Vandalism And Threats: Angry 63-Year Old Arrested At Community Center, Police Say

SONOMA COUNTY, CA -- A Santa Rosa man was arrested Monday on charges that he created a massive disturbance for unknown reasons at a local community center.

The Santa Rosa Police Department said that just after 9 a.m. on April 17, it received a report of a man at a community self-help center in the 1000 block of Fourth Street causing a disturbance. The reporting party said that the man was breaking things and that there were popping sounds that could have been from a rock or a gun.

The man had been to the center in the past and brandished a firearm, according to police.

Officers who arrived on scene say they learned from witnesses that Randy Sims, a 63-year-old, Santa Rosa man had come to the center angry and that he upturned picnic tables and broke canopies in an outdoor gathering area of the center. Sims then allegedly threw a large rock through the window of one of the center’s back doors, shattering it.

He also threatened one person sitting in the outside area that he was going to shoot him, according to police.

Sims allegedly left the center toward the Downtown Santa Rosa area on a bicycle prompting police to search for him and for Santa Rosa Middle School to be placed on lockdown. Officers located Sims near Third and D streets. He was unarmed and surrendered to officers without incident, police say.

Officers took Sims into custody and booked him into the county jail for violations of felony vandalism [594(b)(1) PC] and making terrorist threats (422 PC).

No one was injured during the incident, according to authorities.

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