Small Town Misfit

Grass Valley, CA
3:33 p.m. - A man walked into a business on the 200 block of Neal Street and started saying extremely negative things about women to the employees. The man had gray hair, missing teeth and was dressed as a cowboy. The man left but said he would come back for dinner.

Found in the Union

Rio Grande, NM
11:55 a.m. — The Santa Cruz Post Office postmaster said a man was dumping pigeons, both dead and alive, in the dumpster. Police met the suspect at his home and advised him that the Post Office didn’t want any dumping at the dumpster.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Mukilteo, WA
Officers responded for a vehicle driving on the running track. The

officers located the vehicle leaving the school. The officers saw no

obvious damage to the track (but it was dark and covered in snow). The

driver was cited for violating his intermediate license restrictions

and his father came and picked him up.

Found in the Mukilteo Beacon

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

Thanks Luann!

Athens, GA
A 72-year-old Oakwood Terrace woman looked out her window Thursday evening and saw a naked man hosing himself down outside her house, Athens-Clarke police said.

When the woman called out, the man told her that his friend had dared him to dive into her pond, and that he wanted to rinse off because the water was dirty, according to police.

Found in the Athens Banner-Herald

Goleta Valley, CA
With the pair of Victoria’s Secret panties he was wearing poking out from under his red denim jeans, a shirtless man approached a Kaiser Avenue home, talking gibberish and refusing to leave. The concerned homeowner, who had never seen the young man before, called authorities for help.

Arriving on the scene around 11:30 a.m., deputies located the subject talking to other residents nearby. Behaving oddly and unable to stand still, the 19-year-old was apprehended for further questioning. Explaining how “after years of pain” he was finally “loving himself,” the “frantic” man continued his one-sided dialogue of peace, love and joy.

When asked about trespassing the man replied, “I wouldn’t leave their property until they told me from the bottom of their heart they wanted me to leave.”

Believed to be under the influence of a hallucinogenic, he was arrested and transported to jail for further drug evaluation.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Erie County, NY
A patrol responded to the complaint of an unwelcome guest pounding on the door of a French Lea Road residence. Upon the officer’s arrival, the suspect, who had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, was standing on the porch. When asked what he was doing, the suspect said he was, “trying to get some action.”

Found in Bee News

Charleston, SC
A man was caught trespassing in a downtown parking garage. When asked for identification, the man gave the officer court papers from a previous arrest for trespassing in another parking garage. As the officer was reading the document, the man asked “if I could get one last smoke in before going to jail,” and pulled a crack pipe out and put it to his mouth.

Found in the Charleston City Paper

Grass Valley, CA
9 a.m. — A man from the 300 block of First Street reported that when he went to check on a residence that was supposed to be vacant, he found a woman in the bathroom. She left out the window.

Found in the Union

Amherst, NY
A Glen Avenue resident told police that there were two people taking pictures on the property and that they might be naked. The suspects were fully clothed professional photographers and not on the property.

Found in the Amhurst Bee

Goleta Valley, CA
A fraternity brother was asleep in his bedroom in Isla Vista when a woman with a significant amount of facial hair startled him awake at 4 a.m.

“Do you have a cigarette?” the woman asked.

Later that morning and fully awake, the victim contacted authorities about the suspicious visitor adding that three cans of beer and $20 were also missing from his desk.

The young man, a 22-year-old UCSB student, said he was “unsure” if he would recognize the woman again.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Chico, CA
1:50 p.m. Suspicious subjects reported on the 200 block of E. 12th Street. “Subject believed that reporting party’s house was some type of historical point of interest and wanted to go inside. This is the second time he has showed up. The first time he left a brick and a rock.”

Found in the Orion