Sheriff’s Blotter — Sept. 20, 2025
The clock struck midnight with a trespasser reported on Pleasant Valley Road. Deputies rolled, but the suspect had vanished into the dark. By 12:18, tempers flared outside the Bank of America in El Dorado Hills, a verbal scrap broken up with calm words. A suspicious vehicle loitered near Safeway off Bass Lake Road minutes later, checked and cleared.
The small hours weren’t quiet—by 1:51, odd circumstances on Gold Ridge Trail in Pollock Pines evaporated before patrol arrived. Dawn brought a stream of calls: a shady car near Church Mine Road, a suspicious drifter at Quick Quack Carwash, more reports up Forebay Road and Cedar Oak Road. By 10:19, a dust-up at Big Apple Bagels in El Dorado Hills earned deputy intervention.
After lunch, trouble simmered. At 2:07 p.m., a scuffle at the jail itself led to an arrest. Cameron Park saw court-order complaints on Coach Lane, while Placerville handled noise and Walmart loiterers.
Evening darkened into worse. At 5:27, Red Hawk Casino reported domestic violence—turned over to another agency. A half-hour later, tragedy struck on Highway 49 near Rattlesnake Bar Road: deputies took a dead-on-arrival report. More calls stacked—grand theft on Pony Tail Lane, batteries, disturbances, vandalism in Georgetown, and too many noise complaints to count.
By 11:39 p.m., rescuers were on Highway 50 near Kyburz for a search-and-rescue call, closing the day’s books.
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September 20, 2025
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Arrests, Sept. 20
South Lake Tahoe police cuffed Bruce Miles Benton for a felony parole violation near Lake Tahoe Boulevard close to midnight. At the same location, Richard Dustin Short was taken in for felony probation violation. Early morning, Cassidy Kenneth Bathurst was booked on Perks Court, racking up charges of probation violation, ammunition possession, and a felony enhancement—bail stacked at $100,000.
CHP bagged Aaron Joseph Ramirez at Huckleberry Heights for felony corporal injury in a domestic dispute, bail $50,000. Placerville PD later picked up Joshua David Hester for misdemeanor battery and felony resisting, bond $30,000.
By afternoon, Anthony Gabriel Munoz was extradited in from Churchill County, Nevada, accused of transporting narcotics between counties, bail $75,000. Evening saw Arturo Bonifacio Romo hit with driving-on-a-suspended-for-DUI, bail $55,000. Shingle Springs police arrested Lingxin Liu for domestic battery, bond $7,500. The night ended with Matthew Jonathan Grover, drunk and disorderly on Park Avenue in Tahoe, held without bail.
