Small Town Misfit

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

Flathead County, MT
2:24 p.m. An Evergreen woman called in when she saw a man follow two kids on a bicycle to the park. She said the man looked like a bum. She then saw the man play with the kids. She didn’t think the man was the kid’s Dad. When Deputies looked into it they found the man was the kid’s Dad.

Found in the Beacon.

Mukilteo, WA
A party called to report that a neighbor kid’s soccer ball went into her backyard. He then knocked on her door but she did not answer so he went inside her backyard to retrieve his ball. She was very upset about this and wanted trespass charges filed against the juvenile. Upon arrival, the officer discovered that the juvenile had not retrieved his ball. It was explained to her that the juvenile had acted reasonably and that charges would not be filed against him. The officers also had her throw the ball back into the juveniles yard.

Found in the Mukilteo Beacon

Appleton, WI
Theft: A cable company employee reported a cable theft in the 200 block of Manitowoc Street. When contacted the resident admitted to tapping into the upstairs tenant’s cable line. He told police that he had five kids who liked cable and said, “What am I supposed to do?” Police issued him a summons.

Found in the Appleton Post-Crescent

Waynesboro, GA
A Gough woman called deputies after her children became targets in an ongoing family feud.

According to a report filed at the Burke County Sheriff’s Office, the children were sitting in the bed of a parked pick-up outside their home when a woman allegedly crossed the highway and pretended she was going to ram them.

All of the children jumped out except for one girl who told deputies the oncoming truck was going so fast, she was afraid to move. The girl went on to say that when the driver got close, she “swooped in” like she was going to hit them, then swooped back out again. The kids said the woman went by them so fast, she nearly overturned when she tried to make a turn.

Deputies told the mother how to obtain a warrant.

Found in the True Citizen

Durango, CO
7:56 p.m. Several skateboarders were using the emergency room exit as a ramp and wouldn’t leave at Mercy Regional Medical Center.

Found in the Durango Herald

Orange County, CA
Police received a call that someone in a white and green ice cream truck was selling Airsoft guns to children Tuesday. The incident occurred at 6:34 p.m. in the area of Bushard Street and Bickley Avenue.
Police contacted the driver of the truck who said he would check with the city on the provisions of his business license.

Found in the OC Regsiter

Chadron, NE
12:18 a.m. Caller from the 1100 block of Second St. in Crawford advised there was a male walking on Highway 20 near the above location with only a T-shirt on.

4:53 a.m. Caller from the 100 block of West Second St. requested officers at the above location because there were kids on the roof.

11:43 a.m. Caller from the 500 block of Main St. advised someone had smeared nacho cheese all over the windshield of her van.

5:36 p.m. Caller from the 200 block of Morehead advised that a juvenile at the above location was hitting a dog with a hose.

Found in the Chadron Record

Atlanta, GA
A fifth-grader was handing out large amounts of cash to other students at an elementary school on Northside Drive, according to school officials. More than $250 was passed out, the social worker said. When school officials asked the fifth-grader about it, he voluntarily handed over the rest of the money: a whopping $19,124.

School officials called a police detective and the fifth-grader’s mom to the school. The detective asked the mother whether her son should have money in excess of $100 on his person. No, she said. The detective asked whether she had large sums of money in her home. No, she said. The detective pointed out that more than $19,000 was found on her son. “[The mother] then recanted her earlier affirmations and said that she had around $19,500 stored in her dresser (her retirement fund), but that she did not mention it, as she did not think that her son would go into her drawer and take the money,” according to a police report.

She refused to let police search her home. So police put the $19,124 in five manila envelopes, and put the envelopes about three feet apart on the floor. Then, they let police dogs do their thing. One dog gave a positive sign for “narcotics odor” on an envelope. Police put a hold on the money for narcotics and asset forfeiture. The investigation continues.

Found in Creative Loafing

Morrow, OH
A Morrow man pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting his wife and biting off his stepdaughter’s fingertip.

Gary Robinson, 43, pleaded to felonious assault and domestic violence in the Warren County Common Pleas Court. He is to be sentenced in August for the Feb. 20 incident.

After Robinson bit off the tip of his stepdaughter’s finger, it could not be retrieved because it was eaten by the family dog, according to Warren County prosecutors.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

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Rio Grande, NM
A caller at McDonald’s reported that a Honda that was wrecked on the passenger side was heading south. The caller said she thought she saw a little boy in the fetal position in the trunk of the vehicle. The car could not be located.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Tracy, CA
7:10 p.m.: A woman on the 900 block of West Sixth Street told police that a man in the neighborhood doesn’t like her 10-year-old son and tries to pay other neighborhood kids to beat him up.

Found in the Tracy Press