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Show Film Festival keeps thieves, but not drunks, off the streets Park City police were still wrestling with drunks and running down stolen skis this past week. But perhaps the Film Festival kept thieves occupied last week because thefts were down. On Jan. 28, the Park City Police Department received a call from Rex Neilsen stating that a man he had driven to the Park Avenue Condominiums in his taxi cab would not pay the $2 fare. When officers arrived, a 27-year-old Park City man approached the police vehicle and began pounding on the car's roof with his fist. Officers said they noticed the subject was having a difficult dif-ficult time keeping his balance and had an odor of alcohol about him. The subject sub-ject became verbally abusive and was arrested for public intoxication and booked into the Summit County Jail in Coalville on $54 bail. Park City police received a tip Jan. 27 on an alleged ski theft. A witness to a ski theft on Jan. 8 at the Park City Resort Plaza told police that he was with Gary Lee Hart-man, Hart-man, No. 1051 Snow Country Condominiums, Park City when Hartman allegedly stole a pair of PRE 1100 skis with Salomon 727 bindings. After investigating the case, police arrested Hartman on felony theft charges and he was booked into the county jail. The skis were identified as those earlier stolen from Peter Rudolph. On Jan. 26, the Police Department received a call from the Stein Eriksen Lodge concerning the driver of a pick-up truck who was ramming the garage door of the underground parking lot there. When the police arrived at the scene they found a 32-year-old Salt Lake City man who appeared to be in a drunken state. According Accor-ding to the report, considerable con-siderable damage had been done to the door and the auto. The man was arrested following a scuffle. The man refused to take field sobriety tests or intoxylizer tests and was booked into the county jail on a DUI charge. Warren Zeitlin, Pottstown, Pennsylvania reported to the Park City Police Department Depart-ment on Jan. 28 that he inadvertently drove away from Deer Valley with two pairs of skis that didn't belong to him. After leaving Deer Valley, he said, he drove to the Grub Steak Restaurant and then to the Prospector Hotel before he realized that the skis were on the roof rack of the AMC Eagle station wagon that he was renting. Zeitlin stated that he believes someone had mistaken his car for thier own. The skis are described as: one pair of blue "Hiker" cross country skis and one pair of orange and grey "Fischer" racing cross country skis. Also on the rack were Excel Nova ski poles and a pair of Swix ski poles. A Florida man, Granvil Tracy, reported the theft of his skis on Jan. 26. He told police that he left a pair of , Rossignol STS skis with Salomon bindings and a pair of Reflex ski poles in the corridor of the Park Station Condominiums for approximately ap-proximately 15 minutes around 7 p.m. When he returned for the skis they were gone, he told police. The skis were rented from the Snow Park Lodge in Deer Valley. Park City police arrested a 21-year-old Park City man for DUI Jan. 26. According to the report, officers observed a vehicle passing cars at a high rate of speed on Park Avenue. Police followed the vehicle to the edge of town travelling at speeds in excess ex-cess of 80 miles an hour. The man failed an intoxylizer test at the Park City police station and was booked into the county jail on $556 bail. Randy Zielinski of the Ski Renter in the Shadow Ridge Condominiums reported the theft of a Mother Karen's men's powder suit on Jan. 25. He told police that the suit was hanging in the shop at the time it disappeared. The suit is valued at $167. A California woman, Patricia Greenfield, reported repor-ted the theft of luggage and belongings from the trunk of her rented auto on Jan. 26. She told police that she parked a rented Oldsmobile Cutlass in the underground parking at the Park City Ski Area during the afternoon. Reportedly, the trunk on the vehicle wasn't closing properly. Listed as missing are: one yellow and beige suitcase containing a gold bracelet valued at $800 and one pair of gold earrings valued at $300. Also missing is one brown canvas suitcase and a brown leather jacket containing a round-trip airline ticket from New York to Salt Lake City. Steve McComb of the Baja Cantina restaurant at the Park City Resort Center told police that on Jan. 25 three men and three women had eaten dinner at his establishment and left without paying their $49 bill. Police have no suspects in the case. And on Jan. 23 Mike Rock reported to police that the Yamaha skis he had rented from The Ski Connection had been stolen from the plaza at the Park City Resort Center. Fifth Circuit Court John Darrell Foster, 587 South Main, Heber was found guilty of DUI in Judge Larry Keller's Fifth Circuit Court. On Jan. 25, Foster was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $299. The jail sentence will be suspended upon payment of the fine. Additionally, Foster was fined $150 for alcohol treatment treat-ment program funding and $100 for the state's victim restitution fund. A Salt Lake City man, Richard Randall, 235 Elizabeth Street, was found guilty of DUI in Fifth Circuit Court and sentenced on Jan. 25 to six months in jail and fined $299. The jail sentence will be suspended upon payment of the fine. Randall will also pay $150 for the funding fun-ding of alcohol treatment programs. Also on Jan. 25, James Michael Brown, 2909 Calumet Circle, Park City was sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined $50 for public intoxication. Brown's jail sentence will be suspended upon payment of the fine. He was placed on six months probation. |