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Article Last Updated; Saturday, September 19, 2009  12:09AM
Animal Control
Friday
8:30 a.m. A yellow dog was loose and almost caused a traffic accident in the 13800 block of Florida Road (County Road 240) northeast of Durango.
Thursday
5:52 p.m. Several dogs were loose in the 800 block of East Fifth Avenue.
Durango Police
Friday
1:16 a.m. A man was breaking into vehicles in the 300 block of East Fourth Avenue.
8:11 a.m. A man was assaulted by his cousin in the 2200 block of West Third Avenue.
2:11 p.m. A large group of people was loitering and blocking the sidewalk in the 700 block of Main Avenue.
3:12 p.m. A driver in a white Jeep and a woman on a bike were arguing at 11th Street and Main Avenue.
3:16 p.m. A boy was being disrespectful and needed to leave a business in the 1200 block of Escalante Drive.
Thursday
4:04 p.m. A driver in a vehicle pulled out in front of a man, causing him to slam on the brakes near Ninth Street and Narrow Gauge Avenue. Items inside the car broke a window with the sudden stop.
4:37 p.m. Drivers in three vehicles had been stopped at a stoplight for 10 minutes, and the light hadn't changed in the 1200 block of Camino del Rio.
5:14 p.m. Two men were selling perfume Wednesday night in the 2600 block of Main Avenue.
6:11 p.m. Four women were riding bikes side-by-side and wouldn't move over for traffic in the 2300 block of Rim Drive.
6:37 p.m. Someone threw something through a woman's garage window on Hillcrest Drive.
7:25 p.m. A large tree limb was draped over a center divider in the 200 block of South Camino del Rio.
8:15 p.m. There was a loud party in the 600 block of Valentine Drive. Police responded and learned it was a bachelor party, and the participants were about to move it downtown.
9:23 p.m. A man wrecked his bicycle and was possibly injured in the 2900 block of Main Avenue.
10:32 p.m. A drunken man passed out on the sidewalk in the 600 block of East Second Avenue.
La Plata County Sheriff
Friday
9:48 a.m. A driver in a red Nissan tried to run over a woman in the 1000 block of U.S. Highway 160, east of Hesperus.
Thursday
5:54 p.m. Some hunters harassed a man on Forest Service Road 317 near Mancos Hill.
7:04 p.m. A man pushed a woman and hit her with a broom in the Lightner Creek Mobile Home Park.
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.

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