Palo Alto police have arrested a man who was allegedly prowling in the College Terrace neighborhood early Monday morning.
The man, a 50-year-old Los Gatos resident, was first spotted by a resident who told the police that he saw someone walking on the roof of a neighbor's garage, according to a news release. When officers arrived at about 5:30 a.m., they saw the man standing on the roof of a garage in the 500 block of Oxford Avenue, near El Camino Real.
When officers ordered the man to come down from the roof, he allegedly ran in the opposite direction from where the officers were, jumped down from the roof and climbed over a fence. Palo Alto officers and deputies from the Stanford University Department of Public Safety then "flooded the area" to find the suspect. According to the news release, they did so just after 6 a.m., when a police dog from Mountain View found him hiding in the bushes on Oxford Avenue.
Police arrested the man without incident, according to the news release, and booked him into the Santa Clara County Main Jail on suspicion of prowling and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors. He also had two outstanding felony warrants, one for attempted burglary and another for auto theft, according to the police.
There was no evidence that he had attempted to break into any of the homes in the area, police said.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Police Department's 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be emailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent via text message or voice mail to 650-383-8984. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the department's free mobile app, downloadable at bit.ly/PAPD-AppStore or bit.ly/PAPD-GooglePlay.
Editor's note: The Weekly's policy is to withhold the names of those arrested for most crimes until the District Attorney has determined there is sufficient evidence to file charges in the case. See our guidelines here.
Comments
Mayfield
on Jan 31, 2018 at 6:14 pm
on Jan 31, 2018 at 6:14 pm
So glad this perp appears to be burglar, not a sexual predator. Not too long ago, there was a series of sex crimes in the area south of Stanford by a perp with a similar description (tall thin white male). Reports of those types of crimes seem to have quieted down in the last year, fortunately.
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College Terrace
on Feb 1, 2018 at 9:47 am
Registered user
on Feb 1, 2018 at 9:47 am
How do you know he's not a sexual predator?
Menlo Park
on Feb 1, 2018 at 10:31 am
on Feb 1, 2018 at 10:31 am
Also, That address is in Evergreen Park and not College Terrace. College Terrance neighborhood ends at El Camino. Cross El Camino heading towards Park Avenue and you are in the Evergreen Park neighborhood. I grew up on the Stanford Campus and lived for over 11 years on College Avenue on the Evergreen Park side of El Camino so I know where of I speak.
College Terrace
on Feb 1, 2018 at 3:47 pm
on Feb 1, 2018 at 3:47 pm
Sorry, Betsysings, but that wee bit of Oxford Ave. IS in College Terrace. It runs from El Camino Real to Yale Street.
The cops were definitely in CT that morning.