Last Thursday and Friday during the night or early morning, two unlocked vehicles on Fairview Avenue and one on Herndon Street were entered and money, a backpack and cameras stolen. A man also reported someone took a camera last Thursday evening he set down near the fish-cleaning tables at the Fishing Hole. Early last Saturday morning, items were taken from the back of a pickup and from an unlocked car on Fairview Avenue. A vending machine at Land's End Resort was also broken into.
Last Sunday, a man reported someone rummaged through his campsite at Karen Hornaday Park. Nothing was taken, but someone left a camera that did not belong to him in his vehicle. Last Monday, someone entered an unlocked vehicle at Oceanview RV Park and two vehicles on Soundview Avenue, taking rolls of quarters and a pair of binoculars.
Last Monday morning, a janitor at the high school reported an unsecured door by the loading dock. A counselor's office was vandalized and cash taken from the Community School office. Homer Police Lt. Randy Rosencrans said the investigating officer saw no signs of forced entry.
Rosencrans said such a pattern of thefts is common for the summer. Thieves prey on both residents and tourists. Other than the connection in time and general location, Rosencrans said police have no evidence the crimes are related.
"Lock your doors," Rosencrans said.
He suggested that people secure valuables in vehicles or the trunks of vehicles, and that items like coolers, camp stoves and other gear be secured not just to protect against theft, but to prevent animals from getting into belongings.
Homer police, emergency medical technicians and firefighters went to a two-vehicle collision on the Homer Spit near the English Bay barge basin at 1:53 p.m. last Thursday. Police allege that a 19-year-old man driving a 1990 Acura sedan toward the end of the Homer Spit could not stop when a driver in a pickup truck in front of him stopped to turn left toward the Homer Marine Terminal. The Acura driver tried to pass on the left and hit a 2003 Honda Accord driven by a 35-year-old Nevada man. EMTs treated and transported to the hospital the Accord driver and his two passengers, both 16-year-old girls, and the three passengers in the Honda, a 66-year-old man, a 68-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman, all of Nevada. One of the girls had to be extricated from the Acura. Police said all victims are expected to recover.
Troopers arrested a 27-year-old Homer woman, Maude Ross, for fourth-degree assault, domestic violence, after she made a 911 call claiming her boyfriend assaulted her. Troopers allege that when troopers arrived at the scene, they found the boyfriend and the couple's infant daughter outside. The man told troopers his girlfriend "freaked out," scratched and pulled at him and then got on his back and put him in a headlock. Troopers said they saw a bloody scratch on his left ear.
Alaska State Troopers arrested two Homer men for polluting, oil pollution and fifth-degree criminal mischief after they pushed an old 30-foot fishing boat onto a woman's property. Troopers alleged that Wilfred Files, 62, and Willie Suter, 61, shoved a wooden boat, the Olee, over an embankment onto a lot on Tern Court, off of Birch Lane on the north side of East End Road. The suspects claimed the property owner gave them permission to put the boat there. The owner told troopers she allowed them to put only natural fill to replace a culvert and replace gravel washed out last fall. Troopers allege the boat was falling apart, and had paint chips flaking off and a white substance oozing between cracks in the hull. The complainant, the owner's granddaughter, told troopers the suspects told her the boat was contaminated with diesel.
Michael Armstrong can be reached at michaela@homernews.com.
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