Police Reports (funny, sad, or otherwise)

[mosquitomountainman]

Just a summary from the police blotter in Flathead county (Montana).

Best of the Police Blotter 2017 - Flathead Beacon

Sorry, it's too long to copy and paste.

 

[Sentry18]

Like I tell people all the time; perhaps when I retire I need to write a book. Some of the things I have seen are mind boggling.

Just last week we had a woman call 911 because her daughter had opened a Christmas gift before Christmas, and this it was theft.

 

[skittles]

Just a summary from the police glitter in Flathead county (Montana).

http://flatheadbeacon.com/2017/12/30/best-police-blotter-2017/

Sorry, it's too long to copy and paste.

12:51 p.m. A Hungry Horse woman got a call from the power company asking why she was using so much electricity. She didn’t think she was using an excessive amount until she walked around her house and found a power cord leading from her place to her neighbor’s home.

Seriously...?

 

[Meerkat]

The best was the chatering 4 yr.old. LOL.

 

[mosquitomountainman]

Our son and DIL were renting a place and the basement got flooded. They shut the power to the basement off and about ten minutes later the land lord came over saying the electricity was off in his house. He had a line going from their house to his. They'd been paying for his electricity for six months. They left that month. No notice given and left a pile of stuff for him to clean up. I'd have taken him to court but they were happy to just be out of there.

 

[Weedygarden]

Our son and DIL were renting a place and the basement got flooded. They shut the power to the basement off and about ten minutes later the land lord came over saying the electricity was off in his house. He had a line going from their house to his. They'd been paying for his electricity for six months. They left that month. No notice given and left a pile of stuff for him to clean up. I'd have taken him to court but they were happy to just be out of there.

I lived in an apartment building that was one of the oddest built places I have ever seen. One apartment had really high public service bills, in the 100s, much higher than the rest of us. You know that there was a constant turnover in tenants in that unit. We really came to believe that all of the electricity for the hallways and laundry were tied into that unit.

 

[The Innkeeper]

Lived in a townhouse style condo and come spring I found an extension cord runnng from my outlet into the neighbours garage. It had been hidden by snow for several months. Of course I unplugged it and went to talk with the neighbour. He accused me of stealing his electricity and swore he saw the man from my place go into his garage and plug it in. Now Im the only guy who lives there and the cord was drawing power from my outlet but he was adamant I was stealing his power. A quick call to his landlord and he was gone. I didn’t bother calling the police because I didnt want to deal with the hassle of court.you have to give some people credit for sheer audacity

 

[Cnsper]

In defense of all Montanans, the area where these are happening has the largest Californian invasive species concentration in the state.

 

[Flight]

I just read that article.
I have no words for this

September 10

8:39 a.m. A Whitefish resident called 911 to report a deer with a broken leg on his lawn. The man wanted to see if anyone could pick up the deer and take care of it. The dispatcher told the caller that the only options were to “let nature takes it course” or to have someone come by and finish it off. The caller wasn’t a fan of either option because it appeared the deer could go on to live a full and satisfying life if someone just put a cast on its broken leg.

 

[Sentry18]

I just read that article.
I have no words for this

One of my friends (an LEO) had a whitetail deer somehow end up on a local college campus. It was seriously spooked and ran full speed into a brick building and injured itself pretty badly. Someone called 911, but animal control and the park rangers were not available so they sent my buddy and another unit. They made everyone clear out and then they euthanized the deer with a single .45acp round. While they were waiting 911 received several calls about a "cop murdering an innocent deer" and reports of an "animal homicide". Eventually DNR or someone picked up the deer and the officers left. The next day he went back to take a couple pictures for his report and there was a memorial created for the deer and apparently they had also had a candle light vigil.

 

[robin416]

One of my friends (an LEO) had a whitetail deer somehow end up on a local college campus. It was seriously spooked and ran full speed into a brick building and injured itself pretty badly. Someone called 911, but animal control and the park rangers were not available so they sent my buddy and another unit. They made everyone clear out and then they euthanized the deer with a single .45acp round. While they were waiting 911 received several calls about a "cop murdering an innocent deer" and reports of an "animal homicide". Eventually DNR or someone picked up the deer and the officers left. The next day he went back to take a couple pictures for his report and there was a memorial created for the deer and apparently they had also had a candle light vigil.

That is hilarious.

 

[Sentry18]

That is hilarious.

Pretty sure 50% or more of my most mind boggling or bizarre police stories originate on one of the two local college campuses. Like this one!

I was called to assist campus public safety because (again) animal control was unavailable and a rabid and aggressive nutria (IIRC) was outside the door to a dorm trying to attack people as they came and went. We don't have nets, I did not have a suppressed .22 with me and shooting it with my sidearm was not a safe option. So being the bad *** that I am, I put on my leather gloves and snapped out my baton. The animal backed itself up to the door and so I took a good swing and cracked it's skull open. Blood splattered across the glass doors. Just to make sure I gave it another good whack or two. Just then I looked up and saw the horrified faces of 4 teenage girls. They continued to stand there in shock as I bagged up the animal corpse so animal control could test it or whatever they do. Needless to say I got a counseling letter over that one.

 

[skittles]

Pretty sure 50% or more of my most mind boggling or bizarre police stories originate on one of the two local college campuses. Like this one!

I was called to assist campus public safety because (again) animal control was unavailable and a rabid and aggressive nutria (IIRC) was outside the door to a dorm trying to attack people as they came and went. We don't have nets, I did not have a suppressed .22 with me and shooting it with my sidearm was not a safe option. So being the bad *** that I am, I put on my leather gloves and snapped out my baton. The animal backed itself up to the door and so I took a good swing and cracked it's skull open. Blood splattered across the glass doors. Just to make sure I gave it another good whack or two. Just then I looked up and saw the horrified faces of 4 teenage girls. They continued to stand there in shock as I bagged up the animal corpse so animal control could test it or whatever they do. Needless to say I got a counseling letter over that one.

A counseling letter? For WHAT? Does anything happen to you as a result of counseling letters?

One time I knew a gal who's father was a police officer. He showed me a picture of a kid who had a bad motorcycle accident. The kid had come off his bike, slid a hundred feet down the road or more on his wallet.. then his wallet was gone and opened his whole leg up. Gruesome.

 

[Flight]

One of my friends (an LEO) had a whitetail deer somehow end up on a local college campus. It was seriously spooked and ran full speed into a brick building and injured itself pretty badly. Someone called 911, but animal control and the park rangers were not available so they sent my buddy and another unit. They made everyone clear out and then they euthanized the deer with a single .45acp round. While they were waiting 911 received several calls about a "cop murdering an innocent deer" and reports of an "animal homicide". Eventually DNR or someone picked up the deer and the officers left. The next day he went back to take a couple pictures for his report and there was a memorial created for the deer and apparently they had also had a candle light vigil.

Those people need the consoling

 

[Sentry18]

A counseling letter? For WHAT? Does anything happen to you as a result of counseling letters?

One time I knew a gal who's father was a police officer. He showed me a picture of a kid who had a bad motorcycle accident. The kid had come off his bike, slid a hundred feet down the road or more on his wallet.. then his wallet was gone and opened his whole leg up. Gruesome.

A counseling latter is remediation for what bosses deemed were a violation of policy & procedure or overall standards. Killing an animal with an Monadnock Baton was not part of the approved written procedure. One counseling letter doesn't mean much of anything. A few could result in anything from retraining, demotion, suspension or termination. They can also keep you from getting promoted depending on the circumstances. I have several counseling letters, a couple reprimands, two paid suspensions and once was assigned to punitive desk duty for a week.

I could have been fired but the Chief stepped in and saved me. And all because he happened to be on scene when the whole thing went down. I was a patrol sergeant and I responded to a call where a man had shoved a waitress, making her drop a tray of drinks as she fell down, all because she stepped in front him as he was walking outside to smoke. Apparently the bouncers were dealing with some other issue at the time. When I arrived the guy was standing outside with a buddy smoking. We were short staffed because of an event so the Chief (and other brass) were out on patrol to serve as back up. Chief rolled up just as I started asking the guy a few basic questions. The guy said to his buddy "This is how you handle a ****ing pig". Then he walked over to me, said "listen here piggy" as he poked me in the chest. Before he got the next word out I trapped his hand, provided him a knuckle strike to the throat and introduced him to the sidewalk (and my knee) as I cuffed him. His buddy put his hands up immediately and backed up as the Chief walked toward him. I arrested the guy for simple assault on the waitress, disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct. The prosecutor also charged him with simple assault on an LEO (he was later found guilty on all 4 offenses).

When the guy and his lawyer came in to file their complaint a few days later, the Chief watched it with the head of IA through the one way mirror. The guy was adamant that he called me a pig but he never touched me in any way. The Chief said told the head of IA that the complainant was a liar and walked out. I got a counseling letter for that one too, but nothing more.

 

[skittles]

@Sentry18 Informative. I enjoy learning more about the other side of the thin blue line. People just don't understand or realize just how fragile that "thin blue line" really is. We had a standoff situation in my small town a couple years ago. There were officers here from agencies up to 60 miles away. I said, what in the world is going on? I looked on the internet and turns out there's an interagency agreement with about 5-8 surrounding counties. I counted at least 20-25 police cars in a town of 2100, all converging on 1 house on the main street. The standoff lasted 3-4 hours.

Another thing that should really concern anyone is the risk of having 2 fires in your city at the same time. Most rural areas don't have the resources to deal with 2 house fires at the same time... it happened over in eastern Ne a few days ago.... they called in a bunch of surrounding agencies.

 

[backlash]

There was a bank robbery a few weeks ago and I think every LEO in 100 miles showed up to chase the guy.
State,County and City were all there.
They caught him of course.
The bank teller put a GPS tracker in with the cash so he had no chance.
We had a gang-banger shooting and the guys that were shot came to the hospital in their car.
Showed up in ER with no warning.
Hospital went into immediate lock-down.
Even the city road workers showed up to block off the streets with their trucks.
It was tense for awhile.
Hospital replaced their rent a cops with sworn law officers.
From my outside view there can never be too many cops responding to a violent situation.

 

[Meerkat]

I just read that article.
I have no words for this

Reminds me of this one with bad leg. So cute.

 

[Meerkat]

Pretty sure 50% or more of my most mind boggling or bizarre police stories originate on one of the two local college campuses. Like this one!

I was called to assist campus public safety because (again) animal control was unavailable and a rabid and aggressive nutria (IIRC) was outside the door to a dorm trying to attack people as they came and went. We don't have nets, I did not have a suppressed .22 with me and shooting it with my sidearm was not a safe option. So being the bad *** that I am, I put on my leather gloves and snapped out my baton. The animal backed itself up to the door and so I took a good swing and cracked it's skull open. Blood splattered across the glass doors. Just to make sure I gave it another good whack or two. Just then I looked up and saw the horrified faces of 4 teenage girls. They continued to stand there in shock as I bagged up the animal corpse so animal control could test it or whatever they do. Needless to say I got a counseling letter over that one.

Dog was probably scared from all the screaming girls and couldn't find its way out. Where is animal control when you need them? At least it was a quick death.

 

[Terri9630]

Dog was probably scared from all the screaming girls and couldn't find its way out. Where is animal control when you need them? At least it was a quick death.

He said the nutria (a large rodent-not a dog) was outside the door, not inside.

 

[Sentry18]

Yep, it was outside and wanted inside.

We have a municipal animal control department which is a subset of the city police department. They have one full time person and then hire like 4-5 part timers from a local veterinarian college. Unfortunately that means when classes are out for various breaks, they suddenly have one employee who basically just sits at a desk.

 

[NannyPatty]

Like I tell people all the time; perhaps when I retire I need to write a book. Some of the things I have seen are mind boggling.

Just last week we had a woman call 911 because her daughter had opened a Christmas gift before Christmas, and this it was theft.

Like I tell people all the time; perhaps when I retire I need to write a book. Some of the things I have seen are mind boggling.

Just last week we had a woman call 911 because her daughter had opened a Christmas gift before Christmas, and this it was theft.

Oh My! My BIL was Okla HP for 20 years. We love hearing some of his stories esp of the drunks he would pull over

 

[backlash]

There was a deer in my neighbors back yard one evening.
She had tried to jump a 6' chain link fence and didn't make it.
Broke her hip.
Went over to talk to the guy and he said he knew but he thought it would get better.
I offered to shoot it but he said no way.
City people.
I really thought about going out later and shoot it myself but I knew someone would call 911.
So it laid there until the next morning and he finally called the police.
A county sheriff showed up and shot it point blank and didn't kill it.
He had to go back and shoot it again.
Someone came and salvaged the meat so it at least didn't go to waste.

 

[Sentry18]

So I am reviving this thread to offer up some basic stories from the world of law enforcement. They may be funny, they may be sad, but they are all true. Feel free to join in!

Dumbest report from this past weekend:

Woman is engaged to man #1, secretly seeing man #2, and had one night stand with man #3. She finds out she is pregnant and decides to tell each of the men that the baby is theirs. Her hope was that one of them would be all excited and then she would know which man loved her the most. Unfortunately 2 of the 3 men decided to post about it on social media and they have friends in common. So the next thing you know #1 and #2 start having a social media fight, which turns into a real world fight, which turns into a 911 call. Meanwhile #3 finds out that he might and might not be the father so he takes off. Quit his job, packs his stuff, loads his car, and disappears. He was not taking any chances of getting stuck with the baby or it's mother. So #1 and #2 are in jail and both decide that the woman is not worth this and both send word that they are done for. Woman is now man-less and decides to report that she will kill herself if man #1 or man #2 doesn't take her back. This results in her being put on a 72 hour mental hold where they run another pregnancy test, at her request, only to find out she is not really pregnant after all. When asked why she thought she was pregnant in the first place she said "just felt like it". So now she is demanding to be released but she was living with man #1 and getting money from man #1 & #2. So she was released and demanded to be let into man #1's apartment, but he request was denied. Instead she was escorted to a homeless shelter where she was "going to get a hold of a lawyer to sue" man #1, #2, and #3.

You can't make this crap up.

 

[Caribou]

Not exactly a police report but a real Alaska Court record. Two volumes of court records were found in an attic of a village where there was no longer a court. My father, a judge at the time, had the records flown into town and he read through them before sending them off to be stored.

The defence attorney was trying to show that this gal was an unwilling witness. She had been brought into town from an outlying village. Attorney,"Were you subpoenaed by the sheriff ?" Witness, "Yes, twice." Attorney, "Twice?" Witness, "Yes, once on the boat coming over and once in the hotel when we got here."

 

[Sentry18]

I escorted a women into an interview room once and asked if she would submit to a consent search of her person. She agreed and I had her stay put while I found a female officer in the hallway to assist. When we opened the door to the interview room she was butt naked and bent over the table. I said "What are you doing!?" she said "You're the one who said you wanted to do a cavity search!". Apparently dispatch was busy and was not watching the video screen. The thing is she had been detained for theft, not something like drugs.

 

[The Lazy L]

Town Marshall wrote a long time town resident a $1 parking ticket for parking in a "No Parking" zone. At the next Town Board meeting it was obvious the Board had violated the State's Sunshine law by, without any public discussion, ordered the Marshall to "drop the charges" (Board meant not enforce the parking ticket). The long time resident was at the meeting, smiling from ear to ear.

Marshall asked the Board which did they think the violator would rather pay. The $1 parking ticket or $20 to replace the sign post the violator's vehicle bumper had bent over plus the Street Department's labor for post replacement?

Board didn't answer the Marshall and continue on to their next item of business. Violator soon left the meeting unsmiling. The next day the Town's Clerk Treasuer received the $1 from the long time town resident.

 

[Sentry18]

Here's a tale of another kind.

3 men, all creepy with long but petty criminal histories, are hanging out near a motel drinking. They see a woman check in and head to her room. They all followed her, but the creepiest of the 3 decided to follow her into the room while the other 2 waited outside. She asked him to leave, he kept moving closer, she starts to shout for help, the other two creepers come into the room and start to close the door. Just then this guy comes busting through the door and beat the living sh** out of these 3 guys. I mean beat like there were 3 ambulance on scene and all of them had to be transported. Broken ocular cavities, broken ribs, broken noses, a broken arm, a broken wrist, etc. The guy who saved the day is a D1 college linebacker who also happens to be an amateur MMA fighter who had checked into the room next door a little earlier. He sprained his wrist and reported that his fingers were sore. All 3 creepers were arrested in the hospital for a variety of charges.

 

[Flight]

I escorted a women into an interview room once and asked if she would submit to a consent search of her person. She agreed and I had her stay put while I found a female officer in the hallway to assist. When we opened the door to the interview room she was butt naked and bent over the table. I said "What are you doing!?" she said "You're the one who said you wanted to do a cavity search!". Apparently dispatch was busy and was not watching the video screen. The thing is she had been detained for theft, not something like drugs.

lol, you da man

 

[Sentry18]

lol, you da man

Man, I have seen so much obscenity and lewdness in my career that I am thoroughly desensitized to it.