- November 23, 2024
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Is the ex-boyfriend to blame for a Barbie toy theft?; surveillance cameras get stage fright, don't perform; and, a man with a home visits the homeless after hours.
COMPILED BY WAYNE GRANT
Aug. 10
For sale: Barbie Power Wheels; Price: meth
4:54 p.m. – 10 Block of Byron Ellinor Drive. Theft. The victim's son’s Barbie Power Wheels Jeep was last seen in the front yard, parked under her front bedroom window. But when she went outside the next morning, she says, it was gone.
She told the officer that she suspects her ex-boyfriend stole the jeep it to give to a friend of his, because the friend had approached her previously and offered meth for the toy jeep. She declined the offer and the friend said, “That’s OK, (your ex-boyfriend) will steal anything for some meth.”
The jeep was purchased two years ago for $298.
Aug. 13
Wait, this is $5, not a $50!
8:36 p.m. – 1600 Block of North U.S. 1. Fraud. A white female, about 40 years old, almost six feet tall and last seen in a purple shirt, arrived in front of a motel in a black SUV, claiming she was staying in room 115. She pulled a $50 bill out of a bank envelope and asked for change for the laundry. The clerk marked the bill with the detector pen and it passed, so he gave her two $20 bills and a $10 roll of quarters. He said the woman then got into the SUV, circled the business and left.
The clerk took a closer look at the bill later, though, and noticed that it was a five dollar bill. It did not have the second president’s face and the identification bar showed USA 05 instead of USA 50. He also found out that the woman was, in fact, not renting any rooms at the motel.
The manager of the motel arrived but could not show the officer any surveillance video because the machine was new and he didn’t know how to operate it. The officer asked him to contact police when he was able to view the video and informed the Secret Service about the altered cash.
Aug. 14
Visiting the homeless
1:57 a.m. 500 Block of Sterthaus Drive. Suspicious Incident. The officer watched a white male get into a car in a store's parking lot after hours and the car pull away, so he conducted an investigative stop and found a BB gun rifle in the back seat.
As the officer investigated for loitering and prowling, the man said that he had been visiting a homeless person he knows in the area and the driver, a female, had just picked him up.
During a search of the vehicle, the officer found an Advil bottle with four pills inside, which he identified as Clonazepam, a controlled substance. The man said they were his prescription and he didn’t know he was supposed to keep prescription pills in a prescription bottle. The officer released the pair and told the man to bring his prescription bottle to the police station to prove he has a prescription.
