By Bill Lindelof
blindleof@sacbee.com
In between sexual assault, shooting, robbery and stolen car calls, the officers in the Sacramento Police Department's central command Wednesday showed how police work can turn suddenly dangerous and how the public depends on them to be life-savers.
• At the 13th and R light rail station about 7 p.m., officers confronted a rider who had not paid his fare. Officers also found out he had outstanding warrants for his arrest.
He resisted arrest and continually tried to grab at his waistband. A loaded gun was found on him later.
Two officers were injured in the struggle, but are expected to recover.
Juan Manuel Cuellar, 21, was booked on several felonies, including resisting an officer.
• A couple of hours earlier, a citizen asked officers to check on a 65-year-old woman in the Fruitridge Manor neighborhood who had not been heard from for days. Mail had been piling up and her car was in the garage.
Officers kicked in the door of the home and found the woman on her bedroom floor. The woman, who had fallen and broken her arm, had been lying on the floor without food or water for five days.
Officers got her medical attention.
• About 9 p.m. social workers told police they were chasing a 15-year-old suicidal patient down Stockton Boulevard. The teen was trying to hurt herself by running into the path of cars.
After a lengthy search, officers spotted her at 41st and S streets. After a short pursuit, the girl was controlled and placed in a mental facility.
Call The Bee's Bill Lindelof, (916) 321-1079.
About Comments
Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. If you see an objectionable comment, click the "report abuse" button below it. We will delete comments containing inappropriate links, obscenities, hate speech, and personal attacks. Flagrant or repeat violators will be banned. See more about comments here.