Bristol Blotter 10-29-09

By: Claire Galofaro | TriCities.com
Published: October 29, 2009

Bristol Virginia
Police Department
Oct. 23
* A man returned to retrieve his child from his white car, parked across the street from State Line Bar & Grille, just two minutes after someone called police to report that the child had been left alone inside the car.
* Concerned passersby reported a gang of kids with BB guns on Madison Street at 8:10 p.m. Police found them to be airsoft guns, and told dispatch that the kids’ “guardians are going to get them inside.”
* A Vermont Avenue caller assumed a loud nearby party involving loud cursing was the work of drinking juveniles. Officers responded about 11 p.m. to find that the party’s attendees were adults, and asked them to keep the noise down.
Oct. 24
* Police suspect that the noise a Chester Street man thought was a small caliber weapon was actually just hammering down the street.
* A crew of men in a green Toyota Camry were spotted dumping trash in the Food City parking lot around lunchtime.
* Six kids got into a fight in the Bristol Mall parking lot at 4:40 p.m.
* A woman called police from a Lee Highway gas station when, after going inside to prepay for $10 in fuel, pump No. 2 deposited more than $36 into her tank “and the clerk says it’s her fault and she has to pay for it.”
Oct. 27
* Neighbors could hear a woman screaming as a man was “beating her up with his fists” at 12:30 p.m. On the same street just 20 minutes later, someone reported that a “drunk neighbor is harassing an elderly male that just had surgery.”

Bristol Tennessee
Police Department
Oct. 25
* After someone broke into a woman’s car while it was parked in a lot behind State Line Bar & Grille two weeks ago, police issued warrants for the man they suspected stole her stuff. At 2:45 a.m. Sunday, the same girl returned to the same car in the same parking lot, and discovered that her iPod and wallet were missing. She claimed the doors were locked, as was the glove box where she stashed the goods. But, while police found no evidence of forced entry, they did find the man suspected in the first heist on the computerized log of State Line’s Saturday night visitors. He has been named as a suspect again.
Oct. 26
* Police responded to a Volunteer Parkway gas station when a man reported that when he went inside to pay for his gas, a white Subaru backed out of a parking space into the front bumper of his car and then left the scene.
* A Honaker Road mother refused to cooperate with police after her son vandalized her property because, as she told officers, “she didn’t want her son in trouble.” They arrested him anyway on a charge of domestic vandalism.

Neighborhood Watch
* The Northwinds Town Homes Neighborhood Watch will meet at 6 p.m. today at 75 Old Airport Road.
* 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.