Martinez PD: Party Over? How Do You Know?

March 3
Baseball reference. At 2:17 a.m., a man on Orleans Drive said his estranged wife was sitting on his couch with a baseball bat. He told officers she "swung but did not connect." Martinez police officers reported abating the problem.

Football, too. On Richardson Street at 2:16 p.m., neighbors complained about a group of men "cursing and playing loud music, drinking vodka and throwing football around in the street." Police gave them some sporting advice.

March 4
Know when the party's over. At 12:57 a.m. on Pine Street, a man complained to police about a group of eight people in his apartment. "They are not harming the (reporting party), they just won't get out," he told police.

Truck v. light. A mail truck ran over a street light, reported at 6:12 a.m. on Alhambra Avenue. Parts of the light were in the avenue. There were no injuries. Police took a report.

Trashed. At 7:17 a.m. on Arreba Street, a teenager in a black trench coat accented with fur was going through a resident's garbage, without the manners to place the trash back in the can when she was done. When the resident objected, the girl said to hang on, she only needed a few more things.

March 5

Suspicious U-Haul truck. Around dawn, police received complaints about a U-Haul truck driving slowly through the streets, perhaps casing the neighborhood. Complaints came from Berrellesa and Arreba streets, and from Stonecreek Court.

Un-neighborly. An Escondido Drive woman complained about neighbors looking over the fence, threatening to shoot her dogs and smoking on the property line. Police gave the neighbors some advice.

Dangerous amusement? At 7:30 p.m., police responded with firefighters and the CHP to a report of a grass fire on the side of Highway 4 westbound, east of Morello. A man in T-shirt and jeans with a dark sedan nearby was observed pouring lighter fluid in the bushes and grass and then igniting it. He left the area and no one recorded his license plate number.