Small Town Misfit

Rio Grande, NM
7:50 p.m. — A woman came to the Española Police station to ask a police officer something. She said she wanted to discuss her rights because she is from another country. She wanted to know if the police would stop her if she didn’t go to church, dispatch logs state. No report was taken.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Grass Valley, CA
2:54 p.m. - A man called to report a woman glued his mailbox shut on the 13000 block of McCarter Way. The man was calling from a his hospital room in Roseville, he said.

Found in the Union

Denver, CO
On Sept. 11 at 1:28 a.m., an officer saw two unoccupied vehicles parked at West 16 th Avenue and Violet Street. According to the report, when the officer checked the vehicles, the hoods were warm. Using a spotlight, the officer found two people engaging in intimate behavior on a blanket without their clothes. The report said as the officer approached the 33-year-old woman and 34-year-old man, they began dressing and apologized for their actions. According to the report, the couple said they thought it was an exciting and youthful way to express their feelings for each other. They were lectured and given a warning.

Found in the Golden Police Department Blotter

Charlotte, NC
Someone broke into a woman’s apartment and stole only a pair of shoes. Then the person made the woman’s bed.

Found in Creative Loafing Charlotte

Taos, NM
Caller reported that he and another man had swapped cement mixers and now wanted to keep the one he had.

Found in the Taos News Police Blotter

Columbia, SC
Sneak Peek: Around 5 p.m. on Sept. 9 an officer found a pile of items in the roadway near Columbia Police Department headquarters. The goodies consisted of an empty DVD case, one book titled Daily Sex, one Gideon’s Bible, a blue folder full of pictures and a marriage license. The officer attempted to contact the individuals on the marriage license but was unsuccessful. The items were placed in a property room for safe keeping. Makes you wonder, if a pile of your stuff just happened to fall out of your car, what would people think about you?

Found in the Free Times

Atlanta, GA
At a discount store on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, a clerk said a blond man wearing a dress walked into the store and stole a radio and some batteries. The man is described as middle-aged and weighs about 200 pounds. No further information.

Found in Creative Loafing

Orange County, CA
Hotel employees reported that they tried to evict a guest after receiving complaints that the guest was urinating from the balcony. The guest and his party were refusing to leave, 10:34 p.m.

Found in the Orange County Register

Chattanooga, TN
Police were dispatched to Lockmiller Apartments to see a female student. When police arrived, the female student was upset because of some threats that were made to a male student. The female student advised the police that a male suspect became upset when she removed him from the no. 1 spot on her myspace.com top friends list. At the time she stated she put the male student in the no. 1 spot. She then advised that the male suspect became upset and threaten to come from Brooklyn, N.Y. to Chattanooga to kill the male student. Neither her or the male student said they had any fear.

Found in the University Echo

Tracy, CA
A person on the 1800 block of Bayberry Lane told police that someone might be staying at an abandoned house in the neighborhood. The caller said the home’s swimming pool was half-filled with black water, and money stained with red dye was scattered around.

Found in the Tracy Press

Tracy, CA
9:57 p.m.: A woman on the 1900 block of East Street called police after she arrived home to find her husband naked on the couch with another woman’s underwear.

Found in the Tracy Press

Waynesboro, GA
An unidentified burglar broke into a Hephzibah home, then stole a few winks.

The victim told deputies she came home to find her back door jimmied open and evidence that someone showered, made lunch, took a nap and rifled through her underwear drawer.

A neighbor said she’d seen a young white male come out of the residence a short time before the homeowner arrived.

The victim told deputies this was the third occurrence of this type in less than a month.

Found in the True Citizen