Durango Police
Sunday
8:50 a.m. People were having intercourse in a brown van in the 200 block of East Fourth Avenue.
12:07 p.m. A group of homeless people were offering to sell a new fly-fishing rod, and someone was concerned it was stolen, according to a report at Roosa Avenue and Ninth Street.
12:30 p.m. A drunken man was hitchhiking and stumbling into the road near Main Avenue and Animas View Drive.
4:05 p.m. Someone reported the theft of a fly-fishing rod out of the back of a vehicle parked at the La Plata County Fairgrounds.
7:50 p.m. A man was attempting to steal a bicycle in the 600 block of Arroyo Drive.
9:22 p.m. A large bear was trapped in someone’s backyard in the 600 block of East Fifth Avenue.
Saturday
3:38 p.m. A baby bear was stuck in a wire cage near a tree in the 100 block of Riverview Drive. The mother bear was agitated.
7:03 p.m. A bear was eating produce out of a produce truck near Florida Road and Colorado Avenue.
Friday
12:48 p.m. Someone had been camping on a man’s lawn in the 1300 block of East Third Avenue.
1:07 p.m. A man was throwing a bicycle around and yelling at someone in an alley in the 1000 block of Main Avenue.
4:52 p.m. A man threatened to burn a building down, according to a report at the Wapiti Lodge, 21625 U.S. Highway 160 in west Durango.
5:57 p.m. A vehicle rolled off a rock wall and down a hill in the east 800 block of 32nd Street.
9:22 p.m. A man was seen unpacking a rifle in the 1400 block of Main Avenue.
9:58 p.m. A woman was drinking alcohol while going through the drive-thru at Sonic Drive-in, 240 E. Eighth St.
Durango Fire
Firefighters and medics responded to 59 calls, including an assault, a brush fire in the 900 block of Spring Road southwest of Durango, two fuel spills, four reports of smoke outside, a structure fire in the 4100 block of Florida Road (County Road 240) and seven traffic crashes.
Most items in this column are taken from logs of calls made to authorities. Their accuracy may not have been verified by an investigation.
