In Your Town for Jan. 8, 2025
CORTE MADERA
Pair booked following
suspected drug death
Two Corte Madera residents were arrested on homicide allegations following a suspected opioid-related death, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.
The investigation began Saturday morning when Central Marin police received a report of an unconscious man in a vehicle parked on Sunnyside Avenue in Corte Madera. Authorities determined the 22-year-old man was dead.
The investigation led to Raul Beltran, 25, and Olivia Peters, 22, who were booked into the county jail on suspicion of voluntary manslaughter and furnishing a controlled substance that resulted in a great bodily injury, sheriff’s Sgt. Adam Schermerhorn said.
Bail was set at $100,000, and both suspects bailed out. They could not be reached for comment.
The sheriff’s office released no further information about why opioids are suspected or about the alleged involvement of Beltran and Peters.
The Marin County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing the case for potential charges.
The county coroner’s office has not released the name of the man in the car. Toxicology test results are pending.
GREENBRAE
Assault suspect gets
hospitalization order
A Marin County judge ordered a man accused of a Greenbrae ax assault to be committed to a state mental hospital.
Scott Michael Scibilia, 54, of Petaluma allegedly committed the crime at an auto body shop last March. The victim was taken to a hospital, Central Marin police reported.
The Marin County District Attorney’s Office charged Scibilia with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, criminal threats, second-degree burglary and violating a protective order. He has a prior conviction for assault with a deadly weapon in San Diego County in 2026, according to the prosecution.
Last month, Judge Geoffrey Howard received a mental health evaluation of Scibilia and ruled him mentally incompetent to stand trial. Howard issued the hospitalization order during a hearing on Tuesday.
Scibilia’s public defender, Hayden Brown, could not be reached for comment.
WEATHER
High wind, rough surf
expected to diminish
The fierce winds and dangerous surf in the Bay Area will start to ease on Wednesday, yielding to calmer and sunny conditions, according to the National Weather Service.
“It should be pretty pleasant,” said Rick Canepa, a meteorologist for the agency. “We’ve got a system going through the western states, and there’s strong high pressure over the Great Basin Desert, which is causing the high pressure to build over us. So you’re going to see dry weather and lower humidity. It’s also going to reduce the chances of fog.”
The National Weather Service extended a wind advisory until 10 a.m. Wednesday.
“Winds will be strongest over the higher terrain of the North and East Bay, the eastern Santa Clara hills and the Santa Cruz Mountains,” the agency said Tuesday. “Winds briefly ease on Thursday and Friday before another short burst of offshore winds Saturday.”
The high temperatures for inland Marin will be in the low 60s at least through Monday, the agency said.