Small Town Misfit

Grass Valley, CA
A man from the 14000 block of Gracie Way called the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office at 7:38 p.m. Monday and reported suspicious activities near his property the night before. He said several juveniles, wearing make-up like clowns, were running around with what looked like guns.

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Rio Grande, NM
6:45 p.m. — An El Llano caller said while he was driving down North McCurdy Road, someone shot a paintball at his passenger, hitting him in the lip. The victim did not require medical attention, but police took a report for battery.

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Savannah, GA
Police were called to West 40th Street on a report of shots fired. A man told officers that another man had fired at him with a flare gun. He said there is an ongoing dispute between the man and himself. He said he was standing outside his home when the suspect approached him and said, “Is that shit over?”

The man replied, “Yes,” and started to walk away. He heard something click and looked back and saw the suspect had a flare gun pointing at his face.

In an effort to protect himself, the man slapped the gun out of the suspect’s hand. The gun went off and the flare went into the bushes.

An officer went around the corner to the suspect’s apartment. When the suspect came to the door, he was placed in hand cuffs for everyone’s safety, but advised he wasn’t under arrest.

The officer asked where the gun was and the suspect said it was in his room. The flare gun was sitting on a table near the door of the room. It had one spent shell casing in it and smelled like it had recently been fired.

The suspect told the officer he and the victim were having drinks when he said he had a flare gun and was going to fire it. He said he fired it because he had never fired one before, and that he never pointed it at the victim.

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Brazoria County, TX
A 47-year-old Pearland woman accidentally shot herself in the side with a revolver during target practice in the 18000 block of Amoco Drive in Pearland, Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Charles Bankston said.

“Apparently they were target shooting and she was going to do some kind of quick draw behind her back, goofing around and she shot herself in her side,” Bankston said.

The woman shot herself on the left side, just above her hip and the bullet exited her back, Bankston said.

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Atlanta, GA
In Buckhead, an officer saw a blue 2007 Jaguar with California tags. A computer check revealed the Jaguar was allegedly stolen in Los Angeles. The officer arrested the driver, a Beverly Hills man, who admitted he had a gun in the glovebox. A 33-year-old woman was in the passenger seat.

The officer ran a check on her — she had no outstanding warrants, so the officer said she was free to go. A few minutes later, the woman tried to remove a black leather computer bag from the Jaguar, the officer noted.

The leather bag contained $37,000 cash. The woman said she knows nothing about the car, cash or the gun — and she was on a date with the man. The man said a friend he knows as “D” let him borrow the Jaguar — and he believes D’s real name was Darrell, but he isn’t sure. He said the $37,000 cash is from a clothing line that he owns. They both went to jail.

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Angleton, TX
Constant ammunition fire kept Angleton firefighters away for more than an hour Friday night as they watched a trailer home burn to the ground.

Firefighters responded to the fire in the 3700 block of CR 34 at about 7:30 p.m. Friday. As they pulled up, the heat was setting off ammunition inside the trailer, preventing them from getting near it, Angleton Assistant Fire Chief Hardwick Bieri said.

“I was told there were guns and ammunition all throughout the house,” Bieri said. “We backed away because it got too dangerous.”

Standing a few feet away was Ben Salazar, 52, who lived at the home with his son, Adrian Salazar, 16.

When asked where he would stay Friday night, Ben Salazar said solemnly, “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”

Adrian Salazar told firefighters he was smoking a cigarette in his bedroom and went to the bathroom. When he came out, he noticed his room on fire, Bieri said.

“Next thing I know, there’s a flame by my door,” Adrian Salazar told firefighters.

Ben Salazar had lived in the trailer home since 1990.

“I was outside mowing,” he said. “He came running out of the house and it was on fire.”

Bieri said it was not known exactly what kinds of ammunition were in the trailer, but shotgun shells and small arms rounds were among them.

“We weren’t going to take a chance,” he said. “There were some high-powered shells.”

While firefighters monitored the blaze, insulation melted off an electrical wire, causing a transformer across the road to catch fire, Bieri said.

“There has not been a quiet moment,” he said as rounds of ammunition continued to fire.

Three Angleton fire engines and two Rosharon engines responded to the fire, and most of them had left by 9 p.m. Ammunition continued going off intermittently, and Bieri said firefighters stayed on the scene to monitor it late Friday.

No nearby structures caught fire and there were no injuries.

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Kalispell, MT
10:34 p.m. A woman from Washington called in because she had received three troubling phone calls from her brother in Coram. On the first call he claimed he had shot himself. He called back and said he was drunk and he shot himself. He called again and said he was just drunk and he hadn’t been shot. Deputies checked on him and he seemed to be OK.

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Rio Grande, NM
8:54 p.m. — A Hilltop Y Road caller said a man came to his house asking for a ride and then threatened to shoot him. The man also wanted to sell him a drill for $10. Tribal Police transferred the call to State Police.

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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.

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Waynesboro, GA
Sardis police surrounded the house of a local man who fired a shotgun across South Hill Street. The gunman, 20-yearold Christopher Marsh, reportedly shot two rounds at someone who owed him $20. Police had surrounded Marsh’s house and called for backup when the offender’s minister came by and said Marsh wasn’t actually inside. The minister, who’d had contact by cell phone, said Marsh left the shotgun inside and ran into the woods as police arrived. Marsh turned himself in shortly thereafter and was charged with reckless conduct and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Found in the True Citizen

Waynesboro, GA
The owner of Burke Feed & Farm Supplies called the cops last weekend after finding a shattered front door.

When a deputy arrived, he showed him what looked like bullet holes in his potato bin and back wall.

The deputy cut open a potato and found a .22 caliber bullet inside.

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Erie County, PA
Deputies investigated a man who was shot in the leg on Girdle Road. The subject was attempting to shoot a deer that was hit by his vehicle when the bullet ricocheted off the ground at hit the male in the thigh. The subject was taken to the hospital where he received treatment.

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