Small Town Misfit

Erie County, NY
A Coventry Road resident reported that someone broke into her house and stole her pet’s dog dish.

Found in Bee News

Palm Beach, FL
On Tuesday, Apr 10, a Glock 26 gun was left by a customer in the booth at a restaurant on US Hwy 1. A short time later, the gun owner returned to pick it up. He had a valid “concealed weapon” permit.

Found in the Weekday Newspaper

Bozeman, MT
A man reported losing his rifle somewhere on Amsterdam Road.

Found in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Tracy, CA
12:38 a.m.: A caller reported that a passenger of a car had fired shots in the air while the driver spun doughnuts in the parking lot of a smoothie store on the 2500 block of Naglee Road.

Found in the Tracy Press

Goleta Valley, CA
Following protocol for incoming inmates, a 44-year-old woman turning herself in to authorities to serve the remainder of her sentence was searched during intake.

The woman had apparently forgotten to remove a small bindle of methamphetamines from her purse, and it was put on a table by authorities. Sheriff’s personnel became alarmed when the woman not yet in handcuffs grabbed the drugs, putting them in her mouth in an attempt to swallow the evidence.

After a brief struggle, jail personnel took the drugs from her mouth before she swallowed.
The subject was additionally charged with possession of a controlled substance.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Massillon, OH
The glory, praise and screams coming from a northeast Ohio church have prompted its neighbors to petition the city about the noise.

But church members contend they’re being harassed because of the way they worship.

“Sunday morning is God’s day of worship,” the Rev. Troy Sowell said. “I’m not going to tell this congregation, ‘You’re being too loud.’”

Sowell, senior pastor at Worshippers of Christ the Warrior King Church, says he’s open to finding a solution, but is not going to forfeit his right to worship God.

Volume has been an issue since the congregation moved in last year, said Jerena Copeland, an associate pastor.

Police responded to noise complaints three straight days during a revival last year.

Resident Richard Laase, who signed the petition, said he welcomes the church in the neighborhood, but contends that sometimes the worshippers get too loud, including during the revival.

“I thought there was a fight outside. There was screaming going on. I have no problem with their religion, but when you can hear it half a block way, you the need to close the windows,” Laase said. “I’ve been a resident here 15 years. It was kind of disturbing to me, but if that’s their belief, that’s what they want to do, that’s fine by me.”

Read the whole story at The Cincinnati Enquirer

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Durango, CO
4:19 p.m. An officer responded to a report of several people underneath a parachute smoking marijuana outside in the West Quad area near Crofton Hall. When an officer pulled the parachute up, about 30 people fled. Someone left a digital camera behind and several individuals were identified and arrested.

Found in the Durango Herald

Brooklyn, OH
Hopefully they won’t hold it against the responding officers when they hit the big time, but a local band’s photo shoot was thwarted by police April 18.

Police responded to a call shortly after 5 p.m. of two suspicious men holding signs asking for money and taking pictures of vehicles on the Tiedeman Road exit ramp off of Interstate 480.

More than 25 people were rounded up by police. They told the officers that they were in a band called Wicked Dreams and were taking photos for an album cover.

Found in the Brooklyn Sun Journal

Cincinnati, OH
A man with a well-known name is being held on $60,000 bond today after he is accused of breaking into a former girlfriend’s house and biting the ear of another man before police Tased him.

Bond – James Bond – 46, is charged with aggravated burglary and obstructing official business.

Police say Bond used his teeth and not a Walther PPK on another man Sunday.

He is accused of kicking in the door at 1638 Gilsey Ave. West Price Hill – where his former girlfriend lives – at 9:48 p.m. Sunday.

Once inside, Bond is accused of attacking Donald Roethford, a man inside the woman’s home.

Police say Bond wrestled Roethford to the ground and, once there, bit Roethford in the ear.

Police ordered Bond to stop but he continued to attack Roethford, so he was shot with a Taser – that provides an electrical shock to disable a person.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

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Waynesboro, GA
A Midville woman who hit a deer last Saturday night was planning to file a report when she got home from church the next day. It was a tough weekend for her SUV. According to a report filed at the Burke County Sheriff’s Office, the woman’s windshield was broken approximately 12 hours later when she hit a buzzard on the way to morning services.

Found in the True Citizen

Niagra Falls, NY

Niagara Falls Police and the Niagara County Health Department are investigating how almost two dozen urine samples, bound for a Cheektowaga lab ended up behind a Portage Road supermarket.

City firefighters said they were approached by the market manager at 11:17 a.m. Friday, after he found 20 labeled and sealed bottles of human urine behind his store. Firefighters secured the bottles in bio-hazard bags and then turned them over to police.

Officers took the bottles to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, where they found a shipping label that showed the samples were from the office of Dr. A. Hakeem Syed, MD, at Lakeshore Behavioral Health and were being transported to MedLab, at 600 Cayuga Road, Cheektowaga. The label also indicated the samples were taken on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Niagara County Health Department is now trying to determine who was transporting the urine and how it ended up behind the supermarket.

Found in the Niagra Gazette

Columbia, SC
A man in his late 20s or early 30s entered Total Wine on Harbison Boulevard on April 13 and left with almost $1,000 in alcohol hidden under his clothing. After the man perused the shelves of high-end liquor, apparently finding nothing that tickled his taste buds, he proceeded to the champagne area and loaded up and left. Later, the store clerk viewed the security video and discovered that the man had taken three bottles of champagne — two Dom Perignon and one Veuve Rose — with a total value of $999.

Found in the Free Times