Southern Fried Scandal: A woman flagged down an officer outside her home in north Charlotte and requested assistance in finding her friend. During an argument between the woman and her friend that afternoon, the woman's friend picked up a frying pan and hit her twice in the right arm. Later in the evening, the friend returned to the woman's home, struck her again, and stole over $500 in cash.
Long Way Down: Medics rushed a man to the hospital after he was injured in a construction accident at his job. As he stood on the top of the bridge he was building, a beam hanging off the end of a crane hit him in the chin and knocked him off the bridge. The man received several broken bones from the fall.
Wet And Wild: Inmates and officers at the Central Jail were drenched in water after an angry convict ripped off a sprinkler head and activated the sprinkler system.
Automotive Fashion Faux-pas: A woman called police after she awoke to find that vandals had dumped green paint on her bronze 1999 model car. The incident occurred overnight while the car was parked in the woman's driveway. Paint covered the hood and the driver's door and extended along the side of the car and onto the trunk.
Sorry, Wrong Number: When a woman accidentally dialed a wrong number, she expected her apology to pacify the person she had bothered. However, the enraged callee returned her call -- three times -- to harass her, so she called the police. Aside from racist remarks, the person told the woman, "The next time you call there will be no next time; your fingers will be chopped off. Take your phone book with you; you are underneath the evolution chart."
Quick Fix: Thieves broke into a man's home while he slept and stole large quantities of narcotics. Among the items taken were $300 worth of Methadone, $1,500 worth of Oxycontin Instant Release, and the man's insulin supply. The man claimed he prepared his prescriptions for the next day as usual and left the drugs in a bag bearing the words "Diabetic Association" on his desk in the family room. Additionally, the robbers stole unfilled prescriptions for Methadone and Oxy-IR.
I Scream, He Screams: A local entrepreneur was pushing his ice cream cart down a sidewalk in east Charlotte when a man approached him and bought some ice cream. When the owner of the cart reached into his pocket to make change for his customer, the man grabbed his money and tried to punch the cart owner but missed. Frightened, the entrepreneur abandoned his cart and ran to call police. An hour later, a friend found the ice cream cart where its owner had left it. The thief has not been located.
What Goes Up...: Fourth of July celebrations ended quickly for a man in north Charlotte when a stray bullet penetrated the trunk of his car. An unidentified person shot a gun into the air, and the bullet came down into the trunk. Fortunately, no one in the area sustained injury.
Blotter items are chosen from the files of the Charlotte Police Department.
