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Week in Crime: Kid Gets DUI, Double Shoplifting Arrest

A look at where crime is occurring in Palo Alto

Friday

6:30 a.m., 300 block of University Avenue: Police issued someone with a notice to appear on an outside warrant.

1:30 p.m., 270 Grant Avenue: An unknown suspect broke into someone’s car and stole the person’s checkbook.

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12:30 p.m., 1800 block of Embarcadero Road: Police cited and released Jacqueline Yvonne Writt, 66, a Sunnyvale resident, on suspicion of driving with a suspended or revoked license.

4:23 p.m., 600 East Meadow Drive: Sean Delos Rios, 44, a Campbell resident, was arrested and booked on an outside warrant.

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5:51 p.m., 2500 block of Alma Street: A minor injury accident happened.

7 p.m., 2721 Midtown Court: Someone’s identity was used fraudulently.

8:45 p.m., 1079 Moffet Circle: An unknown suspect broke into a car and stole an iPad.

10:40 p.m., Unknown Address, California Avenue: Police cited and released a juvenile on the charge of drunken driving.

Saturday

7:10 a.m., 1810 Fulton Street: Police arrested Guillermo Fierro, 25, a Mountain View resident, on suspicion of driving with a suspended or revoked license and on two outdo warrants.

7:15 a.m., 3820 Park Boulevard: An unknown suspect stole a wallet containing valuables worth more than $400 from a car.

12:10 p.m., Stanford Shopping Center, 180 El Camino Real: Police arrested Ricardo Alberto Saguastume, 19, a Redwood City resident, on suspicion of vandalism.

4:48 p.m., 4333 El Camino Real: An unknown suspect threw a rock through someone’s windshield.

Sunday

4:56 a.m., Oregon Expressway and Waverley Street: Michael Krasihan, 55, a Menlo Park resident, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

9:39 a.m., 3820 Park Boulevard: Someone made a fraudulent purchase on someone else’s credit card.

11:18 a.m., 700 Guinda Street: An unknown suspect broke into a car and stole a GPS system.

9:43 p.m., Unknown Location, Emerson Street: Police took a case on possible sexual battery.

Monday

1:01 a.m., 500 block of Bryant Street: Peter Oma Mavae, 21, an Oakland resident, was arrested and booked on suspicion of felony vandalism.

1:13 p.m., 439 Lambert Avenue: An unknown suspect took metal scraps from a dumpster.

3:35 p.m., 1824 Oak Creek Road: A 1999 Honda Civic, Silver, two-door, license 4VDU719, was reported stolen.

4:35 p.m., 1850 Sand Hill Road: An unknown suspect broke into a storage facility and stole luggage.

Tuesday

12:10 a.m., University Avenue and Ramona Street: Police arrested John Chavez, 49, a San Jose resident, on suspicion of being drunk in public and on an outside warrant.

12:48 p.m., 600 block of Waverley Street: An unknown suspect broke into a car and stole items.

1:32 p.m., 3176 Porter Drive: An unknown suspect cut a lock on a storage shed and stole a portable generator.

1:39 p.m., 50 Embarcadero Road: A saxophone was stolen.

4:33 p.m., Stanford Shopping Center, 180 El Camino Real: Whitney Lowe, 25, a Union City resident, was arrested and booked at the main jail on suspicion of shoplifting and also on a Palo Alto warrant and two outside warrants.

5:02 p.m., 900 block of Middlefield Road: Police arrested Violaine Delelienne, 53, a Menlo Park resident, on suspicion of drunken driving after she caused a non-injury car accident.

Wednesday

10:43 a.m., Unknown Location, Embarcadero Road: A commercial burglary was reported.

3:20 p.m., 3157 Loma Verde Place: An unknown suspect opened a credit card under someone else’s name.

4:54 p.m., 2340 Williams Street: An unknown suspect stole things from an unlocked storage bin.

4:47 p.m., 3980 El Camino Real: Someone used another person’s identity to make fraudulent purchases.

Thursday

1:14 a.m., San Antonio Road and Highway 101: Francisco Contreras, 32, an East Palo Alto resident, was cited on suspicion of driving with a suspended or revoked license.

2:09 a.m., 591 St. Claire Drive: A prowler was reported.

11:15 a.m., 500 block of Bryant Street: Police towed a car for having an excessive amount of unpaid parking tickets.

1 p.m., 2465: An unknown suspect stole two laptops.

5:58 p.m., 800 block of Embarcadero Road: An unknown suspect snatched a purse from a woman’s bicycle basket as she rode by him.

6:13 p.m., 1213 Newell Road: An unknown suspect vandalized someone’s car.

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