This week we returned from our Disney vacation. I worked two nights and was off the rest of the week. Wednesday night I rode with A. We were flagged down on a person down in a vehicle. We went to the location and sure enough, a guy was passed out drunk in his van. The van was off and parked in a parking lot. P came by to habla for us. The drunk guy decided that getting towed home was a better alternative than going to jail. A wrecker picked up the van and took him home. A few days later, I found out from another officer that a few hours later, the guy drove back to the location and tried to steal some outdoor chairs from a nearby restaurant. They had it on video. Idiot. I have found that the vast majority of the time it is easier and safer to just arrest the drunk person rather than be nice. A little later, S on viewed a road rage incident. A guy cut off a truck. The truck honked at him. The guy threw something at the truck and took off. The truck followed. S saw them flying down a major road going at least 70 mph. S caught up to them. When he caught them, the truck was in front of the other guy's car and his car was going backwards. We checked by to help out. The guy turned out to be drunk and was charged with DWI. On Thursday, I was the print unit. 1 district was short handed with only seven units. I ran a few mundane calls, loud noise, illegal parking, BMVs etc...I volunteered for a suspicious person call. The call slip said that a man knocked on the door and asked for Cindy. There was not a Cindy at that address. The male then went to his red Celica and got out his laptop computer and started doing something. This made the caller very nervous. I found the suspicious male. He was from out of town and just had the wrong address. He used his laptop to find the correct address. Crime solved. My only picture call of the night was late in the shift. J, who I trained got an alarm call. When he arrived he observed a male crawling out from under a fence. J quickly snatched him up and then saw a flat screen tv on the other side of the fence. The male had broken into a nearby seafood restaurant that is surrounded by a tall fence. He found a hole in the fence that gave him access to the next door business and found another hole in that fence that gave him access to the street. He cut himself up going into and out of the broken window. I took pictures of the suspect, the scene, the tv, and a bloody shirt. That concludes another week on patrol.
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