Small Town Misfit

Ladera Ranch, CA
2:52 p.m. An informant at a home on Rumford Street said they heard a female voice in the attic of the home and pounding on the trapdoor. Deputies searched the townhouse and the one next door and found nothing.

Found in the OC Register

Lodi, CA
A jazz musician was injured Friday after jumping from a burning motor home driven by a one-time roller skating stripper from Lodi.

Found in a great story in the Lodi News

Bozeman, MT
A home on South Tracy Avenue was burglarized. A girl’s homework project was stolen.

Found in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Sharonville, OH
Federal authorities said today they are searching for a bike-riding man suspected of robbing six banks in four states, including one in Sharonville.

The first robbery took place Nov. 21 in Columbus, Ohio, followed by the Sharonville one Dec. 1. The other robberies were in Louisville, Knoxville, and Charlotte and Huntersville, N.C., according to the FBI’s Charlotte office.

The last known robbery was Feb. 15 in Huntersville.

In the Sharonville case, a man walked into the PNC Bank in the 12000 block of Lebanon Road about 9:15 a.m., said Michael Brooks, spokesman for the Cincinnati FBI.

The robber handed a teller a computer-printed note demanding money. He ran out of the bank and was last seen riding off on a bike, which Sharonville police later found in a nearby apartment complex, Brooks said.

The robber is described as a six-foot tall white man between the ages of 35 and 50. He weighs between 185 to 195 pounds and has a medium build, short blond hair with traces of gray and blue eyes.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Cincinnati FBI at (513) 421-4310; North Carolina FBI at (704) 377-9200, or the nearest law enforcement office.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer
Thanks Luann!

Palm Beach, FL
On Saturday, Feb 17, a woman on Castlewood Drive reported that her boyfriend placed “hundreds of suppositories” at her front door.

Found in the Weekday Newspaper

Ladera Ranch, CA
A Ladera Ranch woman was having a problem with her son and My Space on Feb. 18.

The woman called deputies at 9:12 p.m. to report that there were 20 people in her home on Galaxy Isle near Heavenly Isle that were refusing to leave. There were reportedly 50 more subjects on their way to the house.

The woman said someone posted an advertisement on the My Space Web site saying that there was a party at the house.

Deputies reported that the woman’s eldest son let the people in and that mother and son were having problems. The woman’s son was detained in the parking lot near the location for reckless driving.

Found in the OC Register

Missoula, MT
The Missoula Police Department requested assistance looking for a suspicious male in the Eastgate parking lot. The man was last seen walking west, wearing a dark red coat, jeans and a brown stocking cap. He may have been carrying a chicken, according to the report.

Found in the Montana Kaimin

Mukilteo, WA
Last night, a man started a load of laundry. This morning, he found the washing machine lid open and the load half done. There was no sign of forced entry and he knew of no one who might have a key. He advised that he intended to change the locks this evening.

Found in the Mukilteo Beacon

Lakewood, OH
Police arrested a man for driving under influence after he backed into a stop sign along Orchard Grove Avenue, drove over his neighbor’s grass and then proceeded to urinate on the tree lawn.

The incident occurred at 11:20 p.m. Friday.

Found in the Lakewood Sun Post

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Olmstead Falls, OH
A Cleveland man was arrested last week after a traffic crash with a police car near the railroad tracks on Brookside Drive.

The man reportedly sideswiped the cruiser while it was responding to a 911 call, causing damage to the vehicle.

He was given a sobriety test and failed, nearly tripling the legal limit for blood-alcohol content.

Found in the News Sun

Clovis, NM
Around 5 p.m. Wednesday, officers were dispatched to a fast food restaurant in the 200 block of West 14th Street for a report of larceny. Police located the suspect after being given a description of his vehicle. The manager said his employees had seen the suspect take a straw dispenser off the counter. The dispenser was located and returned to the restaurant. The suspect told the officers the restaurant was a multimillion-dollar company so he figured it was no big deal. He was issued a citation and a notice not to return to the restaurant

Found in the Clovis News Journal

Grass Valley, CA
At 1:54 p.m., a caller from a school the 700 block of Hoover Lane reported a child was in the principal’s office and was in possession of drugs. The caller said the principal wanted an officer to respond. An officer determined the medication was Excedrin.

Found in the Union

Olmsted Falls, OH
An Elyria man who had a restraining order filed against him by a Fernwood Drive woman called police to inform them that another man who was warned by police to stay away from her was visiting the property when he wasn’t supposed to.

The woman later called to advise that the first man continues to harass her with phone calls, which she has recorded.

A court date on the matter will take place at Berea Municipal Court on Feb. 28.

Found in the News Sun