Small Town Misfit

Lantana, CA
In the 500 block of North Ridge Road, a man told police that a gunman wearing a ski mask approached his car and told him to get out. The victim said he tried to grab the gun and began driving away. The victim said the unknown man appeared to lose his balance and his pants began falling down. The man then pulled up his pants and ran away eastbound.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Durango, CO
8:02 a.m. A man with long, red, balding hair was handing out cinnamon rolls to children in the 300 block of East Sixth Avenue.

Found in the Durango Herald

Erie County, NY
A woman on Curley Drive called the police because a pair of ducks was building a nest at the bottom of a tree in her front yard.

Found in Bee News

Erie County, NY
A Main Street resident returned home to find her attic door ajar and footprints in her kitchen. A comparison by police of footprints in the kitchen to the woman’s boots revealed the footprints were hers. The wind apparently had blow the door open.

Found in the Bee News

Scorro County, NM
A man reported at 11:11 a.m. that he had received checks totaling over $1 million and all the checks received had been bogus. He said they have been written on a bogus account or company, and that he does not know why he is getting the checks as no explanation is ever inserted into the envelopes with the checks. He stated he has a Web site called “Free American” and possibly this is the reason.

Found in the Small Town News Service

Superior, Wisconsin
A 20-year-old man received probation after he was convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer. The sentence also requires Bryan James Hathaway to be evaluated as a sex offender and treated at the Institute for Psychological and Sexual Health in Duluth, Minn.

“The state believes that particular place is the best to provide treatment for the individual,” Assistant District Attorney Jim Boughner said.

Hathaway’s probation will be served at the same time as a nine-month jail sentence he received in February for violating his extended supervision.

He was found guilty in April 2005 of felony mistreatment of an animal after he killed a horse with the intention of having sex with it. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and two years of extended supervision on that charge as well as six years of probation for taking and driving a vehicle without the owner’s consent.

Hathaway pleaded no contest earlier this month to misdemeanor mistreatment of an animal for the incident involving the deer. He was sentenced Tuesday in Douglas County Circuit Court.

“The type of behavior is disturbing,” Judge Michael Lucci said. “It’s disturbing to the public. It’s disturbing to the court.”

Found in the Oberlin Times

Thanks Ritch!

Grass Valley, CA
A 2:10 p.m. caller from the 10000 block of Bettcher Court reported a neighbor was yelling at him. The neighbor called and said the first caller was swinging a baseball bat at his friends. The first caller then called back and said the neighbor’s friends were trying to run him over. Deputies went to the scene to mediate the matter.

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A 9:17 a.m. caller from the 12000 block of Gayle Lane reported finding dynamite in her front yard. Responding deputies said it was a road flare.

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An 11:24 a.m. caller from a store on Freeman Lane said a youth came into the store and let a rat loose.

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A 1:56 p.m. caller said three males were urinating on a fence on Town Talk Road.

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A 5:46 p.m. caller from the 300 block of Auburn Street reported her husband was drunk and shooting at a bird with a pellet gun. Officers responded and the man left for the evening.

Found in the Union

Avon Lake, OH
An Avon woman may say that it stinks having uninvited visitors literally. A Sandy Lane woman reported Sunday that someone came in her home while she was napping and left a memento behind. A pile of dog feces was found in front of her television, she claimed.

Found in the Sun

Boone Township, IN
A Hebron-area man who recently bought a car for his son became angry that his son was not grateful for the purchase, so he intentionally crashed his pickup truck into the car, Porter County police said.

The man, Jeffrey Cooper, 49, of 1149 S. County Road 625 West, was wearing a seat belt and was not injured in the crash, which occurred at his home at 6:12 p.m. Monday.

Cooper told police his son was ungrateful for the car, so they argued. Police said Cooper was overcome by “uncontrollable anger” and drove his truck into the rear end of his son’s parked car, pushing it through the lawn. Police reports state Cooper had been drinking but was not ticketed or arrested in connection with the incident on private property.

Police said a criminal recklessness charge would have applied if anyone was hurt.

Police said Cooper was alone in his truck at the time of the crash, and his son’s car was unoccupied. The total damage to Cooper’s 1994 Chevrolet pickup truck, his son’s 1994 Chevrolet Beretta and the lawn is estimated at $1,000 to $2,500.

Cooper did not request any police action.

Found in the NWI Times

Thanks nightmare1970!

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Waynesboro, GA
Police were dispatched to the former Heilig Meyers parking lot Saturday after a caller told them two women were fighting inside a van.

Although the women denied any physical contact, the officer noted that both of them were breathing heavily. One had a swollen eye, the officer reported, while the other had a small cut on her face.

Both women maintained that their injuries were not new ones.

Three witnesses, however, said the women were not only fighting, but were doing so while the van was moving. They also said the children the women had brought along were running behind the van in fear of being left behind.

Although neither woman was charged for fighting, the officer arrested one of them, 31-year-old Tonya Crawford, on Richmond County warrants.

Found in the True Citizen

Chevoit, OH
Barroom burglars with strong backs and a taste for top-shelf booze have conducted a series of after-hours break-ins at 19 West Side bars since Jan. 6.

The bandits’ latest strike took place March 8. They walked off with more than $20,000 in cash and 200-plus bottles of liquor.

The take came from three Cheviot bars including Keller’s Cheviot Café, a watering hole owned by the city’s mayor, Sam Keller.

“They pried open doors and filing cabinets and took 65 bottles, including expensive stuff like Grand Marnier,” Keller said. “These guys clearly aren’t amateurs.”

Nor are they weaklings.

“My safe was bolted to the floor,” Keller said. “They just ripped up the floor and took the whole safe.”

Making off with the bar’s safe is part of the M.O. of the burglars who have hit bars in Mount Healthy, Lockland, Elmwood Place, North College Hill, Delhi and Springfield townships as well as Cincinnati’s districts 3 and 5.

“We think there are at least three bandits,” said Cheviot Police Sgt. Ed Taylor. “These safes are heavy.”

Taylor is helping coordinate the multi-jurisdictional investigation aimed at putting the barroom bandits behind bars – the steel variety.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

Thanks Luann!

Durango, CO
10:25 a.m. A woman wearing spandex and a white cutoff T-shirt was acting suspiciously in the Durango Community Recreation Center weight room. Officers found she was hitting on people and asking personal questions.

Found in the Durango Herald