Bristol Blotter 11-06-09

Bristol Virginia
Police Department
Nov. 1
* The driver of a black Toyota on Rhode Island Avenue was “either text messaging or drinking.” The caller told police the Toyota ran them off the road at 8:45 p.m.
* Three drunken people were “walking around” a Lancaster Street man’s truck, then meandered off in the direction of Commonwealth Avenue around 10:45 p.m.
Nov. 2
* A New Hampshire Avenue woman called police at 12:50 a.m. to report a “bright light that keeps shining in her window.” Police said they would “keep watch on the house for the remainder of the morning.”
* A man was seen sitting in his red Ford on West Mary Street, pouring whiskey into a Yoo-Hoo bottle at 2:30 in the afternoon.
* After asking a woman for “sexual favors,” an Oakview Avenue Casanova kept following her and driving by her apartment. Police told her they would provide extra patrols for the night. 
Bristol Tennessee
Police Department
Nov. 2
* A man was captured on video using a crow bar to pry open a Pepsi vending machine in front of a Weaver Pike business, then snatch all the money out of the cash box. 
* When police stopped a woman for failing to move into the left lane as she passed a police cruiser on the shoulder, they discovered she “was in violation of her eyeglass restriction.” Police “issued a citation in lieu of arrest.”
* A bandit made off with a Bristol Herald Courier newspaper box. When the delivery man arrived to fill the box at the Food City on Tennessee Highway 394, the receptacle was missing. Police said they did not immediately have suspects for this heinous crime.
Nov. 3
* Police went to the hospital to check on a drunken man in room 15. They found the man sleeping soundly in his room, but hospital staff said he’d come in four hours earlier with a “critical BAC of .475.” He was released by the emergency room and escorted to the lobby the security.
* A woman returned to her Shelby Street apartment building with her father and ran into her former boyfriend’s former girlfriend. The woman approached her and said, “come on and get some of this,” along with several threatening expletives. She declined and instead left the building with her father. 

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 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.