Small Town Misfit

Lake Oswego, OR
6:02 p.m. A local woman called police after seeing a towel on the railroad tracks on Bryant Road. She was concerned it could derail a train.

Found in the Lake Oswego Review

Boynton Beach, FL
Someone stole 284 pairs of panties and 28 bras, all worth $9,408, from a store in the 800 block of North Congress Avenue.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Chico, CA
3:37 a.m. Graffiti reported on the 1900 block of East 20th Street. “Reporting party is cleaning the parking lot. Suspects were spraying pornography on the wall. Suspects got into the gold Jeep and are sitting in the vehicle.”

Found in the Orion Online

Grass Valley, CA
At 4:13 p.m., a caller from Combie Road reported finding a tooth with a filling in it at the lake.

Found in the Union

Taos, NM
Reportant advised she woke up to go to the restroom and there was a male just below her bedroom window talking, but she wasn’t sure if he was talking to her or if someone else was there.

Found in the Taos News

Waynesboro, GA
A local woman called police last week when her neighbor wouldn’t quit staring at her.

According to a report, the man stood in front of the woman’s residence and would not speak.

She added that she had caught him in her yard at night peeping into her bathroom window before, but he would run away when she saw him.

She also complained of damage to her property and rocks being thrown into her yard.

She said that when she returned from a “night out” two weeks prior, she noticed two posts missing from the back of the residence.

Found in the True Citizen

Atlanta, GA
An officer was sent to deal with a dispute on First Avenue. Upon arrival, the officer found a very drunk man and two broken big-screen TVs. A woman said she and her live-in boyfriend argued about him coming home so late and so drunk. She said he got angry, got in her face and started calling her “bitch and ho.” Then, she said, he went into a fit of rage and kicked the 42-inch big-screen TV in their bedroom. He kept kicking and punching the TV until it was destroyed, she said. Next, he went into the living room and kicked and punched the 54-inch big-screen TV there. A witness corroborated her story. The officer wrote, “The only thing [the ex-boyfriend] had to say was that it was his house and he could do what he wants.” The boyfriend, age 38, was charged with damaging private property and went to jail.

Found in Creative Loafing

Grass Valley, CA
At 6:51 p.m., a caller from South Auburn Street across from a car dealership reported juveniles were putting a fake body in the roadway. Police contacted the juveniles and advised them not to put things in the roadway.

Found in the Union

Columbia, SC
A man in his late 20s must have thought he was at a Burger King instead of a McDonald’s on Broad River Road on Jan. 5. He was a passenger with a friend in a silver Nissan Pathfinder in the drive-thru and got pissed off at an employee’s attitude over the loudspeaker, whereupon he got out of the car at the pick-up window, reached in through the window and hit the employee over the head with a McDonald’s trash can. The employee did not need medical attention, but the whole incident was captured on video. The man and his friend left before police arrived.

Found in the Free Times

Chattanooga, TN
An EPB official said he had to go several times to shut off power at 1904 Camden St.

Ron Hastings there were several instances of “unauthorized service” at that address. He said the last time he went he removed the electric box.

But then it was found that the power was running again at 1904 Camden.

Mr. Hastings checked and found that an electrical box had been stolen from 2010 Camden and put into service at 1904.

The resident at the address was charged with theft under $500.

Found in the Chattanoogan

Grass Valley, CA
At 6:52 p.m., a man called from Colfax Avenue to report a man in his early 20s wearing all black was running down the road holding something wadded up and on fire. When the man was confronted he said “You don’t know my name,” and kept running. The caller said he did not see any fire in the area. Police checked the area extensively, but they were unable to locate the man in black.

Found in the Union

Socorro, NM
An officer arrested a man at 3:30 p.m. for driving on a suspended and revoked license. A check showed it was the driver’s 27th time he has been arrested for the same offense. He was taken to the Socorro County Detention Center where he bonded out.

Found in the Magdalena Marshal’s Blotter