Packin'

Police happened to notice a man sitting in his car at a gas pump, but he was not pumping gas. In fact, he kept looking down at his lap and then looking up and around him to see if anyone was watching him.

The officer watched him for several minutes until the man finally drove off. When he did, the officer noticed a pile of blunt shavings on the ground beside where the man's car had been.

To the officer, this was consistent with someone hollowing out a cigar in order to pack it full of pot.

So, the officer pulled out of the parking lot and followed the car. The driver seemed to drift in and out of his lane, so much so, the officer pulled the car over. The man said he was visiting from Atlanta to attend a yoga seminar and got lost trying to find his friend's house. And when the officer questioned him about the tobacco on the ground near where his car was, this health nut admitted to hollowing out the cigar so he could fill it with reefer.

The officer told him to hand it over and had him step out of the car. He was taken to jail and told he would have to do his yoga exercise in a cramped cell at Leeds Ave.

Sisterly love

A mother called police because when her son got home from school he told her that his aunt came by the school that day and asked him for his house key. She did not tell him why she needed it and the little boy, knowing not to question an adult, gave it to her. As soon as he told his mother about this odd chain of events, she went to her room and checked her jewelry because her sister has a habit of stealing things.

Sure enough she stole a $230 necklace, an $1800 ring, a $600 ring, a $330 anklet, and a bracelet worth $130. She also stole a $10 bill. A crime scene technician came out and processed the house. As soon as the finger print evidence came back, indicating it was her sister, she wanted to press charges.

Darn renters

A landlord responded to one of his rental properties because a fire had broken out in the apartment. The tenant had been taken to the hospital. Once the fire was safely out the landlord walked through the apartment to survey the damage. He came across a tupperware container in the bedroom full of roach clips, rolling papers and weed. He called police because he was currently in the process of having the tenant evicted and was concerned about the property due to the fire and the suspected drug use. The officer took the evidence should an investigation or follow up take place.

Workman's tussle

Two men at a construction site got into a knock down drag out, but neither wanted to talk about it or press charges. They just wanted to get back to work.

However another crewman noticed that one of the men was bleeding profusely from his back. The man told his concerned coworker not to worry about it and to patch it up with Duct tape. He claimed he got out of his truck when he got to work and fell in a hole.

But the concerned coworker was not buying this — and was not going to Duct tape an open wound. He called EMS and the police.

The officer questioned the other man involved in the fight. He explained that they got into a fight over beer and that they had been drinking. The man who was bleeding said he did not care what the man told the officer; he was fine and did not need medical attention.

However, he was taken to the hospital anyway because his wound was pretty severe. The hospital staff told police that the man had a possible stab wound. Police questioned him again but he said his story was not going to change. The medical staff said the stab wound went six inches up and under the muscles, but not past the rib cage. He went on to provide a written statement that he fell and that's what caused the injury.

Easy tiger

A little domestic disturbance took place one evening, but it quickly got out of hand and the police were called.

The male party told officers that he and his girl got into an argument, when she grabbed a large picture that had a glass cover and threw it on the floor, breaking the glass. She then picked up the glass, a piece about 6 inches long and stood over him, while he was laying on the couch.

She said, "Make one move and I will cut your jugular."

He told the police he just laid there and stared at the ceiling without saying a word. He said he was afraid to go to sleep because he thought she would do something to him. He decided to remove his belongings from the apartment and put them in the breezeway. He told the officer he did not want to prosecute. The officer who questioned the female said she denied everything.

Career thieves

A store employee called police because three women, who she recognized as being shoplifters, came into her store.

She began to watch them closely and they quickly left.

Police patrolled the area and came across the women but when an officer turned his car around to stop and question them, he lost sight of the women.

He met up with the other officer who was also patrolling the parking lot when two other employees from another store came out to talk with the officers. They asked if officers were looking for three females and when they said yes, the employees from this store described them perfectly.

It turns out these women stole large amounts of perfume from their store.

She said they left the store, clicked the unlock button on their car and threw some stuff in. Officers found the car in question and inside, in plain view were clothes from local department stores with tags still on them.

Under the car was a purse full of the perfume that had been stolen. Another officer found two of the suspects sitting at the bar in a local restaurant and asked them to come back with him to the car. They denied knowing anything.

But security footage proved differently as both women are seen stealing. In fact they stole over $41,000 worth of stuff.

They were both arrested.

(The Police Blotter is intended to be an informative and/or humorous and is written from police reports obtained from the MPPD. Many of the stories come from the initial incident reports. Generally, cases have not been adjudicated at the time of publication.)