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2020: Best of The Durango Herald police blotter

9:55 p.m. March 6: Someone reported a baby in a bar in the 600 block of Main Avenue.
1:29 p.m. Jan. 11

The lift at Hesperus Ski Area was stuck with people on it for more than an hour.

9:52 a.m. Jan. 24

Someone’s neighbor had been driving over a lawn in the 6500 block of County Road 501 near Forest Lakes subdivision.

12:30 p.m. Jan. 27: Someone found a loaded pistol left in the men’s bathroom at Walmart.
12:30 p.m. Jan. 27

Someone found a loaded pistol left in the men’s bathroom at Walmart.

3:50 a.m. Jan. 28

A man refused to leave the pool area at a hotel in the 800 block of Camino del Rio. Officers arrested at least one person.

3:03 p.m. Feb. 1

Someone was digging a hole at Animas City Mountain.

10 p.m. Feb. 7

A woman showed up at a residence and gave her dog to a man and asked him to give the dog a good home in the 1700 block of Florida Road (County Road 240).

2:26 p.m. Feb. 12

A man was screaming profanities as he threw bikes into the Animas River from a pedestrian bridge south of Durango.

2:36 a.m. Feb. 13

A dumpster fire was visible at a hotel in the 2000 block of Main Avenue.

6:22 p.m. Feb. 20: Someone reported a woman had been staying for almost two days in Durango-La Plata County Airport.
6:22 p.m. Feb. 20

Someone reported a woman had been staying for almost two days in the Durango-La Plata County Airport.

12:25 a.m. Feb. 29

Someone was arrested for DUI after someone reported a “vehicle just bounced off my car” near East Third Avenue and East College Drive.

2:12 p.m. Feb. 29

Someone reported neighbors lighting fireworks in a mailbox somewhere on County Road 231 near Elmore’s corner.

4:23 p.m. March 3

A woman believed to be intoxicated could not keep her pants from falling down at a restaurant in the 600 block of Main Avenue.

9:55 p.m. March 6

Someone reported a baby in a bar in the 600 block of Main Avenue.

5:32 p.m. March 22

A man was going through the trash and taking pancakes near East Third Avenue and Ninth Street.

7:46 p.m. March 26

An arrow came through someone’s living room window in the 700 block of Mississippi Drive.

11:46 a.m. April 17

A woman was running down the road in her bathing suit and a car was following her in the area of Pastorius Reservoir.

1:53 p.m. April 22

A man was yelling scriptures at Buckley Park in Durango.

4:12 a.m. April 23

Someone reported a neighbor’s loud dishwasher was running in the 3700 block of West Second Avenue in Durango.

2:30 p.m. April 26

A turkey broke the window of a residence and entered the house in the area of County Road 515, near Oxford.

5:57 p.m. April 30

A gold Corvette and a blue vehicle were “burning rubber” in the area of Hermosa Avenue and Forest Avenue.

7:40 p.m. May 1

A full band was playing on a balcony in the 600 block of West 33rd Street.

11:17 a.m. May 3

A woman was banging on the windows and yelling at a coffee shop in the 2800 block of Main Avenue.

3:54 p.m. May 14

A woman reported that a drone was stalking her in the 1500 block of East Second Avenue.

6:30 p.m. May 15

Three men were smashing watermelons on the sidewalk in the 600 block of Main Avenue.

9:44 a.m. May 18

A woman was trying to drag a man out of the intersection in the area of West 17th Street and Main Avenue.

8:33 p.m. May 30

Someone reported that he met a girl who turned out to be a man in the area of U.S. Highway 550 north of Durango.

3:33 p.m. June 8

A man without pants was reported to be in the 2000 block of Main Avenue.

4:39 p.m. June 16

A man was nude in someone’s backyard in the 400 block of San Juan Drive.

10:30 p.m. June 17

A man in a dumpster refused to leave in the 2200 block of Main Avenue.

6:53 a.m. June 21: A llama was in the road in the 31200 block of U.S. Highway 160, east of Elmore’s Corner.
6:53 a.m. June 21

A llama was in the road in the 31200 block of U.S. Highway 160, east of Elmore’s Corner.

3:31 p.m. June 25

Someone found a light-blue hoverboard in the area of Florida Road and East Animas Road (County Road 250).

1:10 p.m. July 3

Someone reported a suspicious item in a parking lot that was a round object with a duck in the 900 block of Camino del Rio.

6:48 p.m. July 4

Someone’s car was shot with paintballs in the 1800 block of East Second Avenue.

2:42 p.m. July 10

A drunken woman was arrested after kicking milk cartons at Walgreens, 26 Town Plaza.

5:46 a.m. Aug. 2

A woman was doing yoga in the street in the area of East 32nd Street and Main Avenue.

5:01 p.m. Aug. 23

A man in a truck threw a pair of shorts out the window while driving in the 4000 block of Florida Road.

7:50 p.m. Aug. 31

A naked 3-year-old was running loose in the 200 block of East Park Avenue.

11 a.m. Sept. 4

A man was attempting to punch cars as they drove by in the area of Riverview Drive and Mesa Avenue.

11:29 p.m. Sept. 5

A bean bag chair was stolen off someone’s porch in the 200 block of Rivers End Lane.

4:42 p.m. Sept. 21

A drunken man was in an intersection directing traffic in the area of 10th Street and Main Avenue.

5:36 p.m. Oct. 1: A man in pink shorts and a pink shirt was running out in traffic in the 3300 block of Main Avenue.
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5:36 p.m. Oct. 1

A man in pink shorts and a pink shirt was running out in traffic in the 3300 block of Main Avenue.

11:51 a.m. Oct. 2

A drunken man was rolling on the concrete in the 200 block of Baker Lane.

10:45 a.m. Oct. 4

A man tried to get someone to fight him while he had a large stick in the 900 block of Roosa Avenue.

9:02 a.m. Oct. 17

A man threw up into a vending machine in the 600 block of Main Avenue.

9:03 p.m. Nov. 2

A man threw suckers at someone in the 700 block of East College Drive.

5:22 p.m. Dec. 4

A drunken man with no pants on was on the Ninth Street Bridge.

1:50 p.m. Dec. 6

A man had his pants down facing vehicles in the area of East Second Avenue and College Drive.