Sunday, June 30
Police saw an older white Dodge pick up with no front license plate. As the truck passed, the officer also noticed there was no visible registration on the truck. The officer began to turn around to stop the vehicle and it started to speed up. The truck turned at a high rate of speed into a trailer park. The officer found skid marks leading to the parked vehicle. The officer found a wallet on the front seat with an I.D. with a picture that looked like the man driving. The officer asked a man working if he had seen a man who looked like the person on the I.D. The worker said he saw a man running and he had a boy with him that looked about 10 years old. Another officer arrived with a dog and began tracking the suspect. When the suspect was found, he told the police he ran because this will be his 13th offense driving with a revoked license. The man told his son to take his belongings and walk across the street to his grandfather’s house. The boy said his father was going to prison for driving. The man was arrested and charged with a felony of vehicular eluding, driving with a revoked license, and failure to display proof of insurance and registration. The officer tried serving the man with proof of service, but he refused to sign and refused to give his fingerprints.
Monday, July 1
Police went to the area of Seventh Street in reference to a disturbance involving a gun. Police were able to pull over the vehicle that matched the description in area in which the disturbance happened. The driver of the vehicle said he was at a softball game when he received a text from his sister saying she was getting beaten up by another man. The driver said he had a few beers, but he left because he needed to help his sister. When he got to a mobile home park where his sister was, he couldn’t find the right trailer, but eventually arrived at the right one, where there was some kind of altercation. The driver said he never went for a gun and didn’t know why somebody would say that. Meanwhile, another officer spoke with the residents of the trailer and said they did not want to press charges. As the officer was speaking with the driver of the vehicle, he could smell an unknown alcoholic beverage on his breath; his breath test results were .142. The driver was arrested for a DUI.
Monday, July 1
A man reported his Apple iPad had been stolen. The man said that his son was playing with the iPad out on the front porch with some neighbor kids and had placed it down on the vehicle in the front yard. He said when his son went back to get the iPad, it was missing. The man said his son did not play with those kids very often and thinks they might have taken the iPad. The man also said that there was nobody else around who could have taken the iPad and that its value was $499.98. The man was in the process of contacting Apple to get a GPS reading on the location of the iPad.
Tuesday, July 2
There was an active fight at Sonic. When police arrived, a man said an unknown man walked up to him and punched him in the face. The police asked the man if he could describe the person who had hit him or if he had ever seen him before and he said, “no.” The woman who was eating with the man said the guy started yelling and then punched the man in the face. Dispatch confirmed that the man who got hit in the face was violating a protection order. Police then arrested the man and transported him to the county jail, issuing a summons for violating the protection order.
Tuesday, July 2
Police reported to Walmart for a report of a theft. A woman said she was in the apparel section when she saw three juveniles, one male and two females, with a shopping cart, hovering around her. The woman said she asked the juveniles what they were doing, but they did not answer her. The woman said she did not see them take anything out of her purse, but her wallet was missing. The protection manager told police that the area where this may have happened was a dead zone for the cameras and that he checked other cameras and did not see anybody matching the juveniles’ description. There were no further leads.
