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Tracy police officers, along with a K-9 unit, search yards on Petrig Street after a caller reported at 12:18 p.m. Monday that two boys in a dark gray Toyota at Kern Street and Petrig Court seemed suspicious. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
The woman went upstairs, locked herself in a bathroom, called police and armed herself with a baseball bat, she said.
She said she heard a knock on her bedroom door, and police showed up and noticed a screen had been removed in an attempted burglary, but the guy was gone.
Police said a second suspect might have been involved associated with a gray 1990s Honda.
The Tracy Police Department received 179 calls for service on Monday. The following is a sample of those calls.
6:07 a.m.: A dead cat was taken away from Sixth Street near West Street.
6:50 a.m.: A caller reported two guys at Mad Hatter Tattoos, 209 W. 10th St., who were peering into windows “but trying to act normal when people drove by.” Police arrested one man on suspicion of drug possession.
8:34 a.m.: Petty theft was reported on the 4600 block of Glenhaven Drive.
8:39 a.m.: Police were told of “obscene” phone calls made to someone on the 300 block of West 22nd Street.
8:41 a.m.: Vandalism was reported on the 4100 block of Glenhaven Drive
8:43 a.m.: Police went to Millennium High School 51 W. Beverly Place, on a report of petty theft.
9:03 a.m.: A residential burglary was reported on the 700 block of Everglades Lane.
9:12 a.m.: Police went to Kimball High School, 3200 Jaguar Run, on a report of petty theft.
9:14 a.m.: Police were told a home was burglarized on the 1600 block of Southbrook Street.
9:19 a.m.: A caller from the Diamond Meat Co., 1915 N. MacArthur Drive, reported graffiti was spray painted on a vehicle and gas was siphoned off.
9:47 a.m.: A caller reported a dead cat was in the parking lot Lowest Price Auto, 64 W. 11th St. Police took it away.
10:24 a.m.: A caller reported someone threatened an employee at Save Mart, 1950 W. 11th St.
10:38 a.m.: A case of petty theft was reported on the 1700 block of Alegre Drive.
10:53 a.m.: A burglary was reported on the 4300 block of Glenhaven Drive.
12:18 p.m.: A woman reported that two boys at Kern Street and Petrig Court in a dark gray Toyota seemed suspicious. The guy with a hooded sweatshirt took off a pair of gloves, and was later seen in the backyard of a home, “putting something over a fence,” before he “kneeled down in the bushes.” An officer spotted the two hopping fences, and one took off running in a nearby park, while the other “crawled along the fence by the playground.”
One was detained at gunpoint, and police said the found “the loot from Lindsay Lane” in the front yard of a suspect’s home, where officers “made contact with the suspect’s mom.”
1:08 p.m.: A caller reported returning home to the 4400 block of Lindsey Lane to find “the side window open” and the home burglarized.
1:11 p.m.: Two guys in their 30s stole shoes from Van’s Shoes, 1005 Pescadero Ave., a caller reported.
1:18 p.m.: A woman at David A. Simpson, Inc., 37 W. 10th St., said her husband called to make “vague threats” about “coming to the business to take care of things.”
1:44 p.m.: Police went to Sunset Liquors, 2355 Parker Ave., on a report of petty theft.
1:48 p.m.: A woman reported a kid at North Elementary School, 2875 Holly Drive, threatened the life of her son, which the caller said was a “continual problem.” The mother of the suspect said her son was threatened by the caller’s boy.
2:43 p.m.: A caller reported a security guard at Zumiez, 3200 Naglee Road, had “a tagger detained in the store,” and the “business wants to press charges.”
3:19 p.m.: A caller asked for officers and paramedics to show up to the 1600 block of Parker Avenue, where a 4-month-old child might have died. The child was taken to the hospital, and at one point the coroner was called, but the call was canceled after the baby got a pulse. The girl was taken to the children’s hospital in Oakland.
4:02 p.m.: A caller reported two guys steal a dirt bike from his open garage on the 600 block of Faith Lane. The caller said a neighbor saw the guys put the bike in a blue Dodge pickup and take off.
4:15 p.m.: A caller from Rite Aid, 1970 W. Grant Line Road, said a woman in the drive-through lane told the caller to “go back to China” and threatened to harm the worker. Police showed up to the woman’s house, where she refused to answer questions about the incident but said she believes Rite Aid employees are “trying to poison her through medication.”
4:59 p.m.: A caller from Taqueria Mexicana, 2610 S. Tracy Blvd., reported a kid about 15 had “a silver handgun in his waistband.” He pulled it out to show his friends, then stuck back in his waistband, the caller said. Police detained the kid and learned the weapon was a pellet gun. Police “counseled” the boy and told his parents.
8:03 p.m.: A man and woman stole “some type of cleaner” from Smart and Final, 1150 W. 11th St., then took off in a pickup truck, a caller said.
8:33 p.m.: A caller reported three boys 14 or 15 were sitting in the Pombo Family Park, 2112 Joseph Damon Drive, were smoking drugs. Police stopped by but made no arrests.
10:05 p.m.: A caller on the 1900 block of Oregano Way reported a woman “has been calling and harassing her.” The woman used a “racial slur” and “threatened that if she doesn’t stay away from her husband, she’ll be sorry.” The caller works with the woman’s husband, and police tracked down the suspect, who said the caller has been having an affair with her husband, and she only wanted to speak to the caller “and talk to her as ladies about the affair.” Police told the woman not to call anymore, and “take the matter up with her husband.”
11:17 p.m.: A woman on the 500 block of Czerny Street said someone left a threatening note on her car windshield. The letter said, “I know you have my radiator, gear shifter and other car parts,” and said if the caller fails “to give them back tonight,” the letter writer “is going to press charges.”
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.
imagine if you will...a child's pet gets out and gets hit. as you are taking your child around to find their pet...you come across the remains of their beloved pet in the street...all over the street maybe. is that how you want to have to explain death to your child? should any child (or adult) have to see their pet DEAD in the street?
I watched some jerk in a jeep hit a cat on Tracy Avenue awhile back. they weren't a jerk because they hit the cat, they were a jerk because I heard the cat hit the undercarriage of the Jeep from 2 lanes away and across the street...but did they stop? nope...kept speeding along at well above the posted speed limit. when I called non-emergency to inform them that perhaps someone's pet cat was VERY dead in the street...they said they'd send someone out the next day, since no animal control people were on duty.
it's a crying shame that we care so little about animals that we feel that it's ok to hit them and leave them there (sometimes to die slowly) and that we now deem it ok to leave them dead rather than pick them up). since we don't fund the shelter enough...and you guys think the police shouldn't pick up the bodies...who should? or should we allow our streets to be littered with the bodies of the animals that we run over...perhaps when carrion birds start pooping the size of hamburgers on your cars you might want someone picking up those corpses!
no, it is NOT an emergency...but it is CIVILIZED to remove dead beings from our streets. we need to fund our shelter so that the police can deal with the worthless gangbangers...and the animals (who are a damned sight better than most people!) can be treated with respect. (and no, I'm not a PETA person...they make me ill...but I am an animal lover)
Doors17, you're getting funnier, I swear. I hate the Giants, but look, my Dodgers lost Tuesday as well, allowing the sneaky, cheating Padres of San Diegoinggoinggone to get into first place. The Oafland Assletus lost to Baltimoored Tuesday, thus completing my cycle of misery.
And now for your entertainment pleasure, here I go again...
Caller: Hello, 911? I have a stupendous crime that I need to tell you all about.
Dispatch: Yes, sir? Go ahead...
Caller: A dead cat has suddenly appeared in my drive way. At least I think that it's dead... (a 'thunk tha thunk' can be heard.)
Caller: Yeah, I know that it's dead now. Thanks, daughter. Come and get it.
Dispatch: We will, sir. After we solve all the bank robberies, Ponzi schemes, drunk driving arrests, arresting random foreigners at drive ins, stopping sidewalk spitting crimes and chasing those bra thefts. Damned those bra thieves!
Caller: Oh, OK. I get it: my taxpayer dollars are going to you guys in the Yogi Smogi Gym again, right?
Dispatch: Correct, sir. We all do two hours' worth of yoga daily, meditate on "The Higher Plane of Existance," then break for lunch. We will be there in a week or two.
Caller: Fine. That will be just fine. I'll leave on my next door neighbor's side walk. I hate that squirrely woman.
Sheesh.
Don't I know it. I get these type of calls all the time, only I call them political robo-calls.
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A woman on the 800 block of Petrig Street called at 11:14 a.m. Monday to report a boy in a gray hooded sweatshirt rang her doorbell for quite some time, then walked into her backyard.
The woman went upstairs, locked herself in a bathroom, called police and armed herself with a baseball bat, she said.
She said she heard a knock on her bedroom door, and police showed up and noticed a screen had been removed in an attempted burglary, but the guy was gone.
Good thing this attempted robbery didn't occur at the home of a member of the San Francisco Giants. The way they've been hitting, they would have swung and missed.
3:19 p.m.: A caller asked for officers and paramedics to show up to the 1600 block of Parker Avenue, where a 4-month-old child might have died. The child was taken to the hospital, and at one point the coroner was called, but the call was canceled after the baby got a pulse. The girl was taken to the children’s hospital in Oakland.
I hope your doing better today, little one. :o)
-I know the police are kind of in control of pets, but I do not see the reason why the cops were told about this? Was the cat evidence of something?
The woman went upstairs, locked herself in a bathroom, called police and armed herself with a baseball bat, she said.
-Excellent! A Baseball Bat. I normally carry a baseball bat when I walk to prevent animals or even people from attacking me. I also carry one the strengthen my arm. Sounds stupid, but it works!