STOCKTON — Large numbers of police, sheriff's deputies and Highway Patrol officers descended on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. corridor Sunday night to quell multiple disturbances following well-attended daytime family events downtown and at the fairgrounds.

At one point, a large, unruly group was throwing bottles at officers near MLK and South Hunter Street. Some officers wore protective helmets, but no law enforcement personnel were reported injured, according to police spokesman Officer Joe Silva.

By 9 p.m., law enforcement appeared to have the upper hand.

"It sounds like it's calming down and breaking up," Silva reported at that time.

Minutes later, officers were deployed to the Kmart store on Mariposa Road in southeast Stockton on a report of more than 100 vehicles having a sideshow in the parking lot.

The westbound lanes of MLK were closed to all traffic at Airport Way to keep the traffic out of the affected areas.

— Contact reporter Joe Goldeen at (209) 546-8278 or jgoldeen@recordnet.com. Follow him at recordnet.com/goldeenblog and on Twitter @JoeGoldeen.