Small Town Misfit

Eagle Hill, MA
A woman escaped major injury Monday morning after allegedly being struck in the hand with a sword handle by a male suspect, police report.

Police arrived at 156 Falcon St. in East Boston’s Eagle Hill where the victim escorted officers to a second-floor room. That’s where cops found the suspect glassy eyed and slurring his speech, according to a police report.

The suspect was placed in handcuffs and admitted to drinking, the report states. The victim told police they had been at a party and got into an argument about the victim’s behavior when they returned home. The suspect allegedly struck the victim with a sword and punched her in the eye, according to a police report.

Fredy A. Landaverde of East Boston was charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

Found in the Boston Herald

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

Columbia, SC
A 47-year-old man left a Hampton Street barbershop May 15 and a woman followed him out. A few steps later a man came up to him and demanded money, saying, “Give me $30 for being with my woman.” The 47-year-old said, “I haven’t been with your woman,” and kept walking west on Hampton Street. But then he and the man started to argue. The man again demanded money for “being with his woman.” Then the man reached into his pocket and pulled out a box cutter, so the 47-year-old tried to step back but the suspect came at him, cutting him on the forehead. He said that after he got cut he threw $15 on the ground and the man walked away. The victim then ran to call the police.

Found in the Free Times

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!

Medina, OH
Residents reported a man attempting to sell swords door-to-door at 2 p.m. Saturday on Branch Road. Police contacted the man, who said he sells decorative weapons at flea markets and fairs but denied knocking on any doors. He was asked to refrain from bothering residents

Found in the Sun News

Columbia, SC
A 28-year-old woman said she and her mother got into a fight at a West Avenue apartment April 26. The woman elaborated that she picked up a kitchen knife with her right hand and stabbed a wall, causing the knife to cut her right pinky finger. The woman then walked to a hospital for medical attention (and maybe anger management help).

Found in the Free Times

Kalispell, MT
3:18 a.m. A woman from Angel Point called in because her ex-boyfriend was attacking her current boyfriend with an axe. The victim’s injuries are not life threatening, but the ex-boyfriend did bite part of his finger off. The victim also suffered leg injuries and lacerations to the head and eye. The attacker was arrested for attempted deliberate homicide.

Found in the Flathead Beacon

Tracy, CA
3:52 p.m.: A caller from the Tracy Press at 145 W. 10th St. reported that a man on a bike at the corner of 10th and A streets was overheard saying on his cell phone, “I stabbed someone! I stabbed someone!”

Found in the Tracy Press

Charleston, SC
A man was arguing with his “baby’s momma” on the phone when he tried to stick a knife into his kitchen table, missed the table, and stabbed himself in the leg.

Found in the Charleston City Paper

Flathead, MT
1:34 a.m. A 17-year-old kid broke a window in Ferndale with his sword. He then ran off towards Lake County.

Found in the Flathead Beacon

Goleta Valley, CA
Deputies found a distraught and disoriented 38-year-old woman just before 1 a.m. sitting in a planter at a Hollister Avenue intersection.

During an interview, the woman explained how, after a recent mental evaluation, she’d been released from a medical facility with stronger medications. Since her release just days earlier, she added, she’d only slept a handful of hours and admitted feeling anxiety building. However, she said, she remained happy and “not depressed.”

During a consensual search, the woman, previously in jail for making terrorist threats against law enforcement, warned deputies, “I do have a knife in my pocket. I like knives, but I’m not going to stab you. Besides, you have on a bullet proof vest.”

An ambulance called to the scene transported the woman to the hospital to address her health concerns.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Chattanooga, TN
Police said a man who wanted to cut in on a dance at a local club and was denied became enraged and beat and cut a man.

Ramon Silinas said he was dancing with a woman at La Marcarena 2 on E. 28th Street Place. He said a man he knows as “Chewy” asked to dance, but he told him no.

He said the man responded by hitting him with a chair, then started throwing beer bottles at him. He grabbed a broken beer bottle and came at him, stabbing him on both sides of his face and on the back. He then kicked him in the stomach as he lay on the floor.

Police said the victim had a severe cut on the left side of his face as well as other injuries.

Witnesses said the man involved in the assault left on foot. They said he came in a 1995 GMC Sierra that was still parked at the club.

Police said the vehicle traced to a man living in an apartment on McBrien Road in East Ridge.

Found in the Chattanoogan