The Bristol Blotter

Bristol Virginia Police Department

Nov. 22

* A gray Mercury Cougar was sitting in the middle of Lee Highway with its lights off at 8:15 p.m.
* Fifteen minutes after calling police to report that someone suspicious had knocked on his door, a Lavana Road man called back to nix the alert. Turns out, it was a church group delivering fruit baskets.
* A Mary Street woman heard someone walking around and flushing toilets in a nearby vacant apartment.

Nov. 23

n Some guy shot himself in the foot while loading his gun into the back of a truck just before 1 a.m.

Bristol Tennessee Police Department

Nov. 23

* Someone ran into a Tulip Grove Circle stop sign and fled the scene. Several witnesses told police it might or might not have been a car belonging to a person who lives down the street. Officers went there, and no one was home. A while later, someone called to tell them the “car had returned.” Police found the car in the garage, and the driver admitted to plowing into the sign and leaving because his drivers license had been revoked. He was cited.
* A Locust Road man told police that “his ex-girlfriend calls him constantly and he wants it stopped.”
* Police went to Melrose Street when a man reported that his friend hit him with a shovel handle. Police caught up with the suspected shovel assailant, who said “he was the victim because he was assaulted.” He said he never hit the other guy, “and even allowed us to search his vehicle for the alleged shovel handle.” His son also chimed in that there was no shovel and that his dad never hit anyone with one. Officers “never located the weapon.”

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.