A Disturbance

Monday I was in the dispatch office near the end of the shift getting some paperwork. One of the dispatchers got a call on 9-1-1. She began typing information into the computer and from her side of the conversation I could tell it was a disturbance with a gun involved and that it was in a not so nice part of town.

The dispatcher dispatched the officer whose beat the call was on and I went along as his assist officer. The dispatcher told us that a woman in a car had pointed a gun at a woman walking in the road and that the woman in the road had pointed a gun back at her.

While we were in route the dispatcher was able to get a name on one of the people involved. I recognized the name, she is an older lady I have dealt with before.

We pulled up on scene and spoke with the lady that had been walking and her neighbor. The neighbor did most of the talking. The lady that had been walking was very intoxicated. The neighbor told us her friend did not have a gun that the lady in the car did. She went on to say the problem stemmed from the friend and lady in the car having been married to the same man. The friend was his first wife and the lady in the car was the second wife. The man is now deceased.

Anyway the second wife needed some paperwork taken care of for a car she had with the man. Evidently it was registered in his and the first wife's name. The second wife became angry that the first wife did not want to sign the paperwork and threatened her with a gun.

There were some teenagers standing in the yard of a house close by so we went to talk to them. They were laughing as they told the story. They said "an old lady drove by and pointed a gun at the other lady then drove by us and said I'll give you some of this as she held her gun in the air."
They thought it was quite funny because of the age of the two women, the woman in the car was 59 and the other was in her 70's.

We then went to the second wife's house which was just a few blocks away. She tried lying to us about what happened and denied having a gun. Then she showed us the gun, it was a BB pistol.

We talked with her for a while and could not talk any sense into her. Then we went back and talked to the first wife. We couldn't talk any sense in her either partially because she was so intoxicated. I don't think she really understood what was going on.

We ended up just telling the ladies to leave each other alone since no one wanted to cooperate with us.

9-1-1 Hang-up

Most 9-1-1 hang-up calls are accidents. Last Friday after clearing my robbery call I was dispatched to a residence where there had been four 9-1-1 hang-up calls. That kind of makes it look like there could be a problem at the residence. It appeared like there was more of a problem because of the residence it was coming from.

There is a history of problems at the house I was going to. A known prostitute's boyfriend lives there and they regularly get into fights over sex and drugs. In fact one time she accused him of sexual assault. During the alleged assault she almost bit his penis off. Detectives determined that there had not been a sexual assault, that she had gotten mad at him during sex and had bitten his penis. Because of all the problems these people have the man has a protective order against the woman. That means she cannot come to his house or near him. She violates it all the time. Usually when the man invites her over for drugs and or sex.

Anyway the woman showed up Thursday night and they had their fun. Friday morning after the fun was over they got into a fight. The man knew the woman was not supposed to be there so he called 9-1-1 knowing she would be arrested.

That's exactly what happened. My assist officer found them walking down the street about a block from the house. He verified that the protective order was good and arrested her. Too bad there is not a law that lets us arrest someone for allowing the protective order to be violated.

A Robbery

I am on day shift now. I hate the hours but love being home with the family. Last Friday about 0730 I was dispatched to a disturbance where someone had taken money from my complainant.

I got to the call and saw that my complainant was 84 years old. He was sitting in a pick up truck with a known prostitute. They told me that another woman had come up to them and demanded money from the man. The woman, who was another known prostitute, then choked the man and took $5 from his shirt pocket. That made it a robbery.

It was hard to feel sympathetic to the man. He does not live in that part of town and has no business there. It was apparent why he was with the woman he was with.

What a way to start the day.

A Commendation

I went to work the other day and looked in my box. There were a few memo's, but in the stack was a commendation letter from the Chief. It was for my participation in the barricaded subject we had a few weeks back. It's always nice to get a commendation letter.