July 2 - 3

Durango Police
Friday
9:28 a.m. A business sign had been knocked over for the third time in a month in the 900 block of Main Avenue.

12:26 p.m. Three men were spotted on a bench, throwing trash and spitting on the sidewalk in the east 100 block of College Drive. They were seen doing the same thing the day before.

3:05 p.m. A shirtless, drunken man was yelling at pedestrians in the east 100 block of College Drive.

Thursday
3:31 p.m. A vicious German shepherd was outside the front door of the Durango Friends meeting hall in the 700 block of County Road 233.

La Plata County Sheriff
Friday
3:31 a.m. A man at Mercy Regional Medical Center was being uncooperative and abusive to staff in the 1000 block of Three Springs Boulevard.

8:36 a.m. A man complained that his neighbors were leaving trash outside and bears were spreading it around his property overnight in the 2000 block of County Road 203.

2:45 p.m. A man attempted to pass a bad check at the Durango-La Plata County Airport in the 1000 block of Airport Road.

Thursday
8:20 p.m. Two juveniles wearing baggy jeans and yellow bandanas were pointing at buildings in a suspicious manner on East Sixth Avenue.

9:05 p.m. The driver of a green Chevrolet van pulled over, let two children out, made them walk about a half mile and let them back in the vehicle near the 200 block of County Road 527, east of Bayfield.

Bayfield Marshal
Thursday
6:23 p.m. A driver in a tan Jeep Cherokee was spinning out in Stevenson Park in an exhibition of speed with children and animals nearby.

7:13 p.m. An infant was left in a car while its parent went into a liquor store in the 400 block of East Colorado Drive.

Most items in this column are taken from logs of calls made to authorities. Their accuracy may not have been verified by an official investigation.