Denton police responded to a call from a school in the 1400 block of Malone Street on Thursday about someone having filled the school Dumpster with boxes of files.

An officer looked through the extensive pile of boxes and learned they all contained business files. Some of the files had customers’ personal information on them, according to the report.

The officer found names of business owners and called them, telling them they needed to come to the Dumpster. The owners explained that they shut down the business and thought the school would be able to recycle the files, so they filled the bin with their unneeded documents.

The officer cited the owners and told them to take the files from the Dumpster and contact a company that disposes of sensitive material.

Other reports

1000 block of Mack Place — A woman reported Thursday that someone used her credit card number to purchase perfume from an Internet business. She does not know how the person obtained the number.

Roundup

From 7 a.m. Thursday to 7 a.m. Friday:

* Denton police handled 257 service and officer-initiated calls, including one debit card abuse, one failure to safeguard personal information, one burglary, eight thefts, two reports of criminal mischief, two cases of possession of drug paraphernalia, one case of possession of a controlled substance, one missing person, two reports of harassment, three assaults and one attempted suicide.

* Denton County sheriff’s dispatchers handled 260 service and officer-initiated calls. Forty-five people were booked into county jail. Deputies took reports of one assault, one missing person, two cases of criminal mischief, one unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, one credit card abuse and two frauds.

* Denton firefighters responded to 14 medical calls, one medical rescue, two alarms, one request for public service, one smoke investigation and two traffic accidents.

Argyle firefighters responded to one gas leak and one illegal burn.

Corinth firefighters responded to one medical call.

Sanger firefighters responded to one illegal burn, one traffic accident and one medical call.

Aubrey firefighters responded to two medical calls, one grassfire and one gas leak.

Krum firefighters responded to one traffic accident, one request to assist a citizen and one medical call.

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

dfielder@dentonrc.com.