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Police Blotter of the Day: Drunk man goes into wrong house, gets into bed with couple

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Police said House had a blood alcohol level of 0.174.

Full story (WDIV-TV of Detroit)

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August 1, 2012 at 2:35 pm

Police Blotter of the Day: Honestly, officer, that’s not cocaine

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FORT WALTON BEACH — A man who pulled out his pants pockets to show a Fort Walton Beach Police officer he wasn’t carrying drugs didn’t count on a plastic bag of cocaine falling to the ground.

Full story (Northwest Florida Daily News)

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July 31, 2012 at 10:21 am

Police Blotter of the Day: Athens man sang national anthem while tied up by robber

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An Athens man told police he sang the national anthem to himself during an armed robbery on Athens’ Eastside two months ago. …

He told officers that as he was leaving a business at 50 Gaines School Road, a man he knew as “Mario” pulled a gun on him and made him go back inside, where he stole a wallet, cash, a pocketknife and an iPhone from the victim’s pockets, police said.

Mario then bound the man’s wrists with zip-ties and tried to lock him in a bathroom, police said.

“He waited until he had sung the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ in his head before exiting the bathroom,” according to police.

Full story (Athens, Ga., Banner-Herald)

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July 13, 2012 at 9:57 am

Police Blotter of the Day: Assault with a deadly sausage

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The victim told police he was riding his bike about 8 a.m. Sunday when Michael A. Baker, whom he does not know, came up to him “and started swinging sausage links at him,” Lt. David Dickinson said Sunday.

“He said he was trying to hit him with that. The victim had no idea why,” Dickinson said.

Full story (Brockton, Mass., Enterprise)

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June 19, 2012 at 2:33 pm

Police Blotter of the Day: Darth Vader. Robbing a bank. On a bike.

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Really, there’s nothing else you need to know, other than that it was in Toledo, Ohio:

Full story (WNWO-TV of Toledo, Ohio)

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May 24, 2012 at 11:01 am

Police Blotter of the Day: Driver throws hammer at motorist yakking on cellphone

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The man called 911 and reported he was just passed by a car driven by a 44-year-old Waterloo man who suddenly stopped his car in the middle of the roadway, forcing the caller to stop in the roadway, at which point the man in the car began waving a hammer at the other man yelling “get off the phone,” he then allegedly threw the hammer at the caller. …

“These types of conflicts can easily go bad and are best left to authorities,” stated Sheriff Todd Nehls.

Full report (Dodge County, Wis., Sheriff’s Department via WMTV-TV)

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May 14, 2012 at 12:45 pm

Police Blotter of the Day: So drunk he didn’t know he’d been run over by a train

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That’s some Night Train hangover.

Thomas J. Boersma apparently passed out on the Canadian Pacific railroad tracks just east of Forest Grove Drive. The conductor of the 76 car freight train said he saw a person laying on the gravel and resting his back on a rail. As the eastbound train approached the conductor said the man did not turn around. The train hit Boersma about three-tenths of a mile east of Forest Grove Drive. …

Police were contacted at about 3:30 a.m. and eventually found Boersma, who was wearing camouflage. Boersma was conscious but was not aware he had just been hit by a train, the police report said. Though Boersma suffered severe injuries to his buttocks and left arm he refused medical treatment, was agitated and combative, the report said.

Full story (Lake Country Reporter of Hartland, Wis.)

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May 4, 2012 at 8:52 am

Police Blotter of the Day: Pet store allegedly cuts off dog’s ear, then glues it back on

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Gladys Kapuwai of Honolulu says in a lawsuit that she took Dodo, a Gilzale and Pomeranian-Maltese mix, for grooming last year July and realized a couple of days later that one of Dodo’s ears had been cut.

“When I took her to the vet, the doctor had told me it looked like they tried to glue it back,” Kapuwi said.

“I couldn’t believe what they did. I started crying, because this is our baby, too, you know.”

Video (KHNL-TV of Honolulu)

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February 15, 2012 at 2:13 pm

Police Blotter of the Day: Burglar downloaded child porn, left wallet

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Officers found a wallet they believed the burglar had dropped, and detectives went to the address listed, where they said 25-year-old Derek McDine was found hiding in a closet.

He was arrested without further incident on burglary charges, and investigators began examining computers stolen from the accountants.

Detectives said they found evidence of child pornography that McDine is accused of loading onto the computers, and he was also charged with possession of child pornography.

Full story (WLWT of Cincinnati)

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January 30, 2012 at 1:57 pm

Police Blotter of the Day: Deliver my package or your drivers get it!

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A Newark, Ohio, police officer is on administrative leave and faces a disciplinary hearing Feb. 1 for allegedly threatening to ticket FedEx drivers because he missed a delivery at his home.

NBC station WCMH of Columbus reports:

[Officer Bobby] Hartless was waiting for a FedEx delivery at his home Tuesday, Jan. 3. He was not on duty that day.

Hartless missed the doorbell and tried to flag down the driver.

He contacted FedEx and was told the package wouldn’t be delivered that day.

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January 27, 2012 at 1:11 pm