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Two armed men robbed a gas station in the middle of the night Thursday.
 This Chevron gas station was robbed Thursday night by two guys with a gun. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
The men entered the store, flashed a black handgun and
ordered the clerk to lie on the floor while they took all of the money from the
cash register.
A customer told police that he pulled up to the store as the
men left, and they pointed a gun at him too. He said they drove off in a gold
Cadillac Escalade.
The Tracy Police Department received 717 calls for service
Thursday, Wednesday and Tuesday. The following is a sample of those calls:
Thursday:
5:18 a.m.: Someone spray painted graffiti on a large wall
near the playground at Freiler Elementary School, 2421 W. Lowell Ave.
9:04 a.m.: A caller from the Boys and Girls Club at 340 W.
Fourth St. reported a strong smell of marijuana on woman who dropped off her
child. The caller has spoken to the woman before about the issue and last month
was unable to release the child to the father due to the same issue. The mother
told the caller they smoke pot for medical reasons. Police made an arrest.
12:13 p.m.: A man reported someone stole his bicycle while
it was parked in front of Mi Esperanza, 918 N. Central Ave.
12:53 p.m.: A girl at West High School at 1775 W. Lowell
Ave. reported her father molested her last year.
12:57 p.m.: A woman moving out of a place owned by the
Housing Authority was seen taking a refrigerator and an air conditioner on the
2300 block of Holly Drive. She was told that’s government property and cannot
be taken.
1:01 p.m.: Police responded to a report of a burglary at the
Stein Continuation School at 650 W. 10th St.
2:30 p.m.: Someone wrote graffiti in a black marker on a
bathroom building, a sidewalk and on drainage pipes at Thoming Park, 1000
Cambridge Place.
3:04 p.m.: A caller reported graffiti on the 200 block of
West Valpico Road.
3:40 p.m.: A caller reported that a pit bull was attacking
other dogs inside the dog park at El Pescadero Park and that the dog’s owner
refused to put it on a leash. The pit attacked a Chihuahua and another dog, and
the woman got into an argument and was swinging a leash at the Chihuahua’s
owner.
3:50 p.m.: A caller reported someone stole a bicycle from
Williams Middle School, 1600 Tennis Lane.
4:57 p.m.: A caller two kids fighting while dozens of boy
and girls watched at Yasui Park at 490 Glenbriar Circle. Lots of kids started
to shove each other, but it broke up after the police were called.
5:08 p.m.: A shoplifter was taken into custody at Rite Aid,
1970 W. Grant Line Road.
5:25 p.m.: A caller reported someone put scratches all over
his car on the 2100 block of Diego Court.
5:48 p.m.: Two kids vandalized a bathroom with trash and
feces at Taco Bell, 2880 W. Grant Line Road.
6:28 p.m.: A caller reported that he keeps noticing things
missing from his front yard and suspects “tweakers” who frequent vacant home in
the neighborhood are the culprits.
7:49 p.m.: A woman reported someone stole her purse and is
using her friend’s identification to buy things at the Charlotte Russe clothing
store at 3200 Naglee Road.
8:54 p.m.: A caller reported a group of kids fighting behind
Mountain Mike’s Piazza, 870 W. Schulte Road.
Wednesday:
1:14 a.m.: Three men were reportedly causing trouble at the
Shamrock at 177 W. 11th St., threatening a caller and harassing a
woman at the bar.
1:26 a.m.: An ambulance driver at the Chevron gas station at
755 S. Tracy Blvd. reported people grabbed a bunch of energy drinks and took
off in a red Pontiac Sundbird. Police tracked down the car at 11th
Street and Lincoln Boulevard, towed the car and returned the goods to the gas
station.
8:59 a.m.: A caller reported a man threatened go to the
caller’s home and shoot the caller on the 1800 block of Camelia Drive.
9:07 a.m.: A caller reported a 16- 18-year-old boy got into
a neighbor’s backyard and tried to break into the house on the 400 block of
Loma Verde Drive, but took off running when an alarm sounded off. Police talked
to a boy who fit the description.
9:27 a.m.: A caller reported a crowd of kids watched two
boys fighting behind the bathrooms at Lincoln Park at Eaton Avenue and East
Street, and that bystanders video recorded the fight.
Noon: Police went to Monte Vista Middle School after a
caller from the school reported a drunken girl was in the office.
12:37 p.m.: A man reported a gray pit bull just tried to
attack him at Emerson Avenue and Parker Avenue, and that the dog was still on
the loose.
2:31 p.m.: A woman called from City Hall at 333 Civic Center
Drive to report a man who was irate at having his water turned off told her that
he’d be there in 10 minutes to “deal with her alone” and that she better call
the police.
2:48 p.m.: A man was arrested for shoplifting at Target,
2800 Naglee Road.
2:55 p.m.: A caller reported that someone broke into the
caller’s car and stole a car stereo on the 200 block of Ramona Way, and the
suspect left behind papers with a name on it.
3:09 a.m.: A caller reported a man driving a Buick Skylark
with a 24-ounce can of beer in his hand near Ninth and 11th streets.
Police pulled him over near East and 22nd streets, towed his car and
arrested him for drunken driving.
3:28 p.m.: A woman reported a kid threw a rock and cracked
her windshield while she drove near Tracy Boulevard and Sixth Street. The
caller contacted the kid’s mother, who agreed to pay for damages.
3:35 p.m.: A woman reported that prior to leaving her home
to pick up her son, she heard her garage door open on the 2300 block of Alamo
Court. She left and returned home to find her car had been burglarized, and she
was afraid someone might have been inside her house. She asked police to check
out the house before she went inside.
3:39 p.m.: A caller from Rite Aid at 1970 W. Grant Line Road
reported that two women packed their purses full of stuff from the baby
department. The women turned over the goods and left the store.
3:52 p.m.: A caller from the Tracy Press at 145 W. 10th
St. reported that a man on a bike at the corner of 10th and A
streets was overheard saying on his cell phone, “I stabbed someone! I stabbed
someone!”
6:23 p.m.: Someone burglarized a car at In Shape Health
Club, 101 N. Tracy Blvd.
9:13 p.m.: A man reported a dog broke through his fence and
got in his backyard on the 600 block of East Ninth Street, and he was afraid to
go in his yard.
Tuesday:
Midnight: A caller said that a person in line at Pizza Hut,
720 W. 11th St., refused to give a name but said something about being on
probation and parole and wanting to be arrested “so they have a place to
sleep.”
1:27 a.m.: A red 1996 Honda Civic with a black hood was stolen
from the driveway of a house on the 1100 block of Duncan Drive. The caller’s
roommate heard the car being driven away but did not see the driver.
2:26 a.m.: A caller reported that a white car hit a fire
hydrant at Alegre Drive and Florentine Way. Another caller told police that the
car had run over a front-yard fence and was driving away toward Corral Hollow
Road.
Police pulled the car over at Enyeart Road and McPeak Court,
found three women in the car, and arrested the driver on suspicion of drunken
driving. She was booked into San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp.
6:11 a.m.: A caller in western Tracy had a call
disconnected, and a California Highway Patrol officer who arrived on the scene
told police that the caller was a woman whose ex-boyfriend had choked her and
made threats on her life during a dispute over money. The suspect was
eventually found and arrested on suspicion of domestic violence.
7:37 a.m.: A caller reported that he saw people taking
copper off the roof of his boss’ house on the 600 block of D Street and loading
it into a maroon Ford Bronco. The three suspects left when the caller asked
what they were doing, and the caller grabbed onto the fleeing truck and was
dragged behind it. The caller said he “recognizes them from the past.”
9:01 a.m.: A caller told police that a yellow Ford had hit a
tree on the corner of Alegre Drive and Florentine Way. It was unclear if it had
anything to do with the drunken driver who hit a fire hydrant there earlier in
the day.
10:35 a.m.: Police received a report of a burglary at West
High School, 1775 W. Lowell Ave.
10:56 a.m.: The San Leandro Police Department reported that
a 2002 Honda Civic missing out of Tracy had been recovered with no damage to
the car.
11:12 a.m.: Vandals had spray-painted graffiti on a building
on the 900 block of North Central Avenue.
11:33 a.m.: A woman reported a man with black sunglasses
walking with a small child on Lincoln Boulevard near Vallerand Road. She said
that the man was touching himself while he walked and also threw something at
her car.
11:45 a.m.: Three youths were cited for possession of
counterfeit money at West High School, 1775 W. Lowell Ave.
12:07 p.m.: A caller at West Valley Mall, 3200 Naglee Road,
said that three men were trying to break into a car with coat hangers. It
turned out that the car belonged to the girlfriend of one of the men and that
the car keys were locked inside.
12:41 p.m.: A group of nine people, possibly gang members,
were reported fighting on the corner of 11th Street and Lincoln Boulevard.
2:01 p.m.: A student at West High School, 1775 W. Lowell
Ave., reported that she had been abused by her father.
2:29 p.m.: A caller from Touchdown Wireless, 33101 N. Tracy
Blvd., stole a cell phone. The caller said the suspect was upset about a phone
he had bought and stole the phone when the store would not give him his money
back for the one he purchased. The caller said the suspect hopped into a black
Chevy Silverado and left.
4:41 p.m.: A group of 10 kids was skateboarding at Glenbriar
Circle and James W. Smith Drive, and a caller said that traffic had to stop for
them to get out of the way.
5:09 p.m.: Two cars had to be towed away after an accident
at the corner of Corral Hollow Road and Lowell Avenue. No one was injured in
the crash.
5:17 p.m.: A caller reported that a Toyota Camry was
illegally parked in the loading zone in front of the Grand Theatre Center for
the Arts, 715 Central Ave.
6:28 p.m.: A woman said her son had been jumped by two
people at El Pescadero Skate Park on Grant Line Road. The woman said the
attackers tried to set the boy’s bike on fire.
6:38 p.m.: A gray Mitsubishi Eclipse and a white Mitsubishi
Eclipse were seen street racing on the 800 block of Mt. Oso Avenue. Police did
not find the racers.
7:32: p.m.: A caller on the 2100 block of Tennis Lane
reported that a man in a blue Honda Civic was at his home making racial threats
and comments and refused to leave.
9 p.m.: Someone at the Tracy Unified School District office,
1875 W. Lowell Ave., said that an unknown person had tried to use a counterfeit
ATM card and driver’s license to withdraw cash from his bank account at the
Paris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The suspect also tried to make a
withdrawal from the Treasure Island casino.
• 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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