Bristol Blotter 03-12-10

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

Bristol Virginia Police Department
March 9
* A Linden Drive hotel employee called at 8:40 a.m. to report a man “lurking around, trying to steal items from guests.” The employee said the lurker was sitting in a red Ford Taurus.
* Someone noticed a black Honda that “appears to have been wrecked” abandoned in the Food City parking lot around 10 a.m.
* A Stardust Place man called at 4:30 p.m. to report that someone broke into his house through the back door, moved pictures around, scattered movies “all over the place,” then stole $105 off the kitchen table.
* Someone saw three kids in an old black Camaro driving along Crockett Street “smoking something, possibly pot” at 4:40 p.m.
* A woman called from Prince Street at 5:15 p.m. to say that “a girl she did not know left two bags of things on her porch and she thinks it may be stolen property.”

Bristol Tennessee Police Department
March 6
* A woman reported that “she had gotten a text message that threatened to assault her.” Police called up the text’s sender, “who stated she knew the message has been sent.”
* Police were called to an interstate welcome center when a security guard there “observed an unknown suspect urinate in the truck parking lot.”
* A woman called from Basswood Drive when “she retrieved a suspicious package from the mail box” that involved a “white, granular substance on the outside of the envelope.” The fire department picked up the suspicious envelope and “placed it into a safe container,” then passed it off to police for “safe keeping and possible testing.”
March 7
* A man using the bathroom at the emergency room had “an agitated moment,” and ripped the toilet from the floor. Police noted “the two bolts securing the toilet to the floor broke in half.”

Neighborhood Watch
* The Melvin Hills, Oak Hill Estates and Wyndale Community Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the Pleasant View United Methodist Church on Lee Highway in Abingdon, Va.
* The Highlander Park, Evergreen Hills and Lowry Hills Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Noonkester Field Park.
* 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.