By Loretta Kalb
lkalb@sacbee.com
It seemed an outrage:
A woman called police in Sacramento and said two men tried to take her kids as she and a friend pushed strollers along the 500 block of El Camino Avenue shortly before midnight Saturday.
Officers who responded to the call, however, found a very different scenario, according to the Sacramento Police Department.
The woman actually had stolen merchandise from a nearby store, police said. Turns out that the two men weren't after her children. They were trying to recover the merchandise.
It was just another weekend night in the city, one marked also by an arrest for drug possession, a temporarily missing juvenile, cases of domestic violence and a stolen moving van.
The arrest for possession of an illicit drug came after police identified a stolen vehicle shortly after midnight this morning and followed the driver to Marconi Boulevard and Heron Way, where the car stopped.
The driver, identified as 21-year-old Gina Saechao, was arrested without incident. Police said her passenger, 42-year-old James Bryant, was taken into custody for possession of methamphetamine.
The missing juvenile, a 17-year-old female, did not come home from school on Friday. Her parents reported her missing, and officers came to the 1400 block of Rene Avenue in Del Paso Heights to investigate Saturday night. The teenager eventually came home and told her parents she was fine. She had decided to spend the night with friends without passing along the information, police said.
About 10 p.m. Saturday night, police said a woman received minor injuries after an argument with a man she knows became physical. By the time police arrived at Sully Street and Main Avenue, not far from Rio Linda Boulevard, the man had left.
The other domestic violence case came shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday at Meadowview Road and Manorside Drive in the south area. Police said a woman reported a fight with her ex-partner that became physical. When that happened, she said, the ex-partner waved a gun at her. Police said they took the suspect into custody.
Then, shortly before midnight Saturday, police arrested Kaleb Royals, 24, for investigation of stealing a moving truck and crashing it into a fence at Eleanor Street and Beaumont Avenue in the north area. Witnesses said they watched the suspect enter a nearby residence after the crash.
He was booked into the main jail on suspicion of motor vehicle theft, buying or receiving stolen property, misdemeanor hit and run, property damage, and driving without a license, and was held on $30,000 bail.
Call The Bee's Loretta Kalb, (916) 321-1079.
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