Small Town Misfit

Rio Grande, NM
• 10:09 p.m. — A police officer pulled a car over at an Española car wash because he knew the driver had an active bench warrant out of Española Municipal Court. When the officer approached the car he observed a “blue and purple glass smoking pipe also known as a bong” in plain view behind the driver’s seat. The driver said that he used it for smoking marijuana, but said that was the only contraband in the vehicle.

The officer found “a gas mask with another pipe attached to the end of the hose” in the back seat of the car. At that point dispatch advised the officer that there was a recall on the warrant, making it invalid. The officer found a baggy full of an unspecified quantity of a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana and arrested the man, who claimed the drugs and paraphernalia belonged to a friend, according to the police report.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Erie County, NY
A white male with gray hair filled two plastic bags with various merchandise at Rite-Aid on Seneca Street and fled without paying. The stolen merchandise included skin care products, an electric razor, two at-home cocaine drug tests, two bottles of Advil and 11 packages of razor blades.

Found in the Bee News Blotter

Erie County, NY
A Lexington Green man befriended a woman who called herself “Jasmine” while at a bar on Elmwood Avenue. He brought her home and the two were talking and having beers when she offered to make him a mixed drink. She prepared the drink and then reportedly kept nagging him to “guzzle it down.” He finished the drink and passed out within 15 minutes. When he awoke around 10 the next morning, he found the following items missing from his residence: a laptop computer, cell phone, CD player, Coach watch and hooded sweatshirt.

Found in the Bee News

Cleveland, OH
Two Texas men hauling 55 bales of marijuana hidden in a broccoli truck were arrested recently.

Facing charges of aggravated drug trafficking are Gilberto Martinez, 29, and Jaime DeLeone, 27. Total value of the marijuana they were transporting in a semi tractor-trailer was $1 million. Surrounding the 615 pounds of marijuana was a load of broccoli, according to Cleveland police and the Ohio Attorney General’s office. The Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s office also assisted in the investigation.

At 11 p.m. Sept. 6, agents and officers from those law enforcement agencies intercepted the truck at West 161st Street and Brookpark Road. Also recovered was various evidence, including a cell phone, satellite radio, some paperwork and other materials, police said.

Found in the West Side Sun News

Chattanooga, TN
A woman who was stopped for running a stop sign on Ocoee Street gave a driver’s license that turned out to be her sister’s.

Police wound up charging both sisters and taking them to the County Jail.

The woman who was driving the car gave the license of Sylvia Porter. Police did a check and found there was an active warrant against her.

At that point, the driver said Syliva Porter is actually her sister.

She identified herself as Berlinda Jones. She said there was no insurance on the vehicle she was driving.

Police went to Wheeler Avenue, where they found Ms. Porter. She was taken into custody on the warrant.

Back on Ocoee Street, officers found a glass crack pipe and a metal push rod in Ms. Jones’ purse.

Numerous charges were filed against Ms. Jones, including running a stop sign, driving without a license and without insurance, criminal impersonation and possession of drug paraphernalia.

After a search at the County Jail, they added one more - possession of contraband in a penal institute. They found crack cocaine in her underwear.

Found in the Chattanoogan

Chadron, NE
1:14 p.m. Caller from the 200 block of Morehead St. advised he bought a bear claw from the above location and it had a capsule inside of it. Caller stated he took it back to the store and they acted like it was no big deal. Caller requesting to talk to an officer.

Found in the Chadron Record

Atlanta, GA
Two men were hanging out at the Stop N’ Shop on Alison Court, police said. One officer described the men as “two individuals who practically live at the Stop N’ Shop on a daily basis, and I have spoken with them numerous times over the last three years.”

The officer noticed a large bulge in one man’s right pocket. The officer asked: “What do you have in your pocket?” The man, age 26, said he only had a phone charger in his pocket. “While he was moving items around in his pocket, I noticed a white cellophane wrapper,” the officer noted. The officer asked again: “Is there anything in your pocket I need to know about?” The man said, “I got a bag of weed in my pocket.” The officer said: “Give me the marijuana bag.” The man said, “Can I take the weed and pour it out in the grass?” The officer ordered him to give up the marijuana. The man said “OK,” reached down to his shoe and tried to take off running.

The officers stopped the man, who started swinging. He hit one officer in the chest with his elbow. Eventually, the man was handcuffed. Police searched him and came up with a cell phone, $2,190.50 in cash … but no marijuana. The officer asked: “Why did you fight and try to run if you didn’t have any marijuana?” The man said he’d been taking Ecstasy, and it made him “crazy.” He said he was too high on drugs, and thought the marijuana was in his pocket. The man was arrested for obstructing an investigation. He went to jail.

Found in Creative Loafing

Goleta Valley, CA
A San Marcos Road resident contacted authorities when a man wearing only boxer shorts and a brown T-shirt wandered into her back yard. Making contact with the mumbling intruder, the resident quickly realized the young man was hallucinating. Leading him back to her driveway, she gave the disoriented man a glass of water, and waited for law enforcement to arrive on the scene.

Continually exhibiting bizarre behavior and talking to himself, the male was transported to the station for questioning and drug testing. Unable to stay focused, the young man was reminded to urinate in the cup. However, instead of urinating, the man lifted the cup in an attempt to drink from the empty beaker.

Throughout the interview, it was noted in the report, the subject continually puffed on an imaginary cigarette.

After a painstaking dialogue, the 18-year-old, who admitted smoking “laced marijuana” at a party the night prior, was arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Goleta Valley, CA
A package stamped “return to sender” was delivered to the correct name and address of the supposed sender; however, when the Goleta dentist opened the unfamiliar package, he found 26 grams of marijuana. Clearly not something he had sent, the dentist called authorities to investigate.

It appeared the mysterious sender had used the dentist’s name and address to send the pot through the U.S. Postal Service to an addressee in Minnesota, but forgot to include the zip code. So the package was returned to the ostensible sender.

With the marijuana and packaging booked as evidence, the report was filed as a suspicious circumstance.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Goleta Valley, CA
Acting peculiarly, a young man, 18, continued to walk in and out of the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department main station. When contacted, the suspicious subject was unable to provide his own name to authorities nor did he know where he was.

Noting dilated pupils, deputies suspected the man to be under the influence of a controlled substance. When asked to perform a routine urine test, the subject replied, “All pee is dirty.”

After his arrest, during a search of his property, deputies found a form indicating he’d been released from jail the day prior.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Erie County, NY
Town of Tonawanda Police responded to a welfare check and upon entering the apartment found several marijuana plants. The woman begged police not to confiscate them because “they were not big enough to smoke yet.”

Found in Bee News

Goleta Valley, CA
After a man involved in a traffic collision was arrested for cocaine possession, the deputy asked if he wished to have drug treatment or counseling.

“This is my treatment,” the 23-year-old answered, implying his time spent behind bars would keep him from using.

After admitting during the interview that he’d last used cocaine at a Carpinteria beach prior to the collision on North Fairview Avenue , he added, “It was good coke. I probably did two lines, but when I use, I usually do an eight ball at a time.”

It was noted in the arrest report that the subject’s attitude oscillated between happy, sad and angry. In his rambling conversation with the arresting Sheriff’s officer, he talked about becoming president of the United States and “turning the world into a skate park.”

At 1 p.m. after his arrest, the Whittier resident was transported to Santa Barbara County Jail.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice