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

Athens, GA
A naked man with his body slathered with petroleum jelly was arrested Tuesday evening after a woman complained he was lurking outside her apartment at Dougherty Commons.

Found in the Athens Banner-Herald

Charlotte, NC
A man called a woman recently and said, “This is your neighbor from four doors down. I need to tell you what you’ve done wrong at night. I’ve seen you through your windows, and I have naked pictures of you, which could be really embarrassing if I sold them on the Internet. Do you want to do what I say so I won’t put them on the Internet? If you have good character you will not tell anyone I’ve called.”

Found in Creative Loafing

Essex Junction, VT
Police arrested a man charged with sticking his face and tongue through square holes in the wall of an occupied Port-o-let at Overlook Park on Essex Road Sunday.

Police said 55-year-old Timothy Lee Reynolds, of Essex Junction, was making obscene gestures from one toilet to the occupant of another. Reynolds was cited to answer charges of voyeurism and prohibited acts, police said.

Found in the Times Argus

Thanks Patrioticgorillia!

Appleton, WI
Suspicious incident: A woman called police after an unknown man left a note on her car apologizing for staring after seeing her naked through a window while walking his dog. The note indicated he would come back should she want to meet him.

Found in the Appleton Post-Crescent

Orange County, CA
A Garden Grove man accused of sneaking up to girls at the Bella Terra shopping center and taking photographs under their skirts will be arraigned Dec. 3, officials said.

Jason Hanavan, 30, was arrested Monday on Edinger Avenue and Beach Boulevard and charged with invading privacy with a concealed camera, said Huntington Beach police Lt. Mitchell O’Brien.

A witness reported that a man wearing an “Irish’’ hat was going up to girls with short skirts and taking photographs up their skirts, police Officer Corby Bright said. The witness notified security at the Barnes & Noble in the center, Bright said.

Found in the Orange County Register

Olmsted Falls, OH
An Elyria man who had a restraining order filed against him by a Fernwood Drive woman called police to inform them that another man who was warned by police to stay away from her was visiting the property when he wasn’t supposed to.

The woman later called to advise that the first man continues to harass her with phone calls, which she has recorded.

A court date on the matter will take place at Berea Municipal Court on Feb. 28.

Found in the News Sun

Waynesboro, GA
A local woman called police last week when her neighbor wouldn’t quit staring at her.

According to a report, the man stood in front of the woman’s residence and would not speak.

She added that she had caught him in her yard at night peeping into her bathroom window before, but he would run away when she saw him.

She also complained of damage to her property and rocks being thrown into her yard.

She said that when she returned from a “night out” two weeks prior, she noticed two posts missing from the back of the residence.

Found in the True Citizen

Missoula, MT
A woman reported that she had been in the women’s locker room at the Student Recreation Center, and had seen some feet below the shower curtain, but no water was running.

The woman asked if the person was okay, and the person said “she” was, Lemcke said.

The voice, however, did not sound legitimately female, and the woman called Public Safety. Responding officers found a male student in the women’s locker room, Lemcke said. He was clothed except for his shoes, and told officers he had walked into the wrong locker room by mistake and was hiding in the shower until he could get out unseen, Lemcke said. Unconvinced, officers cited him for disorderly conduct.

Found in the Montana Kaimin

Columbia, SC
A 25-year-old Lexington man complained to a department store employee at the Columbia Place Mall on that he was using the men’s restroom when another man entered the stall next to his and started staring at him through the cracks and holes in the stall wall. He said the man’s legs started shaking, and he thought the man was masturbating. Employees grabbed the peeping Tom when he left the restroom a short while later. When police arrived, an employee told a cop that the restroom is known for “questionable activity,” and the peeping Tom is one of many men who frequently stay in it for long periods of time. He was arrested.

Found in the Free Times

North Ridgeville, OH
Motorists on Route 20 in North Ridgeville about 9 p.m. May 13 got more than eye-full. Police received several reports of a naked woman walking on the road.

The woman told officers she had been staying with a man in a nearby motel when she became suspicious that a third person was hiding in the room and decided to hit the road in the buff.

According to the police, officers searched the room, but couldn’t find a peeping person. However, they did find shady substances and the man was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Found in The Sun

Berkeley, Calif.

Peeper

A 19-year-old woman called police after she spotted a man peer through her bedroom window just before 2 a.m. last Friday.

By the time officers arrived in the 2500 block of Ellsworth Street, all that was left of his presence was a description, to wit, a gray-haired bearded gaper wearing an orange jacket and khaki hat.

Another Peeper

Police were summoned 14 hours later to the 2200 block of Carleton Street, where another 19-year-old woman had spotted a man masturbating. The man had blondish hair and a dark jacket and was toting a bag.

Like the first, he, too, had vanished when the black-and-whites arrived.

Later…

Officers are looking for a man who was spotted masturbating across the street from the Claremont Day Nursery in the 2800 block of Woolsey Street Tuesday.

He was spotted by a pedestrian, who described the fellow as male in his late 30s with dark short hair and a medium to heavy build. He was sitting in a black Ford when spotted. Police have no suspects, in part because the pedestrian didn’t call until a day later, said Officer Okies.

Found in The Berkeley Daily Planet