Police Log: Man shoots window of vehicle
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A tow truck clerk called to report that a man driving a pickup shot out a vehicle window at Borges Towing, 850 N. MacArthur Drive, at 1:14 p.m. He said the man was pulling a flatbed with bins of scrap iron and left going west on 11th Street. Police checked and found that the driver likely used an airsoft gun. The incident is under investigation.

Tracy police received 138 calls for service Monday, June 4. The following is a sampling of those calls.

2:29 a.m.: Police arrested a 47-year-old man after a caller reported a scraggly-looking man ringing the door bell on the 100 block of Adobe Lane. He said the man, who was barefoot, then went and stood in the driveway. The man was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public.

7:55 a.m.: Police arrested a 52-year-old man on suspicion of embezzlement at Target, 2800 Naglee Road. A clerk at the business said the man, a store employee, had taken $900 worth of items over the past year. He was booked into San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp, and police are investigating.

11:02 a.m.: A man was seen tinkering with the light poles near the International House of Pancakes, 3120 Naglee Road. Police talked to the man, who said he worked for the West Valley Mall.

11:07 a.m.: A business clerk called to say that surveillance video caught someone vandalizing the windows at Budget Electric, 1204 Holly Drive.

1:01 p.m.: Police called off a search following the return of a woman who had walked out of the Sutter Tracy Community Hospital emergency room, 1420 N. Tracy Blvd., about an hour earlier with an IV tube attached to her arm.

3:43 p.m.: A caller said a man riding a bicycle was looking into houses near Carlton Way and East Street. He was gone before police arrived.

5:21 p.m.: A woman told police she lost her wallet at Raley’s, 2550 S. Tracy Blvd., and someone used her credit cards. Police are investigating.

5:28 p.m.: A woman said someone might have shot her cat with a pellet gun when they broke into her house on the 400 block of Wagtail Drive.

5:38 p.m.: A mall official called to report that a security officer at West Valley Mall, 3200 Naglee Road, had been watching four teenage boys wandering the parking lot area for two hours. He said the guard saw one of them get into a big rig marked “night transportation” and drive away, and security lost track of the other three teens. Police found that the license plate number for the big rig was not on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

7:15 p.m.: A briefcase was reported as stolen from a pickup parked outside of Chili’s Grill & Bar, 2030 W. Grant Line Road.

9:17 p.m.: Police issued a warning to a group of people found sitting around a campfire in MacDonald Park, 55 N. Central Ave.

• 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. Charges may have been added or dropped as of press time, and all suspects are assumed innocent until proven guilty. To report information anonymously about a crime: Crime Stoppers, 831-6847.

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