Bristol Blotter 11-27-09

Bristol Virginia Police Department
Nov. 21
* “An hour or more” after leaving George & Sids, a man called police to say he saw an old man with a little girl there, and “he thought he had saw her on a milk carton.”
* A man was spotted “growling at people” near Exit 5 at 1:15 p.m.
* Someone frantically called police to say that one man was holding another man down in the median outside of Food City at 8:20 p.m. It turned out to be store security who’d run down a shoplifter and took him into custody.

Bristol Tennessee Police Department
Nov. 21
* Police went to Carson Court where a woman told them she is moving out of her home there, and every time she goes to pick up her stuff a neighbor comes out and picks a fight with her. She told police “she just wants him to stay in his residence while she is there and not say anything to her.” The neighbor told police that she’s been picking all of the fights “which results in both of them yelling at each other.” Police told them to stay away from each other.
Nov. 22
* A Broad Street woman reported a theft, and told police that the previous day a woman knocked on her door, said her car was broken down and asked to come in and use the phone. The very generous albeit gullible woman not only let her in, but also gave her $20, which the woman promised to come back and repay. She did not come back.
* Officers went to Neal Drive when a man there reported that his sister “was unable to walk” and wanted police to “convince her to go to the hospital.” Police were not successful in their convincing, and the sister insisted that “nothing was wrong with her.”

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.