At 9:28 p.m., a father and daughter had an argument during which the father threw a stuffed animal at the daughter, who in turn called police when he left the room to tell them what he did. Police arrived at the home in central Tracy and arrested the man after police learned that the man had a $35,000 traffic warrant out for his arrest.

Tracy police responded to 471 calls for service from Friday, Nov. 5, to Sunday, Nov. 7. The following is a sample of those calls.

SUNDAY

• 12:28 a.m.: A man told police that his wife was driving their white car around Tracy — after having consumed alcohol and marijuana — and was maybe heading to The Great Plate on Central Avenue or to a bar on Grant Line Road, but she planned to meet him at a motel at 2 a.m. The man said he didn’t want police to tow the car, and instead wanted to come pick it up.

• 2:28 a.m.: Someone driving a green car apparently drove through stop signs and then drove on the wrong side of 11th Street, said a caller. Police didn’t find the driver.

• 8:53 a.m.: A car was stolen during the night from the 1400 block of Tennis Lane.

• 9:51 a.m.: Someone’s car was stolen after midnight from the 2900 block of Gomes Drive.

• 11:58 a.m.: A woman in central Tracy was on the phone with a caller who didn’t ask for her money or credit card information, but did say he would drop $250,000 off at their house tomorrow at 11 a.m. Then the woman’s husband got on the phone to ask some questions, the caller became “belligerent.”

• 12:41 p.m.: Paint was strewed “all over a classroom” at Williams Middle School, 1600 Tennis Lane.

• 2:14 p.m.: Someone called because a man pushing a “car cart” was going inside the port-a-potties at Plasencia Fields, 2200 Krohn Road.

• 3:20 p.m.: A reportedly drunken man staying at Motel 6, 3810 N. Tracy Blvd., started yelling at a housekeeper there. Staff removed him from his room.

• 4:23 p.m.: A caller at Wienerschnitzel, 2870 W. Grant Line Road, said a little girl walked up to the counter, and a man in his 30s came up from behind her, grabbed her jacket, and wrapped his arm around her neck and mouth. The caller said the man looked around and kissed the girl’s head to “make it seem like he was her father.” Then, the man took the girl inside the men’s restroom for 15 minutes, and three flushes could be heard from inside. The man and girl left in a truck, the caller said.

• 4:57 p.m.: Two women were arrested for shoplifting at Sears, 3350 Naglee Road.

• 7:30 p.m.: Someone found an injured dog with its head stuck in a gate on Grant Line Road near Parker Avenue. A car might have hit the dog, the caller said. The caller ended up taking it to a veterinary hospital in Manteca.

• 9:02 p.m.: A woman in central Tracy called police because her 9-year-old son threw something at her and it hit her eye, and she said this isn’t the first time he has thrown things at her. She called while trying to keep her son from pushing open the door of the room she was in, and then called herself “weak” for hiding in the bathroom. Police arrived and talked to the woman about parenting and the son about listening to adults.

• 10:39 p.m.: A drunken man on Chester Drive called police after hearing a gunshot go off. He was advised to stay inside, due to his intoxicated state, while police checked the area. They didn’t find signs of a gunshot being fired.

SATURDAY

• 12:25 a.m.: For over an hour, bright lights were on at Kimball High School, 3200 Jaguar Run, and loud noises could be heard coming from the school. It turned out that janitors were cleaning the stadium bleachers after the night’s football games.

• 12:54 a.m.: A teenage boy wearing a Giants’ baseball cap gave a store clerk $20 and then left with the beer he had selected at 7-Eleven on West Grant Line Boulevard. His maneuvering gave the clerk no time to ask the boy to prove he was old enough to purchase beer. Police did not find him.

• 1:51 a.m.: Two men arrived in separate cars and argued with each other as they entered Nations on the 3500 block of North Tracy Boulevard. Someone called police, fearing one man had weapon tucked in his pants, but that man soon left the restaurant, and the other man stayed to order food. The caller thought the fight might have been caused by “road rage.”

• 4:37 a.m.: A woman was spotted driving eastbound on the wrong side of Interstate 205 near the Tracy Boulevard exit.

• 9:07 a.m.: Someone broke into a vehicle on the 1600 block of Court Drive and took the car stereo.

• 9:35 a.m.: Several vehicles were broken into at Landmark Place on the 200 block of Grant Line Road.

• 10:18 a.m.: A 12-year-old boy was reportedly running along side passing cars while waving a “carwash” sign near the intersection of 11th Street and Holly Drive.

• 10:31 a.m.: Someone flagged down a patrol car driving near Central Avenue and Eighth Street after witnessing a boy “kicking a dog” on Third Street. Police spoke to the boy’s parents.

• 11:43 a.m.: A caller said someone broke into his van and stole the car stereo sometime in the past hour on the 100 block of East Grant Line Road.

• 12:18 p.m.: Someone tried to park in one of two handicap parking spots at In-N-Out on West Clover Road, but both sports were occupied by vehicles that didn’t have handicap plates or placards. One of the vehicles left in the meantime, but the caller still wanted the other vehicle ticketed.

• 1:42 p.m.: An employee at The Great Plate on the 700 block of North Central Avenue called police after a regular customer called employees there “jerks,” said they would “all be killed” and left. Police were unable to locate him.

• 1:45 p.m.: A caller witnessed a man running after two teenage boys and yelling, “stop them, stop them,” at the park adjacent to Villalovoz Elementary School on the 1500 block of Cypress Drive. The caller thought the teenagers had taken the man’s wallet.

• 2:38 p.m.: Someone told police a person living on the 2900 block of MacArthur Drive had about 20 very sick cats. Police checked it out and found the person actually had six cats. The cat owner was advised to “get rid of all but three” of them.

• 4 p.m.: A woman asked police to be present while she picked up her stuff from her ex-boyfriend’s house in southwest Tracy.

• 4:40 p.m.: A woman came home to discover her house was burglarized on East Grant Line Road.

• 4:40 p.m.: Two neighborhood boys said they would “shoot up” a woman’s house on the 400 block of Marie Avenue. They earlier told the woman’s nephew they would beat him up if he didn’t give them $250. Police spoke to the boys’ guardians.

• 5:13 p.m.: An employee at JZ Auto Sales sold a car to a woman on Nov. 1, but today the employee discovered she used a stolen credit card to pay for it. When he called the woman, she denied the card was stolen, and then didn’t answer any more of his calls.

• 5:22 p.m.: A caller living near Icardi Park on the 2500 block of Russell Street said the smell of marijuana was coming in through her windows because a man was smoking pot in the park.

• 6:04 p.m.: After buying a vehicle for $600 from someone living on the 1900 block of Vallerand Road, a man noticed that while the vehicle tags showed it was registered through 2011, the paperwork inside showed the vehicle was not current on its registration.

• 8:27 p.m.: A caller’s phone rang on the 200 block of Lara Lane, and when she picked it up, the woman on the other end said she would kill the caller and her son — except, the caller doesn’t have a son. The caller suspected the woman had the wrong number. Police got a hold of the woman, who said she made a mistake, was sorry, and would not dial that phone number again.

• 9:06 p.m.: Someone heard what sounded like child abuse — a female screaming at a child — coming from inside an apartment in central Tracy. Police knocked on some doors, but weren’t able to find signs of abuse in any apartment with children in it. One man with three children said he yelled at his dogs earlier, but the kids seemed unfazed.

• 9:55 p.m.: A “heated verbal” argument broke out between 10 people dining at Oxus Kabob House, 430 W. Grant Line Road. After most of the group was escorted out of the restaurant, punches flew between a few of them outside. An onlooker put one fighting man under citizen’s arrest.

• 11:45 p.m.: Several loud parties prompted callers to call police tonight, including this one on the 300 block of Violet Court.

FRIDAY

• 4:12 a.m.: After pumping gas at Safeway Gas Station, 1987 W. 11th St., a man fell asleep inside his van, even though it was still parked at the pumps. He continued to snooze for “several hours,” according to a caller who had tried to wake him. The man kept sleeping until police showed up.

• 8:55 a.m.: A caller said a motor home parked near Etta Way and Dorothy Lane was blocking the sidewalk, forcing children to walk in the street to get around it.

• 9:07 a.m.: A woman was standing in the roadway, doing “about faces” and talking to herself near Blockbuster Video, 865 S. Tracy Blvd. Police gave her a warning.

• 9:21 a.m.: Employees at California Check Cashing, 701 W. 11th St., called police when a man came in to pick up cash for a fraudulent check he dropped off the day before. The employees tried to keep him there until police arrived.

• 10:48 a.m.: An employee at Valley First Credit Union, 951 N. Central Ave., said a man came into the lobby, looked around and left. Police were unable to locate him, but they told the employee to call back if he returned.

• 11:19 a.m.: A woman said 10 minutes ago, a man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt was in her backyard on the 2700 block of Rhett Court, but he ran away when he saw her.

• 12:21 p.m.: An employee at Savemart, 875 S. Tracy Blvd., said someone was soliciting money on the right-hand side of the store, but soliciting is only allowed on the left-hand side. The solicitor refused to move over, even after employees explained the rule.

• 1:17 p.m.: A man reported an episode of road rage at the intersection of Corral Hollow and Grant Line roads in which a woman in her car “cut him off” and then stuck her middle finger out at him. She then followed him when he drove to a nearby parking lot.

• 2:01 p.m.: A caller said a seemingly crazy man was wandering around and carrying a baby “like a sack of potatoes” in the Savemart parking lot, 875 S. Tracy Blvd. A woman was with them, too, but all three were gone when police arrived.

• 2:56 p.m.: Someone noticed a man was walking up to houses, checking to see if the doors were unlocked and looking inside parked vehicles on Schleiger Drive.

• 3:01 p.m.: A dog got loose from a vehicle parked next to Petco, 2888 W. Grant Line Road. Store employees chased after the dog and were able to catch him, however, they couldn’t find the dog’s owner, so they kept the animal inside the store and waited for an animal control officer to arrive.

• 3:11 p.m.: A caller on the 500 block of Yosemite Drive said his house was burglarized during the night. He suspected a former roommate did the deed, because the man also stole stuff when he lived in Cleveland. Police found someone downtown who fit the roommate’s description, and they ended up arresting him for having possession of the caller’s stolen cell phone — but not for stealing it.

• 4:10 p.m.: A teenage boy snatched a woman’s purse in Savemart, 2005 N. Tracy Blvd., and ran off with it. The store manager chased after him, but the boy escaped by jumping over a wall behind the store. Police found and arrested the alleged purse nabber several minutes later in an apartment complex adjacent to the store. They also located the woman’s purse.

• 4:48 p.m.: A landscaper hit a gas line on the 2500 block of Pebble Creek Court, and gas began to flow out if it. Firefighters soon arrived to nix the potential fire hazard.

• 5:22 p.m.: A house window broke on the 1300 block of Christina Drive because the neighbor was throwing rocks at it, according to the house owner.

• 5:25 p.m.: A woman called police while driving near the intersection of Amaretto Drive and Schulte Road, because someone in another car was following her and trying to run her vehicle off the road. When police caught up with them, witnesses to the apparent bout of road rage said both the caller and the other driver were acting inappropriately and threatening each other. As a result, neither party pressed charges.

• 5:29 p.m.: A teenage boy was shooting a hunting rifle at a mound of dirt in a field behind a business on Chabot Court near Grant Line Road, according to a caller. The caller talked to the boy after his initial call to police and found out he lives at a nearby dairy farm.

• 5:58 p.m.: Someone spotted three women rolling a marijuana joint at Slayter Park, 1405 Suellen Drive. Police asked them to leave the park.

• 7:25 p.m.: A woman was going door to door and selling tamales from a cart along the 2900 block of Lincoln Boulevard, said a caller. Police soon warned her that doing so goes against city ordinance.

• 7:38 p.m.: Someone said a truck occupied by three women was being driven around recklessly behind Tracy High School, on Eaton Avenue and Franklin Court.

• 8:26 p.m.: A caller saw remote-control airplanes flying low to the ground, and possibly distracting nearby drivers on Tracy Boulevard and Valpico Road.

• 8:35 p.m.: Eight men wearing “all red” clothing were standing near 21st Street and handing things off to various vehicles that pulled up to them and then drove away, said a caller.

• 9:11 p.m.: Three teenage boys armed with a pocketknife jumped a man’s stepson while he was walking home in central Tracy. The knife “grazed” the boy, but he didn’t need medical help, according to the man. Police later spotted people matching the teenagers’ descriptions, but didn’t make any arrests.

• 9:41 p.m.: A man was sitting on his porch on the 1500 block of Cindy Way when he heard the continuous sound of BB pellets hitting nearby vehicles and trees, but he didn’t know where the shooting was coming from. When police arrived, they found the shooters, who were really firing off relatively harmless plastic Airsoft BBs, which generally are too slow and lightweight to cause any damage.

• 10:42 p.m.: More callers were worried about low-flying remote-control airplanes near Tracy Boulevard and Valpico Road. One caller said she had to “slam on her brakes” to avoid running over one of the toy planes that crashed in front of her vehicle. Police found the remote pilots, who then decided to stop flying for the night even though they weren’t violating any laws.

• 11:11 p.m.: Complaints of a “very loud” party, which had partygoers “screaming and yelling” outside, brought police to a home on the 1300 block of Holly Drive. The party’s host agreed to keep the noise down, and police warned that he would be cited if he didn’t. A handful of other callers reported other noisy parties in town.

• 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.