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The following incidents were culled from reports filed by the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety.

Battery--Feb. 5, 7:10 p.m. A man was arrested on the 100 block of E. El Camino Real for battery of his spouse and possession of paraphernalia and a controlled substance. He was arrested and taken to Santa Clara County Main Jail.

False emergency--Feb. 5, 6:05 p.m. Police responded to a 911 call coming from a pay phone at Town and Country Village. The man, police say, told the dispatcher in a sexually explicit manner that he was going to blow up the world if he did not get a jacket. Police say the man has done this before, and was intoxicated when they arrived at the phone from which he had called.

Auto Burglary--Feb. 4, 8 p.m. Police say a man returned to his car, parked at Spoons restaurant on S. Fair Oaks Ave., to find his window smashed out. Missing from the front seat was a palm-top computer, a computer bag, a passport and a leather passport case. There are no suspects.

Petty theft--Feb. 3, 8 p.m. A woman was cited at Pak 'n' Save on Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road for walking out of the store with a grocery cart full of groceries for which she hadn't paid. She was detained by store security and escorted back inside the store after walking past cash registers. A records check showed the woman had prior arrests.

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This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, February 11, 1998.
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