Make It Rain Why play the Powerball when you can just wait around in an Uptown parking lot for your windfall? A 44-year-old woman filed a police report after letting nearly a whole G fly into traffic last week. The woman told officers she placed $920 in cash on the trunk of her car while standing in the parking lot of an Uptown law office when she received a phone call. The call must have been important because she forgot about the money and didn’t think about it again until she hung up, but by that time she was about a block away and when she returned, the money was gone.
Let’s Settle This Now A man was arrested after trying to extort a young woman who was involved in a car wreck last week. A 21-year-old woman told officers she was involved in an accident on Matheson Avenue and the man in the other vehicle immediately jumped into her car uninvited and began screaming at her from the passenger seat. The man demanded money from her for the damage to his vehicle and the woman felt threatened for herself and daughter so she began driving him to the bank to get him $200. It’s unclear in the report how police were notified, but the man was arrested at the bank before any money changed hands.
The Dog Did It Police responded to a call in a Hidden Valley apartment complex after someone reportedly stole four plastic bowls of cat food that a 61-year-old man kept on his porch to feed local kitties.
Candid A 46-year-old woman reported the theft of an Activeon camera (think cheaper GoPro) last week after she lost it in a public place and nobody turned it in. The woman told officers the camera dropped on the dance floor at Roxbury Nightclub and someone picked it up and made off with it. It was probably someone who doesn’t appreciate being filmed while dancing only to be made fun of on YouTube later.
What Goes Up A 35-year-old woman in the University area filed a police report a few days after the new year after realizing that her neighbor’s New Year’s Eve antics had repercussions for her automobile. The woman said that overnight on New Year’s, she heard people in the area shooting gunshots into the air. She later realized, as it says in the report, that “somehow one of the many bullet projectiles struck her vehicle making a hole in the hood.” Well, I’m no scientist, but I have an idea how.
Get A Grip Police and medics recently responded to a call for service about a man sitting unconscious in his vehicle on the I-85 and West Sugar Creek Road exchange, but he was gone by the time responders arrived. Later, police located the man asleep in his car on Eastway Drive and determined he had smoked two joints full of potpourri — or “spice”, as the kids call it these days — and he still had the package inside of his car. The stuff was rightfully called “Death Grip.”
Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
This article appears in Jan 13-19, 2016.
