Small Town Misfit

Erie County, NY
A police officer responded to a complaint of a suspicious person on Seneca Street. The officer stopped to question an individual, who refused to answer questions and had no identification on him. When the patrol asked the man to have a seat, the suspect backed away.

The officer grabbed the man’s arm, and the suspect began to wrestle with him, dumping over a container of an alcoholic beverage he had been carrying.

The suspect was placed under arrest but began talking about Satan, “the beast” and Leviathan, and started reciting strange chants. He told the officer, “Oh yeah, buddy, you messed with the wrong guy.”

Found in the Bee News

Delray Beach, FL
A man was arrested after he ate chicken tenders and drank a soda in a grocery store in the 1500 block of South Federal without paying. When police arrived, the man told them he had the money in a wallet in his car, which he let police search. They found a pet rat in a small cage and a crack cocaine pipe, but no wallet.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Columbia, SC
A 38-year-old woman called police Sept. 6 to report a burglary. She said someone forced open a window in her Pinehurst Road home, took a bath, ate some food out of the refrigerator and left without taking anything.

Found in the Free Times

Tequesta, FL
Nearly $400 worth of baby formula was taken between 9:16 p.m. and 9:18 p.m. from a supermarket in the 500 block of U.S. 1. A store employee noticed that the stock was low and checked sales records. When the sales records showed that no formula had been sold, she checked store surveillance tapes and saw three women and a man taking the bottled formula off the shelves and putting it into handbags. They then walked out of the store.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Hamilton, OH
Charges against a former Hamilton city prosecutor accused of naked after-hours strolls in public buildings will be dropped because of a technicality, a special prosecutor said today.

Special Prosecutor Steve Tolbert said there was an error in the charges that will require dismissal of the case. It was not immediately clear if the charges will be refiled.

Scott Blauvelt, 35, of Hamilton has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of public indecency.

The latest hearing in the case was scheduled this morning in Hamilton Municipal Court to hear results of a psychological evaluation. Blauvelt was fired from his job after being charged.

The charges stem from incidents in the city’s Government Services Center on Oct. 4 and Oct. 5 that were caught on a security camera. Blauvelt worked in that building.

Blauvelt’s lawyer, Mike Gmoser, has suggested that his client’s behavior may be related to a mental illness, medication and/or a brain injury that resulted from a 2005 car wreck in which Blauvelt also had been naked.

More recently, Blauvelt told investigators he had been “doing similar things for about the past five years,” but didn’t know why — and officials learned that he also had walked naked in the city building Sept. 25.

Found in the “Cin City” Enquirer. Thanks Luann!

Columbia, SC
A 27-year-old woman told police Sept. 7 that she woke up around 4:30 a.m. one night in mid-August when she heard someone knocking on her front door. She ignored the sound until the person forced his way into her home. When she confronted the burglar, he said he thought she might like to buy a phone. He fled without taking anything.

Found in the Free Times

Pewaukee, WI
At 1:30 a.m. Nov. 12, the 52-year-old woman reported to police that her husband had turned off the electricity in the house and that he was playing games with her, but that there had been no physical or oral argument, according to the police log.

When police spoke with the husband, he said he had plugged in a space heater in the basement and it must have blown a fuse.

Found in the Lake County Reporter

Tomales, CA
A boy was calling his father from a phone booth along Highway 1, when some juveniles, including his sister, began kidding him. The boy broke a pane of glass at knee level when he turned around, a deputy reported. The other juveniles ran off, but when the boy started to follow them, he was called back by the merchant who owns the phone booth.

According to what the merchant told the Sheriff’s Office, the boy said it had been an accident and apologized. The merchant was then ready to drop the issue; however, the boy’s mother soon showed up extremely angry, said the officer. She claimed the glass had already been broken and implied she might sue the merchant for slander, the deputy added. At that point, the merchant asked to file a vandalism report.

Found in the Point Reyes Light Police Blotter

Waynesboro, GA
Armed with a fishing knife and a t-shirt over his head, a man entered the Jet Food Store on Saturday night and demanded money.

According to the report, once the employee told the man she knew who he was, he fled from the store.

Found in the True Citizen

Lovely County, CA
7:04 p.m. – A Victorian Wood resident complained about a man from St. Louis, Mo. who keeps calling her asking if he could pop over and give her a massage.

Found in the Lovely County Citizen

Chadron, NE
12:59 p.m. Caller from the 100 block of North Lake St. advised that two girls in an older gray four door car had gone by her house with a couch on the back and the couch fell off. Caller stated that the girls just threw it up on her property.

Found in the Chadron Record

Rio Grande, NM
4:36 p.m. — A shirtless man was fighting a “chubby man,” an anonymous caller reported. An officer went to the scene and said nothing was happening.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun