Bristol Blotter 09-09-10

Bristol Virginia Police Department
Sept. 5

• Someone called from Beech Street at 12:30 a.m. to report “a party with underage drinking” and “loud music.”
• A guy called from Lawrence Avenue at 1 a.m. to say “they had a guest over earlier and she stole his wife’s cell phone and narcotics.”
• A drunken homeless person decided to save police some time and gas money and got himself arrested “walking around behind the jail.”
• Somebody called police at 10:15 a.m. to report an “elderly gentleman standing out under a shade tree.” He said the old man “will not respond to him” and asked police to check on him. Officers found the man to be a “retired Navy chaplain enjoying his Sunday morning,” noting “everything is fine.”
• A woman walked into the police station to declare she “wants a tracking device implanted in her.”

Bristol Tennessee Police Department
Aug. 30

• When police arrived on Broad Street for a reportedly vandalized vehicle, the guy there told them “there was no damage to his vehicle, but that it wouldn’t start.” He said that “it started earlier, then quit on him so he left it in the driveway and now it won’t start at all.” This he blamed on “a neighbor.” Officers found said neighbor “who stated he had been with his children and parents all day.” Police mentioned that “no vandalism was observed.”

Aug. 31

• A man with a blocked phone number left a message on another man’s answering machine “stating that he disagrees on the political parties and other groups that he donates money to.” The mystery caller added “that he is hurting people and somebody might just come to Bristol to hurt him.”
• A woman got a text message from a lady “who stated that she needed to be picked up at Penny’s.” The woman told police “that she did not know this person or the phone number and when she tried to call the phone number it said it was not a working number.”
• A man called police to say another guy “had verbally threatened to kill him.” The other guy “denies this and advised that he had been arguing with the victim about his drinking.”

Sept. 1

• Police went to Stafford Street, where a man said his cousin came by “and started to yell obscenities towards him.” He said he confronted the cousin and told him to leave. The cousin, though, told police that the other cousin came to his house on Oakview Avenue in Bristol, Va., “and started to yell obscenities towards him.” One of the two then left “and went to buy some groceries at Walmart.” Both cousins “stated that the argument was over one person owing money to the other.”

Neighborhood Watch

• The Quail Ridge Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. today at the Ely Residence, 15126 Quail Ridge Way in Abingdon, Va.
• The Hurricane Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 tonight at the Hurricane Independent Missionary Baptist Church in Wise, Va.
• The Worthington Way Neighborhood Watch will meet for a picnic at 5 p.m. Saturday on Worthington Way Road.
• Anyone interested in starting a Neighborhood Watch in Bristol, Va., should contact Nicole Slagle, crime prevention specialist with the Bristol Virginia Police Department, at (276) 645-7281.
• Anyone interested in starting a Neighborhood Watch in Wise County should contact Sgt. Chuck Stapleton, crime prevention officer with the Wise County Sheriff’s Office, at (276) 328-3566.

Editor’s note: The Bristol Blotter is a sampling of activity from the logs and reports of the two city police departments.

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