Arson--March 21 between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Boyce Lane. Someone saw a figure standing by a fire that was burning in a house under construction. The fire department was called and the suspect left. A pile of wood and materials had been set on fire with wooden matches on the first floor of the house.
Petty theft--March 23 at 11:25 p.m. on Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road. A suspect left Safeway with four bottles of beer without paying for them. He tripped and dropped the beer while running through the parking lot.
This article appeared in the Saratoga News, April 3, 1996.
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