 | | | Superhero tow truck driver prepares to take a dip in the pond at the ninth hole of the Moraga Country Club to rescue car. Because rowing the car ashore won't work, driver stands on the roof of the submerged rental Mazda before diving in to hook up tow cable. Photo Pete Heckler
| | | | | | Driver in Pond, 4/10/12 At Moraga Country Club - that usually refers to a golf club. However a 32-year-old female driver of a rented red 2010 Mazda was, not surprisingly, under the influence when she drove down Country Club Drive and kept going after the street ends and landed in the pond. She was able to swim from the completely submerged vehicle to safety, then ended up walking to Safeway where she called police to report the incident. Looks like she made it through a pile of wood chips and into the pond on the ninth hole with only a slight injury to her wrist. Value of lost pride and DUI charges hard to know at this point.
Stolen car found, 4/04/12 An anonymous caller reported an abandoned car parked on Rimer Drive. Cops investigated and after checking DMV records, found the car was stolen from Easy Rent a Car in San Leandro. The car was towed by Lamorinda Tow Company, since the registered owner was unable to be located at the time of the incident. Only twenty miles more or less from San Leandro to Mo-town - but a world apart.
Pot at Campo, 4/14/12 On routine patrol of Campolindo High School at roughly 11:00 p.m., cops observed a parked car in the rear lot with two people in it. Is that eau de marijuana emanating from the car? Why yes, turns out in addition to smoke, two plastic baggies of pot and several unspecified drug paraphernalia items were found. Parents of the pair were contacted and the kids were released to their custody.
False alarm, 4/14/12 Although there were no signs of forced entry or suspicious activity, an audible alarm was sounding from a Camino Peral home. Cops checked the perimeter, and didn't find anything unusual.
Drunk college kid, 4/13/12 It was barely happy hour when Moraga Police were dispatched to St. Mary's College to assist Moraga-Orinda Fire District personnel with a 21-year-old intoxicated female. She was awake and responsive enough to say thanks, but no thanks to an offer of a ride to the hospital for medical evaluation.
Under the influence, 4/08/12 Usually residents are tucked in and fast asleep at 1:20 in the morning, but police were called to check on an unknown female knocking on a Camino Ricardo door. The woman in question didn't know where she was or how she got there. Although she was rambling, she 'fessed up that she had taken LSD two hours earlier.
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA