Bristol Blotter 10-17-09

By: Claire Galofaro | TriCities.com
Published: October 17, 2009

Bristol Virginia Police Department
Oct. 11
* Police went to check on a man seen lying on the side of Stagecoach Road behind Bristol Flooring at 6:50 p.m.
Oct. 12
* An Old Airport Road motorist called police at 2:40 p.m. when a red Camaro, speeding off Interstate 81, almost ran the caller over. The caller said the Camaro flew off the interstate around Exit 7, “got sideways” and went into the grass. That’s when the car peeled out and drove off “very fast,” almost hitting them. The caller told police “that if that was an old person they would have wrecked and killed themselves.”
* A white SUV drove down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard for about a mile on the wrong side of the road.
* After trying to lure a woman into their brown Ford in the mall parking lot, two men moved on to the Euclid Avenue Food City to drink openly and panhandle about 7 p.m.
* A man called police from his house at the intersection of Lester and Moore streets to say that a man came into his home, got drunk and assaulted him. The caller told police that he “assaulted him back,” and then the man left. For some reason, he suspected his assailant was heading to the tennis courts at Virginia Intermont College.
* For several hours, a couple in the Portsmouth Avenue Apartments screamed at each other. A neighbor asked police at 10:30 p.m. “to tell them to keep it down.”

Bristol Tennessee Police Department
Oct. 11
* When officers responded to a Volunteer Parkway trailer park to a reported vandalism, they found an arguing couple. The boyfriend said his live-in girlfriend pushed him then broke out the window of his mobile home. The girlfriend said that she had, in fact, broken the window, but insisted they were both fighting “and refused to say which one started the fight.”
Oct. 12
* A young man called police about a disturbance at his Weaver Pike home. When they arrived, he walked up to the officer and “indicated he was tired of the drama and just wanted the people in his backyard to leave and not ever come back.” Those in his backyard told the officer that the young man and his girlfriend just broke up, and he had been reluctant to return the ex-girlfriend’s driver’s permit. The permit was returned to the ex-girlfriend before police arrived, but “everybody agreed that [the] boyfriend wanted them to wait until police arrived for some reason.” No one reported any threats or violence, and “no one there actually knew why the former boyfriend wanted to call police.” The officer told the young ex-couple to stay away from each other.

Neighborhood Watch
* The Melvin Hills and Oak Hill Estates Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, at Pleasant View United Methodist Church on Lee Highway in Abingdon.
* The Ridgecrest Town Apartments Neighborhood Watch will meet at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 2 Heritage Drive in Bristol, Va. The meeting will focus on children and Halloween safety.
* The Konnarock Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, at the Konnarock Community Center on Whitetop Road 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.