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Written by Press staff report   
Monday, 17 March 2008

Tracy police dispatchers received 334 calls for service Sunday and Saturday. The following is a sampling of those calls:

Sunday:

1:38 a.m.: An employee at Rusty’s at 320 W. Grant Line Road said people cleared out of that bar after a man waived a handgun “in a threatening manner.” The man with the gun came in with several people but they were gone when police arrived.

1:51 a.m.:  A caller reported hearing glass breaking and screaming during a fight between a man and woman inside an apartment at the Paradise Apartments, 1441 Parker Ave.

1:53 a.m.: Three people needed an ambulance and one may have been knocked out after a fight outside the Great Plate, 714 N. Central Ave.

5:42 a.m.: A man stole a bottle of Jack Daniels liquor from Safeway at 1801 W. 11th St.

6:33 a.m.: A man on the 1800 block of Camelia Drive reported that he received a threatening phone call from a San Lorenzo man who’s dating his ex-wife.

6:40 a.m.: Police cited landscapers who were using leaf blowers too early in the day at Save Mart, 875 S. Tracy Blvd.

7:48 a.m.: Someone spray painted graffiti all over a police department radar trailer at Glenbriar and Oakridge drives.

11:20 a.m.: Someone stole perfume from Victoria’s Secret, 3200 Naglee Road.

12:49 p.m.: Someone spray painted graffiti on the back wall of Clark’s Pet Paradise, 124 W. 10th St.

1:35 p.m.: A caller from West High School at 1775 W. Lowell Ave. reported two men drove up in a red Pontiac van and stole a portion of the bleachers.

1:53 p.m.: A woman reported that her daughter shoplifted items from JCPenny at 3100 Naglee Road, but when the mother took her daughter to return the items, the girl pushed her mom and took off.

2:19 p.m.: A woman reported someone slashed her tires and those of several other cars on the 2300 block of Holly Drive.

2:33 p.m.: A caller reported possible drug dealing from a home on the 1600 block of Kavanagh Avenue because of all of the foot traffic coming and going.

2:45 p.m.: Four bindles of drugs were found in the back seat of a patrol car at the police station, 1000 Civic Center Drive.

2:50 p.m.: A woman reported that her son had a party over the weekend and some of her things were missing from the home on the 2900 block of Descanso Court.

4:53 p.m.: Someone smashed windows and slashed tires on a white truck at the West Valley Mall, 3200 Naglee Road.

5:26 p.m.: A caller reported seeing some guys steal a cell phone from someone’s coat at In Shape Health Club, 101 N. Tracy Blvd.

6:06 p.m.: A caller reported for men possibly dealing drugs near the south entrance of the First Baptist Church, 1935 Holly Drive.

6:17 p.m.: Someone from Sutter Tracy Community Hospital reported that someone was selling a diabetes drug called “glyburide” as a tranquilizer, and the caller said the drug “can kill people.”

7:53 p.m.: One woman was arrested and taken to San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp after a caller reported that two people were trying to guy a gift card with a stolen credit card at Home Depot, 2461 Naglee Road.

10:41 p.m.: A woman on the 300 block of West 10th Street reported someone was sending her threatening text messages.

11:30 p.m.: Police cited and released a man for shoplifting $60 worth of good from Orchard Supply Hardware, 2650 N. MacArthur Ave.

Saturday:

12:10 a.m.: A man on the 100 block of Portola Way called police to report a neighbor being too noisy, but afterward the neighbor and two of her sons cussed out the caller and threw rocks.

12:35 p.m.: Police detained four people seen by a caller breaking into a vacant house on the 500 block of Czerny Street.

1:13 a.m.: Police arrested a drunken man in the parking lot of Longs Drugs, 3320 N. Tracy Blvd., and took him to the San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp.

6:53 p.m.: A caller reported people vacuuming their car out on the 300 block of Morris Phelps Drive, and it was “way too loud.”

8:15 p.m.: A caller reported that restrooms at Larsen Park on the 1400 block of Central Avenue had been “heavily graffiti’d with gang tags.”

8:37 p.m.: Someone busted out the windows of a Honda Oddysey on the 1600 block of Treehaven Drive.

8:57 p.m.: Someone burglarized Tracy Boat Sales at 2341 Toste Road.

9:02 a.m.: A woman reported a home where possible drugs sales were taking place on the 2200 block of Tammi Court. She said a lot of people go in and out of the home during the day, and she reported previously seeing guns inside the home.

10:29 a.m.: Someone spray painted graffiti on the back alley wall of Richard’s Men’s Wear, 70 W. 10th St.

11:25 a.m.: A caller reported two guys spray painting graffiti on the back wall of a storage business at Interstate 205 and MacArthur Drive.

1:06 p.m.: A woman reported buying a cell phone with a credit card from Cingular at 2986 W. Grant Line Road, and after an employee there made a copy of her credit card number, charges at other stores appeared on her bill.

1:19 p.m.: Someone spray painted graffiti on the back alley wall of the Flower Pavilion, 98 W. 10th St.

1:44 p.m.: Someone burglarized a “fifth-wheel trailer” at JT Storage, 2460 Toste Road.

2:12 p.m.: A woman was arrested and booked into San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp and a man was arrested, released and cited for shoplifting at Wal-Mart, 3010 W. Grant Line Road.

5:21 p.m.: A caller reported that an 8-year-old girl was stuck with a syringe at an apartment complex on the 300 block of Central Avenue.

5:59 p.m.: A caller reported her neighbor buys rock cocaine from people parked in a sedan on the 800 block of West Ninth Street, and she believed five guys at the van were doing the same.

6:32 p.m.: Someone spray painted graffiti on playground equipment at Daniel Bush Park on the 1200 block of Crossroads Road.

6:58 p.m.: A man reported two boys armed with an ice pick and a knife tried to beat up his son on Elizabeth Court. He said the boys ditched their weapons under a car, but the weapons turned out to be a garden trowel and a stick. The boys went inside their Elizabeth Court home after police arrived.

7:23 p.m.: A caller on the 400 block of Gonzalez Street reported a pit bull got out of its yard and charged the caller, who threw rocks at it to keep it at bay. The dog also charged a neighbor.

8:38 p.m.: A caller from the Chevron gas station at 755 S. Tracy Blvd. reported a customer vandalized the place after a clerk refused to sell the customer tobacco.

9:43 p.m.: Police arrested a man on suspicion of drunken driving after he drove his Ford F150 into a tree at the West Valley Mall, 3200 Naglee Road.

9:49 p.m.: Someone vandalized a Hyundai Accent at Sears, 3350 Naglee Road.

9:57 p.m.: A caller reported several middle-school aged kids spray painting graffiti on sign and lamp posts.

• This column includes a sampling 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 report information about a crime: Crime Stoppers, 831-6847.

 

 

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written by Silly Me , March 17, 2008
1:38 a.m.: An employee at Rusty’s at 320 W. Grant Line Road said people cleared out of that bar after a man waived a handgun “in a threatening manner.” The man with the gun came in with several people but they were gone when police arrived.

I didn't know that there was proper way to wave a gun in bar? smilies/shocked.gif
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written by maybenotdumBcommenT , March 17, 2008
Also the streets were blocked off at The Great Plate. Now why didn't that make headlines.
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written by Nicki , March 17, 2008
Silly Me

Didn't you hear you must have a beer in one hand and the gun in the other smilies/tongue.gif smilies/tongue.gif
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written by ConcernedParents , March 17, 2008
maybenotdumBcommenT: Must have been this:

1:53 a.m.: Three people needed an ambulance and one may have been knocked out after a fight outside the Great Plate, 714 N. Central Ave.

Right across the street from the multi-million dollar Grand Theatre smilies/cry.gif
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written by maybenotdumBcommenT , March 17, 2008
Shamrock gets all over the front page, the Bowl Lounge gets all over the front page. Why is it we keep reading about fights at the Great Plate and not much info, just 1 1/2 lines.
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