Portsmouth Officers answered 158 calls between Friday and Monday. From inlaws acting like outlaws, to Cornonavirus claims, here are some of the highlights of what went down:
1
Coronavirus Claim Call
- A man that officers found passed out behind a building on Wayne Avenue, turned out to just be asleep. When police woke him, he claimed he had Coronavirus and ran away from the scene
2
In-laws and Outlaws
- Officers were called to Dorman Drive for two men fighting, one of whom had a gun. It turned out that a woman made the poor decision to offer her soon-to-be-ex-son-in-law a ride. According to the police report, he doesn’t like his mother-in-law and he’d been drinking. He cussed out his mother-in-law who didn’t take kindly to being disrespected. Mom-in-law called her fiancé to come defend her honor. She thought better of the decision and decided to take drunk son-in-law somewhere else to sober up. The reporting officer noted that she complimented his tattoos.
3
Officers respond to Overdoses
- Officers responded to nine reports of possible overdoses or people passed out.
- Just after noon on Friday, officers got a call from a mother who’d been told that her daughter OD’d. When her friends couldn’t revive her, they left her at a house on 8th street. When police arrived, they found that she was awake and talking about killing herself. She also had a warrant. The woman was transported to SOMC for a psych evaluation.
4
Drug Calls
- Officers were called out to investigate when a local pharmacy got suspicious about an attempt to refill a child’s prescription for valium too early. There were fears that adults might be taking a three-year-old’s prescription.
- On Friday, two kids were left without a place to go when their father overdosed at a Thomas Avenue apartment. He was revived with Narcan and refused treatment. Their grandmother has custody, but she was out of town and doesn’t have a mobile phone. CPS was able to arrange a place for the kids to wait until their grandmother got home.
- Officers advised a man who was apparently under the influence of drugs on Gallia Street that his pants were around his knees. It was suggested he might want to go home.
5
Fight calls keep officers busy
Portsmouth residents were in a fighting mood over the weekend including:
- An egg was thrown at a vehicle on Robinson Avenue on Friday
- Highland Avenue neighbors calling each other names
- A woman who threw gum and an unidentified liquid onto the vehicle of her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend at the Kroger parking lot.
- A McConnell Avenue grandmother who says neighborhood kids are trying to pick fights with her grandkids. She was advised to keep a close eye on them.
- Just after 7 pm Friday, on 17th Street a man was standing outside threatening to “kick the asses” of people inside a home. He was gone by the time officers arrived.
- A man told officers that a knife fight with his cousin in Tracy Park led to a tire slashing. The convoluted tale involved a man named “Frog.” Officers took a report.
- Police were called back to Kroger on Sunday when a man reported that someone broke his cane and threatened to hit him in the head with a brick.
- Around 5 am Monday, a fight over alleged infidelity on Adams street led to some bottle being broken. Officers told the couple to stay away from each other.
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Appliance Crime
- Someone kicked in the front door of a 7th street home and stole the toaster oven and some wire.
- Meanwhile, no one wanted to claim a washer left by the side of the road on Micklethwaite in Portsmouth. Officers thought it might be tied to a burglary but the former homeowner didn’t want it and the house is now owned by the bank.
7
False alarms
- Around midnight on Saturday police received a 9-1-1 call from a child that someone had shot his mom and was coming to kill him. It turned out to be a very naughty six-year-old making a prank call from grandma’s house.
- An 11th Street woman called police on Monday morning to report someone inside of her couch. It turned out to be her cat.
8
Grandma in danger
- Firefighters called police to a home on the Scioto Trail for a report of an elderly woman living in filthy conditions with garbage piled up. The woman’s grandson wouldn’t let officers in and grandma seemed to be pretty angry about the questions they asked. Police referred the matter to Adult Protective Services
