WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14
An officer spoke with a property manager regarding a report of property damage and theft of copper wires and pipe. He had looked through a house that he had been assigned to and noticed that someone had gone in and removed copper pipe in the basement. The damage and cost to replace the stolen pipe was estimated at $1,000.
THURSDAY, MARCH 15
An officer spoke with the manager of a business property, who told him that he had two 30- to 40-foot tall light posts taken from the loading dock at one of the buildings. The last time he had seen them was Thursday, March 8. The cost to replace them was estimated to be approximately $4,000 to $5,000. He thought that someone might have taken them for scrap metal.
FRIDAY, MARCH 16
Dispatch advised an officer to respond to a fight in progress with an officer already on scene. A male wearing a white tank top was seen walking away from the scene with a female and the officer on scene advised that one of the subjects was possibly armed with a knife. The couple, both known from prior contacts, was located and both were handcuffed. The officer at the scene advised that she was in contact with four male juveniles who told her that the man had threatened them with a knife and threw a beer bottle at them as they tried to get away from him and the woman. They said that the man had held the knife up to them on Montezuma Avenue near the library. No weapons were found on the suspects, but the officer saw a woman waving at him and pointing at the ground near a vehicle in the parking lot about 20 yards from where the suspects were contacted. Another woman had witnessed the female suspect throw a knife under the vehicle and walk away, and the officer found a silver knife with no handle on the ground under the vehicle. It had what appeared to be blood on it. As the officer was filling out paperwork with the female suspect, she voluntarily stated those boys should have gotten stabbed anyway and when she was told she was being charged with menacing, she said Menacing? For what? Pulling a little baby knife? The male suspect made the voluntary statement, I didnt mean no harm. I was just trying to keep my girlfriend from being harmed. Both suspects had to be medically cleared due to their high level of intoxication, and were placed on felony investigation hold for felony menacing.
Dispatch received a 911 call reporting a woman screaming, and the caller could also hear kids crying. On arrival, two officers found a woman kneeling on the sidewalk in front of an apartment, and beside her were two small children wearing coats. Both children were crying, and told the officer that they lived in the apartment. They had no physical injuries but appeared very scared. An officer tried to speak with the woman, but she was unable to talk due to her high level of intoxication. There was a key in the door to the unit, and an officer went inside and found a very clean, orderly apartment with the lights turned off. He found an adult male and two more children sleeping inside. The officer woke up the male, who was sober and had him follow him outside, where he identified the female as his live-in girlfriend and her two children. The kids were brought inside and put to bed. The male said that she was supposed to watch them that day while he was at work, but that he would stay home and take responsibility for them. The officer returned that evening to complete the investigation. The children were happy and seemed to have no lasting effects from the nights incident, and the woman was sober. She told the officer that she had no memory of what had happened and had apologized to her children. She was advised that if she had a problem with alcohol that there was lots of help out there for her, but that if this sort of situation was going to continue, that she needed to leave her children out of it. She was issued a summons for child abuse.
SATURDAY, MARCH 17
An officer and medics responded to a residential address in reference to a female who was possibly suffering from alcohol poisoning. He observed a female lying on her back in her bed. Her eyes were rolled back in her head; she had a pulse, but she was unresponsive and did not respond to pain stimulus. A friend of the females said that he was with her during the day, and she had consumed approximately six beers and three shots of vodka, and had also smoked some marijuana. After the female began to be revived by medics, she was transported to the hospital. The officer spoke with her after she was awake and responsive. She stated that all she remembered was going to a friends house to hang out, and it turned into a party. She stated that after she had consumed the alcohol, she blacked out and didnt remember anything else, nor did she remember how she got home. When asked why she was drinking alcohol that day, she stated that it was because I couldnt handle the stress of getting married. She was issued a summons for underage consumption of alcohol.
SUNDAY, MARCH 18
An officer responded to a driving complaint aired by dispatch of a car traveling north toward Cortez on U.S. Highway 160 that was making unsafe passes and driving at excessive speeds. The officer observed the car make a U-turn onto Pinon and head south. The car pulled into a private parking lot, and the male driver and a passenger remained in the car. The officer contacted the occupants of the vehicle, and the driver denied making unsafe passes. While speaking with the driver, the officer noted that there was a strong smell of unburned marijuana coming from the cars interior. The driver was asked to step out of the car and was asked if he had been smoking marijuana. He denied doing so, but kept putting his hands inside his front pants pockets after being instructed not to several times. When patting the subject down for possible weapons, the officer located a glass jar with marijuana in it in his pants pocket. The driver was able to successfully complete voluntary roadside maneuvers, and no further action was taken. He was issued a summons for possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana.
