Suspect Behavior
Urine trouble
An employee of the Kroger on Harding Pike called police to report a customer who began “acting strange” immediately upon entering the store. “Fearing the defendant was casing the meat section, [the employee] continued watching him closely,” police say. The suspect then staggered into the back storeroom and “began urinating in a work boot on the floor.” The unruly shopper, 42, blamed his confusion on the 12-pack of beer he drank earlier in the evening, and responding officers picked him up for public intoxication.
Love at first bite
A 72-year-old woman was arguing with her husband when she “became aggravated at him [and] bit him on the nose,” police say. Although the victim didn’t want to prosecute, responding officers had no choice but to charge the suspect with domestic assault, given that her husband had clear teeth marks on his nose. Less than 20 minutes later, in a separate incident across town, a 19-year-old woman was arrested for assault after she bit her boyfriend twice on the bicep when he reached across her in the car to retrieve something from the glove box. “The suspect states that she told the victim twice to move his arm and he did not,” police say. “The suspect states that she then bit the victim.”
Trouble brewin’
Three college students were driving along Vanderbilt Place when a pedestrian threw a cup of beer through their car window, soaking the leather interior of their red Ford Mustang. A short time later, police tracked down the 19-year-old suspect in the lobby of his dorm and began questioning him about chucking the beer. “He refused to answer my questions, show me his ID or to calm down,” according to one officer. “He would not obey my instructions, continued to yell, use obscene language and repeatedly stuck his finger in my face.” Not surprisingly, the suspect was charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct, as well as vandalism for mucking up the Mustang.
What a dope
Police responded to a truck stop on North First Street after receiving a report of a man with a gun in the parking lot. Officers found the suspect “jumping on an 18-wheeler” and brandishing what turned out to be a toy gun. The man explained that he was just upset because the driver of the big-rig “stole some dope from him” and then fled with the stolen stash, police say. But that explanation didn’t cut it with police, who confiscated the toy gun and booked the perp, 41, for disorderly conduct. No word on whether the truck driver ever returned.
All items in Suspect Behavior are taken from actual Metro police arrest reports and affidavits.