Police Log: Police chase stolen car
by TP staff
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Tracy police officers get ready to search a back yard on O’ Hara Drive for a suspect who fled from a stolen car Tuesday afternoon.  Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
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Police searched the 900 block of Belle Court at 2:10 p.m. for the driver of a stolen vehicle. Police recovered the vehicle, but the driver fled. Officers searched yards and homes in the court and surrounding streets for about an hour before calling off the search. Officers tried to talk to a woman, who was found to be the victim of a burglary. She claimed her items were inside the stolen vehicle. The incident is under investigation.

Tracy police received 128 calls for service Tuesday, May 17. The following is a sample of those calls.

12:53 a.m.: A caller reported a woman walking through the neighborhood on the 2100 block of Lighthouse Circle was looking into cars and checking door handles. Police gave her a warning.

9:19 a.m.: A caller reported finding a pile of children’s clothing with a name on it and a gas can in front of a house on the 1900 block of Thomas Dehaven Court.

9:46 a.m.: A business owner called to report a loose chicken and rooster in the parking lot of Orchard Supply Hardware, 1975 W. 11th St. Police were unable to find the birds.

10:32 a.m.: A caller reported receiving three disturbing phone calls on the 900 block of Alden Glen Drive. She said she is a teacher and the calls came from a man and a woman. She said she wasn’t sure if the callers were students of hers, but she wanted to document the incident.

11:18 a.m.: A caller reported his neighbor was on vacation and the neighbor’s van was missing from the garage on the 200 block of Granada Way. He wasn’t sure if it had been stolen and didn’t know how to reach the neighbor.

11:42 a.m.: A caller reported a van pulling a trailer hit a pole at the Shell station at 2355 W. Grant Line Road. He said the van had One Source Electrical Service on the side of it. He said the man denied doing it and drove away, but he called back later when the driver returned. Police are investigating.

12:53 p.m.: A caller reported a man inside Tracy Motorsports, 3255 Auto Plaza Way, ripping the sale signs off merchandise. He walked across the street and held one of the sale signs.

3:18 p.m.: A caller reported a woman in a Toyota stopped him and said he hit her car near Corral Hollow and Grant Line roads. He said he didn’t do it, but he agreed to exchange information. He said she refused to exchange information and wrote down his license plate number.

3:24 p.m.: A caller reported a man walking around Walmart, 3010 W. Grant Line Road, was rambling about J.F.K. and how he can kill people with a phone call. The caller asked police to talk to the man and tell him he wasn’t welcome back in the store, because he made employees and customers uncomfortable.

3:31 p.m.: A caller reported a loose dog attacking children at Tender Loving Care School, 2324 Parker Ave. She said the dog had been chasing the children and was now lying in the school driveway. Animal Control impounded the dog.

4:02 p.m.: A caller reported obscene phone calls to her home on the 1900 block of Valley View Drive. She said the caller was a former coworker at Round Table Pizza. She said he called her and texted to thank her for getting him fired for sexual harassment. Police called the man and told him to stop calling her.

4:33 p.m.: A caller reported an East Indian man was smoking a bong in a park on the 2200 block of Summergate Drive.

5:03 p.m.: A caller reported a man was cutting a chain link fence on Beechnut Avenue, near Palm Circle, with wire cutters. He said the man was with two women and a minor. Police could not find the group.

5:45 p.m.: A woman flagged down an officer and reported her 5-year-old grandchild was missing on the 2900 block of Butler Drive. She said she checked the area and could not find the child. Police found the child with her mother, who picked up the child without telling the grandmother.

5:59 p.m.: A caller reported her landlord blocked her driveway on the 2300 block of East Grant Line Road. She said she was evicted, but did not have to vacate until June 17. Police checked, and found she was served with a 30-day notice Tuesday.

6:59 p.m.: A caller reported teenagers destroying a field at Tracy Ball Park, 2001 Bessie Ave., by playing football on a baseball diamond. He said the park is closed. Police checked and found the dirt was disturbed, but not destroyed. The caller said he didn’t see them do it, but he suspected that group of kids because they were dirty.

8:22 p.m.: A caller reported seeing a group of people in a field fighting near Glenbrook and MacArthur drives. A second caller said the fight was taking place at the end of Jason Court. They were gone before police arrived.

10:44 p.m.: A caller reported a loud, drunken neighbor on the 1100 block of Mamie Anderson Lane. Police spoke to the roommate and he said they would take it inside the house. Police issued a warning.

11:58 p.m.: A caller reported a man walking down the street with a chrome gun tucked inside his waistband near Bonfare Market, 15 E. Grant Line Road. Police stopped a man and found he was carrying a chrome chain and not a gun.

• 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.

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