Bristol Virginia Police Department
Nov. 20
* A fast-food restaurant employee reported being assaulted by a fellow employee around 10 a.m.
* Spurgeon Lane residents are having an “ongoing problem with a [man] who walks up the road with a stick.” The caller told police the man uses the stick to intimidate dogs and “this morning, he hit one of their dogs with the stick.”
* Someone on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard reported that a man in a black hoodie tucked a rifle into his jacket and began marching toward an old Virginia Intermont College warehouse at 3:30 p.m. Police found the man had a pellet gun, not a rifle.
* A woman called from Norfolk Avenue to say that her grandmother changed the locks and wouldn’t let her get her stuff out.
* The Life Saving Crew went to a Gate City Highway fast-food joint at 7:30 p.m. to check on a female employee who took too many caffeine pills. Co-workers told police that she was “conscious and breathing, puking her guts out and has a high heart rate.”
Bristol Tennessee Police Department
Nov. 20
* A drunken driver was arrested on Volunteer Parkway when police noticed the car’s registration expired in February 2008.
Nov. 21
* Someone was caught trying to steal an $18.99 bottle of Southern Comfort from a Belmont Drive liquor store.
* Police went to Windsor Avenue when someone reported that a naked child was running around a fenced-in backyard. The boy’s father told police he’d given the kid a bath and when he went to mop up the water that splashed onto the floor, the boy “ran out the back door to be with his new puppy.”
Officers “observed the child and he seemed very happy and appeared to have just had his bath.”
Neighborhood Watch
* The Hayters Gap Neighborhood Watch will meet at 10:30 a.m. today at Hayters Gap Community Center.
* The Konnarock Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Konnarock Community Center in Troutdale, Va.
* 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.
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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