A North Bay police department said it had arrested, March 12, a man on attempted murder, vandalism and resisting arrest charges in Los Gatos.
The Healdsburg Police Department said on Facebook it had arrested Damian Martines-Osorio in connection to an April 30, 2024 tire-slashing incident that escalated to violence.
“At about 9:45pm, Healdsburg Police received a call of a victim who had been attacked in the parking lot of the Healdsburg Community Center,” a Department spokesperson wrote in a release at the time.
“Officers learned that the victim had been sitting in his vehicle in the parking lot of the Community Center when he noticed the suspect in the parking lot slashing vehicle tires. When the victim exited his vehicle, he was confronted by the suspect who attempted to stab the victim with a knife. During the ensuing struggle the victim sustained a cut to his hand.”
After a three-hour search involving the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office and a California Highway Patrol helicopter, the heat was off.
Almost a year later, HPD officials prepared for a trip to Silicon Valley. They reached out to the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department to give the local force a heads-up.
“HPD advised us that they would be coming into town that morning,” said LGMSPD spokesperson Katherine Mann, of the hunt for Martines-Osorio (who police said also goes by Gael Leon). “We helped them out with perimeter in case he ran.”
He was booked in the Sonoma County Jail on a no-bail hold for the April 30 charges, as on three other warrants.
