The Bristol Blotter - March 8

The Bristol Blotter

By: Claire Galofaro | TriCities.com
Published: March 08, 2010

March 4

 “A muddy truck went through the woods” connecting Springdale Village Apartments and Eastridge Apartments at 2 p.m. Three minutes later, the caller told police the muddy truck was “now back out of the woods” and had commenced “jumping the curb” in front of the building.
 A man called police at 4:40 p.m. to say that a guy he knows came to his house, armed with a golf club, and “made threats to beat him up.”
 Police arrested a drunken man spotted “walking in circles and unable to walk very well” in a Linden Drive parking lot at 7 p.m.
 A woman called from Booher Lane at 8 p.m. to say that a man she knows was inside her trailer when she got home. He went outside, she said, “but is coming to her doors and is growling.” Five minutes later, the man started “banging on [her] trailer.” Meanwhile, another neighbor called to say the growling man got into a blue station wagon, hit a car in the lot and fled the scene.
 A woman called from King Mill Pike to say that a guy in a gray Saturn passed her around 8 p.m. “and had some type of weapon beating his window.” She said her sister saw the weapon “but was unsure what type it could be.”

Bristol Tennessee Police Department

March 4

 Somebody’s been breaking into the old skate park on Fifth Street which has been kept locked with a chain since it closed down several years ago. Police found the chain had been cut off, “the sign of the rules has been spray painted, and the field has been driven on and appeared to have had a vehicle doing doughnuts in the grass.”
 A woman called police when “a couple of friends that [she] has known for about three weeks stole her cell phone.”

March 5

 When police came upon a red Mitsubishi Eclipse on the shoulder of Volunteer Parkway, they found a man “passed out in the driver’s seat holding a can of dust remover.” They “tried to wake [him] up and he put the can to his nose and began to inhale it.” But still he was not awake. Finally, when he came to, he “admitted that he had inhaled a can of dust remover.” Police gave him just a misdemeanor citation for inhalants.

Neighborhood Watch

 The Croweville and Glade Spring Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at 110 Town Square in Glade Spring, Va.
 The 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.