Small Town Misfit

Charlotte, NC
A 39-year-old woman said someone broke into her home while she was there and stole her dog. Twenty minutes later, the thief returned and gave the dog back.

Found in Creative Loafing

Charlotte, NC
An 18-year-old woman reported that she lost her cell phone. When she called her phone, a man picked up, admitted to having her phone, but said he wouldn’t give it back without a reward. He told the woman that he was at work at a CVS in Dilworth and she could drop the money off to him there. The woman called the police. They went to the man’s job and recovered the phone.

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Rio Grande, NM
4:55 p.m. — An Ohkay Express caller said a man dressed all in black was staring at the clerk.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Atlanta, GA
At Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, an airport screener said a passenger hit her hand with a bottle of lotion. There were no visible signs of injury, an officer noted. “Several other TSA supervisors were on scene and loudly demanding that the passenger be charged and arrested,” the officer noted, adding that the airport screener was “loud and uncooperative.”

The passenger is a 46-year-old woman from Greenwood Village, Colo. She said she was told the bottle of lotion was going to be thrown into the trash, so she asked that the lotion be given to the homeless instead. Then, she said, the airport screener became loud and adamant that the lotion was going into the trash. She said she did hit the airport screener’s hand, but not to harm her. There was no evidence of intent by the passenger, the officer noted. A security videotape didn’t clearly show the incident, an airport supervisor said. No charges filed.

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Grass Valley, CA
10:20 a.m. - A woman in the police station lobby was asking for a shower.

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Columbia, SC
A 61-year-old man was seen in the Harden Street fountain on April 22 taking change from the bottom of the gusher. Money thrown into the fountain apparently belongs to City of Columbia. The man was arrested for petit larceny and taken to jail.

Found in the Free Times

Goleta Valley, CA
After rear-ending another car in the drive-thru at a Calle Real hamburger spot, a man got out of his car to urinate in a nearby bush. Deputies met with the driver at 7:45 p.m. after receiving a call about the belligerent subject.

When asked how much he’d had to drink, the 61-year-old driver estimated, “Three beers and a couple of whiskeys, at least.”
He was jailed for public intoxication.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Goleta Valley, CA
After receiving a call from a concerned mother, deputies went in search of her 25-year-old son, who was believed to be in the midst of a personal crisis. However, when deputies reached him at a Hollister Avenue residence, they found the young man alive and safe. Noting peculiar behavior, deputies asked the man if he’d been using illegal drugs.

Sheepishly, he admitted snorting “about a bump” of cocaine earlier “in a port-a-potty.” During further questioning, he told deputies a “cute sorority girl” he’d met at a volleyball tournament earlier that day had given him the drug. He used it, he said, because she was “good looking.”

The man, arrested for illegal drug use, was later released.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Mukilteo, WA
Officers responded for a vehicle driving on the running track. The

officers located the vehicle leaving the school. The officers saw no

obvious damage to the track (but it was dark and covered in snow). The

driver was cited for violating his intermediate license restrictions

and his father came and picked him up.

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Atlanta, GA
A woman said she left her house on Defoors Ferry Road and a few hours later, she got a call about her home alarm going off. She returned home and discovered that her house had been robbed — again. She said this is the fifth time someone has broken into her home. She also said, every time the suspect(s) enter her home, “they always leave a fruit that is half-eaten in plain view for her to discover,” the officer wrote. “I discovered a half-eaten banana next to the listed crow bar, which was used to enter the front door.” Items reported stolen are: a flat-screen TV, a CD player and a lamp.

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West Seneca, PA
A West Seneca man reported someone had put ketchup and syrup all over the passenger side of his vehicle.

Found in the Bee News

Amherst, NY
An Amherst woman was charged with robbery after she reportedly bit a clerk and stole jewelry from a Main Street business in Clarence.

Found in the Bee News