WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2
An officer met with a woman in the lobby of the police department in reference to a complaint of a stolen vehicle. The woman said, according to her ex-boyfriend, he had been in the parking lot of a local fast food business on Oct. 29 at approximately 2 p.m. with a woman who he only had the first name of. Her ex-boyfriend told her that this woman had pointed a gun at him and then took the vehicle. The vehicle is registered to the ex-boyfriend, but the reporting party presented a signed title for the vehicle showing her as the owner because the ex-boyfriend apparently owes her money. The woman identified a possible suspect, and the vehicle was registered as stolen.
FRIDAY, NOV. 4
An officer met with a woman in the lobby of the police department to take a report of a stolen laptop computer. The woman reported that on or about Oct. 12, she gave her laptop to her brothers neighbor who worked at a local computer repair business as a technician. He was going to repair the power cord, install a new battery, and speed up the computers processes. She stated she was told that she could come pick up the laptop at the business when they called her. After a few weeks, the woman called the business to check on the status of her computers repair, and was told that they did not have her computer, and that the employee who she had delivered her laptop to had recently been let go. The woman went to the suspects residence and found that he had recently moved out and did not leave a forwarding address. She stated that the laptop was a black Hewlett Packard model with a lot of stickers on it, and that she had paid $1,300 for it in 2007. As of this date, the investigating officer has been unable to reach anyone at the computer repair business to get contact information of the ex-employee.
SATURDAY, NOV. 5
An officer responded to the parking lot at Walmart in reference to a possible domestic violence incident. While on his way, dispatch advised that the female party had left the scene and was walking north on Main Street. The officer contacted a male at the scene, who was crying and very upset. He told the officer that he had lost his credit card and was trying to contact his bank to find out what he needed to do. He said that his girlfriend had called him and offered to give him money, but he refused and told her to leave him alone because he was upset and just wanted to figure out what he needed to do about his card. He said that he was sitting in his vehicle on his lunch break when his girlfriend showed up and again tried to offer him money. He told her to leave him alone and go away; instead she pushed $40 through the door frame of his car, which was locked. While he was sitting in his vehicle, she opened the back hatch and climbed in and opened the back passenger door. The driver threw the $40 out the door and told the female that he didnt want her money, and she began yelling that he took the money and now owed her $40. The male picked up the money and tried to give it back to her, but she refused it, and continued to yell at him. She then pinched him, leaving two large bruises, and yelled Hit me, hit me in the face and I will leave you alone! and then began grabbing his arms. The male put his knee up in an attempt to keep her away. Most of the altercation happened while the couple was in the vehicle. Witnesses confirmed seeing the female climb into the vehicle and striking the male in the face. Police obtained surveillance video from the store that showed the incident. The woman involved was contacted at her residence and taken into custody for third degree assault and domestic violence.
MONDAY, NOV. 7
An officer returned a phone call to a woman in reference to her wallet being stolen out of her truck. The woman said she had parked her truck in front of a friends house and left it unlocked. She left the friends house the next day and went to put gas in her truck and realized her wallet was missing. The wallet contained her own debit card and the debit card loaned to her by a friend in Olathe, a checkbook, and a small amount of cash.
An officer was dispatched to the lobby of the police department in reference to a theft complaint. A woman reported that someone had broken into her locked vehicle last night and stole several items. The top of the drivers side door had been damaged by someone prying it open. The woman reported that a pink Nano IPod had been stolen, a car connector for the device, approximately three CDs, and her purse and her wallet.
TUESDAY, NOV. 8
An officer returned a phone call to a woman in reference to a report of lost or stolen property. The woman said that her boss had been staying at the Holiday Inn and possibly had his IPad lost or stolen. He had been in Cortez for a business trip and stayed two nights at the motel, and had checked out on Oct. 14. When the IPads owner was returning to Utah, he realized that he had left it in his motel room. He called the motel to let them know that he had left it in his room, and one of the staff there told him that no one had turned in an IPad. The approximate price of the IPad was $674.97. The officer then spoke with the assistant manager at the motel, who remembered speaking with the guest. He stated that he told the guest that they looked all throughout his room and in the lost and found, but were unable to find his missing IPad. The manager stated that he has still not come across the item.