Police & Sheriff calls, Sept. 25-27

The policed blotter is published to inform the community about public safety issues in Portage Co. We report what is listed on the daily call log sent out by local law enforcement agencies. The blotter includes only basic summaries, not a complete telling of each call, as information on the call logs is not complete.

Sept. 25

Screamer: Police were called to conduct a welfare check on a 31-year-old man who was walking around a parking lot on the 600 block of John’s Dr. at 8:02 a.m.

Threats: Police were called back to the 600 block of John’s Dr. at 8:31 a.m. when a 25-year-old woman reported that she was being threatened by a 23-year-old man.

Kids: Police were called to Ben Franklin Jr. High, 2000 Polk St., at 9:26 a.m. for a report of a property crime, the nature of which was redacted from the blotter.

Counterfeit: A caller from Festival Foods, 1600 Academy Ave., reported someone passed a fake $100 bill at 9:38 a.m.

Suspicious: Someone reported to police at 9:57 a.m. that a 50-year-old woman had stayed in Iverson Park overnight.

Crash: Police were called to Nebel and Water streets at 10:49 a.m. when a 54-year-old man driving a semi-truck struck a light pole. No injuries were reported.

Frequent flier: Police were called to Woodland Cir. and Maple Bluff Rd. at 11:34 a.m. when a caller reported a man on probation was lying on the ground at the corner of the road, believing the man was “intentionally looking for attention.”

Problem: Police were called to the 2300 block of Main St. at 1:33 p.m. when someone reported an extremely intoxicated man with a ukulele yelling about law enforcement and loitering in front of businesses there.

Fraud: Police took a report at 2:42 p.m. from a 67-year-old man who said someone had charged over $30,000 on his Lowes credit card in the past month.

Missing: A 44-year-old man reported to police at 3:33 p.m that a firearm went missing from his East Ave. home.

Crash: A two-vehicle collision was reported in the YMCA parking lot, 1000 Division St., at 3:42 p.m. No injuries were reported.

Jumped: Police were called to the 600 block of John’s Dr. at 3:55 p.m. when someone reported a disturbance involving several men and women ages 20-25. A 20-year-old woman told police she’d been “jumped.”

Bad ex: A 28-year-old man called police at 4:55 p.m. to report he’d previously allowed his ex-girlfriend to borrow his car but she was now refusing to return it, and that she had used it to commit a crime.

Gross: Police were asked to conduct extra patrol on the 100 block of Division St. North at 5:02 p.m. when a caller reported loiterers were “throwing garbage” in a parking lot there.

Sept. 26

Jerk: Police were asked at 6 a.m. to speak with a motorist at the Church St. Motel, 3416 Church St., about the loud music that was regularly coming from his vehicle in the parking lot.

Theft: Someone reported a bicycle was stolen from a rack at Pacelli High School at 8:01 a.m.

Car v bike: A 23-year-old woman called police to Frontenac Ave. and Main St. at 4:23 p.m. to report a collision had occurred earlier in the day. There were no injuries reported.

Cahoots: Police were called to a law office on the 1500 block of Church St. where a known mam, age 26, kept “peeking in the windows” while a lawyer there was meeting with clients, and accusing him of “being in cahoots with Steve Jobs.”

Threats: A 26-year-old woman called police to the 1800 block of Miller Ct. at 6:37 p.m. to report she’d been harassed and threatened by her ex-boyfriend.

More threats: A 31-year-old man reported to police that he was being harassed via social media by his ex-girlfriend while he was in jail.

Yeah, sure: Police conducted a traffic stop in the parking lot of JR Liquor, 484 Division St., at 7:55 p.m. The 63-year-old female driver told officers that she was on her way to turn herself in at the Law Enforcement Center for an active warrant in another county on a charge of operating while intoxicated.

Sept. 27

Not so sweet: Police were called to the 1400 block of Torun Rd. at 5:51 a.m. when a 46-year-old man reported someone had poured sugar in his vehicle’s gas tank.