Police Blotter: Ex Is Suspect When Door Handles Are Pried Off; Spat Inside Vehicle On Rossville Boulevard Sends Sonata Into Pole

  • Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Police responded to a vandalism at Winding Lane. A woman said she found her Chevy Cruze  damaged. All four door handles had been pried off. She said she saw a suspicious black SUV in the area the previous night and suspected it was her ex-boyfriend. 

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Anne Rushing, who works for the Sculpture Fields, said a sculpture that was located toward the back of the park had been vandalized. Police observed that a glass part of the sculpture had been removed and smashed on a sculpture nearby. Ms. Rushing said she did not know the exact time that the incident occurred, but believes it happened over a weekend. No suspect information is available at this time. Ms. Rushing valued the damage to the sculpture to be around $1,000. Police placed the Sculpture Fields on the watch list and will continue to check the area for suspicious activity. 

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A woman said she had gotten a call from someone stating that they were from the U.S. Marshal office and that she needed to send them $1,000 in bitcoin currency. She said the person impersonating the marshal was using scare tactics to keep her on the phone and she wasn't sure what to do. She ended up transferring the money and the "marshal" stated that another marshal would be on the way to talk to her shortly. She hasn't heard anything as of yet.

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A resident of 3rd Avenue said her brother and his girlfriend  showed up to the property and tried to get in. The woman would not let them in and that's when the girlfriend spat her gum in her direction, police were told. Shortly after they left the woman said she heard the window on the south side of the house break. She said she did not immediately look because she was afraid and, as a result, she could not be certain who broke the window. There was, however, a car muffler on the couch inside beneath the window which appeared to have been used in the vandalism.

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An officer pulled up to a single motor vehicle accident at 3400 Rossville Blvd. He met with De'Untrea Havis and Shaniyah Jones. He was told that Ms. Jones was driving south on Rossville Boulevard in her black Hyundai Sonata with Havis in the passenger seat. Both were arguing when Havis continued to get angrier and angrier, it was stated. Then Havis, out of anger, jerked the steering wheel causing Ms. Davis to swerve and hit AT&T utility pole #P1221T. Ms. Davis said her right shoulder and chest were hurting from the airbags and the impact. The vehicle was picked up by Doug Yates Towing and taken to their tow yard. AT&T was called to fix pole #P1221T.

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An officer driving on E. 3rd Street located a possible suspect in multiple shoplifting incidents at the Speedway at 1330 E 3rd St. Earlier in the shift the manager from the Speedway called police and stated that a skinny black male wearing a blue and brown raincoat who is known to shoplift items from the store was standing in the parking lot. When police arrived he had already left the scene. A short time later, while driving east on E 3rd Street, the officer observed a man matching that description at 1401 E 3rd St. The man gave his ID and stated that he stays at the address on the ID on E. 28th Street. He also stated that he sometimes hangs out at his girlfriend's house, which he said that he did not know the address but knows that it is near the Carver Rec Center.

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Police checked out a suspicious vehicle by railroad tracks at 8310 Cleveland Pike. Officers found a truck parked near the tracks with a sign inside that read "Lost drone - searching tracks" and left a phone number. As police were attempting to call the number, two men were seen walking down the tracks toward the vehicle. One said that approximately two weeks earlier he was flying his drone in the area and lost it, and he and his friend were attempting to locate it.

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Police responded to a counterfeiting/forgery at Circle K on Hixson Pike. An employee said a white male with a funny hat came in and paid for his merchandise with a counterfeit $20 bill. He had a white woman with him with dark hair and darker complexion. The female was also described as thinly built with a hat on. The counterfeit bill was seized.

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Officers checked out a stalking that occurred near the 2300 block of N. Chamberlain Avenue. A woman said as she turned left off of 2300 N. Chamberlain Ave., three vehicles surrounded her vehicle. She said one vehicle was a white Ford F-150 truck driven by a woman she knows. Another was a white smaller car with the woman's son in it, and the other vehicle was a black smaller SUV. She said the woman screamed to her son, "That's her" in a loud manner. She said the son then exited the vehicle and smacked the window of her vehicle before she was able to drive away. She said there had been another such "stalking" incident a few days earlier.

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A woman told police that someone had "hacked" her Walmart grocery account and ordered groceries. She says that the transaction was done online to be picked up at Walmart at 4444 W. Vine St., Kissimmee, Fl. The woman said the charge of $195 is currently pending on her account and has to clear the bank before they can put the money back in her account. The woman said she was going to attempt to get the Walmart store in Florida to prevent the order from being picked up.

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Police responded to a theft from a motor vehicle at an address on Brainerd Road. A man said that on a Friday night the catalytic converter was stolen off of his girlfriend's vehicle. He was able to provide video footage of the incident. Police were able to see the suspect vehicle - a charcoal gray Hyundai Veloster occupied by two white males - pull into the parking lot and back into the space to the left of the vehicle. The license plate on the suspect vehicle was visible while it was backing up but was not readable due to the quality of the footage. The caller valued the catalytic converter at $350 and stated that the foreign-made vehicles' converters are worth more due to the larger amount of platinum used to make them. The next day an officer observed a dark gray Hyundai Veloster with a noticeable dent behind the driver side front wheel drive pass him at 3100 Crescent Circle. Earlier that day, he had observed intelligence and photos linking this clearly identifiable vehicle to numerous thefts of catalytic converters. Upon stopping the vehicle at 1112 E 32nd St., the driver was identified as Travis Walker. He stated that he knew the tag did not match the vehicle and that the vehicle belonged to Eric Webb. The officer asked him for consent to search him and the vehicle and Walker consented. The officer observed a vehicle jack on the floor by the back seat along with some miscellaneous ratchets and hand tools. Upon opening the trunk, the officer observed numerous battery-operated power tools including a reciprocating saw with spent and unspent blades. He also observed a used catalytic converter next to the tools. Walker was taken in for questioning and the vehicle was towed.

 

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