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Best of The Blotter 2003
Cream of the Criminal Crop
By Sam Boykin, Ashley Collins, Emily Best, Monica Simpson and J.E. Blacklaw
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Makes Your Whites Whiter: After grabbing hold of each other in an argument the offender managed to reach a container of bleach and poured the whole thing on the woman's clothing.
Smooth Operator: A woman who had left her boyfriend began receiving phone messages from the ex about 10 times a day, asking her to come back. By the end of each day, the messages became more and more threatening. Finally, lover boy said he was going to rip the side mirrors from her car, and sure enough, she went out the next morning and had no mirrors on her car. Romeo had also poured sugar into the gas tank of her car.
Something's A-foot: A patient in a group home ran away. While the patient was gone another man stole the runaway's two shoes.
Drugs Are Bad, Kids, Mmm-kay?: While walking down the road a man was approached by a group of men who told him he needed to buy drugs from them. When the man refused, the dealers chased him down the road. The man made it to his apartment, but when the dealers began throwing rocks into his apartment windows, he called the cops.
Rock Star Wanna Be: After a man checked out of a motel, the staff noticed that he had done some damage to his room. The man had cut a 5x6-inch hole in the carpet in the corner of the room, broken a light fixture, burned a hole in the bathtub, which probably isn't easy, and burned another hole in the top of the TV.
Defrosted: While driving down the road, a man tried to clear up his windshield, which had fogged up. He let his car drift too far to the right and he hit a car parked on the side of the road, tearing off his own fender. The driver fled the scene, but the VIN number was retrieved from the fender, and he was later confronted by police at his home and issued a citation.
This Is Your Brain On Drugs: An employer and his live-in caregiver had a work agreement, but the employer told the caregiver he was terminating the agreement early because of the caregiver's drug and alcohol use. The caregiver became irate and told his employer, "I'll kick your ass, your Daddy's ass and your brother's ass!" He left the house but later returned with this addendum: "If you change the locks on the door, I'll kick the door to get in."
I Nose That Had To Hurt: After two men and a woman started arguing, one of the men grabbed the woman by her nose and threatened to hurt both her and her male friend (the other man involved). As a result of being grabbed by her nose, the woman's nose ring pinched her and a small amount of blood seeped out of her nostril.
Easy Listening: Police were called out to a possible suicide. The girlfriend of the "victim" said she came home and found her boyfriend in the garage with his vehicle running, so she called the police. She spoke to her boyfriend, and he told her he was just listening to a song on the radio and was only going to be in there for a very short period of time.
All The Time In The World: A woman called police and reported that someone had been calling her and harassing her for four years.
Who To Believe?: A domestic dispute wound up with the police being called to investigate. A man and woman both agreed that they had been sitting around drinking alcoholic beverages and had started arguing. The man said the woman suddenly began breaking furniture, pictures and other items and when he tried to calm her down, she bit him on his left bicep. The woman, though, said that during their initial argument, the man had hurt her and it was then and only then that she bit his bicep and then followed up by running through the house breaking things.
Relief At Last: A man walked into a grocery store and took 100 single packs of Tylenol Sinus.
Pimp Smack: An elderly man called police after an angry and intoxicated woman whacked him several times on his forehead. The man suffered cuts to his forehead from the woman's sharp ring, and the woman was taken to detox to sober up.
Black Out: At a local nightclub, an argument between an SUV owner and his cousin led to the SUV being shot into on the front passenger side. Somehow, the owner didn't realize his SUV had been shot until 11am the next day.
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