Small Town Misfit

Charleston, SC
A driver who claimed his medicine was stuck to his driver’s license was busted when a Charleston police officer recognized the small wax envelope as a commonplace container for narcotics.

The envelope actually contained heroin, a report stated.

The officer stopped the man’s car because he turned without signaling and the car’s validation sticker wasn’t showing. When the driver realized the wax envelope was stuck to the license he’d just handed the officer, the driver immediately declared, “That’s my medicine!” the officer reported.

Police arrested the driver on a drug charge and towed his car.

Found in the Post and Courier

Denton, TX
A woman reported to police early Monday that her former boyfriend assaulted her when she confronted him about dating her mother.

The woman said she learned about the relationship and was angry. She saw them together in a vehicle in a parking lot, pulled in beside them and confronted the former boyfriend. She called her mother a “slut,” according to the report, and her mother told her she should respect her and not call her names.

The pair left, but the woman returned later and again saw them in the parking lot, this time in separate vehicles. She again confronted him, she said.

Her mother tried to drive away, but she stood behind the car to prevent it. The boyfriend got inside his vehicle and she jumped in the door on top of him to prevent his leaving, she said.

She said the boyfriend bent her car key and injured her in the struggle, according to the report.

Found in the Denton Record-Chronicle

Rio Grande, NM
1:29 p.m. — A Starlighter Loop caller said a man came over to fix his truck and ended up going on a joy ride while he was drunk and wrecked it to where it was undriveable. Española Police transferred her call to another agency.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Rio Grande, NM
1:33 p.m. — A caller said a man was asleep in a car on Bond Street, but he was stepping on the accelerator while Chihuahuas escaped from his car. Police found the intoxicated man running around Vietnam Veterans Park chasing his Chihuahuas; a sober driver picked him up.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Goleta Valley, CA
A man returned to his car, parked on San Lorenzo Drive, to find it covered in a thick gel-like substance.

The vandal who poured the gallon of goo on his car remains unknown. However, the victim told authorities, if located, he’d like the vandal prosecuted and fined for damages.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Tracy, CA
9:23 a.m.: A caller reported someone drove into the caller’s house, caved in a wall, then drove off from the 2600 block of Balboa Avenue. The car may have had a broken axle, the caller said.

Found in the Tracy Press

Tracy, CA
3:44 a.m.: A caller from a town home on the 300 block of Mt. Oso Avenue reported that a man lit the caller’s roommate’s car on fire. A tow truck took away a Ford Explorer.

Found in the Tracy Press

Goleta Valley, CA
A woman who left $12,000 in cash unattended in her car filed a report of grand theft after the money went missing a few weeks ago. The woman, 37, told authorities the money was last seen in an envelope under her car seat at a Fairview Avenue carwash. The woman admitted leaving the money unattended, and out of view, while the car was being cleaned.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Amhurst, NY
Police responded to an accident at Broadway and Central. As officers spoke to the man, they noticed signs of intoxication and the odor of alcohol. The man admitted to having beer, but he couldn’t remember how many. Then he said, “I’ll be completely honest with you. I’m smashed.”

Found in the Bee News

Grass Valley, CA
2:48 a.m - A caller from Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital reported a vehicle pulled up to the emergency room with an intoxicated person in the rear seat. The driver apparently was attempting to drop the person off when he began kicking the windows out of the vehicle. The driver sped off with the intoxicated man and responding officers were unable to locate the vehicle.

Found in the Union

Cincinnati, OH
A Cincinnati man was arrested for stabbing another man over a parking space at Newport on the Levee. Jerry Lin, 20, of Cincinnati, is charged with felony assault.

David Clark, 39, also of Cincinnati, told police he was trying to back into a parking space in the Levee parking garage about 8 p.m. May 23, when another vehicle pulled up on his bumper and refused to back up. Clark got his car into the spot and the other driver approached him as he got out of his car.

Clark told police Lin attacked him, according to the arrest report. When family members noticed Clark’s back was bleeding heavily, Lin got in his car and fled the scene.

Clark was treated at University Hospital for two stab wounds to his back. Police located Lin’s vehicle in the Levee parking garage. Lin returned to the vehicle while the officers were there.

The knife was recovered in his pants pocket.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

Thanks Luann!

Waynesboro, GA
An angry bull didn’t take well to the deputy who tried to steer him off the highway last Saturday.

According to a report filed at the Burke County Sheriff’s Office, the large Angus was seen wandering up and down Griffin Road and taking an occasional turn down the middle of Seven Oaks Road.

The deputy tried to steer him off the road, but the irritated bull rammed the front end of the patrol car, causing a small dent.

After several attempts, the bull finally broke through a fence and headed for the hills.

Charges against the bull’s owner are pending.

Found in the True Citizen