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Items selected are from the daily police logs of the cities listed below. Times shown are when the incidents were reported to the police.

COLD CRIME: Police received a report at 9:45 a.m. Saturday that the Fosters Freeze on the 500 block of Oak Grove Avenue in Menlo Park had been burglarized. Approximately $115 in coins was stolen, according to police.

Palo Alto

WEDNESDAY

Town & Country Village on El Camino Real, 3:15 p.m.: A 50-year-old Palo Alto man was cited for drinking in public.

THURSDAY

100 block of Ferne Avenue, 8:20 a.m.: A wallet was found.

3600 block of El Camino Real, 10:30 a.m.: Vandalism was reported; a window was smashed.

FRIDAY

University Avenue and Cowper Street, 12:12 p.m.: A bicycle was stolen.

Police headquarters on Forest Avenue, 5 p.m.: A cellphone was found.

400 block of University Avenue, 7:30 p.m.: A business was burglarized.

SATURDAY

500 block of Ramona Avenue, 12:01 a.m.: A 21-year-old Los Altos man was arrested for public drunkenness.

300 block of University Avenue, 10:25 a.m.: A 45-year-old San Jose man was arrested for public drunkenness.

200 block of University Avenue, 4:02 p.m.: A jacket was found.

SUNDAY

200 block of University Avenue, 1:12 a.m.: A 15-year-old Mountain View boy was arrested for public drunkenness.

1600 block of Mariposa Avenue, 8:15 a.m.: An attempted auto burglary was reported.

1400 block of El Camino Real, 10:20 a.m.: A vehicle was towed for expired registration.

100 block of California Avenue, 3:24 p.m.: A business was burglarized.

Caltrain station on University Avenue, 11:44 p.m.: A 47-year-old San Francisco woman was arrested for public drunkenness.

Mountain View

FRIDAY

100 block of North Rengstroff Avenue, 7:25 a.m.: Petty theft was reported.

First block of Sierra Vista Avenue, 7:57 a.m.: A vehicle was burglarized.

600 block of San Antonio Road, 9:02 a.m.: A business was burglarized.

1000 block of Crestview Drive, 10:10 a.m.: A vehicle was stolen.

200 block of Castro Street, 9:15 p.m.: Petty theft was reported.

SATURDAY

200 block of Calderon Avenue, 9:17 a.m.: An attempted vehicle theft was reported.

2000 block of Sun-Mor Avenue, 12:28 p.m.: Petty theft was reported.

Castro Street and West El Camino Real, 10:25 p.m.: A person was arrested for public drunkenness.

SUNDAY

700 block of East El Camino Real, 11:49 a.m.: Theft by fraud was reported.

1900 block of Latham Street, 1:32 p.m.: A person was arrested for public drunkenness.

Menlo Park

FRIDAY

800 block of Stanford Avenue, 7:28 a.m.: Two storage containers were burglarized; tools were stolen.

800 block of Alma Street, 2:45 p.m.: A 73-year-old man was arrested for driving under the influence.

400 block of El Camino Real, 3:13 p.m.: A bicycle was stolen.

1400 block of O’Brien Drive, 4:44 p.m.: A telephone scam was reported.

Euclid Avenue and Woodland Avenue, East Palo Alto, 9:16 p.m.: A 39-year-old East Palo Alto man was cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license.

SATURDAY

2800 block of Sand Hill Road, 1:15 a.m.: A 36-year-old man was arrested for driving under the influence.

3500 block of Haven Avenue, 3:47 a.m.: License plates were stolen.

600 block of Menlo Avenue, 9:48 a.m.: Mail was stolen.

Highway 101 and Willow Road, 1:13 p.m.: A 35-year-old San Jose man was cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license.

Laurel Street and Burgess Drive, 7 p.m.: A fight was reported between two players at a soccer game.

Bayfront Expressway and Willow Road, 9:32 p.m.: A 27-year-old Stockton man was cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license.

700 block of Pierce Road, 10:34 p.m.: A verbal altercation was reported between a man and a woman.

SUNDAY

200 block of Van Buren Road, 4:02 a.m.: A vehicle was towed for expired registration.

Highway 101 and Marsh Road, 9:03 a.m.: A 34-year-old Sacramento woman was cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license.

600 block of Alma Street, 10:55 p.m.: A 73-year-old man was arrested for public drunkenness.

Redwood City

Thursday

Middlefield Road, 12:04 a.m.: People were arrested on drug-related charges.

Hampton Avenue, 12:31 a.m.: A person was arrested for public drunkenness.

Stein Am Rhein Court, 1:01 a.m.: A stolen vehicle was recovered.

Rolison Road, 1:31 a.m.: People hanging out in a stairwell were arrested for trespassing.

El Camino Real, 3:13 a.m.: A person was sleeping in some shrubs.

Bethel Lane, 4:34 a.m.: A person said loud music was coming from a neighbor’s bedroom.

Hilton and Chestnut streets, 8:45 a.m.: A person said a young man wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt with a marijuana leaf decal on the back was looking into cars as he walked by them.

Woodside Road, 9:35 a.m.: A vehicle was burglarized.

Woodside Road, 12:51 p.m.: A homeless man was sleeping outside a store in the back receiving area, blocking the door.

Brewster Avenue, 5:52 p.m.: A man was seen trying to remove an “Art in the Park” sign. Two flags for the event disappeared the day before, a person told police.

Broadway, 6:19 p.m.: Three juveniles were on skateboards in a parking area.

Second Avenue, 6:54 p.m.: Two men were fighting and smoking marijuana in a bush area near a playground.

Middlefield Road, 7:22 p.m.: A cellphone was stolen.

EI Camino Real, 8:42 p.m.: A customer who broke a gas pump refused to pay for the damage.

Woodside Road, 10:18 p.m.: A homeless person was arrested for public drunkenness.

Jeter Street, 10:46 p.m.: A person looking after a house said while the parents were out of town the high school age son was throwing a party. Cars were coming and going and there was loud music. The “last time this happened the house was trashed,” the person said.

San Carlos

Thursday

600 block of Laurel Street, 7:05 a.m.: A 27-year-old San Carlos resident was cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license.