The Sonora Police Department had a busier than normal Labor Day weekend.
Below is a recap of some of the more significant incidents which
occurred during the weekend.
30 September 12, at approx. 9:18 pm, a male subject was observed
acting suspicious near Wal Mart. An Officer located the subject and made
contact with him. The subject was identified as Robert Hultsman, 56 a
transient out of Palo Alto. Hultsman is on parole for sex crimes and was
wearing an ankle monitoring bracelet. Hultsman didn’t have
authorization to be in Tuolumne County. When contacted, Hultsman
provided his brother’s name to the Officer. However, Hultsman was
identified via tattoos and parole records. Hultsman was arrested for
violation of parole, felony violation of sex registration and
misdemeanor delaying an officer.
31 September 2012, at approx. 7:38 pm, an Officer stopped a vehicle
for running a stop sign. Inside the vehicle was Christian Gonzalez, 20
of Jamestown and Timothy Reis, 19 of Sonora. The Officer smelled a
strong odor of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle. A search of
the vehicle produced Psilocybin mushrooms, a small amount of marijuana
and a butterfly knife. A search at the jail produced a baggie of
methamphetamine on Gonzalez. The two were arrested on several felony
drug charges.
31 September 2012, at approx. 9:20 pm, Officers served a search
warrant on an apartment located at 250 Greenley Road. During the search,
it was discovered that the tenants were not home. The search revealed
glass smoking pipes containing methamphetamine and Xanex pills. Felony
charges are pending against the tenants of the apartment.
While Officers were following up on related drug information,
while executing the above search warrant, officers contacted a
neighboring apartment at 250 Greenley Road. A consent search of the
apartment was conducted which produced a half-gram of heroin, 4
individual baggies of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia, drug
packaging, electronic scale and $565 in cash . The residents, Brian
Bockert 35 and Amber Hoskins 25 were arrested for several felony drug
charges.
31 September 2012 at approx. 11:30 pm, Brandon King, 32 of Sonora
approached a under cover officer, who was conducting surveillance on
drug activity, following the service of the above search warrant. King
introduced himself to the officer and explained he was making sure there
were no law enforcement officers still in the area. King was determined
to have two felony drug warrants for his arrest and was on probation
for sales of controlled substances out of Sacramento. Following his
arrest, a search of his person revealed heroin and drug paraphernalia.
King was arrested on the two felony drug warrants and new felony drug
charges.
There were also a few driving under the influence arrests as well as battery arrests made over the busy weekend.
