Police pulled over a truck that matched the description of the one given by the caller and made two arrests.
Tracy police received 152 calls for service Thursday, Sept. 23. The following is a sample of those calls.
1:15 a.m.: A man was arrested at Starbucks, 569 W. Clover Road, after he triggered a motion sensor and police found the door unlocked.
4:03 a.m.: A caller requested police patrol the area around Holly Drive and Clover Road after seeing several homeless people in the area.
6:36 a.m.: A man was arrested on suspicion of spousal abuse in southwestern Tracy after he allegedly punched her. Police found the man “distraught and crying.”
8:37 a.m.: A man on the first block of West South Street told police that his football tickets were stolen, possibly by his grandson or his friends.
9:09 a.m.: Packages of work supplies were found on the corner of Cypress Drive and Hickory Avenue, and the caller said that it looked like they were stolen from a work site.
10:35 a.m.: A box truck that was reported stolen the day before was found near Denny’s, 3718 N. Tracy Blvd.
11:31 a.m.: A caller at Mi Esperanza, 900 N. Central Ave., reported that a man entered the market and threatened to kill the caller.
12:28 p.m.: A caller on the 500 block of General Lane said that a “gangster” assaulted him while he was at a barbecue.
12:45 p.m.: Police warned a man who has been habitually sleeping and charging his phone inside the Tracy Transit Station, 50 E. Sixth St.
2:12 p.m.: A man went to police headquarters, 1000 Civic Center Drive, to report that he lent his gun to a cousin a year ago and the cousin hasn’t returned it and won’t answer his phone calls.
2:50 p.m.: A man stole a bottle of vodka from SaveMart, 2005 N. Tracy Blvd., and ran off.
4:48 p.m.: A woman said she found the Chevy Camaro that was stolen from her garage on the first block of Ben Ingram Lane the night before.
6:10 p.m.: A caller said there were four teens smoking marijuana on the corner near Poet Christian School, 1701 S. Central Ave.
8:28 p.m.: Police, medics and fire crews responded to a crash on MacArthur Drive near Schulte Road. The driver was airlifted to a local hospital.
9:13 p.m.: A caller said a driver in a white Acura Integra hit the caller’s car in the City Hall lot, 333 Civic Center Plaza, and drove away.
10:22 p.m.: Police were alerted to a couple in a shouting match near 23rd Street and Parker Avenue, but it was just an argument and no crime had been committed.
10:59 p.m.: For the second time in the evening, a caller at Olive Garden, 3140 Naglee Road, reported a minivan with one headlight out circling the parking lot. The caller thinks the ex-boyfriend of an employee might be in the van.
• 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. To report information anonymously about a crime: Crime Stoppers, 831-6847.
One hundred and fifty years ago there would be no problem with "the peacemaker mentality." Now you may think I'm a bleeding heart liberal yet I believe in the death penalty and we should use it.
If somebody threatens you in public/home /place of business when will the rights of the public replace or re-emerge as the American justice system? Remember the guy in N.Y. who started carrying a handgun on the subway because he was tired of being mugged (I think this may have been as far back as the 70's) -the district attorney tried to put him in prison for attempted murder. They would later make about eight 'Death Wish' movies which extended Charles Bronson (one of my favorites of the McQeen, Coburn, Eastwood era) proved at least temporarily to statistically lower crime rates.
Criminal gangs and terrorist cartels use it..,
Why can't we the taxpayer?
But the cry from the public court of opinion was these methods were "to violent" (Dirty Harry, Bullet, add
Were there more than three creditable eye
witnesses to these threats?
Than I'd say "here ya go, (I've got the right to self protection) so I'll kill you back."
Were does that leave us?
One dead and a productive member of society doing time for manslaughter plus a wrongful death suit in civil court...
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11:31 a.m.: A caller at Mi Esperanza, 900 N. Central Ave., reported that a man entered the market and threatened to kill the caller.
"When your here you're treated like family."
-So they made my son get up and do the dishes...
-"shouting match". Not a verbal argument. No way. This one is a shouting match. Wow. That's a good one! Females speak with a higher pitch, so she probably won?