A woman at Raley’s, 2550 S. Tracy Blvd., called police at 2:35 p.m. Wednesday to report that she bought a cell phone on Craigslist.org, but when she went to activate the phone, a Verizon employee told her it was stolen.

The caller said she talked to the phone’s previous owner, who said it was stolen in October from Tracy High School.

The caller said she would try to identify the person who sold her the phone from photos in a yearbook.

The Tracy Police Department received 156 calls for service Wednesday. The following is a sample of those calls. To read more, visit www.tracypress.com.

4:11 a.m.: Police arrested two boys and released them to their parents after a caller reported seeing someone break into a home on the 3000 block of Elsinore Drive. Police suspected least one of the suspects had gang ties.

5:05 p.m.: Police arrested a 36-year-old woman after a caller reported a woman used a baseball bat to bust a headlight and a window of the caller’s car in the parking lot of World Gym, 2340 East St.

8:49 a.m.: A woman on Menay Drive reported her “ex” is out of jail and “has started calling her” in violation of a court order. Police suspected the guy has gang ties and might have been involved in an arson.

9:16 a.m.: A caller on the 1800 block of Isabel Virginia Drive reported a license plate was missing from a 2005 Lexus RX330. Officers in Pleasanton found the plate, police said.

9:54 p.m.: A GPS device was stolen when a car was broken into on the 1500 block of Autumn Meadow Lane, a caller said.

10:07 a.m.: A 17-year-old girl on Tammi Court received phone calls from a guy who threatened to rape her and told her “she has only a limited number of days to live,” a parent told police. The threatening calls were recorded and saved on voicemail.

11:18 a.m.: Police arrested, cited and released a 27-year-old man with suspected gang ties on a $20,000 warrant.

12:17 p.m.: A caller said eight guys appeared to be trying to force someone into a van at McDonald’s, 1820 W. 11th St. Police said some of the guys worked at McDonald’s and at least a couple got into a fight. One man had a small cut under his eye, but no one wanted to press charges.

12:41 p.m.: Police arrested a 53-year-old man who had an outstanding $20,000 warrant after a caller reported he broke into her dead mother’s home. The man called a locksmith and got inside the house with a couple of friends, but the caller said she and her family didn’t want him there. The man started to have trouble breathing and was taken to the hospital.

1:44 p.m.: Two handguns were stolen from a home on the 1700 block of Egret Drive, a man told police. He said he returned home to find the place had been burglarized, and he was missing an SIG 9-mm and a .45-caliber Colt semiautomatic.

2:05 p.m.: A guy named “Mario” threatened to take a car back that he sold unless a caller on the 1600 block of Wall Street paid another $600, police were told. The caller said Mario went to his home and threatened him, and he didn’t owe another $600.

2:46 p.m.: A caller reported vandalism on the 1100 block of Gatetree Court.

2:48 p.m.: Graffiti was spray painted on “garbage enclosures” at the Prime Outlets, 1005 Pescadero Ave.

4:27 p.m.: A man said his fiancé’s 1996 Saturn was stolen from the 2800 block of Georgia Drive.

5 p.m.: A guy said three men about 18 pulled a knife on him and his girlfriend and robbed them at Poet Christian Elementary School, 1701 S. Central Ave. They got into a van and took off, he said.

5:17 p.m.: A caller asked for foot patrols for possible gang activity at the West Valley Mall, 3200 Naglee Road.

5:40 p.m.: Four guys got in a fight at Taco Bell, 915 S. Tracy Blvd., a caller reported.

8:20 p.m.: A woman reported her 18-year-old foster daughter who’s “mentally retarded” was upset and threatening suicide. The mother said the woman took a bottle of Tylenol, and ran around the park at Monticello School, 1001 Cambridge Place. She told police her daughter could get violent, and that there were three or four women trying to calm her down. Police took the 18-year-old to the hospital for treatment.

8:33 p.m.: A caller reported a gang fight inside the West Valley Mall, 3200 Naglee Road, where one guy used a belt as a weapon, and another had tattoos on his face and neck. One group had blue hats and the other wore red hats, some of which were left behind, the caller said, but they took off running. They were gone when police arrived 36 minutes later.

8:52 p.m.: A woman on the 1600 block of Lavelle Smith Drive said her husband heard a door slam at the house next door, whose residents were in Mexico. When her husband ran outside, she said he saw a guy run away and get into a white car and drive off. A bathroom window of the neighbor’s home was broken, the caller said.

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.