I rode by myself all week. We were short handed on Wednesday and I was the print unit on Friday.
On Saturday night, my part time partner, A, switched to early side. Hopefully things will work out for her on early side. I rode solo Monday night. We had ten units in the district. My only interesting call was a criminal mischief report. The caller told me that her Explorer had been damaged three times in the last week. She then showed me the damage to her vehicle. Someone had taken something like a key and scratched two panels of the truck. The initial "A" was carved in the door. Tonight, her dogs started barking and her husband went outside on a balcony to investigate. He saw the suspect walk by the truck with something shiny in his hand. The suspect was walking a dog so he probably lives nearby. I asked her if she had made someone angry recently or had any type of ongoing dispute with someone but she could not think of anything. Strange because this seemed a little personal.
I was solo again on Tuesday. We had nine units in the district. As soon as I signed on, I was dispatched to check by with D on a code 1 assault in progress at a club. Code 1 calls are our highest priority calls. I was not close but got there in under 5 minutes. I was the first to arrive. I found a large crowd in the street with more people in a parking lot and even more streaming out of the club. Five bouncers from the club had a man, F, handcuffed and on the ground. All of F's friends were yelling at the bouncers and it was close to getting out of hand. As soon as I stopped my patrol car, people flooded in my direction. That was a little odd, normally when the police arrive, the crowd scatters.
At first, I tried my calm voice and demeanor, but quickly abandoned that and started yelling and pushing people back. Drunk people do not listen, and everyone wanted to talk to me at the same time. Since F seemed to be the center of attention, I got him off of the ground and put him into the backseat of my patrol car. Then I continued to try to separate people because F's friends were still trying to fight the bouncers. After about 5 minutes of dealing with this, I began to wonder where the primary unit was and why was it taking him so long to get there. He finally arrived and we were able to restore a little calm to the situation.
After speaking with everyone, I learned that F owns a new bar in the area. He took all of his employees out for a night of fun. F's son got a little too drunk and passed out on a couch. It is illegal to sleep where alcohol is being served. So, a bouncer went to wake him up. The drunk guy had a startled reaction to being awakened and hit the bouncer. The bouncer claimed that he was kicked in the testicles. Then it was game on. The bouncer thought he was being attacked so he went nuts and all of his fellow bouncers jumped in. F and all of his employees came to the defense of F's son. Chaos ensued. Girls were jumping on bouncers backs and then getting thrown to the floor or put into choke holds. Luckily no bottles or chairs were used as weapons. The bouncers finally got F out of the bar and that is about when I arrived. The bar did not want anyone to get arrested. They understand that these types of things happen in bars. A few of the girls were upset that they had been pushed. If you don't want to be pushed or choked, don't jump into the middle of a bar fight. We took statements from at least 10 people for the report. F was arrested for public intoxication. He was out of control. The amazing part was that no one was injured. There were a few bumps and bruises, but nothing significant.
My last call of the night was a disturbance at a nearby restaurant. The call slip said that a white male wearing aping shirt had been rude and had gone into the women's restroom. When I arrived, the male was outside in the parking lot by his car with his friends. The caller walked out of the restaurant to speak with me. She said that the male had tried to grab her butt and when she did not appreciate that, because belligerent. He then followed his lady friends into the women's restroom. Later he told her that the food was not fit for dogs and he told other customers that his food had been spat in. Sounds like a great guy. Of course, he had a little different story. He said that he never went into the women's restroom, only stood by the door. He said that he might have stood a little too close to the waitress when she was counting her money. He did admit to saying the food was not fit for dogs. Strangely, he had a "to-go" box filled with the food when he said it. The waitress did not want to pursue anything, she just wanted a report and for him to leave and not come back. I advised him to leave and gave him a trespass warning.
We were short handed again on Wednesday night. We had six units in the district and only two on late-side. Luckily, the call volume was low again. My only interesting call of the night was an auto theft report. The call slip said that she had found her stolen vehicle. The location was an intersection. I found the complainant, J, sitting in her sister's car. J told me that her baby's daddy whom she lived with for 4 years had assaulted her and stolen her vehicle about a month ago. At that time, she went to a police station and reported the assault and she thought the auto theft. I could find the assault report, but it said nothing about the auto theft. She had received instructions from the officer to send a demand letter to her baby's daddy requesting the return of the vehicle. The letter had to be sent certified and if there was not a response after 10 days, the vehicle can be reported stolen. That is the case because the baby's daddy had previously had permission to drive the car. So, he did not steal the vehicle, he just did not bring it back on time, in the eyes of the law. But, a police report has to be generated to get the ball rolling. That should have been done a month ago, but was not. I took her information and took care of that for her.
The vehicle was parked at a nearby bar where the baby's daddy works as a bartender. I asked her if she had a set of keys, because it is her vehicle and with keys she could just take it back. But, he had the only set of keys. Her father is a wrecker driver and was nearby. She asked if he could pick the vehicle up. I said sure, it is your vehicle. It would be a private tow between you and your dad, the police would have nothing to do with it, because it is currently a civil matter and not a criminal one. She liked the tow idea, but her father was nervous about towing the vehicle. The baby's daddy is apparently a tatted up gang member and not a very nice person. He did not want to risk retribution to get a '93 Toyota Camry back for his daughter. After that plan fell through, I left. Hopefully for her the demand letter that she sent will be all that she needs and an auto theft investigator will report it stolen soon.
Thursday night we had 10 units in the district. Early in the shift I was dispatched to a home invasion / in progress. The call slip said that a white male was trying to open the caller's front door. Other units arrived before I did, and they found the white male knocking on the door. He did not try to run away when the officers arrived. I arrived and spoke with him. He said that he had been drinking at a nearby bar. He started talking to another male and that male invited him to his home to drink a little more. So, they started walking to his house which was a few blocks away. Somewhere along the way, the white male lost sight of his new friend. He walked up to the house where he thought his new friend had gone. He knocked on the door. The white male was intoxicated, and only 4 blocks from his apartment. He said that he lived with his girlfriend. I was not sure that I believed him. Chances are he was either trying to score drugs or wanted to try out an alternative lifestyle. I decided to take him to his apartment and left him in the care of his girlfriend.
Later, I checked by with N & K on a minor accident. They requested a unit for traffic control. A brand new with dealer plates Hyundai Equus had slammed into 3 parked vehicles and scattered debris everywhere. A witness said that the vehicle was going at least 80-90 mph when it reached the curve in the road and did not quite make the turn. It slammed into a full size extended cab truck which was parked along the outside of the curve and moved it 30 feet into a silver Toyota. Then the Hyundai kept going and hit a Ford Ranger and moved it 15 feet. The Hyundai came to a stop about 20 feet away from the Ranger. In the process, the Hyundai lost the front bumper, the steel bumper underneath, and the rear door on the driver side. None of the airbags had deployed. The driver left the scene before we arrived. He left a TX driver's license, an empty flask, and two empty beer bottles behind in the vehicle. The sticker for the vehicle was inside the glove box and it said $65,000! For a Hyundai! Ouch.
On Friday I was the print unit. It was a typical Friday night with lots of calls involving intoxicated people, clubs, loud music, and disturbances. I ran a few calls, checked by on some others and did not have any print or picture calls. I checked by an assault in progress at a club involving extra job officers. The call started out as a wagon call, but the suspect decided to fight the officers. It took all 3 of the extra job officers to get this guy on the ground. They were still struggling with him when our units arrived. The suspect then tried to punch one of our officers. The suspect was finally hand cuffed and placed in leg restraints. He went to jail for assault on a public servant. A large crowd came out of the club and started advancing toward the officers as they were dealing with the suspect. More units arrived and pushed back the crowd. The decision was then made to shut down the club for the night. A few club goers went to jail for public intoxication. It took about an hour to get the club cleared and everyone out of the parking lot. I am not sure you could pay me enough money to work an extra job at a club.
That concludes another week on patrol.
No comments:
Post a Comment