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Sirens broke the midnight silence of a Tracy neighborhood as police arrested a man after a foot chase on suspicion of stealing a case of beer.
A beer theft at 12:46 a.m. Wednesday sparked a foot chase
that ended in one arrest.
A clerk from the 7-Eleven at 455 W. Grant Line Road reported
that three guys walked into the store and took off with a 12-pack of beer.
Apparently they went into a home on Grant Line Road.
Several police cars combed the neighborhood with sirens
blaring after one suspect took off running from a nearby ball field parking
lot.
The man was caught after a short chase.
Tracy police responded to 205 calls for service on
Wednesday. The following is a sample of those reports:
12:14 a.m.: A caller reported seven kids “toilet papering”
homes near Elizabeth Court and Gianelli Street.
1:03 a.m.: A caller reported a group of guys who call
themselves “The Mob” showed up at his party on the 200 block of East Carlton
Way and soon thereafter, he realized his computer was missing. He said witness
saw the guys load the computer into their cars.
1:59 a.m.: A caller on the 3400 block of Crowley Court
reported a suspect keeps calling his house “making threats to kill him,” though
the caller said he doesn’t believe the threats.
2:10 a.m.: A clerk at the am/pm, 3425 N. Tracy Blvd.,
reported that a 35-year-old man stole a single can of Budweiser beer after the
clerk refused to sell it to him because it was after 2 a.m. Police warned him
about trespassing.
3:20 a.m.: A caller reported that a car crashed into a
parked car on the 1500 block of Lynch Drive, and that four kids hopped out and
took off running.
5:46 a.m.: A caller from the 1200 block of Barons Court
called the police to let them know that someone took $10,000 worth of copper
wire from a butter factory, and that a drug deal “will go down again today.”
Police said the man was mentally ill.
6:32 a.m.: A caller on the 1800 block of Mello Court complained
that a “rooster is sounding off every morning.” The dispatcher heard the
rooster over the phone.
8:25 a.m.: A caller from the 2000 block of Babcock Lane
reported that he found a backpack on his front lawn in the morning but that he
didn’t look inside it.
8:50 a.m.: A woman carrying a garbage bag walked into the
Shell gas station at 3725 N. Tracy Blvd., and got into an argument with the
clerk after he asked her to leave. She refused, and police warned her for
trespassing.
9:19 a.m.: A caller reported two pit bulls were “running
wild” and tried to attack the caller on the 400 block of Northgate Court.
Police got the dogs back into their yards.
11:25 a.m.: A woman asked police to go to her place in the
Green Oaks Mobile Home Park, 2929 N. MacArthur Drive, to pick up pistols that
she wants to turn over to the cops.
12:55 p.m.: A caller from Singular Wireless, 2986 W. Grant
Line Road, reported that a customer who shoplifted earlier in the day was back
in the store and refused to leave. He was gone when police arrived.
1:40 p.m.: A caller near Charlemagne Lane and Avila Street
reported a “vicious” boxer mixed breed dog barking and growling at people.
1:43 p.m.: A woman at the Tracy Convalescent Hospital, 545
W. Beverly Pl., reported someone burglarized her Chevy Tahoe.
2:09 p.m.: A caller reported a lot of “short-stay,
in-and-out traffic” at a house in Tracy and suspects drugs deals going on
inside. The caller said there’s a small baby in the house.
2:26 p.m.: A caller reported that someone stole his 2007
Ford Expedition from Best Buy, 2550 Naglee Road.
2:45 p.m.: A woman on the 1600 block of N. Tracy Blvd.
reported that her relatives keep calling her with threats to beat her up.
3:09 p.m.: A caller reported someone broke into his car and
stole his work boots and wallet at In Shape Health Club, 101 N. Tracy Blvd.
3:21 p.m.: A caller walked into the police station at 1000
Civic Center Drive to report that someone stole her purse in Modesto, and that
her credit cards were being used in Tracy.
3:24 p.m.: A man on the 200 block of Thomas De Haven Lane
reported that his brother’s car had been missing since Friday night. His
brother is in the San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp.
3:43 p.m.: A woman reported someone broke into 2005 Chevy
Silverado at the Tracy Convalescent Hospital, 545 W. Beverly Pl.
3:43 p.m.: A caller from the Bluemoon Tattoo Shop at 2306
East St. reported that he received an official looking bill for an inspection
from the fire department, but someone at the fire department told him it
doesn’t bill for inspections.
4:26 a.m.: A man walked into Sutter Tracy Community
Hospital, 1420 N. Tracy Blvd., with wounds he first said he got when he fell
down stairs. He came in for a second visit with head wounds that happened when
“his partner hit him with a 30-pound weight.” He left for a shelter in
Stockton.
5:04 p.m.: Two women were taken into custody on suspicion of
shoplifting at JCPenny, 3100 Naglee Road.
5:09 p.m.: A caller reported that three guys put a
neighbor’s couch in the middle of the street near Edgewood and Golden Leaf
lanes. The caller said they also had a sign pole. The couch was returned to its
owner.
5:31 p.m.: A caller asked police to check on an infant on
the 1500 block of Lincoln Boulevard. The 5-month-old had a tracheotomy and was
supposed to be seen by a nurse for eight hours a day, but the nurse told the
caller she had yet to hear from the 19-year-old mother.
5:42 p.m.: A caller from Levis, 1005 Pescadero Ave.,
reported two guys swiped clothes and ran off, but that the crime was caught on camera.
6:34 p.m.: A caller reported a couple at Fabian Park on the
200 block of Redington Drive “touching each other inappropriately.”
7:08 p.m.: A caller reported that a man in front of Discount
Liquors, 2321 N. Tracy Blvd., was “drunk as hell.” He was gone when police
arrived.
7:35 a.m.: A caller from the 2100 block of De Bord Drive
complained about loud music from a live band in a nearby garage.
7:54 p.m.: A caller from Discount Liquors, 2321 N. Tracy
Blvd., reported a man took a bottle of Bacardi and left. The caller said she
has video of the theft and knows where the guy lives.
7:58 p.m.: A caller reported that a niece and her friend
were at Tracy Mazda, 2680 Auto Plaza Way, and were in a squabble with a car
salesman. The caller said the niece bought a car the previous day but that the
salesman called it a mistake, wanted the car back and told her if she left
she’d be charged with grand theft auto. Someone from the dealership told police
the woman was mentally ill and refused to give the car keys back. The car was
eventually returned to the dealer.
8:08 p.m.: A caller complained that about 20 kids were
playing soccer in an enclosed field of Bill Schwartz Park at1800 Peony Drive
that’s posted “hockey only.” Police warned the soccer players.
8:09 p.m.: A caller from the Texas Roadhouse, 2422 Naglee
Road, reported a woman in a wheelchair crossed the street when a guy in a Chevy
Camaro stopped an inch short of hitting her, then started laughing about it.
9:33 p.m.: A caller from the Jacobson Warehouse at 2300
Chabot Court reported someone stole Gatorade from the warehouse over the
weekend, and that someone in a white pickup truck just loaded a bed-full of
Gatorade in a pickup and took off on Grant Line Road. The caller followed the
pickup but lost it on 11th Street.
10:04 p.m.: A woman on the 1500 block of Cuneo Court
threatened to get a baseball bat and gun and shoot a guy at her home who was
ordered by a court to stay away from the woman’s 14-year-old daughter.
•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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Why the little $h-ts.