Regional News

The Blotter, June 21-25

Durango Police Department
Tuesday

8:51 a.m. Tools were stolen from a vehicle in the Homewood Suites parking lot, 15 Girard St.

9 a.m. A man was yelling and cussing at people at the Durango Transit Center, 250 W. Second Ave.

6:48 p.m. A man was passed out in a flower bed in front of Durango Natural Foods Co-op, 575 East Eighth Ave.

9:30 p.m. A drunken driver hit a mailbox in the 500 block of Animas View Drive.

La Plata County Sheriff’s Office
Tuesday, June 25

4:51 a.m. A coal truck was spilling coal on Colorado Highway 140.

Monday, June 24

11:56 a.m. About 100 cows were crossing the road on County Road 318.

1:46 p.m. Someone reported a neighbor shooting unsafely, and bullets were landing on the reporting party’s property along County Road 509.

Sunday, June 23

7:04 a.m. Someone reported a bunch of trash in the road on Junction Creek Road (County Road 204).

5:09 p.m. Someone reported the driver of a truck pulling a fifth-wheel who was refusing to move over from the left lane on U.S. Highway 550.

Friday, June 21

3:22 p.m. Someone’s home had been egged twice on Homestead Circle.

Durango Fire

Firefighters and medics responded to 14 calls Tuesday through Wednesday morning, including general clean up at the site of a vehicle 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.