Tid-Bits

Happy Thanksgiving week! Last week your Lytle P.D. officers handled 45 calls for service and conducted 68 traffic stops. Of those 68 stops, 40 resulted in a citation and 28 were warnings.
Our officers made one arrest last week. Ofc. J. Cortez was dispatched to the Stripes C-Store for a report of a person eating food without paying for it. When all was said and done, a 45-year-old male was arrested for theft, public intoxication, failure to ID, and felony possession of narcotics. He was booked into the Atascosa Co. Jail.
There were three property crimes reported last week. Two, once you take off the above theft at Stripes. #1 – A complainant at H.E.B. Plus reported that an unknown person “keyed” their 2012 GMC Pickup. #2 – Family Dollar reported that a female shoplifted a basket full of merchandise.
Not too many arrests, not too many property crimes. That’s good if you are a resident, but not so good if you are looking for material to make your weekly report enjoyable.
Here is some vital information if you are a City of Lytle Waste Management customer: Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, Waste Management will pick up your trash on Friday versus Thursday. Please have containers out by early in the morning on Friday as they will start picking up trash in the early hours. This might be the most useful information that I provided this week.


Our Hayride event is shaping up nicely; the evening of Saturday, Dec. 14th should be a blast. Some downtown businesses, in conjunction with the City of Lytle and the Chamber of Commerce, have what I will call a “mini” festival. There will be vendors, food, and activities for the kids.
If you are new to town, you will see that on Thanksgiving Day most of our town slows down and it is reminiscent of the good old days. If you happen to be around H.E.B. then it looks like Times Square on New Year’s Eve (If you get there before Noon). H.E.B. will close at Noon on Thanksgiving Day; I have witnessed some “breakdowns” as customers realize the store just closed. They don’t call us “Last Minute Lytle” for nothing.