What a Guy: A man entered a woman’s Plaza Road apartment, struck her over the head with a brass lamp, then reached into her pocket and stole $400 in cash . . . In a separate incident, a woman’s estranged boyfriend kicked down her door, then proceeded to punch and kick her, resulting in a small knot on her forehead and a black eye . . .Another woman and her boyfriend were arguing about “finances” when the woman asked the man to leave. He refused, so she attempted to call some relatives to help persuade him. The man then grabbed her around the neck and began banging her head on the wall. Can I get an ass kicking for three, please?
A Twisted Tale: While sitting in his house, a man observed a car pull up next to a young couple walking down the street. The driver of the car, who is also the witnesses’ neighbor, got out of his car brandishing a gun. The irate motorist approached the other man and said, “You just robbed me a few minutes ago.” He then knocked a beer bottle the pedestrian was holding to the street, got back in his car and drove away. At this point, the witness called police. While police were interviewing the witness, the alleged robbery victim was spotted leaving his house while holding a knife. The officers took his knife away and began questioning him. The man, whom officers described as “highly intoxicated”, explained that a few hours earlier, he had been returning home from buying “beer and chicken” when another man approached him, put a knife to his throat, and stole $11 from him. After being robbed, he said, the man got into his car and drove around the area in search of the perpetrator, and spotted him walking with a woman right in front of his house, and decided to confront him. And this, dear reader, is where our twisted tale began. And ends.
Like Mother Like Daughter: A woman drove to her neighbor’s house to alert her of the fact that her 17-year-old daughter was “performing obscene acts and using curse words” in front of her house. During the course of this conversation, the teenager’s mother became enraged, grabbed a baseball bat, and started chasing the other woman around her front yard. When the woman finally made it back into her car, the bat-wielding mom struck the vehicle on the passenger door, causing a large dent.
Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte Police Department.
This article appears in May 11-17, 2005.
