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Police Report: April 22

3400 block of Rhode Island Avenue: Disorderly conduct – 1:50 pm. Officers stopped a suspicious man for a field interview. While the officers attempted to talk with him he became increasingly hostile and vulgar. The officers got him to calm down temporarily but after he moved along down the street a couple blocks he began to repeatedly curse and yell profanity at passersby. He was arrested, charged with disorderly conduct and delivered to the custody of DOC in Hyattsville.

4000 block of 31st Street: Theft from auto – 3:15 pm. The owner of a 2006 Ford F-150 truck told officers that sometime between 3 pm on the 19th and today someone entered his unlocked truck and stole a GPS unit and some loose change.

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