A Domestic

Later in the day I was dispatched to a disturbance in a car. The caller said a man was driving down the street and hitting the female passenger.

The female officer from the drug arrest was closer to them and found them. She saw the man push the woman and then stopped their car.

When I got there I found the male driver out of the car talking to my partner. The female passenger was in the car and talking to my Chief who had stopped by. We checked both for warrants and found that the woman had a fail to identify fugitive warrant from a neighboring county. I told dispatch to confirm the warrant.

The woman was injured from being hit in the car so I placed the male under arrest for assaulting her. While waiting for dispatch to confirm the warrant on the female I began to complete jail paperwork for the male. I verified his name again. He told me he had lied to my partner about his name and gave me his correct name.

I checked that name and found out that he had a warrant for fail to identify fugitive also. I had dispatch confirm this warrant. That just added several charges to the man. He went to jail for fail to identify fugitive, his warrant for fail to identify fugitive, assault bodily injury family violence which are all misdemeanors, and fraudulent use of identifying information since he had originally identified himself as his brother, that is a felony.

That meant I was involved in five felony arrests for the day. That’s not a bad days work if I say so myself.

Methamphetamines

After dropping the mental patient off at the hospital I returned to the city and went to the station to talk to the officer doing the report. While talking to him another officer came in and told me that dispatch had given her information that there was a drug deal going on at an apartment in town. She asked if I wanted to do a knock and talk. A knock in talk is where you knock on the door and if you get an answer you talk to the people at the residence and see what happens from there. Anyway the maintenance man for the apartments had been in the apartment and saw scales and the people in the apartment measuring drugs.

We went to the residence and I knocked on the door while she went to the back door. A little girl looked through the window and then her mom did, but they did not answer. I figured they were hiding their drugs.

Then my partner said they had come out the back. They weren’t trying to run so much as they were trying to sneak out. When they opened the door they saw my partner. She immediately identified the three people and determined who lived there. My partner then took the resident aside and talked to her while I talked with the male and female that had been with her.
A short time later my partner told me there was another man inside taking a shower and that a rifle was in the bathroom with him. My partner got consent to search the residence. We went in to locate the guy in the bathroom. As soon as we walked in the back door we saw drug paraphernalia, specifically pipes used to smoke drugs. We located the man in the bathroom. Behind the bathroom door was an SKS Chinese assault rifle. This guy was detained when we found he had an illegal knife.

By this time we had additional officers there to assist. I opened a closet in the bedroom closet and saw a whiskey bottle with a clear liquid in it and two tubes coming out of it. I am short and could not get around the cluttered floor to reach the bottle so my partner grabbed it. The liquid was field-tested and came up positive for methamphetamines.

No one in the house would admit to it belonging to them so we took all four to jail. The methamphetamines were later measured and came out to be over 400 grams, a very large amount.

What A Way To Start The Day

Friday started out with a bang, or more correctly a shock. We were getting ready for briefing when dispatch told us they needed us to come into service for a disturbance. Dispatch said that it was at a group home for people with mental problems and that a man was out of control and had pulled a knife earlier.

Officer’s arrived on scene and determined that the man needed to be taken into custody because of his mental condition and taken to a hospital. The man was a danger to himself and or others.

When we went to take the man into custody he decided to fight. It wasn’t much of a fight thanks to the taser one of the officers had. Once the man started fighting he just stepped in and drive stunned the man. The fight was over.

I was the lucky one and got to take the man to the hospital. It was about a 40-minute drive to get there. The whole time this man kept saying he was sorry, he didn’t mean it, that he wanted to talk to his mom and that he did not want to die. He did this in a whining voice; it almost made me want to commit myself.

Once I got him to the hospital he was unhandcuffed so the staff could medicate him. That did not go too well, he wanted to fight again. We got him under control and he was given his medicine and he went to sleep.