Bristol Blotter 05-14-10

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

Bristol Virginia Police Department
May 10
* A very drunken man, who was bleeding from the head, was “having a hard time just standing up” in a parking lot behind a Mary Street business around 3:45 p.m. An ambulance came for him and, eventually, he ended up in jail.
* Two little kids “with no one around them” were left in an old red car parked outside an East Valley Drive drug store around 4 p.m. The car was gone by the time police arrived.
* Somebody stole a lawn mower and weed whacker off an Old Airport Road porch.
* A woman called from Shakesville Road to say that a person in a red truck “threw a soft drink at her 15-month-old son who was outside in the driveway.”
* Someone called from the Lee Highway Dollar General Store to say that a man who just left on foot “will have two Dollar General bags with him. He paid for one and in the other will be some unpaid-for underwear.” He was arrested down the road.

Bristol Tennessee Police Department
May 8
* While an Amhurst Lane man was telling police about his neighbor’s dog that “continuously barks,” officers “did not hear the dog barking.” The man, who’d called about the same problem earlier in the day and would again the next, said “all the dogs in the neighborhood are a nuisance.”
May 9
* Police went to Old Jonesboro Road, where an “unknown vehicle” took out a mailbox around 3 a.m. before it “destroyed landscaping by driving through it” then kept on down the road. Unfortunately for the driver, “the suspect car left a fluid trail from the damaged area” to a white car, with damage to the bumper, parked in a driveway around the corner. The car’s owner came outside “and was found to be only 18 years old and had been drinking.”
* A woman called from Sixth Street to say “she left her purse outside this residence last night. When she returned this morning, the purse was gone.”

Neighborhood Watch
* Wise County’s Hurricane Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. today at the Hurricane Independent Missionary Baptist Church in Wise.
* The Ridgecrest Town Apartments in Bristol, Va., will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the lounge area of the manager’s office.
* Washington County’s Melvin Hills Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at Pleasant View United Methodist Church on Lee Highway in Abingdon.
* The Highlander Park 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.