Small Town Misfit

San Jose, CA
Is it me, or does this police blotter read like a script for the Twilight Zone?

• An intoxicated 21-year-old man “who decided to break some trees” was arrested.
• A person was driving recklessly in the parking lot at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints.
• A resident found bones on the side of her driveway.
• A person in a suspicious vehicle with two others hid his face from a person who observed them.
• A person was sleeping in a truck with something resembling a rifle displayed in the rear window.
• A person at Little River Park told police a dog secured to a tree was pulling so hard it was about to break and that a young child in the same area was throwing dirt at passing cars.
• Six handguns were stolen from a residence by someone who entered through a rear window.
• A parent reported being concerned that a neighbor was taking pictures of his children while they were playing in the yard.
• A man on crutches with black cat in his backpack was reported to be yelling at people passing by the library.

Found in the San Jose Mercury News

Garfield Heights, OH
Four women were caught shoplifting at Kmart May 14.

While the officer was securing them, one drove off in a car with two small children in the backseat in child safety seats. The police didn’t pursue her because of the two small children and the fact that the she had arrived with one of the detained women.

The problem is one of the children belonged to the other woman and the two had only met the day before. She didn’t even know where the other woman lived.

The police put out an “Amber Alert” after searching for her at several addresses. At each location, they informed the owners that if the child turns up to call the police immediately. That night the woman dropped off the child at a house on East 114th Street. The owner said he didn’t see who dropped off the little girl but spoke with a man in contact with the woman. The officers took the child back to the station and she will be taken to the Department of Child and Family Services.

The next day the woman called the police and said she didn’t steal anything and that the other woman had put her child into her car. She said she left because the police said they would contact 696-KIDS because she was shoplifting with her child.

The officer explained she had two warrants out for her arrest and other charges may be filed after the prosecutor reviews her case. At that point, the woman’s sister got on the phone and said the woman would turn herself in the next day.

The woman did turn herself in and was charged with theft, obstructing justice, falsification and kidnapping.

Found in the Garfield-Maple Sun

Mukilteo, WA
Officers contacted three juveniles who were smearing human feces on the exterior doors/windows of the middle school. The juveniles were identified. Arrangements were made with school officials for the juveniles to clean off the feces. The juveniles were then released to parents.

Found in the Mukilteo Beacon

Durango, CO
4:15 p.m. An officer was needed at Mercy Regional Medical Center to handle an agitated and intoxicated husband while his wife was in labor. The man was gone when officers arrived.

Found in the Durango Herald

Nichloasville, KY
A central Kentucky man has pleaded not guilty to unlawful imprisonment and not having an operator’s license after he repossessed a truck with three children inside.

Police say 44-year-old David Mahaffey repossessed the truck in Nicholasville, but the owner’s three children, ages 9 months, 2 years, and 8 years, were still inside.

Police say Mahaffey drove off as the children’s family members chased the car, and screamed for him to stop.
Lexington’s WKYT-TV reports that Mahaffey says he didn’t notice the children in the back seat, or hear them screaming until a few blocks away.

Mahaffey told the station that he immediately stopped the truck and called his boss when he noticed the children.
Mahaffey is out of jail on a $2,000 cash bond.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

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Cincinnati, OH
A 19-year-old Green Township mother is being held this morning at the Hamilton County jail after Cincinnati police charged her with taking her newborn baby along while she broke into a candy store.

Christine Ruther and three others are accused of breaking into Minges Candy Store, 132 W. Court St., downtown, shortly before 1 a.m. and swiping about $400 in candy, police said.

The group was arrested a few blocks away at Fourth and Race streets when police caught up with them by following the trail of candy and candy wrappers.

Arrested with Ruther was her seven-week-old daughter.

Ruther was charged with child endangering and breaking and entering, court records show. She arrived at the jail about 5 a.m. and will go before a judge Friday morning, jail officials said.

An 18-year-old woman and two men, 18 and 22, also were charged with breaking and entering, police said.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

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Clovis, NM
Around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday an officer on duty at a school in the 100 block of Commerce Way responded to a situation involving a dress code violation.

A teacher told a boy to pull up his pants and tuck in his shirt but the boy’s pants were too big and kept falling.

The teacher and officer told the boy they would provide him with twine to make a temporary set of suspenders for him but the boy resisted and said that would make him look stupid.

The teacher and officer suggested using the twine to secure the belt loops and again the boy refused, so he was sent to in-school suspension.

The officer was called to the in-school suspension room a few minutes later, where the principal told him the boy had raised his voice, repeatedly asking for his soda and chips, which the officer had confiscated during the incident in the hallway.

The boy was arrested for disorderly conduct, suspended and transported home where he was released to his mother.

Found in the Clovis News Journal

Kalispell, MT
1:03 p.m. Parents and students at Somers Elementary School were counseled after a child, who thought his teacher gave him too much homework, wrote a list of people to kill. Two other kids saw the list, thought it was funny and made their own. Names on the list included prominent figures such as Santa Claus.

Found in the Flathead Beacon

Jeffco, CO
A Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy was sent to the Golden Panda Restaurant, 7470 S. Pierce St. at 3:30 March 14 on a report of a disturbance. A woman at the restaurant told the deputy she had gone to the bathroom and when she returned her table had been cleared off and her cell phone was missing.

While the deputy was talking to the woman, she started emptying her pockets and lifted her shirt, revealing a white sports bra with a cell phone held between her breasts. When the deputy tried to ask her about the phone the woman grabbed her children, screamed, “You’ll hear from my lawyer,” went outside and drove off in a gold van with the front hubcap missing. The deputy followed the woman outside, but could not get a license number from the van.

The deputy spoke to the restaurant owners who said they both saw the woman place the phone in her bra while standing in the bar area. The deputy told the owners to call the sheriff’s office if the woman returned.

Found in the Jeffco Sheriff’s Blotter

Kalispell, MT
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Found in the Flathead Beacon

Kalispel, MT
A daycare owner on Shady Lane in Kalispell called in to report that her neighbor had parked their motor home by her driveway and was improperly dumping their waste. The woman was worried about health issues and her daycare.

Found in the Flathead Beacon

Erie County, NY
A complainant reported having received three hang-up calls from the same number in the past hour. When he called back a woman answered, saying she was babysitting and there was no way anyone there could have called because the kids were locked up in the closet.

Found in the Bee News