Bristol Blotter 02-09-10

By: Claire Galofaro | TriCities.com
Published: February 09, 2010

Bristol Virginia Police Department
Feb. 5
* At Exit 7 of Interstate 81, police arrested a guy who was “drinking alcohol and asking for money” around 4 p.m.
* A man called from Beech Street to report that a guy wearing a hoodie was on his property around 8 p.m.
Feb. 6
* A woman called from Highland Avenue at 3:45 a.m., gave the address and “started arguing with someone and rustling then the phone went dead.” She called back to say that a person “was trying to beat her up but she didn’t know who it was.”
* Officers went to a Portsmouth Avenue apartment building when a woman told police “she could hear people running, yelling and glass breaking in the hallway.” At least one person was arrested and another injured.
* Someone called from the corner of Cumberland Street and Piedmont Avenue at 2:30 p.m. to say that a person stopped at the red light “got out and made an obscene gesture and then took off.”
* When someone called to say they were being “harassed by a female in the parking lot” of a grocery store at 3:15 p.m., dispatch noted “you can hear the female arguing back and forth.”

Bristol Tennessee Police Department
Feb. 6
* Police arrested a person for driving under the influence after they clocked the vehicle at 61 mph on Volunteer Parkway at State Street, which is a 30 mph zone.
* When officers arrived at a Bentley Road home, where someone had called 911 and hung up, everyone there said nobody called. Some time later, officers were called back to the same house, where a man said another guy assaulted him. He told police he did not want to press charges, only wanted the man “to stay away from him.”

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