Bristol Blotter

By: TriCities Staff | TriCities.com
Published: July 01, 2009

Bristol Tennessee
Police Department
June 26
* A man was caught sleeping in the Shelby Towers facilities television room.
* A meter reader was attacked on the left leg by a small black dog on Esther Street.
June 27
* After a man was arrested on Anderson Street, the jail asked him how much he’d had to drink. He said two, but held up one finger.
June 28
* Officers responded to a State Street business after a customer stated that he was Jesus, and the caller was Satan.
June 29
* A man was arrested for flashing his genitals to a Borderline Billiards employee.

Bristol Virginia
Police Department
June 26
* Domino’s delivered about 9:30 p.m., but the customer did not. A pizza delivery driver told police he handed over a pie to a Hillside Avenue resident and collected payment. But after the customer shut the door, the driver realized the cash was short. The buyer then refused to open the door. Officers arrived and handled the situation.

June 27
* Police stopped two men on a light blue scooter who smelled like alcohol.
* Callers told police that a man sitting on the steps a couple doors from the city housing authority office about 2 p.m. was with his bottle and “smiling up a storm.”
June 28
* Four or five bales of hay were in the road near Clear Creek Golf Course.
June 29
* Two women were fighting on Clinton Avenue just after 2 a.m., and a caller told police one had a beer bottle. Officers responded and one of the two was arrested.
* Someone took a fifth of Wild Turkey from a liquor store on Euclid Avenue just before noon, and didn’t pay for it.
* Officers responded to a convenience store on King Mill Pike shortly after 5 p.m. where a woman said her niece’s photo is on a collection jar on the counter. The note on the jar states the girl has cancer, but the aunt told police that is not true and “the family did not do this.”
* The credit card machine wasn’t working, so a man driving a green Jeep at a Commonwealth Avenue gas station starting cussing and banging on the door about 7:30 p.m. A store clerk told police she turned the pump off, but was afraid of the irate customer coming into the building.
* About 10:30 p.m., five teenagers were sitting in the middle of Collins Street blocking traffic and refusing to move, a caller said.
* For the second night in a row, a Catherine Street resident said, he has heard his dog barking and when he went outside to check saw someone running from behind his house. Police officers will provide extra patrols of the neighborhood.

Neighborhood Watch
* Anyone interested in starting a Neighborhood Watch in Bristol, Va., should contact Nicole Slagle, crime prevention coordinator 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.