The Bristol Blotter

Bristol Virginia
Police Department
Oct. 21
* Someone called police at 11:25 p.m. to say that “within the next hour, a man with a mohawk and lot of clown tattoos” would be leaving a Johnson Court apartment, with drugs, and getting into his white Oldsmobile.

Oct. 22
* An East Valley Drive man called police at 10:45 a.m. to exclaim that someone just drove off in his red, 2002 Chevy Trailblazer. Four minutes later, he called back to say that he had the car back and it was just his friends pulling a practical joke, which police described as “not funny.”
* There was a bird sitting on a Terry Drive woman’s yard at 11:18 a.m., which she called police to report.
* Someone heisted a weed eater and a leaf blower from a Winding Way porch.
* After knocking a white Pontiac Grand Am off an interstate exit ramp and into a ditch, a green car just kept going.

Oct. 23
* A Cumberland Street man called police at 1:45 a.m. to report that his girlfriend assaulted him, and he “thinks she broke his nose.” While the man was taken to the hospital, police searched the area for his assailant, who had left on foot. The man called back four and a half hours later to say he “didn’t want to press charges.”
* Somebody hit a Second Street man with a baseball bat just before noon.

Bristol Tennessee
Police Department
Oct. 22
* A Honaker Drive man called police to his home to tell them that his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend came to the house and “demanded to speak to her.” He let the ex in and the two began to argue. That’s when the girlfriend and the ex-boyfriend went outside to talk, and just a few minutes later, “she left with her ex-boyfriend and didn’t tell him she was leaving.”
Police tried her cell phone, but heard it ringing in the home. The boyfriend said she was drunk, “and he didn’t know why she wouldn’t tell him she was leaving.”
When police contacted the ex-boyfriend, he said the girlfriend had texted him to pick her up, and he’d just dropped her off at a friend’s house out in the county. Then his cell phone cut out and police couldn’t get back in touch with him. They never found the disappearing woman.

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 Carriage Hill Townhomes Neighborhood Watch will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27.
* The Sioux Road community will have their first Neighborhood Watch meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 312 Sioux Road.
* The Northwinds Town Homes Neighborhood Watch will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, at 75 Old Airport 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.
* 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.