Small Town Misfit

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

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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

Westwood, OH
Mercedes Davis, a Dater High School student, is accused of punching her teacher in the nose Wednesday.
Davis, 18, of Westwood, was arrested at Dater High in North Fairmount and charged with assault and disorderly conduct.

Police report Davis, the mother of a 7-month-old child, was in an altercation with another female student at 9:35 a.m. at the school when teacher Mary Ann Gardner tried to break it up.

Davis responded, police said, by punching the teacher in the nose and calling her names.

When police arrived, they said Davis refused to calm down or comply with their orders.

Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Dwane Mallory released Davis today without posting a bond.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

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Charleston, SC
Two patrons at a downtown sushi joint found themselves in a verbal dispute with a bar employee over their tab. The bartender allegedly hopped over the bar and began assaulting one of the men, who received bruises on his arms and a large cut on his face.

Found in The Charleston City Paper

Columbia, SC
On Dec. 23, a 57-year-old man was standing at a crosswalk near Townes Center Place, yelling at traffic. The man crossed the road and punched the rear end of a car, which just happened to be a police officer’s personal vehicle. The officer got out of his car and identified himself to the man, who began apologizing and shaking. The man repeatedly told the cop how sorry he was and, continuing to shake, presented his identification to the officer. A woman who was with the subject stood by and at one point “rudely interrupted, saying: “Who are you!” to the officer. But, apparently because the man had apologized so many times and it was just before Christmas, the officer decided not to arrest him.

Found in the Free Times

Boulder, CO
First claiming paralysis, a 31-year-old male transient suddenly found the restorative powers of being arrested in the early hours of March 7, according to Boulder Police reports. An attending physician at Boulder Community Hospital, 1100 Balsam Ave., told police that the man refused to leave the emergency room after being examined for possible paralysis and a back injury.

Finding neither, the physician told officers, he believed the suspect was attempting to get a prescription for narcotic painkillers. Despite the intervention of a security guard, the doctor said the man continued to yell at hospital staff members about his broken back and threatened to kill the physician. When officers arrived and began to escort the man from the emergency room, the suspect began to thrash about with his arms and legs, further calling into question the amount of paralysis he was suffering, according to reports.

In fact, after being handcuffed, the man rammed his head into a police car, yelling “police brutality,” the arresting officer wrote. The man was booked and held at Boulder County Jail on suspicion of trespassing, obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest.
Found in the Boulder Police Blotter

Athens Georgia
Jackson County sheriff’s deputies were called to a Nicholson home early Thanksgiving morning after a 43-year-old woman knocked her husband unconscious with a potato during an argument, according to sheriff’s reports.

The woman told deputies that she and her husband started to argue in the kitchen about 1 a.m. Nov. 22. He had used an expletive to describe her, and she threw the potato at him, hitting him in the nose and causing him to pass out, deputies said. The couple told deputies that they had been drinking.

She told deputies that she didn’t mean to hit her husband and called police as soon as he fell unconscious. The man, who suffered from a large knot on his nose, told deputies he did not want to press charges. The woman was not arrested and no charges were filed.

Found in the Athens Banner-Herald

Waynesboro, GA
An Augusta man came to Waynesboro with loving on his mind, but ended up with an aching in his head.

The man told police he met a Waynesboro woman on a chat line and agreed to visit her here for an afternoon rendezvous.

The couple was in an upstairs bedroom when another man, claiming to be the woman’s boyfriend, rushed in and threatened to “shoot (the Augusta man) in the head.”

The boyfriend allegedly hit him in the head with a pistol before stealing $50 from his pants pocket.

The Augusta man was ordered to leave and continued to get hit in the head as he tried to walk down the stairs in his underwear, the report said.

The woman and her sister retrieved the man’s clothes for him, and he called police after dressing inside his car and driving to McDonald’s.

Found in the True Citizen

Charleston, SC
A man filed a complaint about an argument with his wife that turned a little violent (she bit, choked, shoved, and slapped him around). Then it turned really violent (she “tried to stick my penis in my butt”).

Found in the Charleston City Paper

Palm Beach, FL
A pizza delivery man showed up at a home at 10:05 p.m. in the 16000 block of Edinburgh Drive in Loxahatchee. A man greeted the delivery man in the driveway, then proceeded to beat him with a stick until he gave the suspect three pizzas, a cellphone, a two-liter bottle of Pepsi and $25.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Chattanooga, TN
A woman on Forestdale Lane said her husband began acting crazy soon after she got home. She said he got naked and went outside.

She was able to get him back in the house, then he started slapping her.

Police came to the door and a naked man answered. Officers got him to put on some pants.

The wife had red marks on her face and back from the slapping, police said.

Found in the Chattanoogan

Grass Valley, CA
4:31 p.m. - A woman called from the 10000 block of King Way to report a fight between her grandmother and her 12-year-old son. The grandmother allegedly swung a guitar at the juvenile, then both the grandmother and the juvenile started throwing forks. A deputy mediated the situation.

Found in the Union