Small Town Misfit

Palm Beach, FL
A pizza delivery man showed up at a home at 10:05 p.m. in the 16000 block of Edinburgh Drive in Loxahatchee. A man greeted the delivery man in the driveway, then proceeded to beat him with a stick until he gave the suspect three pizzas, a cellphone, a two-liter bottle of Pepsi and $25.

Found in the Palm Beach Post

Tracy, CA
1:16 p.m.: A woman told police that a man named “Taco” stole her phone out of her hand on the 2000 block of North Tracy Boulevard.

Found in the Tracy Press

Corryville, OH
A damaged helicopter dangling from the roof at University Hospital will be removed today.

Crews will take down the helicopter between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., according to Cincinnati police and fire emergency communication reports.

The helicopter’s tail rotor has been dangling over the edge of the hospital’s helipad since Tuesday, when a pilot had to make a hard landing.

Traffic will be blocked on Goodman Street and Highland Avenue between 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Only emergency vehicles will be permitted through.

The Enquirer will update this story as information develops.

Found in the Cincinnatti Enquirer

Thanks Luann!

Wanyesboro, GA
A Waynesboro man told police that his drug dealer upped the price of cocaine.

According to a report filed at the Waynesboro Police Department, the victim said he bought $80 worth of cocaine “on credit.”

The dealer allegedly came to his residence to collect but walked away empty handed after a cousin told him the victim wasn’t home. The dealer did leave a message for the victim, however, letting him know that the price was now $220 and that he’d be killed if he didn’t pay.

Police talked to the victim about the dangers of using drugs before transporting him back home.

Found in the True Citizen

Waynesboro, GA
A Waynesboro woman called the sheriff’s office because her husband wouldn’t stop talking.

The woman said her husband was intoxicated and talking so loudly that she couldn’t sleep. She told officers he had not harmed her and that she just wanted him to be quiet. He agreed to sleep in the camper trailer in the back yard.

Found in the True Citizen

Rio Grande, NM
A Century Bank caller said someone was trying to deposit bad checks; a man accompanying the person accused of fraud fled on foot and hid in a weed patch. Police noted in dispatch logs that “we know who the subject is that is hiding and he really isn’t involved, so he can get full of stickers.” The other subject was taken into custody.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Charlotte, NC
A man called a woman recently and said, “This is your neighbor from four doors down. I need to tell you what you’ve done wrong at night. I’ve seen you through your windows, and I have naked pictures of you, which could be really embarrassing if I sold them on the Internet. Do you want to do what I say so I won’t put them on the Internet? If you have good character you will not tell anyone I’ve called.”

Found in Creative Loafing

Grass Valley, CA
A woman called from Jackass Flats Road to report her landlord ran her off his property with a shotgun earlier in the day. A deputy took a report.

Found in the Union

Columbia, SC
A 76-year-old woman said a man came to her Chain Gang Road home Dec. 22 and told her he was responding to an alarm. The woman talked to the man through a locked screen door because he said he needed to go inside her house and make sure everything was OK. The woman said his shoes and pants were filthy and he was dressed in all black with a security badge on his shirt. Because she did not think he was a real security officer, she told him he was not coming in her house. When the woman’s rottweiler began barking, the man left in a blue Jeep.

Found in the Free-Times

Boulder, CO
Offering a 22-year-old construction worker drugs for his hair, a 31-year-old Boulder woman was refused and ultimately arrested on suspicion of first-degree criminal trespass, resisting arrest and obstructing a police officer at 11:51 p.m. Police said the woman walked into an unlocked apartment on the 900 block of Spruce Street, where neither of the tenants, both of whom were 22-year-old male construction workers, knew her. The men told police the woman, who appeared intoxicated, said many incomprehensible things to them, besides the hair for drugs comment, before they were able together to exit the apartment.

After leaving the apartment, however, the woman began to bang on the front door very hard, hard enough that one of the responding officers said it appeared the window on the door was on the verge of breaking. The woman continued to refuse to leave the premises, and after her arrest attempted to kick out the patrol car windows. She was booked and held at Boulder County Jail.

Found in the Boulder Police Blotter

Athens, GA
A Sunset Drive man reported that someone stole three guitars and a chicken pot pie from his home Friday night, according to a police report.

The man told Athens-Clarke police that he leaves the back door unlocked because he lost his key. The victim also said he suspects a friend with a drug problem - who came come over while he was away to borrow DVDs - might be responsible for the burglary.

The guitars are worth an estimated $720, according to the police report, which didn’t put a value on the pot pie.

Found in the Athens Banner-Herald