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Someone caught a man on his back patio eating cigarette
butts after he had finished off two jars of mustard. The caller at 4:11 p.m. Tuesday
said the man had been warned several times not to trespass, but that he keeps returning
to the patio on the 2700 block of Naglee
Road. Police said the man may be arrested for
trespassing if he doesn’t stop.
Tracy
police responded to 223 calls for service Tuesday. The following is a sample of
those reports:
12:17 a.m.: A caller reported a group of people fighting at 540 Clarence Bromell St.
No one saw any weapons.
12:48 a.m.: Police saw four young guys tapping with a
baseball bat on the window of the shuttered Grantline Market, 504 W. Grant Line Road.
12:50 a.m.: A caller said her daughter was beat up on the
400 block of Clarence Bromell
Street.
2:08 a.m.: A caller noticed four people inside with the
lights on in what he said should be a vacant house on the corner of Georgetown Place
and Rockford Court.
2:17 a.m.: Police arrested three men and a woman after they
stole beer from Quick Stop, 1153 Lincoln
Blvd., and then took off running. Police caught up
with them seven minutes into the chase.
2:45 a.m.: A man was seen drunkenly punching a church sign
near Ninth Street
and Metcalf Court.
6:04 a.m.: A caller said a man dressed in a T-shirt and
jogging shorts collapsed near Corral Hollow and Grant Line roads with a
medium-sized dog leashed to his arm.
6:08 a.m.: A trucker said someone tagged his semi sometime
during the night with what appeared to be gang-related graffiti at 1650 W. Linne Road.
7:09 a.m.: A caller said someone stole the catalytic
converter from his car as it was parked at the Park and Ride, 2650 Naglee Road.
He refused to file a report and said he’d called just to let police know that
it was the second time the device was stolen from his car in that area.
7:39 a.m.: Someone reported that a homeless man appeared to
be asleep on the lawn outside Save Mart, 2005 N. Tracy Blvd. When police got
there, the man apparently needed medical attention, so they called an
ambulance.
8:20 a.m.: Police arrested a 30-year-old woman and a
33-year-old man on drug charges at Holiday Inn Express, 3751 N. Tracy Blvd.
8:48 a.m.: A woman said her son needs to be taken to the San
Joaquin County Mental Health Department because he was not well and that he’s
forced to sell drugs and give up his apartment to men who had threatened him
with knives and guns. The mother, the man’s conservator, said her son keeps a
knife in his apartment. The men she’d accused of threatening her son were arrested
on drug charges.
10:53 a.m.: A woman said she wants police to help her
convince her son to stop taking his pet pit bull to her house on the 800 block
of West Sixth Street.
11:05 a.m.: A caller said a couple has been living out of a
white pickup with a camper shell outside Wal-Mart, 3010 W. Grant Line Road. The caller said
that earlier in the day, the two pickup-dwellers were walking around in their
underwear and that they wash their hair and shower outside the truck every day.
11:55 a.m.: A man threatened his former employers, cussing
and telling them they’d “better watch out” because he can’t cash his paycheck
until later in the day, said employees at Pacific Precut, 100 W. Valpico Road.
12:07 p.m.: Police arrested a 34-year-old woman for
shoplifting at JC Penny, 3100
Naglee Road. Store employees caught the woman and
held her until cops showed up. Police recognized the woman from her prior
run-ins with the law.
1:56 p.m.: A man whistled at a woman and her friend, and
when they turned to look, they saw that he was masturbating near the railroad
tracks by Schulte Road
and Sycamore Parkway.
5:32 p.m.: A woman said her dad’s 2001 F-150 was stolen
earlier that afternoon and that two mini motor bikes had also been taken from
the 100 block of Alum Rock Court.
7:32 p.m.: A couple 8- or 9-year-olds used zip ties to cut
the circulation off the hands of a 6-year-old on the 900 block of West Ninth Street,
a caller reported.
8:08 p.m.: Two guys were seen spray-painting a wall near Gandy Dancer Drive
and Mars Court.
9:29 p.m.: A woman said someone hurled a rock through her
living room window while she was home on the 1600 block of Horse Shoe Loop.
9:41 p.m.: A tall, heavy, tattooed man was walking around the
swimming pool without a shirt in the Redbridge subdivision. Security said he’s
been given a warning for trespassing in the past.
• 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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"Someone caught a man on his back patio eating cigarette butts after he had finished off two jars of mustard. The caller at 4:11 p.m. Tuesday said the man had been warned several times not to trespass, but that he keeps returning to the patio on the 2700 block of Naglee Road. Police said the man may be arrested for trespassing if he doesn’t stop."
Stop what? Trespassing or eating cigarette butts with mustard? Even the grouchiest person can see the humor here I hope.
Dave Hardesty