Small Town Misfit

Springfield, MT
3:45 p.m., 900 block Northridge Avenue. A female reported that the person she hired to do yard work found a shotgun on her lawn.

Found in the Springfield News

Columbia, SC
A 28-year-old woman and her 30-year-old boyfriend from Gaston ran up an $8 bar tab at a club on Seminole Road. The boyfriend told the woman to run outside and get some money to pay the tab. The woman returned wearing a leather jacket and tried to pay the bill with a stolen credit card. A security officer working the club stopped the woman from leaving and held her until police arrived to arrest her. She’d broken into the security guard’s car in the parking lot and was trying to pay her bill with the guard’s card.

Found in the Free Times

Missoula, MT
An officer on foot patrol came across a live lobster near the Grizzly statue.

Found in the Montana Kaimin

Boerne, TX

Found in the Boerne Star

Morgan County, GA
An employee of an Eatonton Road hotel reported that a room had been damaged by a guest. The employee stated that after informing several guests that checkout time was approaching, the guests left the room. Another employee of the hotel later found that the room had been damaged, stating that several holes had been burned into the room’s bed and chairs, ketchup and a soft drink had been spilled onto the bed, curtains and air conditioner, and that someone had reportedly urinated on the carpet. A guest was contacted in regards to the damage, and the employee later reported that the matter had been resolved after having received appropriate payment for the damages.

Found in the Morgan County Citizen

Goleta Valley, CA
A patrol officer for the Sheriff’s Department returned to work to find a mysterious brown box in his mail slot. Inside, the officer found over two grams of marijuana and less than one gram of hashish tucked inside a plastic drinking mug. A Hulk Hogan scarf and wristband were also in the box. While there was no letter with the package, the box contained an address of the Goleta sender and a Chicago recipient. The report indicated the officer was unclear about how the box made it to his mail station.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

St. Peters, MO
A Missouri woman has been arrested for breaking into a dog breeder’s home and beating her repeatedly over the head with a dead Chihuahua.

The woman was upset because the puppy had died, police told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper.

The woman, whose name was being withheld pending charges, said a veterinarian had told her the puppy she’d bought was just four weeks old and needed to be returned to its mother.

It died before she had a chance to do so and the woman went to the breeder’s home in St. Peters, Missouri about 5:45 am Wednesday.

She pushed her way into the house and tried to get to the basement to get another puppy. But after some hair-pulling, the breeder managed to wrestle the woman out of her house.

When she got outside she started hitting the breeder on the head with the dead puppy, drawing the attention of a neighbor who called police.

The woman then went back to her car but waved the dead puppy out of the car’s sunroof while yelling threats at the breeder, who did not seek medical attention, police said.

The weight of the puppy was unknown, but Chihuahuas weight between two and six pounds when fully grown.

The dog owner could face felony burglary and misdemeanor assault charges police said.

Read the whole story in the The St. Louis Post-Disptach

Thanks Sly!

Goleta Valley, CA
Carrying two packages of condoms, seven bottles of lubricant, a pornographic magazine and a sex toy, a subject attempting to flee an adult video store without paying for the merchandise was apprehended by a store employee. The 50-year-old male claimed he entered the store looking for “items for his fish tank,” not intending to steal. And he only ducked out momentarily to check on a friend in the parking lot, he added.

Unconvinced, store personnel contacted authorities and signed a citizen’s arrest form citing the man for petty theft. All items, including one made of leather, were returned to the store

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Chadron, NE
11:08 a.m. Caller from the 500 block of West Niobrara Ave. advised that a young man just brought her dog home and he flashed her a badge and said he was from the police department. Caller requesting to talk to an officer to see if he really works at the PD. Advised caller he was not with the Chadron PD and advised her PD would have a talk with him. Located person at above location and brought him to the PD. He was advised he was not allowed to wear the badge and duty belt stuff unless he was performing his jr. Civil Air Patrol duties with his supervisor. Advised if he continued he would be issued a citation.

Found in the Chadron Record

Parma Heights, OH
One arrest apparently was not enough for a 22-year-old Stumph Road woman who was collared twice on Saturday after causing a disturbance at the apartment where she caught her ex-boyfriend cavorting with another woman.

According to reports, the suspect was arrested after she kicked in a bedroom door and assaulted her ex-boyfriend. Three hours later, after being released from jail, the woman returned to the apartment and again kicked in a door to get to the couple.

She was arrested again and charged with criminal damaging.

Found in the Parma Sun Post

Rio Grande, NM
7:55 p.m. — Police retrieved needles from the flower bed in front of Long John Silver’s.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

North Olmstead, OH
The Crocker Park panty thief has made its way to Westfield Great Northern on June 5, stealing more than $1,000 worth of underwear.

Police were called to Victoria’s Secret in the mall, after someone emptied an entire display table full of panties. Employees did not see anything suspicious, but suspect between 150-175 pairs were stolen, valuing between $1,125 and $1,750.

Items disappeared sometime between 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. that day. A report was made for insurance purposes and tenants of surrounding stores were advised of the thefts.

Found in the Sun News