YPD Week in Review
Between Sept. 5-11, we had 2,153 calls for service that came into our dispatch center, which generated 212 police reports. Here is a list of some of the calls for service that we handled: • 911 calls –1,075 • Alarm calls – 36 • Assaults - 8 • Burglaries – 18 • Criminal damage – 11 • Disorderly conduct/Disturbances – 64 • Domestic disturbances – 45 • Fraud – 14 • Noise disturbance – 14 • Overdose - 3 • Reckless driver - 5 • Runaway juveniles/Offense – 2
• Calls for service at our schools –27 • Sex Offenses -11 • Shoplifts/Thefts – 49 • Shots fired – 4 • Stolen vehicles – 2 • Suspicious subject/Incident/ Vehicle – 99 • Traffic accidents –56 • Trespass – 31 Our Animal Control Unit responded to 136 calls for service and our officers made 236 traffic stops, issuing over 75 citations.
Here is a sample of our calls ...
You might as well sit back and enjoy this ride...
This guy, let’s call him “Craig,” decides to speed recklessly through town. He may have wanted to set a new “Guinness Book of World Records” record for the most traffic violations committed in a blink of an eye. Anyway, an officer attempted to pull Craig over and he was having none of that. He cranked up those squirrels and took off. A few moments later, officers located the vehicle attached to an APS pole. Witnesses who saw the accident pointed officers in the direction of where the driver and passenger ran. The passenger was located and gave the name of the driver and pointed us in his direction. The passenger was hurt and transported to the hospital. Let’s pause this for a second for some important information. When the officers were looking in the crashed vehicle, they found some evidence (a tooth) that someone had lost during the crash sitting right next to an open container of beer. Now, back to our program. So the officers make contact with Craig, who was identified as the driver. When questioned by the officer if he was the driver, Craig said no. He said he was “justh walking when fa car hif me”. Now, Craig has some blood in his mouth and when asked about it he said he lost some teef. When told that sometimes teeth can be re-inserted if gathered and replaced fast enough, Craig looked like Cinderella drooling for her slipper. In the end, Craig got one toof back, was booked for numerous charges and fitted for his jammith.
This guy, let’s call him “Rick,” goes out joy riding with some friends and hits a parked vehicle head on. Officers found Rick in his vehicle trying to start it, but the squirrels were done. Rick’s explanation of the crash was that he was struck by a vehicle as they were sitting there. He gave a description of the vehicle that hit him and an officer went looking for it. While looking for the hit and run vehicle, the officer came upon another parked car (same make and model as the last one) with driver’s side damages. While looking at the scene, a side view mirror was located. Guess whose vehicle is missing a side view mirror? Poor Rick was out of luck on this one. To add to his night, Rick had been drinking and he is not of legal age to do so. His field sobriety test looked like a mild earthquake was under his feet making him wobble back and forth. Rick was arrested and submitted a breath sample showing alcohol in his system. Oh, and this young driver was also driving on a suspended license. Welcome to jammie land.
This extremely intoxicated guy went into a local bar to continue drinking. The bartender refused to serve him and he cussed the bartender out. He was instructed to leave the bar and was followed out. This guy continued with his potty mouth, slapped a customer, flipped some benches and left. Officers located him and when confronted, he took off his shirt and gave his best Incredible Hulk pose. It should be noted this guy is very large. The Hulk was hand cuffed and while trying to talk to him, he spit at the officer. The Hulk was issued his XXXL orange jammies and tucked into bed.