Bristol Blotter 10-04-09

Bristol Virginia
Police Department
Sept. 30
* Someone stole a laptop from an unlocked Oakcrest Circle car overnight.
* A Texas Avenue home continued to play the drums in the lawn at 2:15 p.m. A neighbor, who reported the drumming the previous day, told police there is a new mother on one side of the home and an old lady on the other, and the drum-owners in between “have them set up and are playing them at this time.” Police threw the drum set into the trash.
* A small child was “locked inside” a teal Eclipse on Lee Highway for a half hour with no supervision at 5 p.m. 

Bristol Tennessee
Police Department
Sept. 30
* Police responded to a domestic disturbance at a Holly Court home where a woman told them she had been assaulted by a man. A witness on scene, however, said no such assault had taken place and the woman was just not taking her medication. Police officers found no evidence of an assault.

Oct. 1
* A Holly Court woman said she was being harassed by her ex-husband when he called several times in one morning to tell her he was going to come pick up his stuff. The two lived together until the previous day when the ex-husband left after a fight. The man told police he was coming back to get his things and his car, and the woman said she was upset “because she did not want him to take the vehicle.” Police told her that it was not harassment as she had reported, but rather a civil matter. They offered to come back when he picked up his stuff.
* Officers went to Volunteer Parkway and spoke with two people involved in an assault. “Both said they were assaulted by the other” and both decided not to press charges.
* When a cop car pulled up behind a red Jeep Cherokee driving north on Virginia Avenue with no tail lights, the Jeep quickly turned into an empty parking lot. As the officer turned around at the next street, the Jeep snuck out of the parking lot and back onto Virginia Avenue, but heading in the other direction. The officer turned on the lights and tried to pull the Jeep over, but it pulled into a Virginia Avenue driveway. The man driving and a woman in the passenger seat got out and started walking toward the house. The officer “ordered the subjects to have a seat back in the vehicle.” The guy told police that he lived there, but the officer was unimpressed and “once again instructed them to have a seat back in the vehicle.” The man said he left his license at home, and the officer settled for his name, social security number and birth date.

Neighborhood Watch
* The Burson’s Corner Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, at the Goodson-Kinderhook Fire Department.
* The High Point Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, at High Point Elementary School on Sinking Creek Road in Washington County, Va.
* 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.
* 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 the two city police departments.