The Tracy Police Department received 289 calls for service on Tuesday and Wednesday. The following is a sample of those calls:
Wednesday (135 calls):
2:19 a.m.: Police arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of public drunkenness at the Shamrock, 117 W. 11th St.
8:04 a.m.: A caller reported a car was broken into and its stereo was stolen at the Paradise Apartments, 1411 Parke Ave.
8:12 a.m.: A caller at Tracy High School, 315 E. 11th St., reported leaving her purse unattended for a moment when someone swiped her iPhone.
9:20 a.m.: Police arrested a man on suspicion of receiving stolen property on the 1900 block of Woodcrest Court. Police found a 42-inch plasma television reported stolen from Alameda County, other electronic equipment and power tools.
11:40 a.m.: Police called an ambulance for a man on the 100 block of East Eaton Avenue who took pills to kill himself but passed out in a car as he tried to drive himself to the hospital.
12:27 p.m.: Police arrested a 30-year-old man after a possible “road rage” incident at 12th Street and Parker Avenue. The man’s pickup was towed.
12:45 p.m.: A woman called from the Quik Stop, 1153 Lincoln Boulevard, after a guy in a puffy blue jacket said he would slap her “because she was looking at him as he walked by.”
12:59 p.m.: A woman reported kids playing basketball in the street on the 1400 block of Promenade Circle damaged her car but refused to stop playing. She said a basketball hit and dented her fender, though she said she didn’t see it happen. Parents later picked up the kids.
2:41 p.m.: A woman returned home to the 500 block of West 10th Street to discover her house her been broken into.
2:54 p.m.: Police arrested a man on a $10,000 outstanding warrant and towed his white Cadillac from Central Avenue and Junior Harrington Way.
3:11 p.m.: A caller said he was walking home with friends when two guys got out of a silver four-door Honda and swiped his iPod and cell phone on the 1600 block of Parkside Drive. The suspects drove off toward Corral Hollow Road.
3:24 p.m.: A caller from Top Shelf Manufacturing, 1851 Paradise Road, reported “two employees” threatened him while he was at work, and said his car was vandalized, possibly by the same guys.
3:47 p.m.: An employee at the Tracy Family Practice reported the daughter of a patient on the 200 block of Ridgeview Drive left a note saying her mother, 56, was “being abused mentally and physically by her son.” The note said the woman has seen a doctor about back pain, headaches, anxiety and depression but the doctor has seen no bruises on the woman.
3:58 p.m.: A man reported his 16-year-old stepson was inside the home “destroying things” on the 100 block of West First Street.
4:19 p.m.: Police arrested an 18-year-old woman and a 31-year-old woman on suspicion of shoplifting at Sears, 3350 Naglee Road. Police had a Honda Accord towed.
7:04 p.m.: A woman reported five kids jumped out of a car and tried to beat up her son on the 700 block of Tom Fowler Drive, threw a brick at her and pushed her down.
Monday (154 calls):
4:05 a.m.: A woman on the 900 block of Winter Lane reported someone in a Ford Explorer “just threw a big rock” through her second-story window.
9:50 a.m.: Police arrested a 36-year-old man at Perko’s, 1321 W. 11th St., on suspicion of public drunkenness after he reportedly falling down in front of the restaurant.
12:42 p.m.: A woman at the Chesapeake Bay Apartments, 2941 W. Lowell Ave., reported her boyfriend choked her during a fight and something hit her on the head. He then took off with her keys and ended up locking her and her 7-month-old daughter out of the apartment, she said. Police arrested guy on suspicion of assault.
2:38 p.m.: A man taken to the Sutter Tracy Community Hospital while drunk was “starting to get belligerent” with workers there, a caller reported. The caller later said he got his “walking papers” and was leaving the property sober.
3:34 p.m.: A caller from the Imaging Center, 1530 Bessie Ave., reported a guy was standing in his driveway near an ambulance station screaming at passing cars, “Five years of hell with AMR!”
4:40 p.m.: A caller from a computer store on the 2300 block of North Corral Hollow Road reported the owner of the store was in a fight with a customer. The 35-year-old owner apparently bloodied a customer in his 60s, police were told.
5:28 p.m.: A house and car were broken into on the 200 block of Clover Road, a caller reported.
5:51 p.m.: A caller reported about eight people in New Harmon Park, 2131 Hillcrest Drive, smoking drugs and possibly selling them. The kids were asked to leave the park.
8:07 p.m.: A caller reported hearing a few gunshots at Thoming Park, 1000 Cambridge Place. A second caller said kids were setting off fireworks, which an officer confirmed, but kids ran off before they could be stopped by police.
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 anonymously report information about a crime: Crime Stoppers, 831-6847.
And why does the shamrock get people drunk and call police to tell them about it?
"12:45 p.m.: A woman called from Quickstop, 1153 Lincoln Boulevard, after a guy in a puffy blue jacket said he would slap her "because she was looking at him as he walked by."
What gave it away? The 'puffy blue jacket' or didn't things used to be the other-way-round?