The Bristol Blotter - March 13

The Bristol Blotter

By: Claire Galofaro | TriCities.com
Published: March 14, 2010

March 10

 A woman called police at 11 p.m. and asked them to arrest her husband, who was rumored to be drunkenly walking across town. She said he was on Euclid Avenue, “supposed to be extremely intoxicated and can be violent when he had been drinking.” Police noted “she is hoping that we will pick him up for public intoxication.”
 Someone called from West Street to say three men were on the train tracks “messing with equipment and [the caller] believes they may have taken some metal.” The trio was “last seen running down the tracks.”
 A woman called from Holly Lane at 11:45 p.m. to report “someone rang the doorbell about a half an hour ago [and] now she keeps hearing bumping sounds.”
 Someone called at 4 a.m. from West Mary to report a man “on foot with a leaf blower.” It was unclear what inspired his urgent, 4 a.m. landscaping.
 A little girl in her pajamas was seen wandering around an Albert Lane trailer park unattended at 7:40 a.m.
 Three kids on Euclid Avenue tried to “get someone to buy them liquor.”
 A woman called from Henry’s Lane to say she “believes someone has broken into her house.” She told police at 11 a.m. that “she has been to the kitchen and the cabinets have been gone through.”

Bristol Tennessee Police Department

March 10

 “An apparently intoxicated man” was arrested at 4:45 p.m. after someone spotted him “laying in the grass” on Sixth Street.

March 11

 A woman called police to say that her husband “had threatened to take their children to New York City.” Police tracked down the husband, who said “he was considering taking the children to New York City for a two-week visit with his family.” Police told the couple that “as married parents, they both had equal rights to the children.”
 A man called from Autumn Circle when he heard “a loud noise outside his front door.” He said when he opened the door, “his patio chair was sitting in front of the door.” Police noted “there appeared to be no damage to the chair or the door,” and told the man they would patrol his neighborhood.

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.
 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.