Police Log: Cities Tag-Team Meth Arrests; Plus, Area Teller's 'Mistake' Saves Scammed Senior

Two methamphetamine-related arrests were made Thursday after the Pleasanton Police Department executed a search warrant at a Livermore home with assistance from Livermore's police department. 

A female, 29, was arrested at a Hollyhock Street house at 1:30 a.m. for suspected possession of methamphetamine.  

Another resident of the home, a 44-year-old man, was picked up in his vehicle at Dublin Boulevard and Arnold Road, with help from Dublin Police Services, and arrested on suspicion of possessing meth for sale, as drug packets and a scale were found in his car, police said.

The man was also charged with child endangerment. An 11-year-old boy was in the Hollyhock home, reports said. 

No details were released on the search warrant.

In other area crime news, a Fremont bank teller's "mistake" saved an elderly woman, already scammed out  of $7,500, from further losses.

The 84-year-old victim was conned into sending $7,500 to a man claiming she had won a $680,000 prize, said the Fremont Police Department.

The caller told the woman to "pay the taxes up front" in both wire funds and cash in the mail to a fictitious Florida address, which she did.  

Growing suspicious, however, the woman called police to her home where the scammer called again, claiming to be her husband's former co-worker and kindly inquiring on her family. When the officer got on the line, the caller hung up.

The officer contacted the Florida post office in hopes of intervening the cash the victim sent, but was too late as the package was picked up just 30 minutes prior, police said.

The officer then took the woman to her bank to check on the wire transfer. 

The bank teller, who previously assisted the woman, said she recognized the scam and warned the elderly woman, but that the victim insisted on making the wire payments.

However, the teller said she ensured the funds would not be immediately accessible and misspelled the recipient’s name on purpose to delay the transaction, police said.

The teller’s actions allowed the victim to recover all money she was going to wire, police said.

“The loss could have been significantly worse if it weren’t for her actions,” the Fremont police said in a release. As the officer took the woman home, the scammer called seven more times. She agreed to change her phone number. 

• Female arrested for suspected domestic battery 7:13 p.m. on the 5600 block of Springhouse Drive.
• Female arrested for allegedly driving under the influence 1:43 a.m. Hopyard Road at Owens Drive.
• Missing person case filed 11:51 a.m. on the 700 block of Rose Avenue.
  
• Theft reported 3:11 p.m. on 5800 Stoneridge Mall Road.
  
• Assault reported 2 a.m. on Peters Avenue at Division Street.
  

• Car break-ins reported: 3:50 p.m. along 7900 Paragon Circle; 5:58 p.m. on 7000 Johnson Drive.
• Death investigated 3:36 p.m. on the 4000 block of Jackie Court.
• Stolen vehicle recovered 8:03 a.m. on 5100 Hopyard Road.
• Vandalism logged 1:46 a.m. on the 4900 block of Dolores Drive.
• Shoplifting reported 7:41 p.m. on 1500 Stoneridge Mall Road. 

• Vehicle reported stolen -- a 1991 Honda Civic --  10 p.m. on 6600 Owens Drive. 
  
• Arson reported 10:56 p.m. on baseball diamond on Parkside Road, with small fire started. No witnesses; no suspects; no damage to field.
  
• Car break-ins reported: 10:30 a.m. on 4400 Valley Avenue; 7:45 a.m. at Marilyn Murphy Kane park on 3200 West Lagoon Road, with purse, wallet, sunglasses, make-up and cash valued at a combined $257 missing.
• Thefts: 2:28 p.m., 4:52 p.m. and 6:55 p.m. on the 1300, 1100 and 1400 blocks of Stoneridge Mall Road.
• Graffiti 11:16 a.m. on 3200 West Lagoon Road; vandalism along 2500 Secretariat Drive at 3:48 p.m.
• Domestic battery reported 1:47 p.m. on the 900 block of Montevino Drive. 
  
• Female arrested 9:15 p.m. on the 2100 block of Alexander Way for alleged assault.
• Double arrest 9:26 a.m. on the 3400 block of Hudson Court: male for suspected possession of methamphetamine, controlled substances, paraphernalia and endangering a child; male for methamphetamine possession.
• Female arrested 1:30 a.m. on the 1200 block of Hollyhock Street, Livermore, for suspected meth possession; male in same case arrested 1 a.m. Dublin Boulevard at Arnold Road for alleged possession of meth for sale and child endangerment.
• Boy injured in skateboarding accident.
  

• Graffiti: 6:21 a.m. on 5500 Stoneridge Drive; 3:06 p.m. on 3300 Stanley Boulevard; vandalism 10:39 a.m. Tawny and Bernal avenues.
• Burglary reported 5:55 p.m. on 5100 Hopyard Road.
  
• Shoplifting theft of $3,000 of Burberry shirts reported 6:51 p.m. at Nordstrom on 1600 Stoneridge Mall Road.
  
• Female arrested 2:47 p.m. along 4800 Bernal Avenue on warrant.
• Theft reported along 3200 Vineyard Avenue.
• Male arrested 8:04 a.m. on 1100 Santa Rita Road for resisting arrest and giving false identification to police.
• Car break-in reported 9:36 a.m., but occurred between July 13 and July 15, along 3900 Stoneridge Drive, with guitar, tuner, sheet music and case stolen.

• Vandalism: 2:17 p.m. along 4300 Black Avenue.
• Drunk-and-disorderly arrest of male on 3000 Bernal Avenue; time unavailable.
• Thefts reported: 7:18 p.m. along 4600 Willow Road; 10:38 a.m. on the 1700 block of Greenwood Road.
• Warrant arrest 9:52 p.m. Silver Street at Santa Rita Road.
• Pleasanton resident and former Fremont teacher accused of sodomizing student to stand trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a boy in the 1990s. Story here.
• Father of suspect involved in fatal bicycle collision arrested on $640,000 felony warrant. 

• Pleasanton police assist law enforcement during Oakland protest. 
• Graffiti reported: 9:44 a.m. Sycamore Creek Way at Sycamore Road; 9:43 a.m. Santa Rita Road at Stoneridge Drive.
  
• Residential burglaries: 11:12 a.m. along 4000 Payne Road; 2:39 p.m. on the 3600 block of North Glacier Court; 12:16 p.m. along 7400 Stonedale Drive, where a 1994 green Acura was stolen for garage.
  
• Vehicle reported stolen 5:29 p.m. on 6200 Stoneridge Mall Road.
  
• Warrant arrests: 9:14 a.m. Wells Street at Santa Rita Road; 4:12 p.m. Sutter Gate Avenue at Santa Rita; 11:17 p.m. on 6800 Santa Rita.
• Missing person case filed 10:52 a.m. on the 4000 block of Vineyard Avenue.
• Car break-in: 6:35 p.m. on 1300 Hopyard Road.
• Robbery arrests of female and male on 5300 block of Case Avenue 6:23 p.m. Woman also charged with assault. 
  

• Fire burned 30 acres near Windemere in San Ramon.
• Commercial burglary reported 11:04 a.m. on 2700 Hopyard Road. Three side-by-side businesses, including Rancho Grande Taquiera, hit by intruders who punched through adjoining walls and stole $7,540 of equipment, cash and tools and caused more than $4,000 damage.
• Warrant arrests: male, noon, on 5100 Hopyard Road; male, 11:17 p.m. on 6800 Santa Rita Road. 
• Auto theft reported 9:02 p.m. on 1000 Stoneridge Mall Road.
• Theft arrests: female, 7:48 p.m. on 1300 Stoneridge Mall Road; female, 4:53 p.m. along 500 Main Street.
• Graffiti logged 6:26 a.m. on 4300 Black Avenue.
• Assault and battery arrests: male, 4:27 p.m. along 3900 Bernal Avenue, also charged with criminal threats; male, 1:17 p.m. on the 5300 block of Blackbird Drive, also charged with violations of probation and court order. 
  
• Assault reports made: 1:17 a.m. on 600 Main Street; 4:53 p.m. on the 2200 block of Segundo Court.