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Durango Police

Tuesday

2:12 a.m. Someone was sleeping in the lobby of the Durango post office.

4:45 p.m. A man and a woman were fighting in Iris Park. The man may have been intoxicated.

5:07 p.m. A driver backed into another vehicle at a house near Hillcrest Golf Club. At least one arrest was made.

Monday

2:19 a.m. Someone was sleeping in the lobby of the Durango post office.

2:32 p.m. A drunken woman on a bus was acting belligerent at the Durango Transit Center. An arrest was made.

11:42 p.m. Someone broke into a home in the 2300 block of West Second Avenue and left on foot. Police made an arrest.

Sunday

12:12 a.m. Someone had cuts from an assault in the 1500 block of Main Avenue.

2:56 a.m. Two women were fighting in the 1400 block of East Eighth Avenue.

1:56 p.m. An employee at Subway sandwich shop in the 1500 block of Florida Road was drunk and asleep in the back of the restaurant.

2:49 p.m. A man and a woman were fighting in the 600 block of Arroyo Drive. The man, believed to be intoxicated, left the area on foot.

6:45 p.m. Someone spotted an overturned raft and someone near it in the Animas River near Dallabetta Park.

8:09 p.m. A naked man was trespassing on someones porch in the lower 100 block of Trestle Lane.

Saturday

2:29 a.m. A man and a woman were arguing and fighting in the 1100 block of Florida Road.

10:38 a.m. A man fell off a raft and into the Animas River near the BMX track in the 400 block of South Camino del Rio.

11:42 a.m. An intoxicated man told someone in a park that he’d just witnessed a murder. At least one arrest was made.

2:32 p.m. A man reported another man was trying to kill him near the Gardenswartz Memorial Bridge.

2:36 p.m. A man tried to steal $100 worth of items from Walmart.

3:10 p.m. A man was found beaten and bloody near the Ninth Street Bridge.

3:13 p.m. Four people stole a bundle of wood from Albertsons. At least one arrest was made.

5:38 p.m. A 62-year-old man had been hit in the head and was in a daze at Manna soup kitchen.

Friday

1:08 p.m. A white Subaru and an unidentified black vehicle crashed in the lower 100 block of Animas View Drive. At least one citation was issued.

1:43 p.m. A homeowner said people who he didn’t know were inside his home in the 100 block of River Oaks Court.

6:48 p.m. Someone saw a man carry an unresponsive girl into a bathroom in the 900 block of Camino del Rio.

7:06 p.m. Two vehicles crashed head-on near the intersection of west 25th Street and Main Avenue. At least one arrest was made.

11:27 p.m. A man was harassing a female employee of a business in the 100 block of East College Drive. At least one arrest was made.

La Plata County Sheriff’s Office

Wednesday

12:28 a.m. A man and a woman were fighting in the 18000 block of County Road 501 just north of Vallecito Reservoir.

Tuesday

9:30 a.m. Someone stole a garbage can from the 7500 block of Florida Road (County Road 240) east of Durango.

2:50 p.m. Someone’s sister went missing from somewhere on County Road 300 south of Durango.

8:19 p.m. A woman holding a butcher’s knife was threatening to slash someone’s tires somewhere on County Road 221 southeast of Durango.

Durango Fire

Firefighters and medics responded to 12 calls Tuesday, including 10 EMS calls and one crash.

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