Small Town Misfit

Durango, CO
The foot pedals were stolen off a grand piano in the back of a moving truck in the 1300 block of South Camino del Rio.

Found in the Durango Herald

Erie County, NY
An officer was on Mill Road searching for two brothers with warrants out for their arrest. He spotted one of the suspect’s vehicles and attempted to pull it over, but the driver did not stop. The vehicle pulled into a driveway and one of the suspects exited. He told the officer his license was in his house. The officer told the suspect he had a warrant for his arrest and to put down his beer and put his hands behind his back. The suspect said, “Let me put my beer inside.” The suspect struggled with the officer, but was placed under arrest. Police located the second suspect hiding in a basement cabinet.

Found in Bee News

Grass Valley, CA
A caller from a store on the 300 block of Sacramento Street reported a suspicious-looking man was sucking on gas nozzles and scaring customers and employees. He was wearing white-and-black polka dot pajamas. Police arrested the man on suspicion of trespassing and booked him into jail. The jail would not accept the man, and he was released to the custody of Behavioral Health Services for an evaluation at the hospital emergency room.

Found in the Union

Westwood, OH
Mercedes Davis, a Dater High School student, is accused of punching her teacher in the nose Wednesday.
Davis, 18, of Westwood, was arrested at Dater High in North Fairmount and charged with assault and disorderly conduct.

Police report Davis, the mother of a 7-month-old child, was in an altercation with another female student at 9:35 a.m. at the school when teacher Mary Ann Gardner tried to break it up.

Davis responded, police said, by punching the teacher in the nose and calling her names.

When police arrived, they said Davis refused to calm down or comply with their orders.

Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Dwane Mallory released Davis today without posting a bond.

Found in the Cincinnati Enquirer

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Erie County, NY
A patrol responded to the complaint of an unwelcome guest pounding on the door of a French Lea Road residence. Upon the officer’s arrival, the suspect, who had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, was standing on the porch. When asked what he was doing, the suspect said he was, “trying to get some action.”

Found in Bee News

Erie County, NY
A woman called police from a Main Street address because a man was snoring in front of the TV. Reportedly she was intoxicated and was going to wait for police outside. The report didn’t indicate the man and woman’s relationship to each other.

Found in the Bee News

Columbia, SC
A 35-year-old man who works at a Dollar Store on Two Notch Road hit on a 60-year-old woman Feb. 6. The man told her, “I’d like to have my way with you,” and, “If you were a younger woman I would put you up on a table and have you dance for me.” The woman said she felt uncomfortable and called the police to make a report.

Found in the Free Times

San Jose, CA
After the store was evacuated, a reported gunman at T.J. Maxx was located on the roof, replacing an air filter. Police said the employee who reported the incident mistook the man’s tools for a gun.

Found in the San Jose Mercury News

Madison, WI
A rural Fox Lake woman early Sunday was able to give a detailed description of a suspected drunken driver and the suspect ’s vehicle to a Dodge County sheriff ’s dispatcher.

That ’s because the woman was calling from that vehicle — a tan 2002 pickup truck — and she was driving it, Dodge County Sheriff Todd Nehls said.

The woman ’s boyfriend in the passenger seat suggested she call 911 to report her own drunken driving, so she did, Nehls said. The boyfriend was not driving, she said, because he was too drunk.

The call came in at 12:29 a.m. Sunday on the county 911 line as a hang-up call from a cell phone, Nehls said.

Dispatchers used a reverse 911 directory and called the phone, which was answered by a woman who identified herself as Patricia Dykstra, 51. She said her boyfriend made her call, because “somebody seems to think I can ‘t drive home straight. ”

When the dispatcher asked her why, she said, “He seems to think I ‘m too intoxicated to drive. ”

During a relatively pleasant conversation with the dispatcher — a recording of which Nehls released Monday — Dykstra gave her name, location and vehicle description before saying she should probably hang up because “I don ‘t like being on the phone while driving. ”

Asked by the dispatcher if she had too much to drink, she said “I don ‘t think so, ma ‘am. ”

She said she was almost home and gave the intersection. Throughout the 3 -minute call, however, the dispatcher did not suggest the woman pull over. Nehls said the dispatcher assumed the woman had already stopped, although her last advice to Dykstra was, “So Pat, drive carefully, OK? ”

Deputies went to her home, where Dykstra met them on the porch, Nehls said. She had consumed a six-pack of beer, she said, and her boyfriend a 12-pack. She was ticketed for drunken driving, her first offense.

Found in the Wisconsin State Journal
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Jeffco, CO
A Jeffco Sheriff’s deputy responded to a report of a counterfeit bill at a Wal-Mart at 3600 S. Youngsfield St. on Jan. 5. The deputy spoke to a woman who said she had been saving $1 bills since the beginning of the year, and she recently noticed one that did not look real. The deputy agreed the bill was a fake and it was sent to a local U.S. Secret Service agent for further investigation.

Found in the Jeffco Shriff’s Blotter

Grass Valley, CA
A man in the police station lobby reported finding what appeared to be methamphetamine in front of a business on the 100 block of Neal Street. Police determined the substance was not meth, it was an emergency snakebite kit.

Found in the Union

Grass Valley, CA
12:41 p.m. - A woman called from the 13000 block of Meda Drive to report a person violated a restraining order by calling 30 times in the last hour and threatening to kill her and cut her car’s brake lines. A deputy called the woman, who said she did not consider the threats credible. However, the person called the woman 29 times while the deputy was on the phone with the woman. The deputy took a report.

Found in the Union