Police logs (Anchorage, Cordova, Skagway: apartment, lease, news)

[barnacle9]

I thought it might be fun to share interesting or funny entries from police logs in Alaskan papers.

Here is my contribution:

Excerpt from Cordova Times, October 18, 2007 - A Matter of Record

TUESDAY, OCT. 9
8:12 a.m. A caller reported a brown Labrador retriever on the playground that would not leave and requested an officer come get the dog and find the owner. The dog heard the officer was coming and left the scene.

Smart dog

I think this could be fun

[Metlakatla]

I'm going to have to look it up when I have more time, but there was one this summer in the Skagway paper about how a porcupine came into the local bar and they called the police on it.

[Xa'at]

I went looking for one that I remember from this July- along the way I found these. Never did find the one I was looking for, though.

"At 3:32 p.m. Saturday, the theft of scrap aluminum was reported in the 8300 block of Old Dairy Road."
Ooh, scrap metal.

"At about 3:34 p.m. Wednesday a mailbox was set on fire in the 4000 block of Delta Road."


"At 6:10 p.m. Saturday, the contents of a mailbox were set on fire at the 4400 block of Julep Street."
"Dang, man! My PFD was in there!"

And finally...
(right next to each other on the police blotter)
"At about 4:02 p.m. Monday, a 25-year-old man was arrested on a charge of trespassing in the 400 block of Fifth Street. He was lodged at the state prison."
"At about 10:09 a.m. Tuesday, a 25-year-old man was arrested on a charged of trespassing in the 400 block of 11th Avenue. He was lodged at the state prison."
Wow, those 25 year old men are really going crazy on the 400 blocks of various numbered streets. I wonder if they're sharing a cell, too?


Source:
JuneauEmpire.com: The Online Voice of Alaska's Capital City

[rotorhead]

Reading the blotter in the local paper here is a hoot! There was one recently along the lines of:

Caller reported a skateboarder going down the middle of the street....oohhh...those scofflaw outlaw rebel skate punks are REALLY hanging it out there!

I'll try to find some goodies.

[ASpilot2be]

There was one a few months ago about a caller complaining about spinners on someones car and how they were distracting

There was also one about a lady stealing sugar packets from local restraunts

[User 2]

Alaska state troopers arrested Tolen and Wilson at a Talkeetna bar and restaurant shortly after the holdup at 5:15 p.m. Oct. 31.

The children told troopers two women got out of a truck on Main Street, pointed a revolver at them, fired a shot in the air, threatened them with death and drove off with their trick-or-treat haul

Troopers announced last week that the robbery investigation led them to $100,000 worth of items stored near Montana Creek Road that were stolen during a string of recent Talkeetna-area burglaries. Among the items was a plastic pumpkin filled with candy bearing one of the children's names

http://www.adn.com/front/story/9452704p-9364227c.html

[User 2]

Alaska Almanac November 18

22 -- Homicides this year in Anchorage as of Thursday.

1998 -- Most recent year that Anchorage had more homicides.

4 -- Number of fires reported at a single location in Fairview this month.

3 -- Number of those fires that were arson, allegedly committed by a 17-year-old.

4 -- Number of teens and young adults arrested for alleged roles in a robbery of Halloween trick or treaters in Talkeetna.

2 -- Number of 16-year-olds suspected of shooting a fellow 16-year-old in Mountain View.

22 months -- Age of toddler critically injured when his male caregiver allegedly threw the child against a wall and slammed his head on the floor.

2 -- Number of young men suspected of shooting at someone who had insulted their gang like clothing at the Northway Mall.

16 -- Age of the youth who died after being found bloody and unconscious at the bottom of an apartment window in South Anchorage this week.

23 -- Number of guilty pleas Kris Felber entered this week for a crime spree that ended when he crashed into an innocent person's car and killed him. Sources: Daily News files.

[Alaskan_Adventurer]

User 2, you must be from a really small town. 22 homicides in a year is unfortunate, but realistic. I grew up in a city that had that many in a matter of days or a week, so no comparison. Unfortunately, crime is part of human nature and it will exist all over. If you live in Alaska, you must be really unhappy. My advice is for you to head south into the lower 48, and find your imaginary Utopia. Please quit knocking Anchorage.

[Mr&MrsPortlandOr]

Originally Posted by Xa'at

I went looking for one that I remember from this July- along the way I found these. Never did find the one I was looking for, though.

"At 3:32 p.m. Saturday, the theft of scrap aluminum was reported in the 8300 block of Old Dairy Road."
Ooh, scrap metal.

"At about 3:34 p.m. Wednesday a mailbox was set on fire in the 4000 block of Delta Road."


"At 6:10 p.m. Saturday, the contents of a mailbox were set on fire at the 4400 block of Julep Street."
"Dang, man! My PFD was in there!"

And finally...
(right next to each other on the police blotter)
"At about 4:02 p.m. Monday, a 25-year-old man was arrested on a charge of trespassing in the 400 block of Fifth Street. He was lodged at the state prison."
"At about 10:09 a.m. Tuesday, a 25-year-old man was arrested on a charged of trespassing in the 400 block of 11th Avenue. He was lodged at the state prison."
Wow, those 25 year old men are really going crazy on the 400 blocks of various numbered streets. I wonder if they're sharing a cell, too?


Source:
JuneauEmpire.com: The Online Voice of Alaska's Capital City

that was really funny
thank you

[User 2]

Originally Posted by Alaskan_Adventurer

My advice is for you to head south into the lower 48, and find your imaginary Utopia. Please quit knocking Anchorage.

You can keep your advice for your own future counseling...

I've been to Anchorage, I can knock it from a personal viewpoint.

I've watched Anchorage devolve steadily for many, many years now,

...and my family was there long before that, and I've filled be in on what it was like before I ever glimpsed it.

My post was in keeping with the content of this thread,

...oh, and if you don't like the blotter in your own morning newspaper,

.....you should talk to the editors, it wasn't something I created.
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