Small Town Misfit

Columbia, SC
A 47-year-old man left a Hampton Street barbershop May 15 and a woman followed him out. A few steps later a man came up to him and demanded money, saying, “Give me $30 for being with my woman.” The 47-year-old said, “I haven’t been with your woman,” and kept walking west on Hampton Street. But then he and the man started to argue. The man again demanded money for “being with his woman.” Then the man reached into his pocket and pulled out a box cutter, so the 47-year-old tried to step back but the suspect came at him, cutting him on the forehead. He said that after he got cut he threw $15 on the ground and the man walked away. The victim then ran to call the police.

Found in the Free Times

Cincinnati, OH
Forget sheet cakes and party hats – when Scarlett Doyle’s birthday rolled around, police say she celebrated by getting hammered and trying to beat up her mother-in-law.

Doyle, of Muncie , Ind. , was arrested just before 2 this morning on a disorderly conduct charge.

Doyle was seen stumbling through front yards in the 2800 block of Bodley Avenue in East Price Hill, a police report says, screaming obscenities and ringing the neighbors’ doorbells.

At one point, police saw Doyle grab her mother-in-law’s arm and try to fight the woman.

When officers arrested the petite blond, she told them she was drunk because it was her birthday.

On Thursday, Scarlett Doyle turned 33.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

Rio Grande, NM
11:17 a.m. — A caller said a man was either choking or hugging a woman parked at Valley National Bank. She said she wasn’t sure what she saw, but it seemed rough if it was a hug. The suspicious pair were gone when police arrived.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Kalispell, MT
2:50 p.m. A motorcyclist freaked out after a man driving a truck cut him off on Main Street. The pair drove side by side and yelled at each other for a short distance. Thee angry men then pulled over into a parking lot of a business south of Kalispell to fight. The motorcyclist smashed the back window of the man’s pickup with his helmet. When a deputy arrived both men had calmed down and admitted to their stupidity. The biker offered to pay for the smashed window.

Found in the Flathead Beacon

Atlanta, GA
At Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, an airport screener said a passenger hit her hand with a bottle of lotion. There were no visible signs of injury, an officer noted. “Several other TSA supervisors were on scene and loudly demanding that the passenger be charged and arrested,” the officer noted, adding that the airport screener was “loud and uncooperative.”

The passenger is a 46-year-old woman from Greenwood Village, Colo. She said she was told the bottle of lotion was going to be thrown into the trash, so she asked that the lotion be given to the homeless instead. Then, she said, the airport screener became loud and adamant that the lotion was going into the trash. She said she did hit the airport screener’s hand, but not to harm her. There was no evidence of intent by the passenger, the officer noted. A security videotape didn’t clearly show the incident, an airport supervisor said. No charges filed.

Found in Creative Loafing

Westlake, OH
Police were called to a wedding reception at 11 p.m. Saturday on reports of an overly intoxicated guest.

Police arrived to find a 24-year-old Parma woman, who apparently assaulted another guest by punching her.

The woman was arrested and proceeded to kick, pinch and spit at officer while being booked.

Found in the Sun News

Columbia, SC
A 37-year-old woman said she was visiting friends on Greene Street on March 29 when she knocked on a 48-year-old man’s door to ask for a cigarette. When the man opened the door he kicked the 37-year-old woman in the chest and closed his door. The man opened his door again and came at the woman with a knife, but another man was nearby and he hit the man with a chair before he could hurt the woman again. When officers showed up they could tell right away that the 48-year-old man was drunk. He was arrested and jailed on charges of drunkenness and simple assault.

Found in the Free Times

Atlanta, GA
A 36-year-old woman said she was driving to work one morning, and she stopped at the QuikTrip on Briarcliff Road. She said she was still in her car when a woman walked up and cursed and shouted at her. (She didn’t know this woman.) She said the woman grabbed her arm and tried to pull her out of her car. Then, she said, the woman jumped on the hood of her car. The woman was last seen driving away in a red Jeep. The 36-year-old woman wrote down the license plate number on the red Jeep. Police checked, but that tag number isn’t on file. The 36-year-old said she wasn’t hurt and her car wasn’t damaged.

Found in Creative Loafing

Richland, PA
David Cawley, 18, of Iroquois Avenue in McCandless waived a hearing March 28 on a charge of simple assault. Northern Regional police said that on March 19, Cawley, who was naked, jumped head-first into the open window of an officer’s patrol car in the 5600 block of Community Center Drive. Police said he injured the officer and two paramedics when taken into custody.

Found in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review

Parma, OH
A Parma Heights woman was arrested for trying to assault a police officer by running him over with her car.

Christine Tryon, 48, was charged with felonious assault, felony fleeing, resisting arrest, reckless operation and drunken driving. She hit two police cruisers when she was approached by officers about 1 a.m. March 21 at Goodtime Charlie’s, 5771 Pearl Road.

A bar employee called police because the woman was unruly while inside the tavern. When police got to the scene, they found Tryon in her car with the music turned up very loud. She refused to get out of the car and ran it into two police cruisers. She then left the parking lot and tried to run over an officer who was telling her to stop, according a report.

Police chased after the woman who eventually crashed her car in Parma Heights. She struggled with police while being arrested and again at the city jail where she had to be restrained.

Found in the Parma Sun Post

Newport, KY
The man police accuse of trying to kill his wife with an SKS assault rifle at a coin-operated laundry in Fort Thomas last June is considering withdrawing a motion to present evidence he is mentally ill, his attorney said in court on Friday.

Mark Padgett’s attorney, Jim Norris, said his client doesn’t want to get mentally evaluated by the state.
“He wasn’t happy about going down there,” Norris said in the courtroom of Julie Reinhardt-Ward.

Padgett is currently on a waiting list to be analyzed by the state. Norris wouldn’t comment further outside of court on Padgett’s mental state.

Padgett is charged with attempted murder, second degree assault and violation of an emergency protective order from a June 29 incident at the Wash Tub Laundromat on Alexandria Pike. Fort Thomas Police said Padgett beat his wife, Susan Padgett, in the head and tried to fire the assault rifle at her, but it malfunctioned.

Susan Padgett, who had a domestic violence protection order against her ex-husband issued May 28, was treated at St. Luke Hospital.

While the incident was going on inside the coin laundry, Southgate police found Padgett’s truck ablaze with fireworks inside it parked nearby, just one block away from a church festival. Southgate and Fort Thomas police chased Padgett and arrested him in the stairwell of a Custis Avenue apartment. Officers found that he had a bag filled with fireworks when they took him into custody.

Padgett had appeared previously in court via a video camera last September wearing what appeared to be cardboard eyeglasses that obscured his eyes.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

Thanks Luann!

Chicago, IL
Police said the suspect was yelling and throwing lawn furniture at other residents of a building on the 4100 block of North Sheridan when the officer asked him what he was doing. The offender lunged at the officer, who subdued the offender who later admitted being on prescription drugs. Asked why he tried to attack the police officer, the offender said “that’s the way I roll.”

Found in Everyblock Chicago