Bristol Blotter 12-5-09

Bristol Virginia Police Department
Nov. 27
*An employee of a Euclid Avenue liquor store recognized a person strolling the aisles as a past shoplifter. The person wasn’t shoplifting this time, but an officer was wanted anyway.
Dec. 1
* From what the caller overheard at 1:04 p.m., four men and a woman were plotting to rob people of their packages when they walked by on Piedmont Avenue.
* The man strolling down Oakview Avenue at 5:20 p.m. seemed either drunk or high on medicine, the caller said. He was asking people on the street if they were lost.
Dec. 3
* A caller complained at 1:57 p.m. about a sexual solicitation via a walkie talkie along Harmony Drive.
* A group of people were at Newton Street at 3:26 p.m. trying to sell roughly five tons of steel stolen from across the state line in Tennessee. Arriving officers met with the caller and found the stolen steel, but not the people trying to sell it. The investigation was turned over to the Bristol Tennessee Police.

Bristol Tennessee Police Department
Dec. 1
* The boy living on Volunteer Parkway wasn’t supposed to have visitors while the mother was a work. But a girl came over to talk with him anyway, complained the man who is dating the boy’s mother. The girl left before police arrived, but not before cussing and threatening the man. The girl told police that she visited at the boy’s request. Police told her not to return to the home.
Dec. 2
* After arriving at a Mountain View apartment, officers learned that a woman was tired of receiving harassing phone calls from a man she knew. Officers then tracked down the man, who agreed he would stop calling the woman.

Neighborhood Watch
* The Clayman Valley Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7, at the Goodson Kinderhook Volunteer Fire Department on Benhams Road in Bristol, Va.
* The Hayters Gap Evening Group will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8, at the Clinch Mountain Volunteer Fire Department in Abingdon.
* 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.