Small Town Misfit

Atlanta, GA
Around 9:30 a.m., an officer talked to two women on Pine Street. The officer asked one woman for her name. “When she started speaking, she bent over to fix her shoes and when she did, I could clearly see a clear bag with a lot of suspected crack cocaine between her breast[s],” the officer wrote. The other woman said, “You got my baby’s candy in your shirt,” and reached between the woman’s breasts. “[She] was trying to push the bag down deeper in the woman’s shirt,” the officer wrote. Both women were arrested and taken to jail. Both are age 24.

Found in Creative Loafing Atlanta

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

Tracy, CA
1:58 a.m.: The night auditor at the Motel 6, 3810 N. Tracy Blvd., reported a guest continually calling and saying that he was on hallucinogenic mushrooms, locked in the bathroom and that there were things coming out of the walls. A guest two doors down from the man said that he had broken through the wall. Police managed to phone the man, who said he was high on cocaine and mushrooms. A woman from the hotel said she thought the man was prank calling the police and reported no damage to his room.

Found in the Tracy Press

Goleta Valley, CA
Roommates of an out-of-control man contacted authorities around midnight recently after they were unable to subdue their bat-swinging, knife-wielding friend. On the scene, deputies met the subject, a 20-year-old UCSB student, in the bathroom of his Del Playa Drive residence.
“I just wanted to have fun,” remarked the subject who was bleeding from his hands and feet.

While investigating the odd-behaving male, deputies found in his possession two pills adorned with a picture of Buddha. The pills, suspected Ecstasy tablets, were confiscated and booked as evidence. And the young man was arrested for possession of the controlled substance.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Goleta Valley, CA
A woman who requested deputies respond to a family dispute at her Payton Avenue home was found cultivating marijuana on her front porch. The investigating deputy immediately recognized the 12-inch-tall plant as the genus Cannabis.

“Someone else must have put it there. I just thought it was a pretty plant,” said the 42-year-old woman, denying any link to the plant.

She was cited for cultivation of marijuana and the potted plant was confiscated.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Rio Grande, NM
5:33 p.m. An Arby’s employee said three women were trying to sell sex to the restaurant’s customers and doing drugs by the dumpster. Police advised the ladies to leave.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Goleta Valley, CA
After receiving a call from a concerned mother, deputies went in search of her 25-year-old son, who was believed to be in the midst of a personal crisis. However, when deputies reached him at a Hollister Avenue residence, they found the young man alive and safe. Noting peculiar behavior, deputies asked the man if he’d been using illegal drugs.

Sheepishly, he admitted snorting “about a bump” of cocaine earlier “in a port-a-potty.” During further questioning, he told deputies a “cute sorority girl” he’d met at a volleyball tournament earlier that day had given him the drug. He used it, he said, because she was “good looking.”

The man, arrested for illegal drug use, was later released.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Olmstead Falls, OH
A Columbia Gas employee called police to report a suspicious bag lying on a tree lawn on Columbia Road.

The man believed the bag contained marijuana.

An officer responded to the area and retrieved the bag.

The bag contained potpourri.

Found in the News Sun

Chaska, MN
A man and his 15-year-old son were in a truck traveling on County Road 140. The father was driving, while his son was hanging out the window, striking mailboxes with a silicone gel wrist support. A witness called the police. Officers located the truck a short time later. A marijuana pipe was found in the father’s possession. He was charged with criminal damage to property, reckless driving, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and possession of drug paraphernalia. The son was charged with criminal damage to property.

Found in the Star-Tribune

Erie County, NY
A Depew man was in Lancaster Town Court when he approached a police officer and asked if he had to sign in for court. The police officer immediately smelled the odor of burnt marijuana on the man and escorted him outside. The suspect said, “I know what you’re going to ask me. I have some marijuana in my truck.” The officer found a clear, plastic bag containing the substance and a glass smoking pipe. The suspect was taken to the police station, charged, released on his own recognizance and returned back to court for the original citation.

Found in the Bee News

Rio Grande, NM
5:28 p.m. - A White Swan Road caller said her neighbors “stole her bird and placed it dead on the window.” She said they left their initials on the window next to the bird. Deputies went to the neighbors to question them but the adults of the household weren’t home.

5:30 p.m. — A Shadowood Lane caller said there was a lot of drug activity going on and she had been calling drug enforcement but nothing was getting done. She said her neighbors had been harassing her and “when they placed the dead bird on the window they left their initials.” No report was taken by the police.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Cincinnati, OH
A Kmart pharmacist in Forest Park got a shock when he returned to the pharmacy following a break Tuesday evening.
The pharmacist told police he saw a man he didn’t know taking powerful drugs from a locked metal cabinet that had been pried open.
Police arrested Justin Hobbs, 28, who is homeless, and charged him with breaking and entering and 11 counts of possession of drugs.
The pharmacist, who works at the 12171 Omniplex Drive store, told police he’d returned from a break at 9:35 p.m. to find Hobbs taking the drugs. He said Hobbs gained entry to the pharmacy through the customer service window at the counter.
Hobbs is accused of stealing powerful pain killers, like oxycodone.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

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