Bristol Blotter 03-06-10

By: Claire Galofaro | TriCities.com
Published: March 06, 2010

Bristol Virginia Police Department
March 2
* A guy called from West Street at 4:45 a.m. to say “there is someone at his house that is refusing to leave.”
* Someone stole $16.45 worth of kerosene from a Commonwealth Avenue convenient store and left in a beige Dodge truck at 5:30 p.m.
* A person on Lavina Street watched as a “truck rolled down the hill and into the grass” at 7 p.m. They told police the people in the truck were “drunk and let it roll down,” then were “trying to get the truck out of the grass.”
* The owner of a Gate City Highway store called police to say she just went by her business and a man “wearing a hoodie [was] digging through the trash.”
March 3
* A woman was arrested after stopping by the jail while drunk at 4 a.m.

Bristol Tennessee Police Department
Feb. 27
* A woman stopped by the police station to say that “Officer John Brown” with the U.S. Crime Prevention Department left her a voice message on her cell phone that said she was involved in a lawsuit and owed over $150 to the state. She told police that the man “spoke with a foreign voice and demanded payment before she is sued.” Officer Brown had her social security number and bank account information, so she closed her account. Because she has no outstanding loans or bills going to collections, she told police she thought it was a scam.
* A woman called from Anderson Street when a neighbor’s dog ran over into her yard, jumped on her schnauzer, then started “shaking the dog in its mouth.” Her husband ran out to “break up the fight between the animals,” and saved the schnauzer from injury. She said she just wanted the incident documented, and police told her to call animal control with any further problems.

Neighborhood Watch
* The Croweville and Glade Spring Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at 110 Town Square in Glade Spring, Va.
* They Hayters Gap Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Clinch Mountain Fire Department in Abingdon.
* 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.