Small Town Misfit

Chadron, NE
9:30 p.m. Caller from Regency Court advised there was a tree hitting power lines in the lot behind hers and there were sparks flying everywhere and you could actually see current traveling from the line to the tree.

Found in the Chadron Record

Chattanooga, TN
Two women told police one of their purses was stolen from their vehicle while they were putting flowers on a grave at a cemetery on Highway 153.

A woman said her mother left her purse in the vehicle.

She said they were approached by a man driving a red Mustang. The model was around 1997. The man asked if they knew where a Letterman was buried. They said they had no idea.

The man then walked to their car, got the purse, then ran to the Mustang and took off.

The purse contained $80 in cash, credit cards, two books of checks, a driver’s license and Social Security card.

The man was around 6′2″ and 185 pounds.

About the same time, a man parked at Greenway Farm while he went bicycling for an hour.

When he returned to his car, he found his right front door passenger window had been knocked out.

The thief got his wallet and satellite receiver. A 45-caliber pistol that was in plain view was not taken.

Found in the Chattanoogan

Greenhills, OH
All Paul Huguenard of Greenhills wanted Tuesday after a hard day’s work was something cold.

He got it when he opened his freezer and found “Oreo” — his cat.

Greenhills police arrested his son, Mark Huguenard, 23, and charged him with cruelty to animals.

“Mark stated he put cat in freezer because it was breathing heavy,” Paul Huguenard told police.

The incident happened at 6:32 p.m. Tuesday. Mark Huguenard was arrested an hour later.

Police said when they arrived, “Oreo” the cat, was “shaking severely” and cold to the touch.

“Observed cat hair in the freezer,” police documents note.

In court today, Paul Huguenard said his son has an alcohol problem.

“He is drinking to insanity on a consistent basis,” the father told Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Heather Russell.

The judge ordered Mark Huguenard held on $1,000 bond. She also ordered him, if he makes bond, to be placed on house arrest, wear an electronic ankle monitor and stay away from his parents.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

Columbia, SC
A 40-year-old man returned to his Northwood Street home on June 12 to discover he didn’t know his flat mate all that well. The complainant reported that his roomie had destroyed his personal property. Once on the scene it seemed like any other temper tantrum — demolished TV in the driveway, smashed DVD player in the house. But when the officer entered the complainant’s bedroom, he saw that the infuriated roommate had cut a 3-foot-wide hole in the man’s bed and filled it with kitty litter and animal droppings. The complainant wants to prosecute the incident.

Found in the Free Times

Palm Beach, FL
On Tuesday, June 5, a resident of Sandalwood went out to confront a neighbor who was parking in front of her house that it was illegal to park there. When she gave them a note stating they would be towed if they did so, the driver shoved her and said she should go to AA. The resident did admit to having a few cocktails.

And…

On Wednesday, June 6, a resident on Pinella Circle met a couple of girls who were neighbors of his and had them over for a few drinks. While they were there, they stole his car keys. He then realized his black Ford Explorer was missing. One of the girls returned on foot and stated that the other girl, her roommate, went around the corner to visit someone and would be right back. Police were advised that she was at her boyfriends in Lantana and the boyfriend warned that if any officers came to his house, he would assault them.

And…

On Sunday, June 10, a caller reported that her neighbor was violating the watering ban by washing her driveway. The homeowner stated that she was washing off where her grandkids “threw up”.

Found in the Weekday Newspaper

Tracy, CA
A person at Chesapeake Bay Apartments, 2941 W. Lowell Ave., told police that someone strangled a rabbit Monday morning and impaled the animal on the windshield wiper of the caller’s car.

Found in the Tracy Press

Palm Beach, FL
On Tuesday, June 5, a man, his wife and kids and their puppy were at the park on Lakeside Drive when the complainant’s dog went up to their puppy. The man pulled out a gun and aimed it at the dog. When police arrived, the family had walked down to the beach after he put the gun back into a bag he was carrying.

Found in the Weekday Newspaper

Morrow, OH
A Morrow man pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting his wife and biting off his stepdaughter’s fingertip.

Gary Robinson, 43, pleaded to felonious assault and domestic violence in the Warren County Common Pleas Court. He is to be sentenced in August for the Feb. 20 incident.

After Robinson bit off the tip of his stepdaughter’s finger, it could not be retrieved because it was eaten by the family dog, according to Warren County prosecutors.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

Thanks Luann!

Palm Beach, FL
On Sunday, June 10, a patron walked out of the Sailfish Marina Restaurant without paying his liquor and food bill in the amount of $34.88. Police caught up with the suspect, who was intoxicated, incoherent and having difficulty standing up, with the manager at the valet service area.

When asked to pay the bill, the man in his early 40’s, stated he was angry because a pickpocket took his money clip containing $400, credit cards, driver’s license and his FAA Commercial Pilot’s License while at the restaurant. The suspect then took the officers to a nearby condo where he obtained a credit card to pay for the meal.

Found in the Weekday Newspaper

Lakewood, OH
A man made off with $100 worth of condoms at 3:30 a.m. from the CVS Pharmacy on Clifton Boulevard after wrestling with a store employee.

The robbery took place after a similar incident was reported on June 8.

Both times employees described the robber as being tall, slender and approximately 30 years old.

The individual was last seen running northbound on West 117th Street.

Found in the Lakewood Sun Post

Durango, CO
11:22 a.m. A woman in the 200 block of Animas View Drive was sticking needles into herself.

Found in the Durango Herald

Orange County, CA
A driver realized that a cat had become stuck inside her engine while driving down Goldenwest Street near Edinger Avenue around 11:37 a.m. Saturday.

The woman pulled her car over and turned off the engine to wait for a tow truck to raise the car so she could get the cat out of the engine through the undercarriage.

While she was waiting, her car became a traffic hazard for other drivers and the car was almost hit several times.

A tow-truck driver eventually arrived and helped to free the feline, and it was deemed unharmed.

Found in the Orange County Register