Bristol Blotter 07-07-10

By: Claire Galofaro | TriCities.com
Published: July 07, 2010

Bristol Virginia Police Department
July 1
* A guy called at 11 p.m. to say that a drunken man named Gary “came into his apartment and will not leave.”
Gary was arrested.
*n A man called from Euclid Avenue about 8 p.m. to say a man “jumped their chain link fence last night and got surprised by a half-lab, half-chow dog and made it to the roof.”
The man told police he found the dog’s collar in the yard and “has a video of the subject when he walked up on their porch and the porch of a neighbor as well.”
* Fireworks “woke up a child” on Second Street about 11 p.m. and the child’s mother called police to tell them about it.
* A Linden Drive restaurant manager called just before midnight to report a blue car and blue truck parked “side-by-side” on the lot, and “people in blue pickup having sex at this time.”

July 2
* An old guy in a yellow shirt stole something from Walmart then “took off running toward Golden Corral.” Police couldn’t find him.
* Someone saw a guy sitting in a Volkswagen Jetta by the side of Old Airport Road, “waving a baseball bat out of the window to traffic that was passing by.”
* Four children were seen “throwing apples at UPS trucks and mail trucks.”
They were last spotted “running from Eastridge Park toward Suffolk Avenue.”

Bristol Tennessee Police Department
June 30
* A Meadowview Road woman called police to say her upstairs neighbors “play their television too loud.”
Officers didn’t hear anything.
* A woman called police when she got a 4 a.m. text message from her daughter that said “take care of my children.”
She said the daughter was having some marital troubles and she was worried about her.
Police talked to the daughter who said “she did send her mother some messages, but she misunderstood them.”
She has no plans to hurt herself.
* Police went to Hill Street where a guy reported a man “on the adjoining street had threatened him.”
Said man “stated it was a misunderstanding and that he would not go around the other male.”

Neighborhood Watch
* The Hurricane Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Hurricane Baptist Church in Wise.
* Bristol’s Veda Drive new Neighborhood Watch will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at 2640 Veda Drive in Bristol, Va.
* 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.