Swift Punishment: Just because the police have their suspect in handcuffs, doesn't always mean the drama is over. Police thought they had the situation under control last week when they arrested a teenage boy they had witnessed punch another boy in the face. While the suspect was lying on the ground handcuffed, however, his mother came out of nowhere and slapped him across the face. The police took her into custody for the assault, and when he saw his mom being arrested the original suspect began threatening officers, adding to his charges.
Hot Commodity: An employee of a business in Oakboro that collects used cooking oil and recycles it filed a police report last week after someone beat her to the punch for some used frying oil. She said she has an agreement to collect the oil from Zaxby's, but when she arrived there recently, someone had taken her bounty, damaging the container it was in while doing so.
Flat Outta Luck: A woman called police after someone ruined two tires on her car. The woman said someone damaged her tires, ironically, by squeezing Fix-A-Flat into them. The substance is designed to repair tires, so the vandal may have just been trying to help, but the victim said she can no longer put air into her tires and now must replace them.
High Mom: A CMPD officer working at McClintock Middle School during the school's Family Night became suspicious after two people walked past him who smelled like weed. They questioned the suspects and confiscated a one-inch joint. Presumably the rest had already been smoked to help these two get through the boredom of Family Night.
Costly Black Out: A 37-year-old white guy woke up in a daze last week and soon filed a police report claiming that some unknown black man drugged him and took advantage of him the night before. The man told officers that at some time during the night the stranger brought him to an ATM and made him withdraw $1,000. He said he must have been drugged because he doesn't remember anything about the incident other than that the guy was black. Could be legit, or it could be a racist way to avoid telling his wife he had a night on the town and took the money out himself.
Chompers: A 62-year-old woman filed a report last week after someone stole her dentures. She said the thief was probably after a $300 gold tooth in the dentures.
Lock It Up: A 60-year-old man is probably still regretting leaving his car unlocked overnight at his Cotswold home, or regretting not bringing tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment from his car inside for the night. The man woke up one morning to find that someone had entered his unlocked vehicle and taken a $30,000 drone, along with $3,000 worth of aviation equipment that went along with it.
Margarita Madness: Employees with Jumpin' Jacks party rentals in Matthews called police after realizing they had lost some merchandise to a sneaky con-man. The report says that a man falsely representing himself as an employee of BB&T Ballpark rented two Margarita Man machines, worth $7,600 total, in the morning. They later found that the suspect was never employed at the ballpark and they have been unable to get their equipment back.
Food Fight: There aren't many places a teenage girl would rather be than the mall, but two teenage sisters in north Charlotte will have to find a new one to go to after police charged them with affray last week following a food fight at Northlake Mall. Police said the girls were eating in the food court when some food was thrown, and that's when they both broke out into a full-fledged brawl.
Bluetooth: A man walked into the Uptown CMPD headquarters last week and told officers that, years ago, two men put devices into his head and are constantly speaking to him through the devices. The officers told the man he would need to go to the hospital and have the devices removed in order to be used as evidence in any criminal case, so the man calmly left and said he would go there instead.
Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.