Small Town Misfit

Lakewood, OH
Shortly before 6 p.m. officers received a complaint from a Wager Avenue man claiming that the teenage boy who lives below him broke into his home and took his wife’s underwear.

The man told police that this was not the first time that this happened.

Found in the Lakewood Sun Post

Delafield, WI
A 41-year-old Village of Pewaukee woman is facing possible charges after she wielded a knife at a man in a shopping mall parking lot Oct. 11.

According to the report, the woman was driving in the area of Wal-Mart at about 2:30 p.m. and was stopped at an exit. She claimed another vehicle then nearly hit her pickup truck.

The driver of the other vehicle, a 30-year-old Hartland man, told police the woman had just stopped in the road and started to wave her arms, the report said.

The woman and the man parked in the lot near Office Max, 2840 Heritage Drive, and the man got out of his vehicle to see what she was doing. The woman said the man made a derogatory remark toward her, the report said.

The woman got out of her truck and was brandishing a Ka-Bar Marine Corps knife and went toward the man, who got back into his vehicle. The man said the woman then kicked his vehicle.

The man called police, who found the woman in the parking lot. The woman initially denied having a knife, but later admitted it was in her truck.

Police are recommending the Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office charge the woman with disorderly conduct.

Found in the Lake Country Reporter

Ypsilanti, MI
An Eastern Michigan student contacted the Detroit Zoo last Wednesday to report her roommate was in possession of two frogs taken from the zoo. The Royal Oak Police Department contacted officers at EMU regarding the two stolen frogs, one of which was possibly poisonous. EMU police spoke with the student who reported the incident to the Detroit Zoo; she notified the officer her roommate’s boyfriend moved the frogs to his residence.

Found in Echo Online

Guerneville, CA
A man who was allegedly trying to steal several bottles of liquor a Guerneville supermarket wound up naked and wet after he tried to elude authorities by stripping off his clothes and jumping into the Russian River.

The man was able to swim across the river but saw CHP officers waiting on the other side and began swimming toward the summer dam. At that point he got caught in a vortex and had trouble staying afloat.

Deputies went out in an inflatable boat, rescued him and then arrested him.

Found in on CBS 5, San Francisco

Chetek, WI
8:06 p.m.-Prairie Lake caller advised she lives in a trailer home with a basement and the styrofoam over one of her basement windows has been pulled out and she can hear something or someone down there. She has fled the residence and asked for an officer to look in the window with a spotlight to see what is down there. She will not allow the officer to enter the residence and go through the basement door.

Found in the Chetek Alert

Erie County, NY
A Sheridan Drive business said a neighbor was throwing
dog droppings in the store’s air conditioning unit.

Found in Bee News

Durango, CO
2:40 a.m. A drunken man was shouting and trying to start a fight between Cooper and West halls. He was armed with a “samurai sword,” which was confiscated. The man was taken to his home off campus, and Durango Police later took him to Mercy.

Found in the Durango Herald

Grass Valley, CA
At 8:02 a.m., Placer County law enforcement alerted Nevada County authorities to be on the lookout for an elderly lady who had been forced into a silver Subaru in Meadow Vista and was screaming for help. A caller from the Placer County Sheriff’s Office called back to cancel the alert. The elderly woman did not want to go to the doctor.

Found in the Union

Delray Beach, FL
A man knocked on a door in the 900 block of Dogwood Drive and told the homeowner that he was gorgeous and did not talk to ugly people. The man, who was a stranger to the homeowner, then got in his car and left.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Chapel Hill, NC
Two bibles were among the items reported stolen from a 1999 Toyota Corolla reported broken into on Friday.

Found in Chapel Hill News

Palm Beach, FL
On Friday, Oct 6, a resident in Sanctuary Cove called police requesting an officer to come over to take a report because “some of his marijuana plants had been stolen”. He thought someone from his complex took them. He ended up in County Jail and the rest of his plants were picked up.

Found in the Week Day Newspaper

Wilkes Barre, PA
Melvin Baab, of 90 Academy St., told police at 6:34 p.m. Friday that someone plugged an extension cord into an outlet on the second floor of his property and ran it into 88 Academy St. to power a heater, refrigerator, light and microwave.

Found in the Times Leader