Small Town Misfit

Tracy,CA
A man in the 4300 block of Oakridge drive told police that someone mowed his lawn, went inside his garage, broke his car windshield and blew dust inside his house.

Found in the Tracy Press

Columbia, SC
Don’t smoke pot in front of a building under investigation for illegal drug activities. On June 18, while police were conducting an undercover surveillance mission of a Colleton Street apartment building, an officer noticed two people apparently smoking marijuana, toking on a joint in plain view of the public. A third person was hanging out with the bud smokers but not indulging in the Mary Jane.

The cops approached and said they were investigating illegal drug activity. The smokers then called one of the officers by name and said, “We aren’t selling drugs. Now we are smoking weed, we are not going to lie about that but that’s all we are doing.” The police attempted to locate the joint but had no luck and questioned the three about it. Perhaps victims of pot smokers’ memory loss, they told the police they did not recall what happened to it. All three were arrested and charged with loitering for narcotics.

Found in the Free Times

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Arvada, CO
Police arrested a 47-year-old man on suspicion of indecent exposure outside the Safeway store on the 9500 block of West 58th Avenue at 2:25 p.m. May 24. The man told police he had consumed several pints of vodka during the day and had engaged in an argument with a bar patron in the parking lot of the Red Lion Lounge, 9502 W. 58th Ave., during which he exposed his genitals in anger, police said. He also allegedly said he knew what he did was wrong, but that he used to do it on a regular basis when he was in high school, according to police reports. When told how much his bond was by Jefferson County Jail staff, he proudly shouted that the body part he exposed was worth $1,000, reports said.

Found in the Arvada Police Blotter

Savannah, GA
An officer made a traffic stop at Carolan and Bay streets. The vehicle had a “tag applied for” sticker. When the officer asked the man for the registration, he saw a gun in the floorboard of the vehicle.

The officer told the man at gunpoint to put his hands out of the vehicle. The man complied and the officer called for backup units.
When the backup arrived, the man was taken out of his car. The weapon turned out to be a toy his child had left in the car.

The officers explained to the man why a use of force was done. The man was sympathetic and said he understood the action.

Found in Connect Savannah

Atlanta, GA
An officer tracked a 2005 silver Ford Mustang going 95 mph in the HOV lane of I-20, near Boulevard. Only one person was in the Mustang using the HOV lane, the officer noted. He stopped the car and talked to the driver, a 39-year-old Stone Mountain woman. She said she didn’t have a driver’s license, but her daughter was in some type of unspecified trouble, and she needed to get to her. Eventually, the woman admitted that her license was suspended. She failed several field sobriety tests, but refused to take a Breathalyzer test. So she went to jail. She was charged with DUI, speeding and reckless driving, among other charges. As the officer completed the paperwork, “[The woman] became aggressively insulting, referring to me as bitch, the devil, Satan, and Damien. [She] also went on to advise me of how much she didn’t care about what was going on and there was nothing that anyone could do because she was not drunk. [She] also advised me that she had money and she would get out of this.”

Found in Creative Loafing

Tracy, CA
7:45 a.m.: A woman on the 1000 block of Candlewood Drive told police that she believes a pest control company planted cockroaches at her house after she declined to hire the company for pest control services.

Found in the Tracy Press

North Palm Beach, FL
On Saturday, June 9, a resident on Kittyhawk Way reported that a potted plant came flying through her window.

Found in the Weekday Newspaper

Atlanta, GA
A fifth-grader was handing out large amounts of cash to other students at an elementary school on Northside Drive, according to school officials. More than $250 was passed out, the social worker said. When school officials asked the fifth-grader about it, he voluntarily handed over the rest of the money: a whopping $19,124.

School officials called a police detective and the fifth-grader’s mom to the school. The detective asked the mother whether her son should have money in excess of $100 on his person. No, she said. The detective asked whether she had large sums of money in her home. No, she said. The detective pointed out that more than $19,000 was found on her son. “[The mother] then recanted her earlier affirmations and said that she had around $19,500 stored in her dresser (her retirement fund), but that she did not mention it, as she did not think that her son would go into her drawer and take the money,” according to a police report.

She refused to let police search her home. So police put the $19,124 in five manila envelopes, and put the envelopes about three feet apart on the floor. Then, they let police dogs do their thing. One dog gave a positive sign for “narcotics odor” on an envelope. Police put a hold on the money for narcotics and asset forfeiture. The investigation continues.

Found in Creative Loafing

Olmstead Falls, OH
A Grist Mill Court woman called police on June 16 to report that her condo was broken into.

She told police that when she came home from work she found a six-foot aluminum ladder in her garage, but doesn’t own a ladder. Inside the condo, the oven timer was going off and the DVD player was on.

Nothing was reported missing.

Police responded to the residence and were advised that there is a maintenance person that works for the condo association but he should not have keys to the garages.

The resident was told to leave the ladder where it is and see if someone comes back for it.

Found in the News Sun

Columbia, SC
Taxicabs are not the ideal getaway cars. On June 9, the maintenance man at the Travelodge Hotel on Horseshoe Drive approached an officer there investigating another case. The maintenance man reported that someone had told him they had observed someone trying to steal a TV from the hotel. The culprit had wrapped the TV in a hotel blanket so as to not seem suspicious and carried it out to a waiting taxicab. Fortunately, the cab driver wasn’t raised no fool and asked the bandit for a receipt for the television he was so sneakily carrying. When the thief could not provide one, the cabbie drove off leaving the bandit in the lot with his loot. The maintenance man said that he had found the TV covered in the blanket underneath the stairs on the ground floor by the side exit door. At this time there are no suspects identified in this sloppy attempt at thievery.

Found in the Free Times

Hamilton, OH
Mia Bella Pizza in Hamilton, police say, offered a special ingredient.

In addition to ordering pepperoni, cheese and mushrooms with their pizza, some customers also were ordering marijuana, police said.

That’s because the pizza shop’s manager and co-owner, police say, was dealing drugs while behind the counter, police said.

Brian Wallace, 32, of Colerain Township, was arrested and faces drug charges in both Hamilton County and Butler County.

First, Butler County Sheriff’s deputies raided Mia Bella Pizza shop at 2528 Pleasant Avenue on Tuesday after a months-long undercover operation where they say they bought marijuana several times from Wallace.

During the Tuesday raid, police said they found Wallace behind the counter – with $1,400 in his pockets, two pounds of marijuana, scales and plastic bags.

Then they joined with agents from Regional Narcotics Enforcement – made up of Cincinnati police and Hamilton County Sheriff’s deputies – who went to Wallace’s Forfeit Run home and found pot plants growing, another 36½ pounds of pot, and pills.

Police estimated the street value of the seized marijuana at $45,000.

Butler County officials charged him with possession of drugs and trafficking in drugs.

Wallace was in Hamilton County today to face charges from the raid on his Colerain Township home. In Hamilton County, he is charged with trafficking in drugs, possession drugs and cultivating drugs.

Wallace’s attorney today said the pizza shop is owned by Wallace’s father but is managed by Wallace.

Wallace was ordered held in Hamilton County on a $200,000 bond.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

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Clovis, NM
06/22/2007 - A tombstone was found laying next to a dumpster at an apartment complex on Villa near Shaw, back on February 25th.

Investigators say it’s a 1920’s vintage tombstone. There are three names on it; Frank, 5 months; Manuel, 9 months and Frank again, 1 month. The inscription reads “children of Manuel S. and Mary Brown.”

Clovis Police contacted all the cemeteries in the area, with no success on finding where it belongs.

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