A woman made her 4-year-old son an accomplice in her attempt to shoplift, according to a police report.

Two women were in a large discount store in the 1500 block of South Loop 288 about 7:50 p.m. Monday, according to the report. Store employees noticed them acting suspiciously and began watching them.

They took panties and stuffed them under the child’s clothing. Then they picked out shoes and placed them in the boy’s backpack. They left the building without paying for the merchandise.

Store employees detained the women until police arrived. An officer called Child Protective Services, which took custody of the boy while the mother and her friend were taken to jail.

The child then was released to a relative, according to the police report.

Other reports

600 block of Highland Street — Two women called police Monday to report that someone pushed over a number of gravestones in the IOOF Cemetery.

The women said they visit the cemetery every day to feed a stray dog. The damage was not done on Sunday, they said, but when they arrived at noon on Monday they found that someone had pushed over the stones.

Officers counted 18 stones that had been pushed off their bases. One was broken. The officer noted that no tire marks were apparent near the damaged gravestones.

7200 block of Silktree Court — Sometime Sunday night or early Monday someone cut the catalytic converter from the exhaust system underneath a 1996 Toyota 4-Runner, according to a police report.

Roundup

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

• Denton police handled 238 service and officer-initiated calls, including two burglaries, one forgery, one credit card abuse, four thefts, two vehicle burglaries, one criminal mischief, one fraud, one deceased person, one report of harassment and one assault.

• Denton County sheriff’s dispatchers handled 269 service and officer-initiated calls. Thirty-nine people were booked into county jail. Deputies took reports of two missing persons, two harassments, one assault, one aggravated sexual assault, one fraud, one theft, one burglary, one criminal mischief, one evading arrest, one overdose and one case of tampering with a government record.

• Denton firefighters responded to 16 medical calls, one smoke alarm, one grassfire, one request to assist an invalid and one fire.

Corinth firefighters responded one medical call, one childbirth and one grassfire.

Pilot Point firefighters responded to three medical calls.

Sanger firefighters responded to two requests to assist a citizen, one medical call and one suicide.

Argyle firefighters responded to one request to unlock a vehicle, one medical call and one traffic accident.

Krum firefighters responded to one request for mutual aid and one traffic accident.

Aubrey firefighters responded to one overdose and one medical call.

Oak Point firefighters responded to one medical call.

Ponder firefighters responded to one medical call.

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

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