Deer runs into Kohl’s department store

Troy police responded to Kohl’s Saturday night after a deer ran into the store.

This happened just after 8 p.m. Saturday at the store located at 1869 W. Main St.

Videos are circulating on Facebook, showing the deer running into the store, after first running into the front glass doors.

Troy police Sgt. Richard Gumerlock said there were no injuries reported in the incident. He said a couple officers and citizens were able to capture the deer. They released it right away because there is a wooded area behind the store.

“Every couple years we seem to get a deer break through a glass window somewhere into a store, they’re rare,” Gumerlock said. “They get spooked and do a lot of things.”

Three juveniles have been charged with arson and one of their parents was charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly encouraging them to lie to police, according to a police report.

Dayton police were dispatched around 4:20 p.m. Saturday to assist fire crews at 1500 Fotip Lane where a refrigerator had been set on fire behind the Cornell Townhouses office.

Residents of a nearby apartment complex directed police to where they could find the juveniles thought to be involved. Those juveniles then directed police to another group of children, according to the report.

Police approached Lauriel Ellis to ask her about the fire and the possible involvement of two of her children. Ellis reportedly gave police a fake name, as well as directed the two juveniles to lie about their names as well, according to police.

Ellis had four active warrants for her arrest at the time she allegedly lied to police, according to a police report. She has since been charged with two misdemeanors including falsification and contributing to the delinquency of a minor for her role in the incident.

As of Saturday, one of the juveniles had been booked and lodged in the Juvenile Justice Center and arrest warrants had been issued for the two other juveniles thought to have been involved in setting the fire, according to police.

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Dayton police were called to the 200 block of Smith Street where they found what they described as a gray and white pit bull chained to a fence, according to a police report. The dog had blood on its mouth, jaw and chest and a patch of white fur.

A 73-year-old woman told police she let her 9-year-old poodle out into her fenced-in backyard around 6:45 a.m. Shortly after, she heard barking and saw the other dog force its way under the fence to attack her poodle.

The woman told police she and her son attempted to fend off the pit bull by throwing bricks at its head and stabbing it in the back, but the dog was undeterred. Witnesses were able to help secure the dog to a fence post in front of the house until police arrived, according to the report.

“(Victim) stated the pit bull was extremely aggressive to her dog, biting, scratching, tossing and shaking her dog,” the police report reads.

A 27-year-old woman at the house where the pit bull lives said the dog belongs to her ex-boyfriend but that she lets the dog stay at her home.

That dog and the deceased poodle were taken by police to the Montgomery County Animal Resource Center. The pit bull will be quarantined for three days, police said. No one has been cited in the incident.

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