Bristol Blotter 11-05-09

Bristol Virginia
Police Department
Oct. 31
* A young man dressed entirely in camouflage was “cussing and screaming at people inside” Little Caesars at 9:30 p.m. He was barred from the restaurant.
Nov. 1
* Someone reported that a man who “had a good buzz going on” left Fast Lane at 1:50 a.m. with a water cup in his hand. The tipsy man drove away in a green Ford.
* Girls in a Second Street apartment were fighting and, according to the caller, “one is going to stab the other.” At least one person was arrested.
* A man called police at 5:20 a.m. to say that “he walks his dog every morning and this morning, his dog is acting strange and out of sorts, like something ain’t right in this area.” He asked an officer to come check on things. Fifteen minutes later, the officer reported that he found nothing peculiar even after he “spoke with the complainant and his dog.”
* A Second Street woman reported that her ex-boyfriend was in her apartment at 9 a.m., “making threats to take her animals.”
* Several people declined to pay for their $36 IHOP lunch and left in a maroon Ford Taurus.
* An Aspen Circle woman told police at 4:30 p.m. that “someone has been inside her house while she was gone.” She found no signs of a break-in, only three missing flat screen televisions.

Bristol Tennessee
Police Department
Oct. 31
* When police pulled over a car with illegally tinted windows on King College Road, they learned the driver’s license was suspended and he had no insurance. He was given a citation.
* A drunken driver was arrested after police stopped a blue Chevy Malibu on Lowry Lane for “driving erratically.”
Nov. 1
* While driving down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, a man spotted his ex-wife driving along with another man in the passenger seat. So, as his ex-wife got onto the Anderson Street bridge, he drove up next to her and commenced yelling back and forth with her male companion. When police pulled the woman over for reckless driving, she told police that as the men were shouting at each other, she had to swerve to the right to avoid getting into a wreck with her ex-husband’s car. Police caught up with the ex-husband, who said he was “upset” to see her with another man because he “was under the impression that they were getting back together.”
* Fifteen minutes after arriving at a home, police learned that a “domestic assault had occurred,” then found the assailant “hiding in the backyard.”
* Officers said a man they arrested from the South Beach parking lot was “unable to stand on his own, reeked of alcohol and had extremely slurred speech.”
Neighborhood Watch
* 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 call (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.