Editor’s note: The following is the Avalon Sheriff’s Station significant incidents report for the week of March 27 to April 2, 2019.
All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Many people who are arrested do not get prosecuted in the first place and many who are prosecuted do not get convicted.
March 27
• Deputies responded to the 100 block of Metropole Avenue regarding a child abuse investigation. Deputies determined the child was not abused and no crimes occurred.
March 28
• Deputies issued a motorist a citation for failing to stop at the stop sign on Catalina Avenue at Beacon Street.
March 29
• Deputies responded to a traffic collision on St. Catherine Way near the Casino. A motorist was driving too fast, then made a turn rolling the golf cart on its side. There were only minor injuries.
March 30
• Deputies arrested Joseph Say of Avalon in the 200 block of Clarissa Avenue on suspicion of assaulting a victim, which required the victim to be airlifted to a hospital on the mainland.
• Deputies arrested Ryan Nelson of Oceanside on suspicion of being drunk in public, vandalism, and resisting arrest in the 400 block of Crescent Avenue.
March 31
• Deputies responded to the 100 block of Sumner Avenue regarding a fight call. When deputies arrived, they learned two intoxicated people had been fighting and left the scene.
• Deputies received a call of a man with a gun in the 100 block of Metropole Avenue. Deputies detained the man and learned that he did not have a gun despite him bragging to others that he did.
April 1
• A victim reported to deputies that someone used his credit card number illegally charging $69 on it. The transaction was done over the internet.
April 2
• Deputies responded to Third Street and Clarissa Avenue regarding a drunk male walking in the street. Deputies contacted the male who had been drinking. His wife took him to their hotel room.
Safety Note
Come join deputies and Sheriff Volunteers at the Catalina Island Health Fair, Thursday, April 11, 2019, on “Front Street” from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.
