Cliff Buchan
News EditorItís a simple warning but one that needs to be given every now and then, Chief of Police Clark Quiring says. Donít leave valuables in vehicles and boats at any time, the chief said week.
Quiring issues his reminder after another round of theft reports from city residents.
On July 11, a resident in the 100 block of South Shore Drive reported the theft of $700 in fishing gear from a boat.
Earlier, the chief said, a city resident reported the theft of a palm pilot and billfold from a vehicle parked in the driveway.
ìDonít leave valuables in plain site in vehicles, or in boats overnight,î the chief said. Quiring said such carelessness is an invitation to trouble.
Other reports
In other city police reports, an officer arrested a Forest Lake woman for drunken driving and possession of drug paraphernalia after she was stopped for driving without headlights.
Police stopped Paula J. Holden, 735 Woodland Drive on southbound US-61 at 12:40 a.m. Tuesday morning. Police observed the woman leave the municipal parking lot without headlights. Her 1994 Buick was seized and she was taken to the Washington County Jail in Stillwater and booked on the two counts, police said.
Police are also:
ïInvestigating the theft last weekend of a 1994 Chevrolet Cavalier valued at $2000 from Baconís Forest Lake Motors, 55 SE 11th Ave.
ïAssisted at a bicycle-vehicle personal injury accident on the southwest corner of 11th Ave. and US-61 at 7:20 p.m. July 9 that resulted in minor injuries for a 48-year-old Hugo man who was on the bike. He was treated and released at Fairview Lakes Regional Medical Center in Wyoming.
ïInvestigating a business burglary at Synergetic Solutions, Inc., 308 SW 15th St. last week that resulted in the loss of computer equipment, two printers and a small refrigerator with value of about $3000, police said.
Country reports
In reports from Washington County, the sheriffís office said this week an Inver Grove Heights woman died from injuries sustained in a vehicle-motorcycle accident on Frenchman Road in Hugo Saturday evening.
The sheriffís office said Gretchen Jill Masonick, 39, was westbound on Frenchman Road when her motorcycle swerved and sideswiped an eastbound pickup truck driven by a Columbia Heights man. Masonick was taken by ambulance to Regions Hospital in St. Paul where she died.
The collision took place at 6:38 p.m. near Victor Path in Hugo.
The driver and a passenger in the pickup were not injured. Hugo Fire and Rescue and North ambulance assisted.
Deputies were also called to Square Lake Regional Park at 12:20 p.m. Monday to investigate a report of a bloody mass that was found in the womenís bathroom of the park shelter area.
The Ramsey County Medical Examiner removed the mass. ìAt this time, the Ramsey County Medical Examiner is conducting an examination of the mass and we are awaiting their findings,î the sheriffís office said.
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