Bristol Virginia Police Department
March 9
* A Massachusetts Avenue woman flagged down an officer at 11 p.m. to say “there might be someone in her basement.” There was no one in her basement.
* A woman called from Russell Street at 11:20 p.m. to say three young men were “throwing rocks and now a potato at her house.”
March 10
* Police arrested a man who drunkenly walked into a Lee Highway bar just after midnight and asked for a drink. The bar declined his order and, when they tried to get him a cab, the man refused to leave.
* Someone called from Solar Street to say a person was standing on the sidewalk, drinking and engaging in “drug activity” around lunchtime.
* Several drunken people stood outside a Lancaster Street business drinking and yelling at customers at 1:50 p.m.
* A person called from Bob Morrison Boulevard to say they watched a man “heading toward a dumpster” with something wrapped up in a T-shirt. Then the man “was hiding in the dumpsters and came out with his clothes changed and didn’t have the item that he had before he hid.” The mystery man started walking down Bob Morrison with the T-shirt hanging out of his back pocket.
* A woman called from Cheyenne Road to say that a dark Suburban parked at her neighbor’s house and “a person she has never seen got out and is heading toward the neighbor’s vehicle.” She said she didn’t know if the neighbors were home. When police arrived, they discovered it was a son-in-law spending the night.
Bristol Tennessee Police Department
March 9
* A woman left her purse on a table in the employee-only break room at the fast-food restaurant where she works. When she went to fetch it at the end of her shift, her wallet was missing, along with her driver’s license, social security card, credit card, insurance card and $100 cash.
March 10
* A police officer, serving a summons on Ridgecrest Road, “was bitten by a small white dog” inside the home’s fenced front yard.
* Officers went to Avoca Road “in reference to juveniles chasing a chicken.” Police noted there was no “explanation of why the chicken was being chased.”
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.
* The Highlander Park, Evergreen Hills and Lowry Hills Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Noonkester Field Park.
* The Sandy Ridge Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at Meade’s Chapel Church in Coeburn.
* The 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.
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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