Police News from Knife Fights to Emergency Bathroom Breaks

This is a partial list of Healdsburg Police Log for the week June 10 – 17. Not all incidents are reported, and arrest or citation does not indicate guilt.

June 10 at 3:19 p.m., the Healdsburg Police Department received numerous calls about three men fighting the street in front of the Westamerica Bank on Healdsburg Ave. and Piper St. Officers Whitemore and Hurley along with Chief Burke responded and located the three suspects, Trevor Towle, John Hamner-Wolfe, and Jeremy David Bakin, 31, of Sunnyvale. 

While in response, police were notified that Krisina Bush had called from Frank & Ernie’s saying she had been fighting with her boyfriend, Jeremy Bakin, as they were driving through town. Bakin apparently took offense to the others' response to his argument, and approached them. According to subsequent press reports, Bakin was subsequently arrested for assault with a deadly weapon for his knife threats to Hamner-Wolfe, and was transported to the Police Department for booking, then to County Jail.

June 10 at 11:38 pm, John Etchell was detained following reports he and his girlfriend had been screaming and fighting in the middle of the street on Sunnyside Dr.

The next morning, June 11 at 11:36, police responded to a traffic accident on Dry Creek west of 101 with a motorcyclist down. Sonoma Sheriff’s deputies were already on the scene and took over the case.

At 11:45 p.m. that night, a man came into the Healdsburg Police Department lobby to say he had been kicked in the ribs and was having trouble breathing. REDCOM services were called, and the man was taken to Healdsburg District Hospital. However, he was unable to provide any information regarding the assault, including its location, and did not later respond to police questions on the matter.

On Wednesday June 12, the Bear Republic Brewing Co. reported to police that a man had left his name and phone number with them the day before, offering to sell marijuana to their customers. Police advised the Bear to contact the Department should the subject return.

At 12:31 that day, a local man informed police that Sonoma County Mental Health had a 17 year-old patient who had made threats against him. An hour and a half later, at 2:05 pm, the police were advised that the subject had fled psychiatric services. Both the boy’s grandmother and his physician were threatened. As SCMH only had a phone number for the doctor Healdsburg Police officers notified him in person.

At 5:05 pm, the boy’s mother came to the Police station and provided a photo of the suspect, last seen wearing white sweat pants. At 6:04 the mother told Healdsburg Police her son had been located by Cloverdale Police and was in their custody.

Also on June 12, a white adult male with gray shirt, cargo shorts, baseball cap and a grey backpack stole a burgundy mountain bike from in front of Pure Power Solutions on Front St.

The next morning, June 13 at 10:35, a man on Plaza Street reported a caller told him he was his grandson, had got into trouble in Mexico and needed to talk to an attorney from the US Embassy. Another man came on the phone and said the “grandson” had been to a bachelor party and had got in an auto accident when he was driving for the drunk bachelor. The reporting party pointed out that his grandson was only 14 years old, and the call was terminated. Police said this was a common type of fraud, but there was no loss of money.

At 4:23 pm on the 13th, a white adult male in black shirt and blue jeans was cited for urinating in public at East ST. and Piper.

The next morning, Friday June 14 at 9:28 am, a man and a woman came into Finchers Auto Service on Healdsburg Ave and asked to use the bathroom. When advised it was for customers only, they pulled flowers out from in front of the business and threw they on the floor. Responding officers were not able to locate the couple.

At 2:07 pm on the 14th, a woman on Canary Ct. reported her ex-boyfriend had been harassing her by phone over the past few days, and said by text he had come into her house through a dog door. Officers responded and located Jeremy Martinez, 21, in Windsor, and arrested him for violation of probation and transported him to County Jail.

At 6:35 pm on June 14, a man called police to report a blonde female driving a forest green SUV, possibly a Soul, speeding and weaving from Simi Winery northbound on Healdsburg Ave.  Officers were advised to be on the lookout.

On June 15 at about 7:30 pm, someone called to say that four subjects were about to get into their car at North St. and Center St. (in the vicinity of Zin Restaurant). The reporting party though all four were intoxicated and should not be driving. Officers responded and arrested Joe Carlon, no city given, for DUI.

On Sunday afternoon, June 16, at about 3:30 pm, a group of approximately six Hispanic adult males were reported drinking beer inside Oak Mound Cemetery on Piper St. Officers contacted two groups; alcohol was found but no one was consuming it at the time of contact; they were let off with a warning.

At 7:53 pm Sunday evening a motorcyclist was reported doing wheelies in the neighborhood of Almond Way, So. Fitch Mountain Rd. and Hidden Acres Rd. He was gone on arrival.

A few minutes later, at 7:59, CHP transferred a call regarding a vehicle in the ditch at Healdsburg Ave. and Bailache Ave., that had apparently crashed and “taking out a sign” while doing so. Four Healdsburg police officers responded and the driver Ben Douglas Putnam, 31, and Michele Leianne Holt, 22, were contacted. Putnam was cited for violation of probation. 

Late Sunday night, at 11:32 pm, the Camellia Inn on North St. reported a guest room had been entered within the last hour, and a computer taken. The suspect had apparently broken a window to enter.