Bristol Blotter 07-12-10

By: Claire Galofaro | TriCities.com
Published: July 12, 2010

Page 6A, 07-12-10

Bristol Virginia Police Department
July 7
* State troopers alerted police that a black Porsche was “going well over 100 mph” on the interstate.
* It sounded “like someone takes board, hits trailer” as a Main Court woman laid down for bed around 2:50 a.m. She said “this has been happening for the last several days.”
* Somebody told police that “fists were the weapons used” by a group of people “beating up a 51-year-old man” just after noon on Second Street. The 51-year-old man “refused to cooperate.”
* A woman called after she “laid down a cloth bag for about 30 minutes at the war memorial and when she went back to retrieve it, it was gone.”
* A guy called to report his “girlfriend has attacked him with multiple items including a knife.”
* Dispatch thought a Nunley Court woman “was not being forthright” when she called to report that her ex-boyfriend threatened to kill her, and did so while driving on a suspended license. But she “let it slip” that she was the one driving and “when she was questioned about that she stated she’s suspended too and no, no he was driving.” Police determined “she is upset that he has a new girlfriend since they just broke up a week ago.” n A lady called from Courtney Lane to say she heard a woman tell a shirtless fat man in shorts that “all of these are locked, want to check upper ones.” She said “she wasn’t sure if they are talking about vehicles or what.”

Bristol Tennessee Police Department
July 8
* Police went to a Weaver Pike restaurant where a woman reported that “an unknown person took $453 from her vehicle without her permission.”
* A guy called officers to his house to say “he thought someone has tried to make a fire near his porch.” Police noticed “a burned spot on the ground at the end of the porch.”
* When police stopped a car for “squealing its tires” at 17th Street and Windsor Avenue, the driver took off on foot. Police found he had a suspended license and issued a criminal summons for him.
July 9
* Police went to a West State Street hotel “in reference to a male subject walking around the cars in what appeared to be hospital scrubs.” The man told them he was just discharged from the hospital and “was waiting on a friend to come and pick him up.”

Neighborhood Watch
* Washington County’s Zion Community Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at Zion United Methodist Church in Damascus.
* 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.