Blotter: Unwanted Boyfriends, Threats and Syringes

Monday, June 11

• 1:21 a.m. — A caller told police their daughter’s boyfriend was outside the Manitoba Road home. The resident came home and found the boyfriend’s bike at the curb, and his mother also called to say he may be headed over there. Police were unable to find him.
• 12:30 p.m. — A man told police he found syringes in a tree trunk near the edge of his Manitoba Road property.
• 6:45 p.m. — A woman was taken to Methodist Hospital following a report of an unspecified theft at .
• 9:04 p.m. — A Lamplighter Apartments resident told police his brother was in his apartment, being disruptive and breaking things. The man said his brother had fought him. He thought his brother was calmed down but wanted officers to help.
• 9:43 p.m. — A caller told police they interrupted three people trying to take bicycles off the rack on the 900 block of Ninth Avenue South.
• 11:17 p.m. — A woman said her roommate left and said she’d be back in half an hour. The caller took that as a threat, thinking that her roommate went to get her boyfriend, and said she was very scared.

Tuesday, June 12

• 12:14 p.m. — Someone broke into a locker at .
• 2:57 p.m. — A customer threatened to “smash” employees because they would not sell to him. He left before officers arrived.
• 8:00 p.m. — Westbrooke Patio Homes reported that three males were in the pool area throwing pool equipment around.

Wednesday, June 13

• 1:13 a.m. — Hopkins Park Plaza residents told police that a neighbor was pounding on their door. When they told him to leave, he yelled down the hallway. The man refused to answer the door when officers arrived. They wrote him up as a nuisance property.
• 1:26 p.m. — A Peace Valley Townhomes man said another man approached him with a knife in his pocket. The man left before officers arrived.  

Thursday, June 14

• 12:18 a.m. — A Dow Towers man reported that a woman whose name he doesn’t know was in his apartment and wouldn’t leave. The woman was removed and directed toward the bus stop. An hour later, police got a call that she was stopping cars near the bus stop on Fifth Avenue.
• 2:58 p.m. — A woman said a client was throwing rocks at her car and being uncooperative near the intersection of Smetana Road and Feltl Court.
• 8:57 p.m. — Police took one person into custody after they responded to a report of a man and a woman yelling near .

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