Police Blotter: October 5-6

Article Last Updated; Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:01AM

Animal Control Tuesday

8:01 a.m. A dog was tangled up and couldn’t reach its food and water in the 500 block of Blue Ridge Drive in the Forest Lakes subdivision.

Monday

7:03 p.m. A man had three dogs off the leash and was being verbally abusive toward someone at Folsom Park.

Durango Police Tuesday

1:12 a.m. A man was yelling in the 1100 block of South Camino del Rio.

8:23 a.m. A generator was stolen off a travel trailer near First Street and East Sixth Avenue.

8:32 a.m. Children were putting rocks on the train tracks in the 3200 block of East Second Avenue. A teacher took care of the problem.

12:10 p.m. A man with a shaved head and wearing baggy pants was looking into houses in the 2500 block of Columbine Drive. The man had been seen in the area a week earlier selling magazines.

1:17 p.m. A purse was stolen out of a woman’s vehicle in the 3600 block of West Second Avenue.

3:27 p.m. A driver failed to stop for a school bus with flashing red lights in the 21000 block of U.S. Highway 160, in western city limits.

Monday

5:31 p.m. A man was causing a disturbance in the 500 block of East Eighth Avenue.

6:47 p.m. A man tried to enter a woman’s door in the 1700 block of West Second Avenue.

10:28 p.m. A man and woman were arguing in the 600 block of Arroyo Drive.

La Plata County Sheriff Tuesday

9:55 a.m. Someone in a gray Dodge truck with a trailer was losing pieces of wood off the back in the 35000 block of U.S. Highway 160, between Elmore’s Corner and Gem Village.

Monday

4:35 p.m. A woman’s son pushed her and knocked her into a shelf in the 200 block of E. Pioneer Drive, northeast of Elmore’s Corner.

8:10 p.m. A drunken man fell and possibly fractured his wrist in the 300 block of Mesa Heights Drive, near Elmore’s Corner.

9:29 p.m. Someone in a black Chevy Avalanche parked behind some mailboxes for the night at the Narrow Gauge Mobile Home Park, between Elmore’s Corner and Gem Village. Deputies responded, and the driver agreed to find another place to stay.

Durango Fire & Rescue Tuesday

3:59 p.m. Antifreeze was running into the street from an automotive shop at East Fifth Avenue and College Drive.

Monday

7:07 p.m. There was a smell of gas and a business was evacuated in the west 100 block of Eighth Street.

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.

Past Police Blotters

• Mancos River Ranch

Visit website

MINERAL RIGHTS INCLUDED!! Rare opportunity to own a large parcel surrounded on four sides by National Forest. Over 340 acres of pasture; rolling hills; soaring pines and cottonwoods; scrub oak; adjudicated irrigation water; and BIG views in all directions. Over 3,000 feet of the Mancos River flows through this property. Remnants of the old Rio Grande Southern Railroad can be found including the old water tank, the roadbed, ties, and tie rods. Teeming with an abundance of wildlife, elk winter here; wild turkeys forage the grounds; and deer of all sizes can be found. $3,200,000

Police Blotter: October 5-6

Past Police Blotters

advertisement

Joe Bob McGuire or Abbi Munn, The Wells Group of Durango