A dish best served cold … and leaking oil
5 p.m., Dec. 12, 2009, 1100 block of South Eaton Street.
A woman called police and told them her ex-boyfriend was tampering with her vehicle. She said she had broken up with the man and he said he would get revenge on her for the decision. She said she saw the man later kneeling by her car. Later she found her car was leaking oil, and there had been something forced in the gas tank so she could not fill the car. Police discovered the man was already in jail for another incident, which he had been arrested for since tampering with the car.
Laundry day
2:34 p.m., Dec. 22, 2009, 5200 block of West Colfax Avenue.
Police were called by a man who said he had been hit in the face by another man while at the laundromat. The man said he had his car in front of the business while loading clothes into it. Another man drove by and told the man loading clothes to move his car so that man could drive past. The man loading the clothes got into an argument with the suspect and was then punched in the face. The suspect then left the scene. Police were able to locate the suspect and issue him a summons for assault.
You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch
10:09 p.m., Dec. 25, 2009, 1400 block of Chase Street.
A woman called police and told them she wanted her boyfriend to leave her house because he was mad and fighting with her. When officers arrived she said the man was angry because he claimed the house was a mess and their two children had too many presents from Christmas. The woman said she threw a lamp while they argued, which hit the man. She said she did not mean to hit the man with the lamp, but did anyway. The woman was arrested for the incident.