• Jan. 16 at 4:16 p.m. Patrolman Matt Miller met with a 48-year-old employee of the John C. Beasley Municipal Golf Course at Veterans Memorial Park to investigate vandalism.

The employee said one of the lessees of the golf course had seen two juveniles on the course and when he tried to call them over so he could speak to them, they ran.

The man then inspected some of the equipment and found two broken sprinkler system controllers.

The employee said it looked like someone had kicked the controllers, destroying them.

Miller reported that it would cost $1,600 to replace the controllers.

• Jan. 15 at 2:10 p.m. Patrolman Antonio Gutierrez was dispatched to an address in the 1900 block of South Washington Street after a woman there called about some counterfeit $100 bills.

The 44-year-old victim said she had been told by the manager at the Stripes convenience store at 1911 S. Washington St. that seven $100 bills she had used to purchase a money order were found to be fake when they were examined at Prosperity Bank sometime earlier.

The woman told Gutierrez that she had sold a vehicle to her sister and she had received the bills as payment.

The officer contacted the sister and she said she had borrowed the bills from an acquaintance.

• Jan. 15 at 10:35 p.m. Patrolman Victor Gonzales was dispatched to a home in the 1200 block of North Morris Street after someone called to report a man had been stabbed.

The officer found a 35-year-old man in the carport at that address who said he had been stabbed twice in the back.

The victim said he had met two men at the River Bend Sports Bar at 1603 N. St. Mary’s St. earlier who claimed to be members of a prison gang who demanded that he give them 10 percent of his money as a “tax.”

The victim refused to part with his “hard earned money” but ended up leaving the bar with them anyway.

The men drove to an address in the 1200 block of North Lightburne Street and when he started to get out of the car one of the men pushed him onto the ground and stabbed him in the back.

The other man in the vehicle then ran up and also stabbed him in the back.

As the victim lay on the ground, two men from inside the house ran out and also assaulted him.

The victim said he manage to get to his feet and run to a residence where a relative lived.

Police went to the scene of the assault to try to locate the assailants but they were all gone. Officers did find blood evidence at the scene, which they collected and turned over to detectives.

• Jan. 13 at 1:09 p.m. Patrolman Patrick Mitchell took a complaint from a 56-year-old employee of Prosperity Bank, 100 S. Washington St., after she discovered a number of fake $100 bills in a deposit from a local business.

The employee said the eight $100 bills had been deposited by a local convenience store.

When bank employees checked the bills, they found they were counterfeit.

The bank called police and the U.S. Secret Service to investigate the case.

• Jan. 11 at 3:58 p.m. Patrolman Peter Silvas met with a 20-year-old woman who said she had left a $400 Sony video camera at the home of a friend on Jan. 2.

The victim said she went out of town for a while and the camera was gone when she returned.

• Jan. 11 at 9:52 a.m. Patrolman Patrick Mitchell met with a 31-year-old woman who said someone had stolen more than $12,000 worth of her property from a room in the home of a friend.

The victim said she had stored the items in a room with a combination lock on the door. When she went to check on the items, they were gone.

She said the thieves got DVDs, toolboxes and tools, a Whirlpool dryer, video game systems and controllers and electronics items.

Detectives are investigating the thefts.

• Jan. 8 at 12:22 p.m. Lt. Richard Cantu met with a 65-year-old man at police headquarters after the man discovered that someone had stolen a tool kit from him.

The victim said the Everloc tool kit cost him $826.

• Jan. 8 at 1:27 p.m. six teenagers were arrested on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity after officers broke up a disturbance at the intersection of West Youst and South Morris streets.

Patrolman Mark Cruz said he and other officers were dispatched to the scene after someone called police headquarters to report a man wielding a gun at that location.

Cruz reported that officers were told that some of the people involved in the incident had fled on foot and others had left the scene in a vehicle.

Lt. Cantu stopped three teens on foot and Sgt. Roland Rodriguez stopped the suspected vehicle nearby.

Cruz met with a 24-year-old victim who said he and his brother had been threatened by one of the people involved in the confrontation and one of them had taken a gun from a car and pointed it at them.

The six alleged assailants reportedly said they were members of a local street gang. The one who pointed the gun at the victims said, “I’m gonna blast you, fool.”

At one point as the officers were talking to the suspects, officers witnessed one of the alleged gang members threaten a witness who identified them.

• Jan. 8 at 4:12 p.m. Patrolman Antonio Gutierrez responded to a call from a 15-year-old girl who identified a male whom she said cursed her and then threatened her with a knife.

Gutierrez turned the information over to detectives for further investigation.