Bristol Tennessee Police Department
July 25
* An officer noticed a “silver low-rider Mazda pickup” driving along the road “emitting smoke from the muffler.” Police stopped the car and learned the driver’s license was revoked for a previous DUI. Also, he had a “switchblade knife and had switched the tags on the vehicle.” So the guy driving the flamboyant, smoking truck without a license and while carrying illegal weapons got arrested.
* Police went to Taylor Street “in reference to a possibly intoxicated male sleeping under a tree.” He was arrested.
Bristol Virginia Police Department
July 24
* Somebody called from a Euclid Avenue drug store to report a woman with black hair who reportedly “shoplifted from the store then tried to run over an employee in the lot” about 3 p.m.
* A woman called to say she was near a pizza joint on Lee Highway “parking up from a yard sale” at 5:30 p.m. with a woman “standing and screaming at her.”
* A guy called for police when he got home from work and found “a brand new scooter on his back porch.”
* Somebody on Stardust Place reported that a “barking dog” was being “a nuisance to the neighbors.”
July 25
* A woman called at 1:15 a.m. to say her “ex-husband keeps driving by and throwing stuff out and squealing tires.”
* A Mary Street woman called police to say she was “shaken up by a shiny maroon” Acura sedan that followed her home. The driver, an old fat lady with gray hair, reportedly “kept asking if she needed a ride.” Dispatch noted that “she seemed to think it might have been a male dressed like a female,” which “just freaked her out.”
* Police arrested a guy found “passed out drunk” in a Highland Avenue driveway.
Neighborhood Watch
* The Konnarock Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Konnarock Community Center on Whitetop Road in Troutdale, Va.
* Anyone interested in starting a Neighborhood Watch in Bristol, Va., should contact Nicole Slagle at the Bristol Virginia Police Department; (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.
Editor’s note: The Bristol Blotter is a sampling of activity from the logs and reports of the two city police departments.
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