FRIDAY, JAN. 20
Four officers reported to an residential complex for a report of a fight in progress between a male and a female in front of an apartment. Dispatch advised that one of the parties involved in the fight had gone inside of the apartment. When they arrived, officers observed a male with a black eye standing outside the apartment wearing a jacket but no shirt, and no shoes or socks. While two officers talked with the male, a third officer knocked on the front door of the unit in an attempt to speak with the other person involved in the fight, while the fourth officer went around to the back of the unit, and found the sliding glass door wide open. He saw three females and a young juvenile inside the apartment. One of the females yelled, the cops are here! and another female ran into the only ground level bedroom. The two remaining females began to fight each other in the kitchen of the apartment, pulling each others hair and pulling each other to the ground. The officer saw that the young juvenile male was approximately one foot away from the fighting, and the officer gave loud verbal commands to the females, ordering them to stop or they would be Tased. They stopped fighting and the juvenile male ran upstairs. One of the officers kicked in the front door while the verbal commands were being given, and an officer went into the ground floor bedroom and found a female hiding under a pile of blankets. She was found to have active warrants. All of the females were made to sit together on the floor of the kitchen. They were uncooperative when officers asked for their names, either yelling obscenities at them or flipping them off. The odor of alcohol was detected from all three of the females. One of the two females claimed that they were not fighting, and said that the male outside had broken into her apartment, even though he had a key. She identified the juvenile who had been nearby during the fighting as her son. There was also a smaller male juvenile in a high chair about five feet from where the two females were fighting, whom she said was her son with the barefoot man outside the apartment. Dispatch advised that there was an active restraining order against this female, protecting the man from her. The male had been living and paying rent in the apartment. She was advised that she was under arrest for violation of the protection order and child abuse for fighting so close to the child. One of the women charged said that it was bull-(expletive) that she was being charged with child abuse since the kids werent even hers.
A officer contacted a woman at her residence about a suspicious incident that had happened the previous day. She stated that she had been outside in her yard in the evening when a girl around middle school age came running up to her gate. The young girl was breathing heavily, and told the woman that she was on her way from the middle school to the high school for an activity when a beige colored pickup truck with a camper shell stopped her. There were two men inside. The driver asked her if she needed a ride, and while he did so, the man in the passenger seat started to get out of the vehicle. The woman said that she recognized the girl as someone who lived in her neighborhood and that she also saw the pickup, and said that it had been on 4th Street, and stayed stationary at a stop sign for awhile, and then left the area; she described the truck as being a beige late model Ford with a matching camper shell. The girl told her that she did not recognize the men and could not describe them because she had her head down running away from the truck. The girl thanked the woman, and headed on her way; the woman watched her until she reached her destination. She told the officer that she realized she should have reported the incident when it happened.
An officer responded to a report of a loud party complaint and possible underage drinking. When he arrived, the party appeared to have already dispersed. He observed a two groups of people walking away from the area, and contacted one group, a male and a female, as another officer contacted the other. When questioned, they told the officer they had just left a party, but both refused to say where. Both smelled of alcohol. The female denied drinking. Dispatch informed the officer that there was an active restraining order between the male and the female, barring the female from having any contact with the male, and also restraining her from drinking alcohol. She admitted that she was aware of the order. After she was handcuffed and taken into custody, she begged the officer to let her go and to take her home to her parents house. She was issued a summons for criminal protection order violation, and left in the care and custody of jail staff.
SATURDAY, JAN. 21
An officer was dispatched to the Big R store for a report of an adult shoplifter. The officer contacted the male suspect at the store, who told him he had taken the items. An employee of the store told the officer he had seen the suspect go to the shoe section and pick out a pair of shoes, put them on, and then put his own shoes on the shelf. He then selected a long sleeved shirt from the clothing section, and went into a dressing room and hid the shirt under his clothing. He was stopped by two store employees after he went through the check out stand without stopping to pay for anything on his way out of the store. They recovered the stolen items, valued at $126.18. The suspect told the officer that he wanted to get the items for his fathers birthday. He was issued a summons for shoplifting.