Posts Tagged ‘local-news’
Police Blotter of the Day: Bull shot to death after daring meat-plant escape
Cross-posted from msnbc.com, where it originally appeared:
By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com
An animal control officer shot and killed a bull Thursday after it escaped on its way to a Maryland meat processing plant, charged a sheriff’s deputy and damaged a patrol car, authorities said.
The bull escaped Thursday morning in Mount Airy, Md., about 50 miles north of Washington, as it was being led from a truck into the plant, said Brian Horton, a spokesman for the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.
According to the sheriff’s incident report, the bull broke free, charged a bystander and ran off in the general direction of a day care center. Deputies followed him into a nearby field, where he then charged one of the deputies.
“Fearing for their safety, a deputy discharged two rounds from a shotgun, striking the bull, and causing him to retreat into a wooded area,” the report said. A county animal control officer then finished him off with two more shots.
Besides the bull, the only casualty was the taillight on a deputy’s cruiser, which the bull slammed into as he eluded attempts to corral him. The body of the bull — presumably no longer fit for human consumption as it was by then lead-contaminated — was released back to its owner.
Memo to shoplifters: Don’t pick ‘Shop With a Cop’ night. (Police Blotter of the Day)
WOWT-TV
A shoplifting suspect who picked Wednesday night to try and steal a DVD player didn’t realize it was also Shop With A Cop Night at the Gretna, NE. Walmart.
More than 24 Sarpy County Sheriff’s Department deputies were in the store at the time. …
“It really set the tone for the weekend coming up for us, for Christmas and what Christmas is supposed to be about,” said Sarpy County Lt. Kevin Griger.
Full story (WOWT-TV of Omaha, Neb.)
Police Blotter of the Day: Teens broke in, cooked gizzards
Two 14-year-old boys were arrested Saturday night for breaking into a Chinese restaurant and cooking chicken gizzards, police said.
“I guess they couldn’t find any money so they decided to cook some food,” Gainesville Police Lt. Jorge Campos said.
Full story (Gainesville, Fla., Sun)
Dear Santa: Give me ‘the real-life Justin Bieber … or you die’
Mekeeda Austin has warned Father Christmas that he will be ‘killed’ if he fails to deliver at least two of her long list of gifts – including a BlackBerry smartphone and ‘the real-life Justin Bieber’.
The 13-year-old goes even further and threatens to ‘hunt down’ Old Nick’s reindeer so she can ‘cook them and serve their meat to homeless people on Xmas day’.
Full story (MetroUK)
Police Blotter of the Day: Thieves clean out Georgia church … during the service
Pastor Mona Harper surveys the damage at Kingdom City Church in Stone Mountain, Ga. (WXIA-TV)
Thieves tore apart the youth center of a Georgia church and made off with nearly everything they could — including a refrigerator, a stove, a microwave oven, broilers and the copper in the ceiling — while the congregation worshiped during Sunday services upstairs, the church’s pastor says.
“They stood on the chairs and took all the copper. They took our kitchen utensils,” said Mona Harper, pastor of Kingdom City Church in Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta.
But then they went a step further, NBC station WXIA of Atlanta reported.
“They took crayons, magic markers and DVDs. They left the Bible and the Scrabble game, but they took the board games,” Harper said.
“Things that we use to get kids off the street, they just took it,” she said.
Full story and video (msnbc.com and NBC News)
Police Blotter of the Day: ‘Can I have my weed back?’
Jeter asked for a preliminary hearing in Beaver County Court, and public defender Mitchell Shaheen tried Monday to convince Judge William Livingston that the marijuana could have belonged to any of four men in the car. He recounted Jeter’s comment to police that he intended to purchase the marijuana, but had not yet consummated the deal.
Shaheen, however, had no defense for Jeter’s question to officers as he was released from police custody in May.
“Mr. Jeter asked if he could have his weed back,” officer Bruce Clark testified Monday in court.
Full story (Beaver County, Pa., Times)
Bonus Police Blotter of the Day: Woman caught making meth inside S. Tulsa Walmart
Tulsa County Jail via KOKI-TV
Police say surveillance video shows Halfmoon had been in the store since noon. Six hours later security noticed she was acting suspicious, so they called Tulsa police.
Responding officers say she claimed she was “too broke to buy the chemicals.”
“She didn’t have the money to make the purchases of the chemicals that were needed so she was taking what was needed in the bottle,” says Officer David Shelby.
Shoppers inside the store had no idea someone was cooking meth.
“This is a family store,” says Jessica Fuentes, who also had her 1-year-old son inside the store. “People need to start thinking. If she has family she needs to think about her family. If you are broke. It’s just wrong.”
Full story (KOKI-TV of Tulsa, Okla.)
Police Blotter of the Day: Eggnog thief at large!
Police said someone smashed a glass door at a state liquor store in downtown Pittsburgh early Tuesday morning and stole two bottles of egg nog worth a total of $31.48.
Full story (WTAE-TV of Pittsburgh via msnbc.com)
Police Blotter of the Day: SD Police Use Beanbags Against Man With Swords
Rapid City police used a beanbag shotgun to subdue a man they say attacked them with ninja-type swords. …
The 48-year-old man was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer.
Full story (AP via KDLT-TV)
Police Blotter of the Day: Give me all your money or my penguin will explode
Andri Jeffers (via Yavapai County Sheriff's Office)
News release from the Yavapai County, Ariz., Sheriff’s Office:
On November 23, 2011, at approximately 6:15 PM, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a reported robbery at the Chevron Station in the 2700 block of Highway 69, Dewey-Humboldt. The Chevron employee stated that a female entered the mini-mart with her right hand concealed under her sweater, claiming she had a bomb, and demanding cash from the register. The clerk explained the store was closing and the register was empty. The suspect threatened to blow up the clerk if he did not comply. She then walked behind the counter, grabbed a bag, and demanded the clerk place cash in the bag. The clerk refused to cooperate and the suspect eventually fled the store.
The clerk was able to obtain a license plate number from the suspect’s dark colored Chrysler Pacifica vehicle as it fled north on Highway 69 toward Prescott Valley.
Alex Johnson - Journalist at Large 