Denton County sheriff’s deputies arrested a woman who allegedly reneged on an offer to give away her two Cairn terrier puppies and attempted to steal another dog on Thursday.

A man who lives in the Justin area called to report that the woman, who lives in the Aubrey area, posted a notice about two free puppies online at Craigslist.org. He responded and met the woman in a Denton restaurant parking lot to pick up the pups. She offered to let him buy the registration papers on the dogs, but he declined.

A few hours later, the woman drove up to the man’s home. She said she had changed her mind and wanted the Cairns back. He said no. The woman began yelling and cursing the man and his wife, according to the sheriff’s report.

He threatened to call 911, and she left. But she called his home several times after that demanding the dogs.

The man reported the calls, and a deputy talked to the woman and told her to stop bothering the man. She said she wanted her dogs back and would get them back, according to the report. The deputy advised her to take the problem to justice of the peace court.

Still later that night, the man looked out his window and saw the woman’s van outside his fence. The woman was taking his 9-month-old hybrid wolf dog off its chain inside his fence and putting it into her van. He called the sheriff’s office to report a theft in progress.

Deputies found the woman’s van. The woman and a female relative were in the van, along with the dog. They claimed they had procured the dog from a rescue group and denied stealing it from the victim.

A sheriff’s supervisor arrived and told the woman she had stolen the dog from the victim’s yard. She denied it. He repeated his charge. She denied it again. She told the officer, “You can disagree with me all you want but it doesn’t matter.”

He took her to jail on theft charges.

Other reports

3500 block of South I35E — Denton police are investigating a criminal mischief charge made by Denton Regional Medical Center.

A representative reported Thursday that a helicopter pilot landed his craft on the hospital property after being told he could not land there.

The pilot and the helicopter’s owner then walked across the street to another hospital where the owner was to receive treatment. It was not an emergency landing, according to the report, and the pilot had been specifically told earlier that he could not park his helicopter on the property.

Roundup

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

n Denton police responded to 290 service and officer-initiated calls, including five assaults, one interference with an emergency call, one criminal trespass, five thefts, four vehicle burglaries, one illegal dumping, one burglary, one case of possession of drug paraphernalia, one unlawful use of a motor vehicle and one forgery.

n Denton County sheriff’s dispatchers handled 260 service and officer-initiated calls. Forty-seven people were booked into county jail. Deputies took reports of one theft, three animal concern cases, two suspicious acts, one criminal trespass, one assault, one harassment, one fraud and one failure to identify as a fugitive.

n Denton firefighters responded to 12 medical calls, one false alarm, one hazardous materials incident, one smoke investigation, two oil spills and one vehicle fire.

Sanger firefighters responded to one traffic accident and one medical call.

Corinth firefighters responded to four medical calls, one smoke investigation and one traffic accident.

Pilot Point firefighters responded to one medical call.

Argyle firefighters responded to one grassfire.

Oak Point firefighters responded to one alarm.

Aubrey firefighters responded to one traffic accident and two medical calls.

Krum firefighters responded to one medical call.

DONNA FIELDER can be reached at 940-566-6885.

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