AH, LOVE: A woman called police after she caught a suspicious man looking in her purse for money. The suspicious man? Her husband. She wound up with bruises and scratches.
LOVE REDUX: A woman told police her husband slapped her at 2 a.m. after an argument about money and why she came home late.
MAKE YOUR OWN RAISE: A man was reported for fraud for allegedly signing a supervisor’s name to a padded time sheet — netting him additional pay of more than $2,200. The person admitted to forging the signature but argued that he had worked the hours listed for the staffing service.
SWIMMING POOL BANDIT: A woman told police that someone stole a $300 swimming pool from her side yard during the night.
MORE SUMMER STEALING: A woman told police someone stole two rocking chairs from her front porch. They were valued at $600.
BITCHIN’ CAMARO: A man told police that a woman had admitted keying the four outside panels of his 1986 Chevy Camaro.
PHONE TO GO: A woman was at a fast food restaurant when a man approached her to see if he could use her cell phone. He wanted to call a relative. She handed the phone, and he fled.
STALKER OF THE WEEK: So you want to keep tabs on somebody. You open his mail, call his relatives, and follow him from home to work and around town. When he goes to the police station, do you continue stalking him? One person apparently thought so, circling the block around police headquarters seven times while the man was inside the station.
Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte Police Department.
This article appears in Jun 13-19, 2007.
