By Loretta Kalb
lkalb@sacbee.com
Sacramento Police reported a few of life's lessons from the streets of the city.
Among them, it doesn't pay to steal the department's "bait" car, or punch a cop in the face, or fail to take note of your own car's license plate number.
Today's daily police log of activities includes those and other reports.
In the license plate case, a man called police Saturday night and said he had been carjacked two days earlier but didn't report right away because he figured he'd try to get his 1984 white Chevy Caprice back on his own.
He told police his car had been forcibly taken by two men with a gun in an apartment complex at San Juan and Truxel roads. It was outfitted with 24-inch rims and contained the bill of sale proving his recent purchase of the automobile.
Trouble was, police reported, the carjack victim didn't know his car's license plate number. His plan, he said, would be to try to get the number from the person who sold the car to him.
In the car theft case, the police "bait" car was parked at the 2500 block of Del Paso Boulevard. Police nabbed the car thief shortly before 2 a.m. today about a mile away at Sonoma and Altos avenues. The driver, a juvenile, was arrested for suspicion of car theft.
The case of the assault on the officer occurred about 1:30 a.m. today after police found a man pushing his sister onto the ground at 20th and K streets in Sacramento. When they tried to stop him, he punched one of the officers in the face. He was taken into custody on an assault charge.
And a felony vandalism arrest came for one man the second time he drove into his car into his estranged wife's garage door.
A woman reported that the man had been visiting their children in the 2200 block of 50th Avenue in Sacramento when the adults began arguing. That' when the man drove his car into the exterior garage door the first time, causing minor damage.
Officers arrived and took a report, but the man had left and the wife said she did not want to prosecute.
Soon after, the woman called police again saying her husband again returned and drove his car into the garage door a second time, causing more damage.
This time she agreed to press charges. Police found him a short time later and booked him for investigation of felony vandalism and driving with a suspended license.
Call The Bee's Loretta Kalb, (916) 321-1073.
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