Small Town Misfit

Chadron, NE
Charges have been filed against Jeremiah Bennett, 29 of Chadron, for allegedly threatening his pregnant girlfriend with a sword and claiming he was going to cut off her head in the heat of a domestic dispute that occurred April 19 on the 200 block of North Main St.

Bennett has been charged with two Class II felonies (for using a deadly weapon to commit a felony and assault in the third degree of a pregnant woman), one Class IV felony (for terroristic threats) and one Class III misdemeanor (for disturbing the peace).

He currently is being held in protective custody in Scottsbluff and is being evaluated. Bond has been set at $50,000.

On April 15 Deangelo J. Wall, 22 of Chadron, threatened the life of a 22-year old male by allegedly holding the blade of a 12-inch sword/knife to his throat while at a residence on the 300 block of Chadron Ave. Court reports also claim Wall tried to stab the young man after an argument.

Wall is charged with two Class IV felonies (for attempted assault in the first degree and terroristic threats), a Class III felony (for using a deadly weapon to commit a felony) and a Class III misdemeanor (for disturbing the peace). He is currently out on a $20,000 bail bond and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Dawes County Court Thursday.

Found in the Chadron Record

Newport, KY
A Newport woman was arrested last night for stabbing her fiancé with a grill fork during a domestic dispute.

Gwendolyn Evans, 39, allegedly stabbed Dennis Farrell, 46, of Alexandria, at her West 10th Street home around 8 p.m. Monday. She is charged with assault in the second degree, a felony.

The couple, who told police they are engaged, said they began arguing and hitting each other. Evans stabbed Farrell once in the side and once in the back with the grill fork, according to the police report.

“She alleges that he had struck her, so when he turned around she stabbed him in the back with a grill fork,” said Newport Police Ofc. Tom Collins.

She is being held in the Campbell County Detention Center in Newport. As of 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, no bond nor arraignment date had been set. Farrell received treatment for the injuries at University Hospital.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

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Don’t smoke pot in front of a building under investigation for illegal drug activities. On June 18, while police were conducting an undercover surveillance mission of a Colleton Street apartment building, an officer noticed two people apparently smoking marijuana, toking on a joint in plain view of the public. A third person was hanging out with the bud smokers but not indulging in the Mary Jane.

The cops approached and said they were investigating illegal drug activity. The smokers then called one of the officers by name and said, “We aren’t selling drugs. Now we are smoking weed, we are not going to lie about that but that’s all we are doing.” The police attempted to locate the joint but had no luck and questioned the three about it. Perhaps victims of pot smokers’ memory loss, they told the police they did not recall what happened to it. All three were arrested and charged with loitering for narcotics.

Found in the Free Times

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Chattanooga, TN
Shajuana Dawson of Third Avenue said her neighbor, Roshell Leath, came over and accused Ms. Dawson’s children of vandalizing her property.

She said one of her children told Ms. Leath to “stop talking to my Mama that way.”

Ms. Dawson said Ms. Leath then pulled a large knife out of her bra and began swinging it around, asking the child “if he wanted any of this.”

Police went to the Leath residence, and Ms. Leath said she had put the knife in a closet. She was charged with aggravated assault.

Found in the Chattanoogan

Golf Manor, OH
A Golf Manor man is behind bars, accused of using a machete Saturday to rob a United Dairy Farmer store.

Victor Shearer, 44, is charged with aggravated robbery, carrying a concealed weapon, obstructing official business and possessing drug paraphernalia.

Police say Shearer, carrying a machete, walked into the store at 6:57 a.m. Saturday and took $44 from the cash register.

Shearer, who police said worked at Frisch’s, appeared to be a prime suspect because when he was found five minutes later, he was passed out and had $44 and a machete on him.

He also had a glass pipe on him when he was arrested.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

Taos, NM
9:21 p.m. — Reportant advised that an old blue truck with Colorado plates parked at Taco Bell, one man went inside trying to conceal a knife and another went around back of the Taco Bell with nunchucks.

Found in the Taos News

Parma Heights, OH
A 29-year-old Independence Boulevard man faces felony domestic violence charges after his girlfriend told police he held a kitchen knife to her throat during a fight over a video game.

The 27-year-old woman told officers that she was vacuuming the couple’s apartment when she moved her boyfriend’s XBox video game. The man became enraged and struck the victim, later holding the knife to her neck in the kitchen.

The woman fled the apartment and was chased by the suspect into the parking lot. Police were called to the scene and arrested the man.

Found in the Parma Sun Post

Palm Beach, FL
A man owed his ex-girlfriend $400. She arrived at his house and called him to ask for the money. He agreed to pay her and got into his yellow 2003 Hummer to go to the bank. She followed him in her purple Chrysler PT Cruiser. He got the money from the bank and she exited her car to collect it. Instead, she took a 10-inch knife from her car and walked around the front of his Hummer. She stabbed the two front tires, got back into her car and drove off. She called him shortly after that and said she put sugar in the gas tank of his Chevrolet truck and coffee in the Hummer’s gas tank. He tried to drive home before his tires deflated, but was unsuccessful.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Colerain Township, OH

Tired of snowman abuse, Matt Williquette decided to go hi-tech.

Williquette, 26, has a 12-foot inflatable snowman in his Crest Road front yard that has been vandalized three times in the last two weeks.

Tired of having Frosty punctured, Williquette bought a digital video recorder and stuck it in a nearby tree.

He captured video of two men using a screwdriver to punch yet another hole in Frosty. Police used the video to capture one of them today.

Hamilton County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Robert Snell, of the 2800 block Overdale Drive, Colerain Township, at 11:30 this morning.

Snell was charged with criminal damaging, a second-degree misdemeanor.

“I’m very relieved,” said Williquette, a packaging designer for Procter & Gamble. “People can finally sleep better around here.”

Williquette placed the 12-foot Frosty in his yard as part of his Christmas decorations. He also has in his yard a 6-foot inflatable snow globe, about 30 large candy canes and 4-foot inflatable snowman.

He has no idea why the vandals limited themselves to the largest inflatable decoration.

“The question I have is, ‘Why me?’ And why Frosty?” Williquette asked.
“I had more (decorations) to put out there but with Frosty going down I wasn’t going to chance it.”
Williquette placed white masking tape over the first two punctures to get Frosty inflated again.

Sick of seeing a deflated Frosty, Williquette used a video camera and bought new computer software to set a trap. The camera operated essentially the same as a motion detector, recording when something moved.

“Me sitting in front of the window every night wasn’t going to get it,” Williquette said.

After he heard a commotion last night and saw Frosty deflated, Williquette called police.

“The investigation continues to snowball; any future developments will be reported,” the sheriff’s office reported.

Snell’s name came to police from a tipster who’d seen the video.

The second man in the video hasn’t been identified.

With a bit of luck, Frosty will return to duty tonight.

“I just got to find some black duct tape to patch up his little charcoal area in his stomach and he’ll be back up and running.” Williquette said.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer
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Point Reyes, CA
A man wearing fatigues went into a store to buy two beers, then asked if the clerk thought of himself as “tough.” The man left and returned brandishing an eight-inch knife. He chased the clerk out of the store and then disappeared in a truck driven by another man.

Found in the Point Reyes Light

Denton County, TX
Police attributed a sword injury to an accident Sunday afternoon.

According to a police report, two brothers who share an apartment in the 1600 block of East McKinney Street were “play fighting” about 3 p.m. One brother had a sword and the other brother had a bathroom plunger.

One brother said he lunged with the plunger and it suctioned to the stomach of his brother, who was swinging the sword. In his efforts to remove his plunger from his brother’s stomach, he said he accidentally impaled himself on his brother’s sword.

He was treated for a cut that was not life-threatening at a hospital emergency room.

Found in the Denton Record Chronicle

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Brooklyn, NY
Questions regarding the ownership of a pack of cigarettes led to a 49-year-old man being stabbed inside an apartment on the 1700 block of 77th Street, officials said this week.

The victim told police that he was inside his apartment at 2 p.m. on October 26 when he got into a fight with another man, who had accused him of taking his cigarettes.

The two began to fight, a scuffle that quickly ended when the suspect pulled a knife and jammed it into his older opponent and ran off with the pack of smokes.

Police said that the victim was taken to an area hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

His attacker was still at large as this paper went to press.

Found in the King’s Courier

Delafield, WI
A 41-year-old Village of Pewaukee woman is facing possible charges after she wielded a knife at a man in a shopping mall parking lot Oct. 11.

According to the report, the woman was driving in the area of Wal-Mart at about 2:30 p.m. and was stopped at an exit. She claimed another vehicle then nearly hit her pickup truck.

The driver of the other vehicle, a 30-year-old Hartland man, told police the woman had just stopped in the road and started to wave her arms, the report said.

The woman and the man parked in the lot near Office Max, 2840 Heritage Drive, and the man got out of his vehicle to see what she was doing. The woman said the man made a derogatory remark toward her, the report said.

The woman got out of her truck and was brandishing a Ka-Bar Marine Corps knife and went toward the man, who got back into his vehicle. The man said the woman then kicked his vehicle.

The man called police, who found the woman in the parking lot. The woman initially denied having a knife, but later admitted it was in her truck.

Police are recommending the Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office charge the woman with disorderly conduct.

Found in the Lake Country Reporter