Crime & Safety

Lost at the Casino, Assault With a Deadly Weapon and More from the Novato Police Files


A woman called Novato police to report her mother missing November 6. She said her mom had gone to the new casino in Rohnert Park and had not returned by midnight.

Neighbors reported seeing two men driving around in the 1500 block of South Novato Boulevard asking residents if they wanted to buy a flat screen TV on November 6. Police came out to investigate, located the subjects, but let them go after not finding anything amiss, according to the police report.

An assistant manager of The Villas at Hamilton said that a man assaulted her with a knife. She said the suspect grabbed her by the hair and pushing her into a wall.

A resident reported that a man tried to syphon gas from a Dodge van with a plastic milk bottle on November 5 in the area of Cambridge Street and Sunset Park.

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A maintenance work found a rifle that had been left behind in the closet of an apartment in the 200 block of Posada del Sol on November 5.

Brenda Pantoja, 18, was arrested after she allegedly tried to stab the manager of an apartment complex in the 100 block of Elm Drive on November 5. Pantoja has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon.

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A resident of the 100 block of Rowland Way said she believes she was raped, but she didn’t know how or by whom on November 4. Asked why she believed she had been assaulted, the woman could not give officers an answer.

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