NO HARM DONE---NONE INTENDED

            SUNDAY AFTERNOON---2:45 PM

For those residents that were concerned about police activity in the park Sunday afternoon--we offer the following narrative.
At approximately 2:45 PM,--several residents called Fairways Watch concerning a ''suspicious person''.
  The descriptions were all similar-- A young,dark complected male,--dressed completely in black clothing with a large black backpack, and carrying a smaller black bag!
 The subject was reported to  be walking and running through backyards on Firestone, and across the second Fairways to Pebble Beach.
 At that point ,we set out to try and find the reported subject, with our marked patrol golf cart.
  We saw a person, matching the description starting to run up Congressional. At this point in time several more residents spotted the subject and started calling---some correctly called 911.
 The person in question continued running ,across Bent Tree onto Pine Valley. Fairways watch put in a follow up call to 911 and arranged to meet a deputy at Pine Valley and Braeburn Ct.
 In a short period of time, the first of 5 units arrived. The deputies found the subject, exhausted at the end of Braeburn court near several other residents, who also had called for OCSO.
  The pool of deputies, quickly determined that the young man suffered from a severe autistic, mental condition. They further determined that he lived in the Deerwood mobile home park.
  A lot of credit is due those officers in the manner that they handled this sensitive situation. There was no ''snap to judgement''. 
  After getting an address from an ID ---one officer went over to Deerwood and brought family members over to the distressed young man.
  After a period of discussion time, the young man was released to his family.
''ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL''

A BIG THANK YOU TO THE SHERIFF DEPUTIES FOR THE MANNER IN WHICH THIS CALL WAS HANDLED----ALSO TO THE MANY GOOD RESIDENTS WHO BECAME INVOLVED AND HELPED WITH RESOLVING THIS MATTER.

 An interesting side note---The increased awareness of suspicious persons is very apparent regarding 911 dispatchers. 
 Yesterday ,I was asked for a self description, as to race,--color of clothing that I was wearing and 
 description of my vehicle.

Please note picture of the unusual sheriffs vehicle that was pulled in with the regular type units----they pulled out all of the stops!----thanks again guys!

     WHEN IN DOUBT CALL 911