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REPORT OF EVENTS NEAR MY HOME:
8/31/17 (Thursday) —About 6:50 pm I was returning home driving south on 3`d. As.I began to approach
Emerson, I moved to the center line to make my left turn on to Emerson. I had just passed the driveway
at 11413`d when suddenly a large black, kind of trashy, pick up truck came barreling out of the driveway
by 11613`d next to the Methadone office. He headed straight for me and was less than a car length in
front of me in the same lane and still coming full bore with no sign of slowing. I was close enough to see
that it was a white guy, scruffy looking, with a very evil grin/laugh on his face. It was as if he wanted to;
play "chicken."
I had to move quickly to the lane on my right to avoid a head-on collision. I have no doubt that would
have happened if I had stayed in the -middle lane expecting him to move. I looked back to see him
continuing in that middle lane going past 1141 and a bldg or 2 after that before he started to move into
the right hand lane.
I was so shaken by the blatant idiocy of his driving that when I got home I called the non -emergency
police number to report it. I told the dispatcher that I wanted to report it. He took my name, address
and phone number and when I explained my fear and what could have happened had I not moved, I got
the same verbiage that I hear all the time about police shortage and how a unit can't be pulled away. I:
kept saying that all I was asking was for some random police presence because traffic was worse than
ever and causing more traffic problems and is a danger to everyone. I told him that had I not moved I
probably would not be making the call as I would probably be dead or in the hospital.'The dispatcher
just kept saying the same thing over and over. I told him that I attend the City Council meetings and I
know the things he was saying. I told him I have met with the City Attorney and talked with the Mayor.
and that I was going to make sure that Chief Kennedy knew about this incident. He then said he had to
hang up because he had another call. The man was totally useless and definitely not in the mood to
listen to a citizen's complaint.
9/1/17 (Friday) —Vials —About 7 pm in front of my home ( my neighbor, Cord Rustad,
and I witnessed a guy, a black man, 50ish, in a dark 4 door brown (late model) sedan throw 2 vials out of
the driver's side door and then sped away. I picked them up with -my tongs and put them in a small
plastic bag with the date, time and location. They were from the pot shop and Ms. McCleric pointed out
a tiny leaf in one of them. I gladly turned them over to her when I visited her office.
9/7/17 (Thursday) — Between 7:30 and 8 pm a 16 wheeler was parked down by 286 Emerson in the
middle of the street-. He had his lights on and was therefor about 20 or 30 minutes. After watching him
for awhile, I started to walk down to see what kind of markings were on the truck but then it started to
move (east on Emerson) and turned left (north) on Del Mar. It was out of sight before I could reach Del
Mar. It definitely was a 16 -wheeler because I saw the trailer. There are not supposed to7 be any 16 -
wheelers on Emerson. My guess is that he was making a pick up or a drop off because it certainly was
not delivering furniture.
Very respectfully submitted,
Sandra Sato
As of 12 September 2017
PS: There is a lot of "action" between 5:30 am and 7 am and then major action:between 5 pm and 7/8
pm. Just fyi-ing.