The Bristol Blotter

Bristol Virginia
Police Department
Oct. 21
* Someone slashed the tires on a white Honda at a Portsmouth Avenue apartment complex.
* A Madison Street caller said “they are at it again” when he reported a loud domestic fight down the street at 1:30 a.m.
* After a big dog attacked a little dog, an Oakview Avenue resident picked up the little dog and “brought it in,” then called to request animal control.
* A skinny, balding young man was shooed from the Bristol Library after “causing a disturbance” about 1:25 p.m. He was told not to return.
* Police were looking for a man in an orange and gray UT jacket, “trying to sell people drugs” on West Mary Street. The caller told police at 7:30 p.m. that the man tried to push him drugs four times.
* After having dinner at Chili’s on Lee Highway, a man skipped out on his bill and left in a white car.
* A police captain called dispatch when he saw a man, who had clearly been drinking, “asking shoppers for money so he could visit his sick sister.” The drunken beggar was circling the Walmart parking lot in a blue Honda SUV around 8:45 p.m.

Bristol Tennessee
Police Department
Oct. 21
* While driving his car down Volunteer Parkway, a man noticed that a blue Chevy Cavalier was right on his tail. So he “tapped his brakes to make the Cavalier back off,” but when he stopped at a red light the Chevy “tapped” his bumper. While it did no damage, the driver of the Cavalier pulled off onto the side of the road, got out and “began to yell and scream” at the man whose car he’d just run his car into.

Neighborhood Watch
* The Hayters Gap Neighborhood Watch will meet at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the Hayters Gap Community Center in Saltville. 
* The Sapling Grove Neighborhood Watch will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the Community Center on Clinton Avenue.
* The Stant Hall-Jones Manor and surrounding neighborhoods will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the lobby of Stant Hall.
* The Sioux Road community will have their first Neighborhood Watch meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 312 Sioux Road.
* 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.

Editor’s note: The Bristol Blotter is a sampling of activity from the logs and reports of the two city police departments.