Small Town Misfit

Okeelanta, FL
A woman was stopped for speeding on U.S. 27 South, just south of Okeelanta. When the deputy approached the vehicle, she refused to roll down her window. He opened the door and she ignored him, continuing to talk on her cellphone. He asked for her driver license several times and she still ignored him. He asked her to exit the vehicle, and she ignored him. He removed the woman from her vehicle and charged her with resisting an officer without violence, unlawful speed, and illegal window tinting. She was taken to the county jail.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Columbia, SC
A 56-year-old man reported March 5 that someone bought Coricidin HBP, an over-the-counter cold medicine, and gave it to a female minor. The girl said the person who gave it to her told her it would make her hyper. The report said one Coricidin pill caused the young-un to become habitually disobedient and endangered her morals.

Found in the Free Times

Chattanooga, TN
Shajuana Dawson of Third Avenue said her neighbor, Roshell Leath, came over and accused Ms. Dawson’s children of vandalizing her property.

She said one of her children told Ms. Leath to “stop talking to my Mama that way.”

Ms. Dawson said Ms. Leath then pulled a large knife out of her bra and began swinging it around, asking the child “if he wanted any of this.”

Police went to the Leath residence, and Ms. Leath said she had put the knife in a closet. She was charged with aggravated assault.

Found in the Chattanoogan

Grass Valley, CA
A man called to report a “hostage situation.” Police determined his car was blocked in, and he was not a hostage. He was counseled on the proper use of 911.

Found in the Union

Tracy, CA
9:36 a.m.: A person at the Tracy Unified School District office told police that a woman said she was coming there to shoot people. The woman apparently was angry because her daughter got a poor grade at Tracy High School.

Found in the Tracy Press

Durango, CO
Someone went into a woman’s house in the 700 block of College Drive and made coffee for her, she reported at 8:44 a.m.

Found in the Durango Herald

Erie County, NY
Police responded to a parking lot on Sheridan Drive over two youths fighting over a fast food order. One of the boys apparently had stolen the other’s sweet-n-sour sauce.

Found in Bee News

Chattanoota, TN
Police said a boyfriend who was asked to move out of his girlfriend’s house on Longview Drive responded by setting her clothes on fire.

Officer Robert Bell said he found the fire still burning when he went to investigate.

The girlfriend said she asked him to leave because he would not get a job.

She said she came home from work to find the fire that was consuming her clothes, some pictures and other items. She said he also tore the electrical box off the residence.

She told the officer the boyfriend was apparently hiding in nearby woods.

The officer said the woman herself smelled of an intoxicant. She said she had consumed five beers.

Found in the Chattanoogan

Cincinnati, OH
A South Fairmount woman is in jail for allegedly being unruly inside Cincinnati police headquarters.

Willa Jones, 54, of the 1600 block of Harrison Avenue, is charged with disorderly conduct while intoxicated.

Police said she walked into the lobby of Cincinnati Police District 1 on Ezzard Charles Drive in the West End at 2:50 a.m.

Jones was highly intoxicated and started screaming while in the lobby, police said. She smoked in the no-smoking area and refused several requests by police to leave the building.

Once escorted out of the building, Jones is accused of tearing up the plants from the flower pots on either side of the District 1 front door and then opening the door and throwing dirt and garbage inside.

Jones is in the Hamilton County Justice Center and is expected in court Friday.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

Thanks Luann!

Ashtabula, OH
A patron pumping gasoline at Sheetz escaped injury Monday night when he lit a cigarette lighter to look down into his gas tank while pumping gas, an Ashtabula Township firefighter said.

The man didn’t believe the pump was dispensing gas into his car at Sheetz, 2411 N. Ridge E., at about 8:30 p.m. So he lit a lighter, and the fumes flashed him, according a firefighter’s report.

Two passers-by saw the fire and drove into the station to help the man, the report said.

Found in the Star Beacon

Thanks MB!

Billings, MT
It turns out there are no such things as unicorns — and even if there were, they wouldn’t drive trucks.

On Tuesday, a Billings prosecutor had told a district judge that Phillip C. Holliday Jr., 42, claimed a unicorn was driving when his truck crashed into a light pole earlier this month.

But on Wednesday, the chief prosecutor said it was all a misunderstanding. Apparently, Holliday told police an unnamed woman was driving when his truck hit the pole — not a unicorn.

“Mr. Holliday has other serious problems, but this is not one of them,” County Attorney Dennis Paxinos said of the unicorn alibi.

The mixup occurred when a deputy prosecutor misunderstood an e-mail from a colleague who used the phrase “unicorn defense,” thinking it was an actual statement from Holliday, Paxinos said. “Unicorn defense” is a slang term used by prosecutors when a defendant blames some mythical person for a crime, he said.

“It’s kind of a code (between prosecutors) and the code was misinterpreted,” Paxinos said.

Paxinos apologized “to the public, the court and to Mr. Holliday” for the confusion and said he has chastised the prosecutors involved.

Holliday has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of criminal endangerment and drunken driving. He is being represented by a public defender. Kristina Copenhaver-Landon, director of the public defender’s office in Billings, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

Found in the Associated Press

Thanks Ritch!

Taos, NM
7:38 p.m. 945 Salazar — Reportant advised that there was a loud boom and then a glowing object.

Found in the Taos News