Bristol Blotter

Bristol Virginia
Police Department
Aug. 11
* One man was arrested after napping on the sidewalk outside the First Impression salon on Gate City Highway at 6:45 a.m.
* A lobby on the 800 block of State Street became a public toilet for some area vagrants. Someone reported that homeless people have been entering the building to poo on the floor.
* Two chubby shoplifters scurried out of the Bristol Mall Sears, hopped in a white Chevy Impala and took off down Gate City Highway at 2:45 p.m.
* An old lady was seen “walking toward McDonald’s, stripping as she goes” on Lee Highway at 3:30 p.m.
Aug. 12
* A Bristol Herald Courier reporter stopped by the police department at 10:30 p.m. to tell them she was “extremely creeped out” because her neighbor spotted another neighbor peeping in her bedroom windows late at night.
Bristol Tennessee
Police Department
Aug. 12
* Car doors come with locks for a reason. Officers were called to Steele Creek Park at 1:40 p.m. when a man reported his suede Nike backpack, stocked with prescription drugs, was missing from behind the driver’s seat of his vehicle. He suspected it disappeared between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., from either the West State Street Appco or the park. With it, he lost $150 in clothes, $25 cash, nine packs of Marlboros, a 50-count bottle of Colnsapam and a nine-count prescription for Lortab. He told police his doors were unlocked and windows were down.   
* A woman called police when her boyfriend kicked her out of his house. She showed police a black and blue bruise on her arm, which she claimed he inflicted moments prior by grabbing her arm. The officer instructed her that a bruise does not blacken that quickly. She then said it happened several days ago. Police inquired about track marks on her arm, to which she responded that a hospital nurse had trouble finding a vein while putting an IV in her arm, causing the needle marks and the nasty bruise she earlier blamed on her boyfriend. The boyfriend in question told police he wanted her to go because she’s abusing her prescription drugs.
Neighborhood Watch
* The Melvin Hills Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, at Pleasant View United Methodist Church on Lee Highway in Abingdon.
* The Highlander Park Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m., Tuesday Aug. 18, at Noonkester Field Park.
* Anyone interested in starting a Neighborhood Watch in Bristol, Va., should contact Nicole Slagle, crime prevention coordinator 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 area police departments and sheriff’s offices.
* 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.

Editor’s note: The Bristol Blotter is a sampling of activity from the logs and reports of area police departments and sheriff’s offices.