Local law enforcement officers respond to multiple cases of reports of suspicious individuals every night. While many of these instances turn out to be cases of mistaken identity , others are of a more sinister nature and remind all of us to lock our doors.
Just after 4 a.m., a woman called 9-1-1 to report a disturbing encounter on Gallia Pike. She said she was sleeping in a van in her nephew’s driveway when a mysterious man in black who’d been following her slapped the window of the van. The woman requested extra patrols in the area.
Officers caught up with a man near Mill Road and asked him a few questions. They said the man did not appear to be impaired, and he told them he was walking to a friend’s house on Mill Road. Police told him to stay away from the address he’d been lurking around due to a temporary protection order.
The man complained his feet hurt but refused an offer of a squad.
Twenty minutes later, he showed up on the porch of a Mill Road home and asked the residents to call for help.
When deputies arrived, he told them he wanted the people who lived in the home to call the address he was barred from and ask if he could come back. An officer gave the man a ride to McDonald’s and dropped him off.
Just after 8 a.m., a caller reported the same man rolling around on the grass on the side of the road. An Ohio State Patrol officer took the call, and the man asked that officer to take him back to the address he’d been banned from by the TOP.
A deputy arrived on the scene and told the man to stay away from the house. He said he wanted to go to a friend’s house on the same road.
Around 8:30 p.m., the man turned up again at the house he was banned from.
At this point, officers were tired of playing around at took David Neff into custody for violating a protection order. This was his 13th visit to the Scioto County Jail. Previous arrests include probation violation, weapons charges, contempt, and aggravated arson.