photos by Steve Simoneau.
A wildfire at 1106 Fourth Avenue in rural Napa burned an acre and a half of vegetation and one outbuilding before firefighters conained it, according to an alert from the Napa County Fire Department. There is no further threat from the fire, which began at 12:33 p.m., according to the alert. Thanks to Steve Simoneau for the eyewitness photos. For all our latest fire coverage, please see the Fire Watch topic page at napa.patch.com/topics/Fire-Watch.
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The two-vehicle collision around 10:40 Thursday morning sent one person to the emergency room and left a power pole broken with live wires sagging, according to the Napa Valley Register.
One person was injured and a power pole was sheared off in a two-vehicle crash Thursday morning on Coffield Avenue, according to a report in the Napa Valley Register. The injured person was taken to the emergency room at Queen of the Valley Medical Center and workers from Pacific Gas & Electric were enroute to the scene of the crash, where live power lines were sagging from the broken pole, the Register reports. The crash took place around 10:40 a.m., according to the report. Do you subscribe to the Napa Patch newsletter? It brings our latest news, blogs, announcements and the day's calendar events to your in-box early each morning. If you haven't signed up yet, you can do so by clicking here.
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The man injured in Sunday night's officer-involved shooting in a south Napa backyard was unarmed, according to a report in the Napa Valley Register. A brother-in-law says he is a Mexican drug addict who was afraid of being deported and losing his family.
The man who was shot in the face by a Napa police officer after a foot chase ended in a struggle Sunday night was an unarmed Mexican meth addict afraid of losing his family, according to a report in the Napa Valley Register. In "Relative defends man shot by police," brother-in-law Steve Aldama tells Register reporter Kerana Todorov that Luis Armando Contreras, the man shot by officer Thomas Keener, went to the 7 Eleven on Imola Avenue to buy methamphetamine, to which he is addicted. Contreras was not armed, authorities said, and Aldama tells the Register his brother-in-law ran from Keener because he was afraid of being deported to Mexico and separated from his wife and child. After the shooting just before 11 p.m. Sunday, Contreras was …
It took officers, deputies and a police dog almost an hour to locate an 18-year-old Napa man wanted for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, according to police. He was previously arrested for making criminal threats on the bike path.
An 18-year-old man listed last month on the Napa Valley Crime Stoppers most-wanted list was arrested late Wednesday night following a foot pursuit and police dragnet that ended when the suspect was found hiding on Jefferson Street, according to a shift activity log from the City of Napa Police Department: On 05/16/12 about 2200 hours NPD Officers were dispatched to a residence in the 2200 block of Brown Street regarding an unwanted subject. While enroute to the call Officers learned the suspect, Oscar Antonio Alonso 18 years old of Napa, had a Felony warrant for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. When the Officers arrived on scene, the suspect fled on foot. Napa PD and Napa County Sheriff’s Deputies established a perimeter in the …
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Around 5 p.m. Wednesday, the driver of a Lexus SUV reversed out of control in the Bel Aire Plaza parking lot, causing a chain-reaction crash that did minor damage to four other vehicles. Eyewitness Rob Doughty shares a video of the aftermath.
Five vehicles were damaged and some of their occupants shaken up Wednesday after a Lexus SUV unexpectedly accelerated in reverse through the Bel Aire Plaza Parking lot, according to eyewitness Rob (DJ Rotten Robbie) Doughty of Napa. "I think he hit the gas instead of the brake and his steering wheel was turned and he basically did a big circle," Doughty said after the incident, which he said took place around 5 p.m. The reversing Lexus caromed off a pickup truck and three other vehicles before coming to rest in a planter box, said Doughty, adding that its driver and passengers seemed "very shaken up." Doughty, a popular North Bay DJ, shot a video of the aftermath of the crash, which he was kind enough to share with Napa Patch.
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Jenn
11:02 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
Darn it! If this had been posted last night instead of tonight, I'd be $1,000 richer. Michael Teeters was at my work last night. He loitered around the place for about 20 minutes before he finally left. more ›