SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 (San Francisco News Online) — Marin County prosecutors have filed misdemeanor charges against Sausalito City Manager Elaine Forbes over an alleged yacht incident, and a judge on Wednesday released her on her own recognizance while ordering a psychiatric evaluation at Marin General Hospital.
Forbes appeared briefly in Marin County Superior Court before Judge Cindee Mayfield. Jail records show she had been held in the Marin County Jail on $50,000 bail before the release order.
Marin County court records list four misdemeanor counts, including loitering on private property, theft of personal property and two counts of lodging without an owner’s consent. The records and hearing materials do not fully spell out the sequence of events in the yacht case.
Forbes became Sausalito city manager on July 1 after serving as San Francisco’s port director. Sam Singer, who is speaking for Forbes and her family, said she was experiencing a mental health crisis.
