Police log: Caller robbed at gunpoint
by TP staff
Jan 11, 2010 | 2730 views | 9 9 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend | print
A caller reported at 6:52 p.m. Sunday two men robbed people at the 99 Cents Only Store, 1320 W. 11th St.

The caller said two men in there 20s with dark hooded sweatshirts, one of whom pulled a black handgun, stole the caller’s gold necklace and engagement ring.

The Tracy Police Department received 513 calls for service between Sunday and Friday. The following is a sample of those calls. To read more, visit www.tracypress.com.

Sunday (148 calls):

12:21 a.m.: Police detained two guys after graffiti was spray painted on a wall at Children’s Dental Fun Zone, 569 W. Lowell Ave.

1:16 a.m.: A woman asked for extra police patrols on the 700 block of West Seventh Street after she heard banging outside her window. She thought it might be a guy who recently tried to smother her, and threatened to kill her.

3:36 a.m.: A burglar left blood on the front seat after busting the window of car that was broken into on the 3000 block of Remington Way, a caller reported.

4:17 a.m.: A woman reported seeing a guy selling drugs on the 100 block of East Whittier Avenue. She said saw the drug dealer gave the buyer a signal — whistling and then turning off the headlight to his bicycle.

8:22 a.m.: Police arrested someone with possible gang ties on suspicion of having a weapon at Roosevelt Avenue and 10th Street.

10:43 a.m.: A woman reported a “continual problem” with her tires being slashed on the 2000 block of Chester Drive.

11:03 a.m.: A man reported his car was burglarized on the 2100 block of Photinia Drive.

11:04 a.m.: A man reported two of his cars were broken into on the 1500 block of Gentry Lane.

11:41 a.m.: A man told police his car was broken into in the 300 block of Redbridge Road.

12:54 p.m.: Police questioned three people at 11th Street and Tracy Boulevard suspected of having gang ties.

1:53 p.m.: Police arrested a guy after a caller reported people were sitting in a gray Chevrolet doing drugs at Fairfield Drive and Marie Antoinette Lane.

2:42 p.m.: Police received several phone calls about a car crash on the 1800 block of Egret Drive where the driver of one car was chased by people in another. The man who was chased told police his pursuers were “the same guys that jumped him last night.”

3:23 p.m.: A caller’s 12-year-old grandson and 18-year-old niece were in a fight on the 1100 block of Vallerand Road. The grandparent said one had a knife and the other had a pen, but they put them down and no one was hurt.

3:44 p.m.: A caller told police about receiving a text message that read, “When do you need my gun?” Police tracked down the cell phone owner and discovered it was an 11-year-old child, who denied sending any text messages.

4:16 p.m.: A man told police he found a knife in the backyard of his rental property on the 1500 block of Griffith Place, that might have been related to an incident several days prior at Zanussi Park.

4:19 p.m.: A caller reported the theft of a white Honda Accord from the 2400 block of Paul Poole Drive.

5:43 p.m.: A woman reported her 15-year-old daughter was beaten up at the Tracy Sports Complex, 955 Crossroads Drive by a bunch of girls she has problems with at Kimball High School.

5:55 p.m.: An officer stopped four people at Second Street and Central Avenue with suspected gang ties.

6:15 p.m.: A guy on the 1700 block of Birchwood Drive reported he took some “shrooms,” he didn’t “feel well,” and he wanted “to cause harm to himself and others.” He said his girlfriend and another person at his place also ate mushrooms. Police arrested the guy.

6:22 p.m.: Police arrested a man after a caller said her brother swung a hatchet at her father during a fight on the 2900 block of Remington Way. Her family was upset she called police, who said one guy was in the house bleeding and another was in the backyard. The suspect was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp.

6:37 p.m.: A woman reported her car was stolen from her sister’s home on the 200 block of West 23rd Street.

9:02 p.m.: A woman on the 1400 block of West 12th Street said she could hear someone running back and forth on her roof. It was a utility worker, police said.

Saturday (169 calls):

1:27 a.m.: Police arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs after an officer pulled him over at 11th Street and Parker Avenue.

2:46 a.m.: A caller reported two boys burglarized his car and his roommate’s car on the 800 block of Williams Street and ran off when they were interrupted.

4:35 a.m.: A caller reported a tailgate of a truck was vandalized on the 1200 block of Coolidge Avenue.

9:25 a.m.: A woman reported a problem with peacocks in her backyard that belong to a neighbor on the 1100 block of Berg Road.

11:14 a.m.: A man reported there was “a lot of blood” in front of his house “from the stabbing that occurred last night” on the 1300 block of Peppertree Way. There was no stabbing, police said, but there was a fight that the caller has video footage of.

11:15 a.m.: A woman reported the theft of the license plates from her car on the 200 block of Christopher Way.

11:35 a.m.: Police cited the owner of a dog that was barking excessively on the 700 block of Alden Glen Drive.

11:53 p.m.: A woman at Heritage Place, 355 W. Grant Line Road, reported someone was fraudulently using her credit cards.

1:27 p.m.: A caller reported a pit bull on the loose just killed the caller’s cat on the 2300 block of Russell Street.

2:03 p.m.: A woman said two guys who were apparently on her doorstep walked off after her sister opened her front door on the 800 block of Chestnut Drive.

2:04 p.m.: A woman on the 500 block of Leamon Street said she wanted police to “counsel” her son after he pushed her when she tried to take away his Xbox.

3:37 p.m.: A 1-year-old child was being sexually abused by the baby’s grandfather, a caller reported from a clinic on the 1900 block of Clearbrook Court. The caller said both of the child’s parents are incarcerated, and that the baby lives with the grandparents. The caller also said grandfather abused his daughter, who won’t say what happened because she’s been “brainwashed by the father for many years, including him putting a gun to her head telling her he would kill her if she told.”

3:42 p.m.: A woman in the Green Oaks Mobile Home Estates, 2929 MacArthur Drive, reported her rear license plate was stolen.

3:46 p.m.: A man told police he was lying in a field at Corral Hollow and Schulte roads to hide from people who were searching for him with flashlights. He told police he was hiding because “people were looking at him weird,” and that he had “an episode.” Police said he might have been mentally ill and arrested the man, 34.

4:24 p.m.: A caller reported the “entire park was tagged with gang graffiti” at jack Fisher Park, 561 Tennis Lane.

4:25 p.m.: Three kids had to be pulled off an 11-year-old boy after being beaten up on the 300 block of Pacheco Drive, one of the boy’s parent’s told police. The victim had a bloody ear, and the caller got into an argument with the parents of one of the suspects.

5:18 p.m.: Police issued a citation after questioning three people at Central Avenue and Mount Diablo Avenue who were suspected of having gang ties.

5:23 p.m.: Police arrested a 36-year-old man after a caller reported a guy was “exposing himself” and masturbating in his car at Walmart, 3010 W. Grant Line Road. Police said the man had a warrant out for his arrested for public drunkenness and booked him into the jail.

5:53 p.m.: A woman reported her 10-year-old grandson was beaten up by three girls at Tamarisk Lane and Windsong Drive. The boy was taken to the hospital emergency room with injuries to his face.

8:32 p.m.: Police entered a gun into evidence after arresting a man with suspected gang ties on a charge that he was in possession of a firearm at 10th and East streets.

9:39 p.m.: Two men about 20 stole several pizzas from Safeway, 1801 W. 11th St., and took off in a green hatchback, nearly hitting an employee, a caller reported.

11:39 p.m.: Police questioned someone on the 3000 block of North Tracy Boulevard who was suspected of having gang ties.

11:50 p.m.: Police arrested a 22-year-old man after a caller reported people were fighting inside an apartment at McKinley Manor, 1690 N. Tracy Blvd. One person might have had a knife, and a second caller reported hearing things break inside the apartment. Two men were taken to the hospital, one with a cut on his head.

Friday (195 calls):

12:56 a.m.: Police stopped a driver with a taillight out at Morris Phelps Drive and Schulte Road. The driver was cited for the taillight, silencing a firearm, driving on a suspended license and the gold Nissan Altima was towed.

1:11 a.m.: A caller at 7-Eleven, 455 W. Grant Line Road, reported a man stole two 18-packs of Budweiser.

3:38 a.m.: A woman on the 400 block of West Whittier Avenue asked to be walked to her car from her house after seeing a large man in dark clothes hiding in the bushes and peeking around the neighbor’s fence.

9:55 a.m.: A caller on the 400 block of Cumberland Drive said he believed his 56-year-old mother was dead after finding her cold to the touch and without a pulse. The police chaplain responded and the coroner was notified.

10:04 a.m.: Someone reported seeing a 19- or 20-year-old man in a gold Chevrolet smoking weed out of a pipe near 10th Street and Roosevelt Avenue. Police went to a home on Metcalf Court, where the driver turned into, but no one answered the door.

10:58 a.m.: A man said his landscaping blocks were stolen two days earlier and he believed they were holding up a Cadillac with no wheels at Mount Diablo Avenue and Rodeo Way.

11:35 a.m.: A man at the police station reported he’s going through a divorce and his wife had violated a court order by taking almost everything from their house.

11:41 a.m.: Police responded to the 300 block of Jill Drive when a caller’s mentally ill mother-in-law was “running around outside kicking vehicles and then dancing.” The caller told police the woman was taking medication and had no weapons but does get violent.

12:37 p.m.: A fight was reported outside KFC, 2290 W. Grant Line Road. One man said he had detained another for painting graffiti on the building next door. The detained man said he had no weapons, but if he did, he would have stabbed the other guy.

2:50 p.m.: A caller at Williams Middle School, 1600 Tennis Lane, reported someone in a white Econoline van with tinted windows was driving around slowly looking at the children. Police couldn’t find the van 45 minutes later.

3:07 p.m.: A woman on the 700 block of Ann Gabriel Lane reported her child’s father came to her home, started a fight and was refusing to leave. She said he was possibly on drugs and throwing things around a bedroom. The man walked off before police arrived.

3:46 p.m.: A caller at the Vinewood Center, 35 E. Tenth Street, reported an employee who resigned three days earlier has been trespassing at the building.

3:54 p.m.: Police arrested a 41-year-old woman walking at 22nd Street and Holly Drive on suspicion of drug possession.

4:16 p.m.: Police arrested a 38-year-old man, a suspected gang member, on East Street and Grant Line Road on an $80,000 outstanding warrant out of Lodi and a $20,000 outstanding warrant out of Stockton.

4:41 p.m.: A woman at 1700 block of Lilly Court reported her ex-husband was at her house pounding on her door because he was upset that she “has moved on.” She said her boyfriend was in the house and her ex-husband possibly had their two teenaged children with him. The man left before police arrived.

4:44 p.m.: A caller at Save Mart, 2005 N. Tracy Blvd., said a man started a fight with him after the guy approached the caller’s girlfriend and asked if she wanted him to fix the dents in her car. The caller said the man was angry when he declined the offer.

4:55 p.m.: Someone gave police $31 in cash found in front of South Elementary, 500 W. Mount Diablo Avenue.

4:55 p.m.: Someone at Save Mart, 1950 W. 11th Street, reported a woman wearing a medical mask backed into a pole before parking and leaving a 4- or 5-year-old child alone in green Dodge Stratus. When police arrived, they advised the woman against leaving a child unattended.

6:22 p.m.: A caller who works at Walmart, 3010 W. Grant Line Road, reported his stereo was stolen the night before, and then his lug nuts went missing.

7:37 p.m.: A caller on the 600 block of Marie Angela Drive reported her husband walked out after smashing things in their house.

8:03 p.m.: Two boys at Tracy High School, 315 E. 11th Street, turned off the lights in the gym in the middle of a basketball game. A person reported knowing the two boys who were suspects.

8:09 p.m.: Someone near Daniel Bush Park, 1204 Crossroads Drive, reported two men in an older white van had been arguing loudly for over an hour. About 10 minutes later, the caller reported the men urinated on the caller’s fence.

8:28 p.m.: A woman on the 1100 block of Vallerand Road reported her 12-year-old grandson was “out of control,” putting his hands on her and trying to take her keys. She said officers talked to the child the day before, and later said he had gone to his room and decided to calm down.

8:43 p.m.: Someone on the 4500 block of Glenhaven Drive reported chasing away some juveniles who were repeatedly playing “ding-dong ditch.” The caller said the kids’ parents were uncooperative.

8:48 p.m.: Police broke up a party on the 1800 block of Foxtail Way after receiving several calls of about 50 to100 kids in the area. One caller reported smelling drugs and said some of the kids looked younger than high school age.

10:10 p.m.: Someone at Save Mart, 1950 W. 11th Street, said two groups of teenaged gang members were fighting in the parking lot.

10:20 p.m.: A caller on the 1400 block of Eastlake Circle reported about 25 teenagers fighting.

10:44 p.m.: Police arrested someone after a teenager was stabbed on the 1800 block of Maplegrove Lane during a fight between about 15 kids. The stab wound was not life-threatening.

10:51 p.m.: Someone stole about $50 in movies from Blockbuster Video, 865 S. Tracy Blvd., a caller said.

This column includes a sample of items as reported in the Tracy Police Department dispatcher’s daily log. Additional information is based on reports from officers and other law enforcement agencies. To anonymously report information about a crime: Crime Stoppers, 831-6847.
comments (9)
« logblog wrote on Friday, Jan 15 at 01:27 PM »
"Sheneman said he did not know the cause of the fight."

"After being treated in the hospital for injuries suffered while fighting, the men were booked into San Joaquin County Jail."

Whereupon, even as other inmates complaineed; The arguing continued over who was really incharge... Sergeant Schultz or Colonel Klink?

« TracyGuy95376 wrote on Wednesday, Jan 13 at 03:44 PM »
8:48 p.m.: Police broke up a party on the 1800 block of Foxtail Way after receiving several calls of about 50 to100 kids in the area. One caller reported smelling drugs and said some of the kids looked younger than high school age.

Younger than high school age? Try younger than Junior High age. Of the apprx 100 kids that were there, the oldest was MAYBE 16, with the youngest being no older than 11. Party was thrown by 2 adults that have no relation to any of the teens they threw the party for- yet the 2 adults were right in the middle of the crowd partying with children. That's sick, and sad that they couldn't find anyone their own age (late 20's, early 30's) to party with- so they invited children instead.
« eltipp wrote on Tuesday, Jan 12 at 11:25 AM »
Here is the whole story on the graffiti. For whatever reason TP didn't carry this story:

TRACY — One man was booked on a civil rights violation and hate crime enhancement, and another on suspicion of vandalism, after police found racist graffiti on a Tracy office building Saturday night.

Police initally were called to Lowell Avenue and Tracy Boulevard on a report of two men fighting, said Sgt. Tony Sheneman. When they responded, officers found a substantial amount of freshly scrawled graffiti on the back of a dentist's office and on a nearby vehicle. The graffiti was derogatory toward African Americans and Jews, Sheneman said.

One of the men in the fight, 20-year-old Jacob Hicks of Tracy, had the same color of paint on his hands as was used for the graffiti. He was arrested on suspicion of vandalism, a civil rights violation and a hate crime enhancement.

The man he had allegedy been fighting with, 31-year-old Matthew Clowes, also of Tracy, was arrested on suspicion of vandalism.

The two told police they are followers of the hardcore hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse and are white pride enthusiasts. Sheneman said he did not know the cause of the fight.

After being treated in the hospital for injuries suffered while fighting, the men were booked into San Joaquin County Jail.

« logblog wrote on Tuesday, Jan 12 at 08:42 AM »
9:39 p.m.: Two men about 20 stole several pizzas from Safeway, 1801 W. 11th St., and took off in a green hatchback, nearly hitting an employee, a caller reported.

[Now that the 'season of giving' is offically over the two twenty-year-olds felt bad about not seeking contrition, so they inexplicably decided to donate food to a homless family.]

A green hatchback was observed parked at the Port of Stockton where two men were seen throwing uncooked pizzas into the bay with the hopes of feeding a homeless family of Seaguls.

« Vetdude88 wrote on Monday, Jan 11 at 08:30 PM »
Proof, Crime doesn't pay.
« reptlian wrote on Monday, Jan 11 at 08:19 PM »
"3:23 p.m.: A caller’s 12-year-old grandson and 18-year-old niece were in a fight on the 1100 block of Vallerand Road. The grandparent said one had a knife and the other had a pen, but they put them down and no one was hurt."

The twelve year old had heard an old adage in class today and tried to put into practice... "The pen is mightier than the sword". Although he never really heard to never bring a knife to a gun fight... which could have been a life saving tip in that situation.
« tomturkey wrote on Monday, Jan 11 at 08:17 PM »
only 99 cents lol
« ConcernedParents wrote on Monday, Jan 11 at 07:41 PM »
12:21 a.m.: Police detained two guys after graffiti was spray painted on a wall at Children’s Dental Fun Zone, 569 W. Lowell Ave.

The "artists" were delivered to the dentist office where they received free tooth drilling in exchange for the beautiful artwork.... sans the novocaine.

« ConcernedParents wrote on Monday, Jan 11 at 07:30 PM »
A caller reported at 6:52 p.m. Sunday two men robbed people at the 99 Cents Only Store, 1320 W. 11th St.

The caller said two men in there 20s with dark hooded sweatshirts, one of whom pulled a black handgun, stole the caller’s gold necklace and engagement ring.

The victim was out $1.98


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