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January 2011
Loud bass leads police to more than $4,500 in cash
Police confiscated more than $4,500 in cash from a driver and his passenger early Saturday. The black Dodge Magnum they were in was towed after a K-9 alerted officers to the presence of drugs.
It started around 1:30 Saturday morning when officers were finishing up a call in the 1600 block of West Grand Avenue. They heard a car approaching. What they heard was the thumping of the bass from the car’s stereo — two blocks away.
The officers got in their cruisers as the Dodge Magnum passed and made the traffic stop. In the back seat, in plain view, was a bottle of Grey Goose vodka, the seal broken and some of the vodka missing.
The driver said he did not have a drivers license. Checking records, they found he also had two outstanding misdemeanor warrants and arrested him. During the pat down, officers found $166 in a front pants pocket and $2,900 in his back pocket. He told officers he’d just picked up some rent money on Grand Avenue.
Meanwhile, officers saw the passenger move over into the driver’s seat. When asked, the passenger told police he was the one driving the car. He was asked to step out of the car and was patted down for officers’ safety. During the pat down, officers detected a “large bulge” in his pants front pocket. Further investigation found the bulge to be $1,623 in cash.
A K-9 unit was called and alerted for the presence of drugs in both the car and on the $4,689 in cash. The money was confiscated for a forfeiture investigation. The car was towed. No word what might have been uncovered by a further search of the car.
TweetSister: My brother robbed me at gunpoint
A dispute over drugs and money apparently led a brother to rob his sister at gunpoint, the sister alleged.
Dewey Guffey, 28, was charged Monday in Dayton Municipal Court with having weapons while under a disability and carrying a concealed weapon, both felonies. Additional charges may be forthcoming.
Police were called to the vicinity of North Garland and East Second around 1:15 Friday afternoon. There they found the sister. She said she was riding in a pickup with her brother, another man and another woman.It was then, she said, her brother pulled a .25-caliber pistol and shoved it in her face, demanding money.
She said Guffey then shoved her out of the truck, but not before taking money from her purse.
The tearful sister added her brother and the other man, identified by her as “Big Country”, had spent the night at a Xenia motel. When they left, they “cleaned out the room”, taking the television and refrigerator.
As she was talking with police, she spotted her brother’s pickup truck, alerting officers, who quickly apprehended Guffey and the female passenger.
During the pat down, police found a bag of crack. During the search of the vehicle — its license plates belonged to another vehicle, and they were expired anyway — they found two gel caps believed to contain heroin and the pistol.
Guffey was hauled off to the county jail. The sister and the passenger were taken to the 1st District headquarters, where they wrote out their statements.
The passenger had a slightly different version than the sister. According to the passenger, the brother and sister were fighting over money and drugs, and the sister was shoved out of the truck after she threw some crack on the vehicle’s floor.
Guffey has previous convictions for felonious assault in 2004 and theft in 2007. His sister has three convictions in 2006, all for cocaine possession.
Tweet25-year-old arrested minutes after teen brother
A Dayton police officer stopped two juveniles in the backyard of a house on Phillips Avenue after someone reported seeing two men in the area carrying a gun, Wednesday, Jan. 26.
After questioning the young men, the officer did a pat down for safety and found a handgun tucked in the waistband of one of their pants. The young man said it was only a BB gun, which turned out to be true.
The young man said it was the second time in a week he’d gotten in trouble with the police for having the BB gun out in public. He admitted that officers had told him he needed to leave it at home, but said he didn’t understand what the big deal was, according to a police report.
The officer requested to talk to the young man’s mother, whose custody he would be released into after being booked for criminal mischief.
At this point, a second report states, the officer encountered the young man’s 25-year-old brother. The older brother exchanged words with the officer saying that the young man’s mom was in the shower, but the officer could talk to him. When the officer insisted that he needed to talk to a parent, the older brother allegedly said, “Don’t be a smart ass,” and threatened to beat the officer, the report states.
He was quickly taken into custody for menacing.
According to a check of the older brother’s previous encounters with police, he has threatened and tried to fight police officers in the past. Other officers have warned that he is a heavy-weight fighter and Toughman Contest winner with the ability to hurt officers.
The older brother was transported to the Montgomery County Jail while the younger brother was released into his mother’s custody. She asked the police to take away the BB gun because her son kept getting in trouble for carrying it.
Tweet2 men robbed of pants in alley
Two men who got off at the wrong RTA stop ended up being robbed of their pants.
According to a police report, the men where traveling from Drexel to the east side of Dayton, Wednesday evening, Jan. 26, when they got off near West Third Street and James H. McGee Boulevard by mistake.
They told police they saw a gold Chevy Malibu drive past them twice and got scared. They said they ran east toward Mercer Avenue.
While in an alley behind Mercer the car caught up with them and two males exited holding .38 revolvers, the report states.
The men with guns ordered the two to remove their pants, which they took and drove away, telling the victims to return to the east side, “where they belonged.”
The robbers made off with one man’s wallet containing $600 cash, $50 and ID cards from the other man, plus a cell phone and prescriptions for OxyContin and Vicadin.
TweetThreat of Taser stops fleeing man in his tracks
Two Dayton police officers found themselves involved in a foot chase after they attempted to pull over a driver who didn’t signal a turn.
When the officers followed the car into an apartment complex Tuesday evening, Jan. 25, the driver refused to pull over, then jumped out of the vehicle prior to parking it.
According to a police report, the officers followed the subject on foot and repeatedly told him to stop running. He continued to flee until one officer announced that he would use his Taser if the man did not stop. The man immediately gave up and laid on the ground.
He told officers he fled because he didn’t have a driver’s license and didn’t want to go back to jail.
When police discovered that a passenger had also fled from the car, and left behind two large bags full of narcotics under the passenger seat, the driver said he only knew the passenger’s first name and had no idea there were drugs in the car.
Officers confiscated the more than 14 grams of heroin and 6 grams of cocaine, all split into individual gel caps, and took the driver to the Montgomery County Jail.
He faces possible charges of obstructing official business, failure to comply with orders of a police officer and possession of drugs, in addition to multiple traffic violations and driving without a license.
Police called a K-9 Unit to the scene to try and track the passenger.
TweetFemale flees out second-story window after armed robbery
A Dayton man was robbed at knife-point by a female he thought was his girlfriend and an unknown male assailant. And in a strange twist on the classic Cinderella story, the female left behind a single shoe as she fled the scene via a second-story window.
Police responding to a call about a hostage situation met with the male victim at his house on Hoch Street around 4:45 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 23.
Through a translator, the victim, who only speaks Spanish, said he invited over a 21-year-old white female who he has been talking with over the phone and who was supposed to move in with him later in the week.
According to a police report, when the female arrived, she and victim went upstairs, undressed, and had begun to have sex when an unknown black male wearing all black entered the room with a knife and demanded money from the victim.
The victim said he began to struggle with the male robber and then was attacked by the female who jumped on him and tried to hit him with a heating vent grate cover.
At some point both assailants fled, the female climbing out the window and losing her shoe and cell phone in the process.
The male suspect fled down the stairs and out the front door, taking with him the victim’s discarded pants which contained a cell phone, wallet and $400 cash.
TweetDriver: Car with only 3 wheels stolen after crash
A driver accused of speeding, losing control and causing a series of crashes told a number of tall tales to police, including that she was car-jacked following the accident.
Dayton police were called to the BP fuel station on Edwin C. Moses Boulevard at 2:40 a.m. Jan. 19., on a report of a hit and run accident.
At the gas station, officers found a chaotic scene with multiple drivers yelling different versions of what happened. A pickup truck driver said he’d been struck by a female in a Grand Prix. She said she’d been struck by a semi-truck and then a male had jumped out of a van at the gas station and taken her damaged car. The van driver said there was a female with him who needed a medic because she was having trouble breathing.
Once the parties were separated and questioned the stories became more clear:
The female driving the Grand Prix said she’d been driving southbound on I-75 when she was hit by a semi, causing her to strike the red pickup and the wall. She said she got off the highway at Edwin C. Moses because her car was heavily damaged. She said a man she didn’t know got out of a van and pulled her from the car, then drove off.
The male driving the pickup said he was driving on southbound I-75 when he was struck by the Grand Prix from behind, then saw the Grand Prix strike the wall. He said another car sped away at a high rate of speed while he, the Grand Prix and a van exited the highway. As he called 911 about the accident, a male got out of the van got a bunch of girls out of the car and drove away. He said when UD police arrived he told them to follow the Grand Prix because it was fleeing the scene.
The driver of the van said the people in his van and the girls in the Grand Prix had all been together at a club. He said they left and were traveling down I-75 with him following the Grand Prix. He said he couldn’t keep up because the Grand Prix was going too fast and racing a green Cadillac. He said he was a ways back when he saw the Grand Prix lose control and hit the wall. He said the car spun several times and collided with several other vehicles, but he couldn’t see exactly what happened. He said he got off the highway after the Grand Prix and one of the males in his van jumped out and had his female friends exit so he could drive the car away. The females, besides the driver, came to hang out in his van.
During all of this questioning, the female driver became very irate and had to be handcuffed in the back of a cruiser. She said the other men were lying and that her car had been stolen by someone she didn’t know, according to the police report.
UD police soon called to say that they’d located the Grand Prix. The driver had fled from them and crashed into a tree on Hopeland Street, just north of UD Arena. When the female driver was taken there to see her car and get her insurance paperwork - which she never found - she admitted that she knew the man who took her car as “Will”.
A fourth witness, one of the females who’d been riding in the Grand Prix came forward and gave a statement that supported the stories told by the two male drivers.
She said a bunch of girls were riding in the Grand Prix which was traveling very fast down I-75. She said they hit a green Cadillac and the red pickup before exiting the highway. She said a guy they knew named Will jumped in at the gas station and took off in the car.
The driver of the Grand Prix was issued citations for an expired license and failure to control her vehicle. The only thing that she would agree to from the other statements was that at some point she struck the red pickup truck.
TweetMan arrested for presenting fake ID at Dayton airport
Police questioned a man at Dayton International Airport, Jan. 17, after he presented a suspicious ID to a TSA agent.
After a TSA Behavioral Detection Officer couldn’t determine if the Ohio ID for a Ruben Quinones was valid or not, he checked with a Dayton police officer who notices a number of things wrong with the ID card.
First it was a different texture than valid Ohio IDs. The card also contained grammatical errors and didn’t have any holograms visible.
After the officer pointed out those errors to the man claiming to be Quinones, the man admitted it was a fake ID card that he had purchased from someone. He said he was an illegal immigrant from Guatemala. But when asked for his real name, the man gave another fake persona.
According to a police report, the man continued to give the officer a number of fake names and birth dates.
Finally the subject was transported to the Montgomery County Jail where he had to be fingerprinted to determine his real identity. He only admitted that he is in fact Aurelio Rodriguez-Bravo, 30, and a U.S. citizen, after police showed him his own picture and name on a booking sheet from the last time he’d been arrested.
Rodriguez-Bravo faces possible charges of obstructing official business and forgery.
TweetThree jackets and four pairs of pants can’t conceal marijuana, gun
Failure to signal a turn on his bicycle got a Trotwood man more than just a traffic citation.
A Dayton police officer spotted the man riding a bike with no lights or bell near the intersection of Hoover and Westwood Avenues. When the officer stopped the man for not properly signaling a turn, the man began acting very nervous, according to a police report.
While performing a pat down for safety, the officer discovered that the man was wearing three jackets and four pairs of pants. Inside the pocket of innermost pair of pants, the officer felt two objects, one hard and one soft.
The man told the officer, “that’s weed” and admitted, “I smoke weed.” The hard object turned out to be a scale which the man said he used to weigh his purchase so he doesn’t get cheated. He said the weed was only for personal use, according to the report.
Further search revealed the man also had a loaded gun inside his outermost jacket. He said he used it for protection.
The man was placed under arrest and transported to the Montgomery County Jail where he faces possible charges of carrying a concealed weapon, possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.
A final arrest search located another bag of marijuana inside one of the man’s coats. He told officers, “I didn’t know that was in there.”
TweetMan arrested in connection with stolen car after he runs out of answers
It was early Monday morning when an officer spotted a suspicious vehicle — suspicious because when the driver apparently spotted the officer, he suddenly stopped and turned in to Sammy’s Food Mart.
Once parked, the driver hurried inside the all-night grocery. The officer ran the plates, found the car reported stolen, called for backup and entered the store with the backup officer.
Finding the driver wasn’t hard. He was the only customer. The driver was cuffed, searched and questioned after read his rights. The pat-down uncovered a Philips screwdriver in one pocket and a Torx screwdriver in the other.
“I didn’t steal the car,” he told officers according to their report. “A friend gave it to me.”
Asked why he was carrying a pair of screwdrivers — the car thief’s tool of choice — he replied, “I’m a mechanic.”
Asked where the car keys were, the driver said, “I hid them in the M&M’s aisle.”
When asked why, if he had not stolen the car, did he hide the keys, the driver did not have a ready answer.
He was taken to the county jail. While en route, the driver told the officer he used to steal cars in Cleveland. When booked into the jail, he was told he could pick up the screwdrivers at the Police Department’s property room.
To which he replied: “Man, I’m not getting out of here. I’ve been arrested so many times for (grand theft auto), and stealing that car.”
TweetBootlegger: I didn’t think selling fake discs was illegal
Around 9 p.m., Jan. 12, a Dayton police officer pulled up to a well-known spot for bootleg DVD and CD sales to find a man advertising his business with a milk crate full of counterfeit product on top of his car.
When the officer asked the man what he was doing he claimed he had permission from the owner of the liquor store in whose lot he was parked to sell his bootleg movies and music.
Once he was placed under arrest he told the officer that he didn’t think selling counterfeit CDs and DVDs and trademark counterfeiting was something he could get in trouble for. He said he’d been making his living that way for a while.
He begged the officer to let him go with a warning, but a background check in the police system revealed he’d been trespassed off a North Main Street property in 2005 for a same offense.
The 31-year-old man was taken to Montgomery County Jail on possible charges of criminal simulation and trademark counterfeiting. Once at the jail, a small baggie of marijuana was found in the man’s sock, adding misdemeanor drug possession to his possible charge list.
TweetLack of sprinkle doughnuts sparks confrontation
Just before 3:30 a.m. Thursday, police pulled up to the Tim Horton’s on Patterson Road. Contrary to the stereotype, they were not there to eat.
They had been called after a customer confronted an employee over the restaurant’s lack of sprinkle doughnuts.
The employee told police a customer came to the drive-thru and became enraged when told there were no sprinkle doughnuts currently available. The driver, later identified as a 21-year-old man, pulled up to the drive-thru window and began cursing at the employee, according to the employee. The driver’s passenger — his 21-year-old female roommate — also joined the dressing down, according to the employee.
As some point, the driver entered the doughnut shop, grabbed the headset off the employee’s head and threw it across the restaurant. In so doing, the employee said the driver pulled his hair, causing pain.
The driver then left. Some 30 minutes later, a man identified as the driver’s brother came to the Tim Horton’s and threatened to beat the employee, according to the police report.
Police left Tim Horton’s and went to the driver’s home. The driver admitted an altercation with the employee, who, he said, twice called him a derogatory name. The driver said he did remove the employee’s headset, but denied pulling the employee’s hair.
The driver was issued a summons for misdemeanor assault and menacing.
When officers returned to the Tim Horton’s later in the morning, the manager informed them the surveillance system “was messed up,” and he had no video for them.
TweetFriends disagree on whether car was stolen or borrowed
A Dayton police officer driving on Wayne Avenue early Thursday morning, Jan. 6, was temporarily blinded by a vehicle traveling westbound with bright headlights on.
The officer watched the black Buick made an unexpected U-turn into a parking lot then get back on eastbound Wayne and turn onto Wyoming Street. The officer checked the car’s plates and discovered it was reported stolen.
According to the report taken from the car’s owner the day before, he asked a friend to drive his car and drop him off at Sinclair Community College so he could buy some textbooks, then pick him back up.
He said when he came out, the female friend never showed. He gave a description of the car and said his English Mastiff was in the car.
While continuing to follow the stolen Buick the officer observed the driver turn onto Gunckel Avenue and speed up to 60 mph in a 25 mph speed zone. When the officer pursued, the driver turned onto Edgar Avenue and collided with a Honda Accord.
The driver of the Buick, a female in a hoodie, jeans and tennis shoes, jumped out of the car and took off on foot.
She was chased and caught by the officer who discovered she had severe injuries from her face hitting the steering wheel during the crash. She was transported to Miami Valley Hospital for treatment.
Once at the hospital, police asked why she was driving a stolen car. To which she stated that she’d known the owner of the car for two years and had been with him the day before, at which time he’d let her borrow the car.
According to her story, she went with the car’s owner, in the Buick, to an apartment on Linden Avenue where he purchased some crack. She said they drove around for a while while he smoked his share of the drugs. When he was done he asked for her share, but didn’t have any money to buy it.
She offered him the drugs in exchange for using the car to run some errands. She said she dropped him off at Sinclair Community College and he was going to call her when he needed to be picked up.
When asked about the dog, she said she didn’t know where it was and claimed it was never in the car when she took possession of the vehicle.
Police did not immediately charge the female with grand theft auto pending more investigation, but she does face a possible charge of obstructing official business for fleeing police.
TweetHusband: Wife stabbed me when I tried to stop her selling food for crack
An officer was in his cruiser around 10 p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Salem and Auburn avenues when a woman approached him.
The officer described the 48-year-old woman as highly intoxicated. She yelled: “He stabbed me. He knocked me to the ground and started kicking me in the face.”
The officer could find no injuries or sign of blood.
Getting the woman’s address and calling for backup, the officer went to the woman’s home to and found the husband covered in blood from an apparent knife wound to the ear.
Asked what happened, the husband said his wife had been drinking all day. She took all of the meat out of the family freezer and told her husband she “was going to walk around the neighborhood and try to sell it so she could buy crack,” the husband told police.
The husband said when he told his wife to stop, she stabbed him through his right ear. The husband refused medical assistance, and the wife was taken to the county jail. She faces possible felonious assault charges when she makes her initial court appearance.
TweetWoman held on $1 million bond in alleged sex-for-murder plot
Donna Michelle Dix is sitting in the county lockup today under a $1 million cash bond on charges she traded sex with an as yet unnamed hitman in exchange for the death of a Dayton man who had spurned her sexual overtures.
The 42-year-old woman appeared Tuesday in Dayton Municipal Court where a judge set her seven-figure bond on a charge of complicity to commit murder. She was arrested Monday.
Corey Mitchell, 34, and his 11-year-old daughter were shot May 29 as they exited the family car near their house at the intersection of First and Paul Laurence Dunbar streets.
Lt. Mark Varvel, supervisor of central investigations, said police know who fired the shots, but Montgomery County prosecutors have asked for more evidence before a warrant is issued.
“Dix apparently wanted a relationship with Mitchell, but he spurned her advances,” Varvel said.
Police believe Dix then sought the services of an individual to kill Mitchell in exchange for an intimate relationship with Dix.
Witnesses said the gunman had been hiding in bushes in a vacant lot across the street from Mitchell’s house before he attacked. Mitchell’s daughter was wounded in the knee.
TweetCops catch thieving accomplice when he returns for more loot
Two men face felony breaking and entering charges after they were caught trying to steal copper pipes from an abandoned house Jan. 6.
Police were called to 400 S. Garland Ave. around 4 p.m. by a neighbor who saw a black pickup truck drop off a male carrying a backpack. The man went behind the vacant home, causing the neighbor to become suspicious.
According to a police report, responding officers heard a loud banging from inside the residence. They noticed that the only unsecured entrance was a broken back window and decided to set up a perimeter to catch whomever was inside.
A short time later, someone began to open the rear door and was ordered outside by officers who handcuffed the male that emerged.
While he was being questioned by police, the suspect’s cell phone began ringing non-stop. He asked an officer to answer it and inform the person calling that he was being taken to jail.
When an officer answered the phone a male on the other end said something about not being able to get rid of some “stuff”. The officer told the caller to, “come on back; there’s more.” To which the caller replied that he’d be right over.
When the caller arrived, driving the same black pickup seen earlier by the neighbor, he drove slowly past the house before spotting the police cruiser in the driveway. He was quickly stopped on the street and taken into custody.
He tried to claim that he was simply picking up his buddy and had no knowledge of plans to rob the place, according to the report, but officer’s didn’t buy the story.
According to the police report, when the second male was placed in the back of the cruiser with the first suspect, his buddy asked why he came back, “Don’t you watch COPS?” he asked. The first suspect told his friend it wasn’t him on the phone and informed him that “They do this crap all the time” on the TV show COPS.
Both suspects were transported to the Montgomery County Jail and face felony charges of breaking and entering. The male who was inside the house also could be charged with possession of criminal tools for a screwdriver found in his pocket and more tools found in a backpack inside the house.
The second male was cited for driving under suspension and could face a charge of driving without a license.
TweetSpurned advances led to May slaying of Dayton man, police say
Police said Corey Mitchell’s spurning of a woman’s romantic overtures led to his May 29 ambush slaying.
Donna Michelle Dix, 42, was arrested by Dayton police and charged Monday with complicity to commit murder.
Lt. Mark Varvel of the central investigations said officers believe they know who shot Mitchell, 34, but Montgomery County prosecutors have asked for more evidence before a warrant is issued.
“Dix apparently wanted a relationship with Mitchell, but he spurned her advances,” Varvel said.
Police believe Dix then sought the services of an individual to kill Mitchell in exchange for an intimate relationship with Dix.
Mitchell and his 11-year-old daughter were getting out of his car around 9 p.m. near his house at First and Paul Laurence Dunbar when a masked gunman opened fire. Witnesses said the gunman had been hiding in bushes in a vacant lot across the street from Mitchell’s house before he attacked. Mitchell’s daughter was wounded in the knee.
TweetArmed robber flees jewelry store after gunfight
A man walked into Biegel Jewelers on Xenia Avenue shortly after 11 a.m. Monday and drew a handgun from his pocket. That’s about as far as he got.
The wife of the store’s owner ran into the back and alerted her husband, who came into the showroom, drawing his holstered sidearm. The gunman and the owner opened fire at each other. Another family member, hearing the shots, armed himself and also fired.
The three family members told police the robber shouted: “Back off, dude. I’ll quit shooting if you back off.”
Outgunned 2-to-1, the gunman fled.
Apparently no one was injured, though the gunman’s rounds barely missed the three family members, according to police.
The gunman was described as wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with a blue design or blue lettering on the front. He wore a black scarf that covered his face except for his eyes.
A search of the neighborhood did not find the gunman.
TweetSuspect released during theft investigation arrested minutes later for menacing
Police officers investigating the theft of GPS systems out of vehicles in a hospital parking lot let their main suspect go, only to arrest him moments later for threatening his ride home with physical harm.
According to a police report, Dayton police were called to Cassano Health Center, 165 S. Edwin C. Moses Boulevard, around 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5, on a the report someone stealing from a medic vehicle.
Upon arrival an EMT employee said he saw a man get out of the passenger side of a fellow EMT’s vehicle. The man claimed he was just looking to see if there was a patient inside out of curiosity. But the second employee soon discovered that his GPS system was missing.
Police were informed that another car in the parking lot had been burglarized as well with a window broken out and a GPS system taken.
Police interviewed the man found in the medic vehicle but he denied taking anything and did not have any GPS systems in his possession. A female found pacing outside the medical building was identified as the male’s girlfriend. She also denied having anything to do with the thefts and said she was there with her sister who was inside being treated.
The sister was contacted and told police that the male in question had called her saying he’d “almost got caught outside.” She told police she assumed he was doing something he shouldn’t and that he had stolen things in the past.
Police did not have enough evidence to hold the couple without access to parking lot security tapes, so they were released.
When the sister who’d been inside pulled up in her car to take the couple home, though, the sister who’d been pacing the lot wouldn’t get in the car with her and took off walking down Edwin C. Moses.
The boyfriend jumped in the car for a ride home, but moments later the female driver jumped out and ran up to police looking shaken. She said her sister’s boyfriend had just threatened her because she refused to give him a ride. Apparently he’d threatened her previously and said this would be “worse than the last time.”
He couldn’t avoid handcuffs a second time and was transported to the Montgomery County Jail where he faces possible menacing charges.
The missing GPS units were recovered under some decorative bushes nearby, but charges are still pending review of the surveillance tapes.
TweetTickets left behind lead to man’s arrest
A 19-year-old man is sitting in the county lockup Thursday after allegedly kicking in the door of a house in the 1500 block of North Main.
Finding Brandon Bozeman was not all that difficult. When police pulled up to the house shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday, they found copies of two minor misdemeanor citations from earlier that morning in his name.
The mother and son inside the house said the suspect had knocked on the door demanding to see the 16-year-old daughter. The suspect claimed the daughter had his keys and cell phone. Witnesses said the suspect had picked up the daughter earlier Wednesday. When told she wasn’t home, the witnesses said the suspect kicked in the door and demanded they call the daughter.
Instead, they called police. As officers arrived, the suspect fled out the back door.
Upon discovering the citations, officers contacted a third officer who had issued the tickets. That officer told them Bozeman seemed very upset that the girl who was with him at the Vex Nightclub on St. Clair Street had left with his cell phone and keys.
A short time later, that officer called back to say he had Bozeman back in custody. Bozeman had returned to the nightclub and was making threats. He was taken to jail.
Later Thursday, Bozeman was charged in Dayton Municipal Court with felony burglary. He also faces charges of violating his parole from a robbery conviction last August.
TweetIntoxicated man urinates in police cruiser
A 45-year-old Dayton man faces possible charges of vandalism and resisting arrest after he gave police officers a hard time while under arrest early Wednesday morning and urinated in a police cruiser.
According to a police report, Steve Higgins was accused was assaulting his ex-girlfriend and roommate at their apartment in the 400 block of Forest Ave. just after midnight, Jan. 5.
Police found both parties extremely intoxicated and the female was bleeding from her nose. She claimed Higgins jumped on top of her and punched her in the face, although she couldn’t remember what started the altercation.
Officers placed Higgins, uncuffed, in a police cruiser while they talked with the female and another witness. When they returned to cuff him and place him under arrest for assault, he had urinated in the back of the car.
Higgins began resisting officers as they cuffed him, the report states and refused to get back in the cruiser. An officer had to use touch his Taser to Higgins’ shoulder to get him in the car. Once inside, Higgins laid down and kicked at the officers so they couldn’t close the door. Another touch of the Taser on the inside of his leg ended his resistance.
Higgins was transported to the Montgomery County Jail. He has previous convictions for felonious assault in 2006 and aggravated burglary in 2000.
TweetBurglar escapes despite BB gun shot to the head
A homeowner called police early Tuesday, Jan. 4, after he shot a burglar in his backyard.
According to a police report, the Edgemont Ave. homeowner was going to smoke a cigarette around 3 a.m. when he spotted a black male wearing dark clothing trying to break into his detached garage.
He’d had other attempted break-ins and had installed a motion sensor light, which lit up the yard.
The homeowner grabbed his BB gun from the kitchen and ran out after the suspect, shooting him in the head. He told police the suspect jumped the fence and fled down an alley.
When officers arrived there was no sign of the burglar except for a tampered lock on the garage and a puddle of blood.
TweetMan carrying $50K flies out of town with cash after being cleared
A man flying to Philadelphia told a TSA agent at the Dayton International Airport during security screening that he had over $50,000 in cash in his carry-on backpack.
The TSA contacted an Airport Police officer. Protocol dictated that the officer contact the Dayton Police narcotics squad about any passenger with $10,000 or more in cash.
The passenger said he was a professional blackjack player, “and they do not use banks to hold their money, which was why he could not produce a receipt,” according to the officer’s report.
Dayton police asked that the money be confiscated. The passenger said he wasn’t leaving town without his cash. After further contact with the drug squad and the DEA, it was determined there was insufficient evidence that the money was obtained illegally.
The passenger and his cash made their connecting flight to Detroit, en route to Philly.
TweetDrug search warrant uncovers bootleg liquor joint
Dayton police officers serving a search warrant in the 900 block of Five Oaks Avenue, Monday evening, found more than the cocaine operation they expected.
A warrant had been issued for the home at 924 Five Oaks because a subject was believed to be selling cocaine from the house. Two undercover buys had been made from inside the residence.
When police busted down the door, however, they found nine people hiding inside the “hangout spot” with a bar, big screen TVs for playing video games, and liquor and food for sale in addition to 1.7 grams of cocaine, more than 24 grams of marijuana, and two guns.
According to a police report, officers had to search the duplex high and low to find all the subjects. One male was hiding in an upstairs closet. Three more had climbed into the attic and then accessed the next door unit under construction. They were found hiding in the basement of that unit.
The subject who was the focus of the search warrant was located but claimed he did not live at the residence. He said he just stopped by to watch people play the video game “Madden Football” and gamble. He said people gather at the house, referred to as the “Headquarters” on a party flyer, to play cards, throw dice, gamble on Madden and eat and drink.
Officers dusted for that subject’s fingerprints on and near the drugs that were found, but did not take him into custody on the spot.
They did arrest the owner of the home, Gregory West, 38, for running an illegal liquor establishment, a possible misdemeanor. He also faces possible charges for felony drug possession and felony possession of weapons under disability because he has two prior drug arrests. He remained in the Montgomery County Jail, Tuesday, Jan. 4, on more than $100,000 bond.
West tried to explain the crowd in his house by telling officers that he mentors young people in the neighborhood, providing them a place to play video games, hang out, and work on rap music. He said he planned to build a rap studio in the basement. The “youths” in the house at the time of the search ranged in age from 18 to 64 years old.
West claimed he was out of town over the weekend and was unaware there was any cocaine brought into the house. He did admit to having marijuana for personal use, a gun for protection and a vendor’s license to sell food, pop and alcohol.
He told police he was unaware that the vendor’s license did not authorize him to sell liquor out of his home.
TweetWoman victim of bleach attack by girlfriend
An argument over a man ended with one woman throwing a bottle full of bleach into the face of her girlfriend.
Medics and police were called to the 3500 block of Kathleen Avenue just after 4 p.m. Monday, where they reportedly found the 34-year-old female victim. She was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital where medical workers flushed out her eyes for 30 minutes.
The victim told police that she and her girlfriend had been arguing the night before over the 34-year-old’s former boyfriend from years ago. The victim said her girlfriend lost control and began breaking things in her apartment. The next morning when the couple woke up, the victim said her girlfriend started arguing with her again.
The argument culminated with the girlfriend throwing the bleach into the victim’s face, according to the report. Officers noted the victim’s jeans showed white splatter marks from the bleach. Nurses told officers that such exposure to bleach could cause blindness and other damage to the eyes.
The couple has a long history of violence and the girlfriend is much bigger than the victim, according to officers. One of the officers had previously advised the victim to get a protection order against her girlfriend.
A broadcast was made for the girlfriend in connection with a felonious assault. As of Tuesday afternoon, the girlfriend remains at large.
TweetNew restaurant robbed before it opens
A former Church’s Chicken location that Dayton Daily News’ Mark Fisher wrote about on the Taste Blog just one week ago was the scene of an aggravated robbery Jan. 2 in which the owner and friends were held at gunpoint.
Fisher reported that owner Barbara Vinzant, of Trotwood, had plans to reopen the long closed restaurant at 2301 Germantown St. in Dayotn by late January under a new name, Diamond D’s Diner.
Vinzant was in the building with four other individuals around 6 p.m. Sunday when a man popped his head in the door and asked, “Is this a restaurant”, according to a police report.
Before anyone could answer, the report states that a second man pushed open the door and displayed a pump action, sawed-off shotgun saying, “This is a stickup. Give me all your money.”
The man with the gun chased Vinzant as she fled to the back of the building. She was able to escape into the bathroom and lock the door. Everyone else was ordered onto the floor and told to empty their pockets.
The thieves allegedly hit one man in the back of the head and shoulder with the butt of the shotgun before fleeing with a wallet, two cellphones, credit cards and about $50 in cash.
The victims described both assailants as very young with baby faces. The one with the gun had very curly hair described as a “Jheri curl”.
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