Police log: Walmart loses $2,000 in one Black Friday theft
by TP staff
Nov 30, 2009 | 2792 views | 3 | 20 | |
At 6:23 p.m. on Sunday, a caller at Walmart, 3010 W. Grant Line Road, said someone took off with about $2,000 worth of merchandise on Friday.
The caller said the store has video and photos of the suspects.
The Tracy Police Department received 198 calls for service on Monday. The following is a sample of those calls:
Sunday (114 calls for service):
1 a.m.: At the Great Plate, 714 N. Central Ave., a 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of public drunkenness. A caller said the man was in the alley near the restaurant, trying to pick fights with security.
2:25 a.m.: In a traffic stop at 11th Street and Corral Hollow Road, a 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
2:48 a.m.: A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving near the corner of 22nd Street and Holly Drive.
5:32 a.m.: A man stole some beer from Chevron, 1960 W. 11th St., and took off in a white pick-up truck, a caller said.
11:49 a.m.: A caller at Target, 2800 Naglee Road, reported catching an employee shoplifting.
11:57 a.m.: A woman reported a 1989 Toyota Camry stolen from Tracy Park Apartments, 2800 N. Tracy Blvd.
2:25 p.m.: A woman on the first block of West First Street said someone, possibly one of her children, stole a laptop. She said the laptop wasn’t hers, it was delivered to her house by mistake, and she was holding on to it until the carrier could pick it up.
3 p.m.: A caller at the 99-cent Store, 1320 W. 11th St., said a woman was causing a scene by throwing things at employees.
3:47 p.m.: A woman was arrested on suspicion of petty theft at Sears, 3350 Naglee Road. She was cited and released and given a trespassing warning by Sears employees.
6:33 p.m.: A man on the 900 block of Atherton Drive said his girlfriend’s ex-husband has been sending him threatening text messages, saying “the pain is coming,” and that he’ll blow up the man’s house.
7 p.m.: At Rite Aid, 599 E. Valpico Road, a caller said two women stole some things from the store and left in a gray Honda Accord. An officer contacted one of the women, who said she took nothing and the store cannot prove the alleged theft. She was given a warning.
7:38 p.m.: A woman near Lammers Road and Westgate Drive said someone broke a window on her Toyota Camry and possibly shot at it with a BB gun.
8:34 p.m.: A caller on the 1200 block of Tennis Lane said his or her blue Nissan Frontier was burglarized and a stereo was stolen. The caller said there was also blood in the car.
9:50 p.m.: A 17-year-old girl was arrested on the 2300 block of Gibralter Lane on suspicion of child abuse. The girl’s mother said the teenager was sexually assaulting her other adopted child, a 13-year-old boy.
10:26 p.m.: A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest at Quik Stop, 1153 Lincoln Blvd.
Saturday (157 calls):
1:34 a.m.: At In-N-Out Burger, 575 W. Clover Road, a 23-year-old man with a $10,000 warrant for his arrest was taken into custody.
1:52 a.m.: A man on the 3100 block of Georgetown Place said his car was egged, along with a few others in the neighborhood.
9:06 a.m.: A caller at CVS Pharmacy, 3320 N. Tracy Blvd., said a man in a black leather jacket refused to leave the store. The man left a few minutes after the call.
9:12 a.m.: A woman went to the Tracy Police Department, 1000 Civic Center Drive, to say her ex-boyfriend told her that he stole a safe from her house. The woman also found a bag of bullets on her coffee table, left by her roommate.
11:13 a.m.: A caller said three young guys in hooded sweatshirts went into a backyard of a house on the third block of E. 21st Street that is probably vacant. An officer checked the area out, confirmed that the house was vacant, and said there was a broken front window, but nothing else suspicious.
12:11 p.m.: A caller at Motel 6, 3810 N. Tracy Blvd., said there was a man in one of the rooms that was unresponsive. The coroner was called to the motel.
12:12 p.m.: On the first block of North West Street, a caller said a window was broken on a house.
2:07 p.m.: A woman said someone stole her wallet at the Gap Outlet, 1005 Pescadero Ave.
3:51 p.m.: On the 200 block of West Carlton Way, a 45-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
5:17 p.m.: A teenager was arrested on suspicion of petty theft at Target, 2800 Naglee Road, and released to his mother.
7:40 p.m.: A caller said a man keyed his car at Texas Roadhouse, 2422 Naglee Road.
7:57 p.m.: Three teenagers were arrested on suspicion of battery after a fight near Central Avenue and Tracy Boulevard.
9:06 p.m.: At Wells Fargo Bank, 1900 W. 11th St., a 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
9:43 p.m.: In a traffic stop on the corner of 21st Street and Bessie Avenue, a 46-year-old man with a $50,000 warrant for his arrest was taken into custody.
10 p.m.: A 42-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence on the 2600 block of Evelyn Court.
11:37 p.m.: A teenage boy was arrested on suspicion of vandalism on the 400 block of West Lowell Avenue. A caller said that he had left some items on his doorstep “of a sexual nature.”
11:46 p.m.: Three guys in a white Chevrolet took off with an 18-pack of Bud Light from 7-Eleven, 2360 W. Grant Line Road, a caller said.
Friday (203 calls):
12:04 a.m.: A caller on the 1700 block of Thicket Court reported a robbery. The caller was unsure of what was taken.
12:09 a.m.: During a traffic stop at Grant Line Road and Tracy Boulevard, two men with $20,000 warrants for their arrest were taken into custody.
9:16 a.m.: A man on the 2900 block of Ray M. Gutierrez Lane said someone stole two dirt bikes from his side yard. The bikes were recovered at Souza Park, where at 10:32 a.m., a teenager was taken into custody.
10:38 a.m.: A man was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public at Chase Bank, 691 W. 11th St. A caller said the man was acting extremely drunk inside the bank and tried to leave in a car.
11:39 a.m.: On the second block of San Simeon Way, a caller reported someone slashed his or her tires Thursday night.
2:08 p.m.: A caller reported graffiti on the back wall of a business complex near Grant Line Road and Orchard Parkway.
3:04 p.m.: A man with a warrant for his arrest was taken into custody on the 900 block of West Ninth Street.
3:09 p.m.: On the first block of West Beverly Place, a 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance.
5:40 p.m.: A caller at Target, 2800 Naglee Road, said someone stole a woman’s wallet that was left on the counter.
8:06 p.m.: Three people were arrested on suspicion of robbery near Pete’s Liquor, 202 W. 11th St. A caller said they ran from the liquor store through the In-Shape City gym parking lot, holding knives.
10:37 p.m.: A woman on the 5100 block of Peerless Way said her car was burglarized Thursday night.
Thursday (86 calls):
12:48 a.m.: Police detained a 26-year-old man after a fight was reported at the Great Plate, 714 N. Central.
1:33 p.m.: Police arrested a 39-year-old man on suspicion of public drunkenness after a caller on the
2800 block of Ponte Mira Way reported a woman was crying outside a door while a man yelled at her. The man was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp.
2:18 a.m.: A man called police to say, “We need help,” but only knew he was somewhere on Palm Circle. He said everyone but him was drunk, and he was afraid to go outside to get the address. His cell phone showed he was at Locust Drive and Chestnut Avenue, and an officer stopped by 11 minutes later but people had already left.
6:49 p.m.: A man on the 1100 block of Nicholas Court reported two large dogs in his backyard charged him when he went outside. The dogs, a pair of Labrador retrievers he had never seen before, were taken to the animal shelter.
9:40 a.m.: A man with a staph infection called from a room at the Sutter Tracy Community Hospital, 1420 N. Tracy Blvd., to report his relatives stole stuff from his sister’s house on Ninth Street. He was asked to call back when he gets released from the hospital and gets better.
10:15 p.m.: A woman on the 1100 block of West First Street reported her two sons were in a fight. She later said her husband stepped in to stop it, but still asked for an officer to stop by. Neither son wanted to press charges.
10:43 a.m.: A woman on the 1000 block of Atherton Drive reported she was depressed because her husband wants to leave her. She said had had a small bottle of vodka, and wanted to hurt herself. An ambulance took to her to a Manteca hospital.
11:42 a.m.: A caller asked police to talk to the parents of a 2-year-old girl that was in the middle of the street on the 3100 block of Jerrold Zanzi Lane. The caller said the kid is constantly wandering around outside without her parents. An officer talked to the kid’s parents, who said they’d use a slide lock on their door so she could no longer get outside by herself.
2:23 p.m.: A caller reported seeing a boy about 11 slice the tire of a Toyota minivan on the 200 block of East Mount Diablo Avenue. Police detained a kid, but he wasn’t the suspect.
3:38 p.m.: A man said he yelled at four boys he saw throw a rock at the building of Extended Stay America, 2526 Pavilion Parkway. The boys were gone when police arrived 27 minutes later, and no damage was done to the building.
7:53 p.m.: A caller on the 2200 block of Carbona Lane reported hearing a man yelling at a woman, and things being thrown around. The caller said a 4-year-old has come over in the past and said “dad hits mom.”
9:38 p.m.: A caller reported following a driver “since on I-5” who couldn’t stay in his lane and drove very slowly on the freeway. Police pulled the guy over and gave him a ticket.
10:22 p.m.: A caller reported a guy punched a man and broke his jaw at 21st Street and Holly Drive.
11 p.m.: A woman reported six men were “smoking marijuana out of a pipe” near Best Buy, 2550 Naglee Road.
Wednesday (187 calls):
1:31 a.m.: Police arrested a 22-year-old man after a caller from Chevron, 1960 W. 11th St., said a guy with a revolver robbed the market. The suspect took off in a Buick LeSabre, the caller said, which was found by the California Highway Patrol in Castro Valley. A .357 magnum was also found.
5:38 a.m.: A woman reported two dogs attacked her dog while she was walking her pooch near the In-Shape Health Club, 101 N. Tracy Blvd. She said she fell down during the attack, and one of the two dogs was captured and taken to the animal shelter.
6:20 a.m.: A caller reported seeing a man trying to get into her neighbor’s backyard on the 700 block of Marie Angela Drive. She yelled at the guy when she saw him hanging on a fence, and police checked it out and found no one in the yard.
8:14 a.m.: A caller from Cook Collision, 2830 Auto Plaza Drive, reported three of “their” cars were broken into.
8:16 a.m.: A woman on the 1400 block of Harding Avenue reported her car was broken into, and that the suspect might have bled on the front seat.
8:47 a.m.: A man said he left his car overnight at Rite Aid, 599 E. Valpico Road, and that it was broken into.
9:54 a.m.: Police made an arrest after a woman on the 1200 block of Tony Stuitt Court reported that her ex-boyfriend was staying at her house, but refused to leave when she asked him to. Police claim the man hit an officer.
10:35 a.m.: A caller on the 2700 block of Rhett Court said she was locked in a master bedroom with her mother and brother she saw an intruder in the home. She said the guy walked out the back door after she screamed when she saw him.
11:46 a.m.: A woman on the 1200 block of Adam Street reported her 12-year-old son called to tell her there were two guys about 20 in their house, and the kid didn’t know who they were. The guys told her son they knew her nephew, and when the woman arrived home she saw them leave in a blue four-door Honda. She said the back door appeared to have been tampered with.
1:40 p.m.: A man told police he received a voicemail message by accident from a guy who works at Tracy Dodge, 3380 Naglee Road, that talked about “drug sales.” The caller said he exchanged cell numbers with the car salesman after having talked to him about buying a car, but believes the message was meant for someone else.
2:21 p.m.: A caller reported a group of teenage boys were walking around the Prime Outlets, 1005 Pescadero Ave., with empty backpacks “trying to steal from stores.” The boys were asked to leave after security guards followed them for awhile.
10:40 p.m.: A caller reported a garbage bin was on fire at Traina Elementary School, 4256 Windsong Drive. Firefighters said the small blaze was nearly out when they arrived.
11:28 p.m.: A caller from the Bonfare Market, 15 E. Grant Line Road, reported two guys, one with a pistol, robbed the place. The caller said it “appeared” to be the same guys who robbed the market last week.
11:49 a.m.: A caller at Target, 2800 Naglee Road, reported catching an employee shoplifting. { I GUESS HE USED HIS FIVE FINGER DISCOUNT }
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