Small Town Misfit

Rio Grande, NM
5:03 p.m. – A 22-year-old man told dispatchers he did not want to deal with “this life” anymore and wanted to be taken someplace where he can’t care. City police picked him up for a mental evaluation.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Erie County, NY
A motorist stopped on Mineral Springs Road because his vehicle had no taillights, also had no license. He told police his license has been suspended 17 times.

Found in Bee News

Columbia, SC
A woman called police at 7 p.m. Sunday to report harassment. The woman said her neighbor pointed speakers at her home and played music and a tape of barking dogs at a high volume. When officers arrived, they heard the music and questioned the neighbor, who said the other woman’s three dogs constantly were barking and disturbing her. The officers reported that the woman had two dogs and neither barked while they were on the scene.

Found in The State

Normal, IL
A W/F student reported unknown person(s) put a paper plate under her room door in Hewett Hall with two dead goldfish on the plate. Case pending.

Found in the Illinois State University Police Blotter

Springfield, MT
A female reported that a male acquaintance walked into her apartment, laid down on her couch and began to masturbate in front of her. The woman fled the scene.

Found in the Springfield News

Bozeman, MT
A man told deputies about a suspicious smell of burning plastic. He said it had been going on for 10 years.

Found in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Palm Beach, FL
A man was arrested in the 2900 block of Jog Road after a police officer observed him driving across the front lawn of the department of public safety. The officer smelled a strong alcohol odor from the inside of the vehicle, and asked the man if he knew where he was. The man said, “I’m in the park.” The man told the officer that he came from downtown West Palm Beach and was trying to go back to his house. The man told police he had four cocktails that night. The man did not pass roadside sobriety tasks.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Barstow, CA
A man reported at 10:17 a.m. in the 1700 block of De Anza Street that someone opened his car door and left a duck inside the vehicle. The man said he thought it was probably a prank.

Found in the Desert Dispatch

Montgomery County, TX
A 24-year-old Harvey, La., man was arrested in south Montgomery County Wednesday after a crime spree involving the use of scissors.

The suspect bought a dollar of gas at the Exxon station before confronting his first victim with a pair of scissors placed at the victim’s neck as he demanded money. The victim broke free and called for help. The suspect fled from the scene in a 1997 Dodge pickup. A short time later, he was involved in an accident at the intersection of Gosling Road and Research Forest.

While exchanging information with the other driver, he grabbed her by the neck and demanded money. When she told him she had no cash, he threw her down onto the road and started to look through her vehicle. Someone passing by stopped to see whether anyone needed help, and the suspect jumped into his window, again brandishing scissors and demanding money. The man gave the suspect his wallet.

During the altercation, the woman who was the suspect’s second victim returned to her car and said she was calling the police. The suspect fled with the third victim’s wallet. The third victim followed the suspect until police captured him. He was arrested and placed in the Montgomery County Jail.

Found in The Courier

Royal Palm Beach, FL
A man was arrested after he tried to buy clothing with a stolen gift card from a store in the 9900 block of Belvedere Road. Store security told police the man took off his clothes and stood naked in the sporting goods section. He then went to a clothing rack and dressed himself. The man was stopped after he tried to pay for the clothing he was wearing with a gift card that hadn’t been activated.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Grass Valley, CA
At 3:08 p.m., a caller from the 1000 block of Plaza Drive reported a man with a beard and missing front teeth was spitting on cars. Police checked the area and the man was gone.

Found in The Union

Point Reyes Station, CA
9:13 p.m. Friday reported hearing from an elderly couple that a [man] is going door to door, asking for booze or graham crackers. Although the man repeated his request twice, the couple did not open their door to him.

Found in The Point Reyes Light Sheriff Blotter