An employee of Victor Equipment was overheard making a threat against company officials during layoffs Jan. 7-8, according to a Monday police report.

The employee reportedly told a co-worker at the Denton plant in the 2800 block of Airport Road that if he were laid off, he would “come back and kill these [expletive deleted].”

The man who made the threat actually was on the lay-off list, and officials of the parent company, Thermadyne, were concerned, according to the report.

Other reports

1700 block of Westwood Street — Someone broke a window of a vehicle and stole a touch-screen XOVision television/stereo combination by tearing it out of the dashboard, according to a police report.

The burglar also took a flip-down TV screen. Loss was estimated at $900.

3400 block of Joyce Lane — Officers driving through a parking lot Friday noticed a wo­man they recognized who was outdoors with a dog. They had information the woman was selling drugs, according to the police report, and stopped to talk to her.

She denied possessing any narcotics, but the officers noticed a bulge in her front pants pocket.

The woman said she needed to put her dog in her apartment. When the officers wanted to search her, the woman be­came hostile and began screaming for her boyfriend.

Officers found an “8-ball” of methamphetamine in her pock­et and some marijuana, according to the police report.

12000 block of Cleveland Gibbs Road —A 17-year-old told Denton County sheriff’s deputies Monday that he left his wallet in a canoe in his front yard.

Someone took the canoe and the wallet, he said, and used his bank card at an ATM before he could get it canceled.

Roundup

From 7 a.m. Monday to 7 a.m. Tuesday:

• Denton police handled 346 calls for service and officer-initiated calls, including two cases of possession of a controlled substance, one fraud, three reports of criminal mischief, three vehicle burglaries, one threat, one deceased person, one burglary, six thefts, one case of possession of marijuana, one harassment, one credit card abuse, one assault and two cases of possession of drug par­aphernalia.

• Denton County sheriff’s dispatchers handled 242 calls for service and officer-initiated calls for the agencies they serve. Forty-one people were booked into county jail. Deputies took reports of two thefts, three vehicle burglaries, two cases of criminal mischief and two burglaries.

• Denton firefighters responded to one deceased person, 14 medical calls, three traffic accidents, one gas leak and three grassfires.

Sanger firefighters responded to five medical calls, one traffic accident and one grassfire.

Oak Point firefighters responded to two medical calls.

Aubrey firefighters responded to one request for mutual aid, two requests to unlock a vehicle, one fire and one grassfire.

Argyle firefighters responded to one request for mutual aid, one request to unlock a vehicle, one medical call and one fire.

Krum firefighters responded to one grassfire and one illegal burn.

Pilot Point firefighters responded to one medical call.

Ponder firefighters responded to one request for mutual aid and one medical call.

Lake Cities firefighters responded to one smoke investigation, three medical calls, one fire and one traffic accident.

DONNA FIELDER can be reached at 940-566-6885. Her e-mail address is dfielder@dentonrc.com .

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