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WCPD: 'Whoops — I Forgot to Pay!'

Also, paintballers, pot busters and assorted miscreants reported to the Walnut Creek police from March 2 to March 5.

March 2
Please lock your car. Reported to Walnut Creek police at 1:52 a.m., a wallet and iPad were stolen from an unlocked Dodge at the theater garage on Locust Street.

Replica firearm on trail. Reported at 6:53 a.m., a replica firearm was found on the canal trail at Heather Farm Park. It was booked into WCPD property.

Small, mysterious misdemeanors. On Farmhill Court at 12:33 p.m., a resident report someone entered an unlocked vehicle and tried to shift the transmission to neutral, and left behind toothpicks and paper clips.

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Rocks and windows. Reported at 9:53 p.m., police were looking for juveniles on bikes who threw a rock threw a storefront window on the 1600 block of Olympic Boulevard.

March 3
Missing bumper. At 1:47 a.m., a 34-year-old woman was arrested on a charge of public intoxication after a report that her Prius had run over a curb in a parking lot on Locust Street. A bumper was missing on the car, police reported.

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Pot busters on video. Reported at 3:31 a.m., police are investigating a Broadway Plaza video showing a couple of teenagers kicking a flower pot into a fountain, breaking it. The plants died, police reported.

Christmas still? Officers advised both parties in a 9:39 a.m. dispute in which an Newell Hill Place apartment dweller was hurt by a Christmas tree falling from the third-floor apartment above.

March 4
Paintballer: At 12:59 a.m., a paintballer splatted a car from the Minert  Road pedestrian bridge. Officers were unable to locate the paintballer.

Lock your car, please. At 9:15 a.m., police took a report of an unlocked Toyota Camry rifled and missing sunglasses, gift cards and change.

Where did I park? A man reported his red Toyota Camry stolen from Trinity Avenue but an investigation revealed he had parked it at Shuey and Bonanza.

Found teenager. Police were just about to enter a report of a missing daughter into a missing persons registry when the daughter returned home to Carmel Drive.

If you dine and dash, wear a less distinctive color. At 10:43 p.m., a restaurant on Mount Diablo Boulevard reported that a woman in jeans and pink long-sleeve shirt walked out on a bill and headed for Nordstrom. Officers arrested a 29-year-old woman for the theft.

March 5
Raccoons, cats and lights. A woman on San Benito Drive was out in the backyard with a flashlight at about 3:20 a..m, shooing raccoons who were bothering her cat. A neighbor saw the mysterious lights in the backyard and called police.

Skate ramp. At 3:27 p.m., police were investigating a report that someone had brought about 25 bags of concrete by wheelbarrow to the creek ravine at Newell Avenue and South California Boulevard. It looks like they were building a skate ramp.

Lots of drugs. At 5:41 p.m., police arrested a 33-year-old man for the theft of $8,500 in drugs from a pharmacy in the 1800 block of North Main Street.


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