On June 18 at 10:43 p.m., a man told police a driver in a 1970s model GMC pickup drove faster than 60 mph on Bishop's Beach. A woman at 1:10 p.m. on June 22 reported a driver in a red truck drove recklessly on Bishop's Beach and almost hit her kids. Another caller the same day asked for information on ordinances regulating motor vehicles on the beach.
Lieutenant Randy Rosencrans said the Beach Policy Task Force ordinances approved by the city council regulate vehicle use in various areas. Police are particularly concerned about Mud Bay, on the northeast side of Homer Spit at the base, and of vehicles driven on the storm berm.
Rosencrans said Officer Andy Deveaux has started patrolling the Homer Spit on a mountain bike, and will soon begin patrolling the beaches on a six-wheel ATV. Police can cite ATV or other vehicle drivers for reckless driving; that is, driving which endangers or might cause harm to other people.
A tow-truck driver at 6:45 p.m. June 21 reported the driver of a 1990 tan Ford pickup called him to move his truck stuck in the sand at Bishop's Beach. The tow-truck operator said by the time he got there, the vehicle was already in the surf and couldn't be towed.
On the afternoon of June 24, a man turned into police a suspicious bone he found on the Homer Spit beach. Police determined it to be an arm bone of an unknown animal and turned it over to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for identification.
A grand jury on June 20 indicted a 27-year-old woman, Melissa Paige, for writing bad checks. The felony indictment alleges that between Dec. 24, 2002, and Jan. 14, Paige wrote four checks totaling $580.34 to Kachemak Gear Shed and Kachemak Wholesale.
The district attorney has charged a brother and sister, Shayna Bologna, 20, and Gregory Bologna, 19, with first-degree vehicle theft. According to court documents, in May a Homer woman had been out of town and returned to find a 1998 Saturn sedan belonging to her husband was damaged while her husband was at sea with the Coast Guard. The D.A. alleges that the woman's roommate and the roommate's brother used the car, and that it was damaged while left in a parking lot.
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