Just Another Day
Today at the beginning of the shift one of the guys was dispatched to an assault call in the not so nice part of town. I was busy taking a report of a stolen wallet. The victim got into a fight with a guy who bashed his head in with a dresser drawer. It turns out the suspect is on overnights at the county jail. That means he was sentenced to jail, but he is allowed to leave jail every morning and return at night. This is so the person can work. As the officer was conducting his investigation he found out that the suspect has been doing a lot of work while out of jail during the day. The suspect has assaulted or "worked over" several people for one reason or other. He hasn't been returning to jail at night like he is supposed to either. The county is supposed to be getting a warrant on him, I guess we will see.
The stolen wallet report I took at the beginning of the shift is going to be a big headache for the victim. He told me that when he realized his wallet was missing he called his credit card companies. It was too late, there had been over $3000 charged to a couple of his cards.
While I was trying to write the stolen wallet report I got a call to Wal-Mart. Some 17 year old decided he was going try and steal $20 worth of trading cards. The loss prevention people watched him. He told me he didn't know what he was thinking. I wrote him a ticket and told him not to come to Wal-Mart again.
Later I went with another officer to a call at the women's shelter. They had a woman there that was in need of psychological help and they wanted us to make her leave. The woman was scaring their clients. She told us that her friend was eating people. We got her a ride to the hospital to get her mental health evaluated.
I left there to go help the fire department. Dispatch said they needed some help at a call. It sounded like that had some people on scene that were being combative. I hurried over there and found them loading a woman into an ambulance. They had been dispatched to an unconscious person. When they got to the call the found a woman unconscious in a bathroom. Her arms were exposed showing track marks on both of her arms. She was shooting dope and overdosed.
A guy that was there had given her the drugs and he got into an altercation with her family members. They were less than happy with him. He was sitting on the porch so we went to talk to him. He didn't speak any english, and in fact was illegal. We found someone to interpret and he told us he had bought some cocaine and had given the girl some. We arrested him and in his pocket we found some baggies with a white powdery residue them. He is in jail and will eventually end up back in Mexico.
At the end of the shift one of the midnight shift guys ran a license plate. It came back as a stolen car. By the time dispatch was able to tell him he was not behind the car anymore. He looked around and found the car abandoned. Another officer found the likely driver a block away sitting on a porch. We couldn't put him in jail tonight, but maybe the detectives will be able to build enough of a case to get a warrant.
While this was going on the officer who had the assault call at the beginning of the shift had a call on a person had a convenience store loitering. He got there and they started to play the name game. That is the guy was giving the officer a fake name. Turns out the guy is the suspect in the assault the officer took at the beginning of the shift. Guess where he ended up spending the night? Hopefully the county gets the warrant for him not going back to jail when he was supposed to before he bonds out on whatever he was charged with.
The stolen wallet report I took at the beginning of the shift is going to be a big headache for the victim. He told me that when he realized his wallet was missing he called his credit card companies. It was too late, there had been over $3000 charged to a couple of his cards.
While I was trying to write the stolen wallet report I got a call to Wal-Mart. Some 17 year old decided he was going try and steal $20 worth of trading cards. The loss prevention people watched him. He told me he didn't know what he was thinking. I wrote him a ticket and told him not to come to Wal-Mart again.
Later I went with another officer to a call at the women's shelter. They had a woman there that was in need of psychological help and they wanted us to make her leave. The woman was scaring their clients. She told us that her friend was eating people. We got her a ride to the hospital to get her mental health evaluated.
I left there to go help the fire department. Dispatch said they needed some help at a call. It sounded like that had some people on scene that were being combative. I hurried over there and found them loading a woman into an ambulance. They had been dispatched to an unconscious person. When they got to the call the found a woman unconscious in a bathroom. Her arms were exposed showing track marks on both of her arms. She was shooting dope and overdosed.
A guy that was there had given her the drugs and he got into an altercation with her family members. They were less than happy with him. He was sitting on the porch so we went to talk to him. He didn't speak any english, and in fact was illegal. We found someone to interpret and he told us he had bought some cocaine and had given the girl some. We arrested him and in his pocket we found some baggies with a white powdery residue them. He is in jail and will eventually end up back in Mexico.
At the end of the shift one of the midnight shift guys ran a license plate. It came back as a stolen car. By the time dispatch was able to tell him he was not behind the car anymore. He looked around and found the car abandoned. Another officer found the likely driver a block away sitting on a porch. We couldn't put him in jail tonight, but maybe the detectives will be able to build enough of a case to get a warrant.
While this was going on the officer who had the assault call at the beginning of the shift had a call on a person had a convenience store loitering. He got there and they started to play the name game. That is the guy was giving the officer a fake name. Turns out the guy is the suspect in the assault the officer took at the beginning of the shift. Guess where he ended up spending the night? Hopefully the county gets the warrant for him not going back to jail when he was supposed to before he bonds out on whatever he was charged with.
posted by TexasCop at 04:47
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