The Bristol Blotter

By: Claire Galofaro | TriCities.com
Published: November 23, 2009

Nov. 19

* After “grabbing a waitress on the rear” at a Lee Highway restaurant, the uninvited assailant returned to the restaurant several days later.
* As an Osborne Street man was on the phone with police to say “he wanted the law to this location,” a man in the background shouted “no” and the phone went dead. A half hour later, a man called who called from the same address refused to give his name but said he “wants an officer immediately” for an unknown problem. When that officer arrived, both people there refused to cooperate.
* A woman called police to say that when her ex-boyfriend hit her, she hit him back.
* Two woman fought in the middle of Mary Street at 7:40 p.m.
* Someone from a State Street convenience store called police when a man with long blond hair pulled his two-tone Suburban to the side of the building at 10 p.m. and turned his lights off. She thought “he may be up to something.”
* A guy driving an old blue Geo was spotted behaving in a lewd and obscene manner “in front of two females at a red light on Euclid Avenue,” providing further evidence that an old, blue Geo won’t get you a girl. He was last seen driving away down Bob Morrison Boulevard.
* A woman caught shoplifting at Walmart also had “stuff from Sears.”

Bristol Tennessee Police Department

Nov. 18

* Police arrested a man on State Street after he failed two field sobriety tests while having “a strong odor of intoxicant about his breath.”
* A woman stopped by the police department to say that her ex-husband’s current wife “had been saying slanderous things on Facebook.”
Nov. 19
* Two loud, drunken men on Sixth Street were told to go inside and keep the noise down.
* Someone called police from Broad Street when their neighbor closed the door too loudly. She admitted the door is “hard to close” and said she’d spoken with her landlord about having to “slam it shut.” She pledged to “try to close it more quietly in the future.”

Neighborhood Watch

* The Hayters Gap Neighborhood Watch will meet at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, at Hayters Gap Community Center.
* The Konnarock Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 26, at the Konnarock Community Center in Troutdale.
* 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.