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Shortly before 11:40 pm Friday night, Contra Costa County Sheriffs and Oakley Police responded to a report of a man with a shotgun on Bethel Island who was making threats about dying.
Police immediately responded with multiple units and a helicopter in the air after the man barricaded himself in a home in the area of Piper Road near Gateway Road and Windsweep. Medical and fire staged near Stone Road. The incident forced police to evacuated neighboring homes and shut down nearby roads.
Here is the time stamped notes from the call per radio traffic once police arrived on scene:
- 11:51 pm – Subject stated plan for tonight is to die and no way to talk him out of it. Subject 5150 back in 1990’s. 5150 in 2011
- 11:52 pm – Police on speaker making announcements
- 11:56 pm – Neighboring houses evacuated
- 11:56 pm – Subject reportedly had prior 245 arrest, PC71 arrests
- 11:57 pm – Subject says he does have a gun, but putting it away
- 11:58 pm – Subjects live in girlfriend not there, he doesn’t want to get hurt and afraid officers will beat him up. Claimed his gun was not loaded and no shells. If they leave him alone, will come out in an hour.
- 12:01 am – Engine 94 now staged
- 12:03 am – police roll call
- 12:05 am– CHP have blocked off Stone Road
- 12:07 am – blow horn being used to see if they can get him to come out outside and give up.
- 12:10 am – Attempting to make contact via phone while ongoing PA announcements are occurring
- 12:13 am– Suspect sounds calmer. Friend will come watch his stuff and then will let them arrest him. PD says if anyone walks up, do not let them through. Tell subject they will let friend through after he comes out.
- 12:15 am – Subject does not want to fight or be tackled, will come out when friend arrives, feels this has gotten out of hand.
- 12:16 am – Subjects friend reportedly 15-20 minutes from Byron
- 12:16 am – Engine 94/AMR to stage at Delta Cove area.
- 12:21 am – Subject disconnected from phone
- 12:26 am – Friend reportedly showed up
- 12:31 am – With friend on scene, subject refusing to now come out
- 12:49 am – Report from “friend” that subject to come out in a minute
- 12:49 am – peeking out front windows
- 12:49 am – Door opening, subject coming out
- 12:50 am – Subject is out of home
- 12:51 am – Subject being taken into custody
- 12:53 am – Subject detained, police going to clear the home.
- 12:55 am – House is clear, units code 4 and code 33 cancelled.
- 12:55 am – fire & medics cancelled
- 12:59 am – Neighbors cleared to go back inside their neighboring homes
- 1:00 am – All units cleared to return to normal stations
16 comments
Do you really post this? This is not news because no one was hurt or injured and it appears to be just a person having emotional issues. Sad decision to post this ECT, very dissapointed in you. Shame on you guys.
I like being informed of incidents happening within our community. Thank you ECT!!!! To anyone that doesn’t appreciate it, don’t read it. Real simple.
@ Alice
Your reasons are the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. Obviously, you have some sort of relationship with the perp.
If you dont like it, dont follow ECT. Its very simple. This IS news and I think most people are glad you reported it. Let the haters hate somewhere else.
It is nicknamed Methel Island for a reason.
There are more law abiding respectable island residents than “dopers”. I want to know what is going on in my community, especially since the incident was right down the street from me. The island has improved a lot, so please lets drop the “methol” crap. You don’t know why the guy did what he did.
And I suppose you know “why the guy did what he did”?
…. but I meant menthol. As in menthol cigarrettes?
Its not Methol like cough drops. Its Methel like dope. Some very nice people are on the Island.
Thank you for the correction. 😉
Thanks for posting. We are a small community here on BETHEL Island. We are very accepting of differences and care about one another. This wouldn’t be “big news” in surrounding communities but it is here.
245 arrests all for PC71? What a waste of tax payer dollars. This guy obviously has serious issues and wants the attention.
71. (a) Every person who, with intent to cause, attempts to cause,
or causes, any officer or employee of any public or private
educational institution or any public officer or employee to do, or
refrain from doing, any act in the performance of his duties, by
means of a threat, directly communicated to such person, to inflict
an unlawful injury upon any person or property, and it reasonably
appears to the recipient of the threat that such threat could be
carried out, is guilty of a public offense punishable as follows:
(1) Upon a first conviction, such person is punishable by a fine
not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by imprisonment
pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170, or in a county jail not
exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(2) If the person has been previously convicted of a violation of
this section, such previous conviction shall be charged in the
accusatory pleading, and if that previous conviction is found to be
true by the jury, upon a jury trial, or by the court, upon a court
trial, or is admitted by the defendant, he or she is punishable by
imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
(b) As used in this section, “directly communicated” includes, but
is not limited to, a communication to the recipient of the threat by
telephone, telegraph, or letter.
Tracy he has a PC 245 AND a PC 71 arrest.
Thank you ECT for posting what was happening in OUR community last night. There a a lot of citizens that live on the Island I don’t know where everyone posting lives and I really don’t care, just wake up there are bad people and things happening everywhere.
ECT – I also very much appreciate you reporting on incidents such as this. It amazes me how little that goes on in B.I., Oakley, Brentwood, etc. actually makes it into the local newspaper. Pretty much nothing!! If someone picked up & read our local times, they would tend to think our area is a nice, incident – free, safe place to live.
While some neighborhoods are just that, there is a hell of alot of stuff going on around here that somehow gets swept under the carpet. Since most stuff is never reported on, not many know about things that are happening all around them & unfortunately, that leads to people having a false sense of security. I firmly believe that every person has the right to know how safe/unsafe the neighborhood they choose to live in, is.I
f you really want to know what is really happening under your nose, go on-line to a police scanner website & tune in to your local area’s department & you can hear in live-time what is really going on.
Spell check! “The incident forced police to evacuated neighboring homes”
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