Look! Me too!: Police arrested a woman in East Charlotte last week after she repeatedly interfered with a drug possession investigation. While officers dealt with their suspect, the woman kept approaching them. The offers told her four times to leave them alone; when she approached them a fifth time, the officers took her into custody and searched her. Turned out she was holding, too: the cops found a crack rock and crack pipe in her waistband. Maybe she just felt ignored.
Book Lover: A 32-year-old security guard filed a police report after being assaulted at his place of employment. The man told officers he was working at the Uptown library when the suspect approached and punched him in the face. And you thought people weren’t passionate about reading anymore.
Secret Santa: A 46-year-old woman called police after a house guest apparently stole her present from under the Christmas tree. She told officers she had unwrapped her new iPod and left it sitting under the tree when the suspect swiped it. Perhaps the woman could have avoided all this if she had given her house guest a better gift than Keeping up with the Kardashians on DVD.
OG: Original Golfa: A 39-year-old woman called police last week suggesting her family’s safety was in jeopardy in South Charlotte. The woman told officers she was walking with her daughter when they were threatened by golf club-wielding suspects. The women might think twice next time about walking around wearing the colors of a rival country club.
Puppy Love: A 19-year-old woman reported to police that several people were harassing and defrauding her. At first the suspects told the woman they would sell her a puppy for $425. She gave them the money but the suspects never delivered the dog. The suspects then told the woman she would have to pay additional money for fees. When she refused to do so, they threatened to report her for “pet abandonment.” One of them also told her, “If you don’t pay, I will make you suffer.” But … what about the puppy?
Threat of the Week: A 26-year-old man filed a police report after receiving a Godfather-esque threat via text message last week. He told officers he had been having problems with the suspect but decided to do something about it after receiving this particular text: “By the end of this week you will sleep with the fishes.” Didn’t the victim consider that an apparent invitation to the beach may have been the suspect’s way of making peace? OK, maybe not.
Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
Image credit: Justine Smith
This article appears in Jan 3-9, 2012.
