SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The following is a list of calls the South Lake Tahoe Police Department responded to during the week of August 12-18, 2024. Location Checks are when officers search an area at a certain address. Transient/Homeless arrests/citations and calls are those normally categorized in other columns (Drunk in Public, Trespassing, etc.) but stats are collected separately.

Log for August 12 - August 18, 2024

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Calls resulting in arrests:

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The Republican Women of California – South Lake Tahoe has donated $1,000 to the South Lake Tahoe American Legion Post #795. Group members said they approved donating to the worthwhile organization that does "incredible good works for our local community and veterans."

Kids are back at school and as they settle into new routines, this time can also be a great time for the family to focus on a few health-related benchmarks:

See Your Provider
Make sure a yearly check-up with your family provider is on the calendar to monitor your child’s overall health and development. If your child plans to play a winter sport, you can get any required release forms signed at the same time.

Get Vaccinated

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is requesting public assistance in locating a missing person, Brian Tucker. His 58th birthday was August 21. He is a white male adult, 5’8”, 200 pounds, bald with blue eyes. He was last heard from by family on July 29, 2024, after leaving the Reno area.

It is suspected that he is in the South Lake Tahoe area. No foul play is suspected in his disappearance at this time.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact the Carson
City Sheriff’s Office at the information below or Secret Witness at (775) 322-4900.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, calif. - The current weather system that brought cooler temperatures and gusty winds to South Lake Tahoe has caused a few weekend events to be canceled or postponed.

The Forest Service announced the Pathways for Wildlife presentation at the Lake of the Sky Amphitheater at Taylor Creek on Friday night is postponed and will be rescheduled for an evening in September.

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. - The lineup for Tahoe Arts Project's (TAP) 11th
annual Dancing with the Tahoe Stars has been revealed. During their Music on the Beach Thursday, all ten "seasoned dancers" along with their "Tahoe star" partners were announced. This year's theme is "Dancing Through the
Decades," where each couple will incorporate a specific decade into their performance, promising a night filled with nostalgic tunes and fantastic moves.

The dancers for the October 12 event:

Freeskier Molly Armanino with partner Shane Sheets

The annual Lake Tahoe Summit this year decided to focus on the theme of “investing in transit, trails, and technology to improve transportation, equity, and sustainable recreation”. Hasn’t this been an ongoing priority for at least the last ten plus years?

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - El Dorado County Sheriff's Office responds to calls throughout the county. The following calls only pertain to the South and West Shore, including Meyers, South Lake Tahoe, Meeks Bay, Tahoma, and the Echo Summit area. There may be some missing calls due to sheriff's logs not being completed at the time of the story.

August 12 - August 18, 2024

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00:56 VERBAL DISTURBANCE IN PROGRESS - Occurred on Atroari St, in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Disposition: REPORT TAKEN.

A paid canvasser knocked on my front door on Sunday morning. He handed me a flyer with an AI-generated couple in a lakefront home in what looks like upstate New York, but presumably is supposed to be Lake Tahoe.

The creepy-looking flyer and the matching trifold pamphlet delivered to my mailbox are part of a now nearly $1 million campaign funded by the National Association of Realtors and the California Association of REALTORS.