http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Stories, facts and every day whimsy from the North Valley's schools, cities, villages and people gathered by reporter and columnist Doug Page en-us dpage@coxohio.com 2009-10-27T14:19:30-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/10/27/theres_more_disturbing_here_th.html Englewood police had been called before to the neighborhood on complaints of loud music. The neighbors claimed a gentleman would park his car in front of their houses and play his music at high volume. They also claimed the gentleman... Englewood police had been called before to the neighborhood on complaints of loud music. The neighbors claimed a gentleman would park his car in front of their houses and play his music at high volume. They also claimed the gentleman monitored a police scanner so when neighbors called police he would turn off the music. Police had warned the gentleman two days prior to an officer pulling up four houses away from the gentleman’s residence on a quiet, peaceful October morning. The officer reported he got out of his cruiser and was standing on the sidewalk when he saw a vehicle slowly back out of the gentleman’s driveway, do a U-turn and back into the driveway. The driver then turned off his headlights and “proceeded to turn the stereo up to a level that I could hear four houses away,” the officer reported. This at 6:30 in the morning. The officer approached the vehicle and asked the driver to identify himself. It was the gentleman police had warned. The officer explained that numerous neighbors had complained about his behavior. Then the officer added that he had heard the stereo played at “a disturbing level.” The gentleman “became irate and demanded to see our ‘loud o’ meter’,” the officer reported. The gentleman was cited for loud music and ordered to appear in Vandalia Municipal Court. The gentleman might have mis-remembered the Robert Frost verse. Perhaps he thought the poet wrote, “Good sound walls make good neighbors.” 15424503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Cop reports we love 2009-10-27T14:19:30-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/10/20/the_tale_of_the_good_car_fairy.html It all started with a call to Englewood police from a local towing service. In the dark hours the night before, someone had entered the locked tow yard and driven off with 1991 Buick Regal, exiting by driving the car... It all started with a call to Englewood police from a local towing service. In the dark hours the night before, someone had entered the locked tow yard and driven off with 1991 Buick Regal, exiting by driving the car through the tow yard’s chain link fence. The business provided police with a copy of the security tape, the car’s plate number and the address of the car’s owner. Earlier in the month, the car had been towed to the business after the owner had been arrested and jailed when he attempted to drive off without paying for the gas he pumped. His mother paid his bond, and he was later released. Two days later, Englewood was notified the car had been found. The owner was in the vehicle, going nowhere because of a flat tire. An officer was dispatched to arrest the gentleman and bring him back to Englewood for questioning. The owner told detectives, yes, his car had been towed, though he didn’t know where and was unconcerned about retrieving his car because he was getting rides from friends. When asked how the car came back into his possession, the gentleman said he found it on the street near his father’s house. Asked his father’s address, he responded “I don’t know.” Asked how the car might have gotten there, the gentleman said perhaps a friend. Asked the friend’s name, he responded, “I don’t know.” Finally a detective asked if the “good car fairy” returned his car to an unknown address out of the kindness and goodness of the fairy’s heart, according to the police report. The gentleman responded he had no idea. Asked if he had paid for the tow to get his car back — and documents to prove it — the gentleman reiterated he had no idea how the car showed up on the street. Detectives once again informed him that the car was stolen for the tow yard and driven through the chain link fence, and that he was in possession of the car. He, therefore, would be charged with receiving stolen property. “I’m going to jail?” the gentleman asked. “I advised him,” the detective wrote in his report, “that he was. Even though the good car fairy returned his car to him, (the fairy) stole it in order to do so.” 15322803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Cop reports we love 2009-10-20T14:44:53-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/10/13/the_answer_is_yes.html It was a Friday morning when Englewood police were called to an apartment to check on the welfare of a woman. When officers arrived, the woman said she was fine and had no plans to hurt herself. “What? Do you... It was a Friday morning when Englewood police were called to an apartment to check on the welfare of a woman. When officers arrived, the woman said she was fine and had no plans to hurt herself. “What? Do you think I’m stupid?” Officers reported the woman appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol and was upset about a visit from police the night before. During that visit when the woman complained about harassing text messages, officers had arrested her boyfriend on an unrelated warrant. After officers returned to their cars and began leaving, one saw the woman break out the front window of her apartment with her hand. She then dialed 9-1-1 and “screamed and cursed at the dispatcher regarding her displeasure with the police department”, according to the police report. As officers were returning to the front door, they saw the woman break out the remaining glass in the front window with a metal baseball bat. She then piled chairs in front of the front and back doors of the apartment and walked upstairs. Officers used a master key to open the apartment and ordered the woman to come down the stairs. She did with a cigarette in one hand and cell phone in the other as she spoke on the phone, ignoring orders to place her hands behind back. When officers tried to cuff her, she resisted. Eventually, one officer Tazed the woman so she could be cuffed. She was evaluated by EMTs, but declined further medical treatment beyond treatment for a cut on her arm, apparently from breaking the window. She was cited for disorderly conduct and criminal damaging, both misdemeanors. While on the way to the county lockup, she used the backseat of the police cruiser as a restroom. She remains in the lockup on $3,000 bond. 15222003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Cop reports we love 2009-10-13T12:50:18-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/10/06/tv_assaulted_police_believe_it.html The live-in boyfriend called Englewood Police in the early morning hours of a recent Monday to report a domestic dispute. When officers arrived, the girlfriend said she wanted the boyfriend gone from the home they shared. The girlfriend said her... The live-in boyfriend called Englewood Police in the early morning hours of a recent Monday to report a domestic dispute. When officers arrived, the girlfriend said she wanted the boyfriend gone from the home they shared. The girlfriend said her boyfriend’s name was not on the lease so she wanted him out. An officer explained because the boyfriend had been living in the home, he had established residency there. If she wanted him gone, she would have to start eviction proceedings. According to the officer’s report, the girlfriend acted as if she were drunk. The officer also noticed a LCD TV in the living room had a crack in the screen. When asked what happened, the girlfriend replied the TV belong to the boyfriend, and she had thrown a lighter at it, cracking the screen. Officers got the girlfriend to agree to sleep in the bedroom and stay there, and the boyfriend on the living room couch. Not quite 30 minutes later, the boyfriend called again. The girlfriend had come out of the bedroom and had been haranguing him. Police cited the girlfriend for disorderly conduct, but before they were able to cuff her, she hurled a cell phone at the TV, “causing additional damage to the screen,” according to the report. The boyfriend told police the girlfriend was upset because he was staying up late. (Perhaps watching too much TV?) In addition, the boyfriend claimed his girlfriend had consumed half-a-bottle of vodka. No word, however, on the TV’s condition. 15123103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Cop reports we love 2009-10-06T15:54:10-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/10/05/errors_in_judgment_are_facts.html Errors in judgment are facts of life. I made one of those some 18 months ago. Errors, no matter how grievous or wrong-headed, can be corrected. Apologies go over well with wives and mothers. Wives and mothers do not often... Errors in judgment are facts of life. I made one of those some 18 months ago. Errors, no matter how grievous or wrong-headed, can be corrected. Apologies go over well with wives and mothers. Wives and mothers do not often apologize. That would be because they are seldom wrong. Be that as it may, gentle reader, I note with great relief that the Clayton basketball goal imbroglio is on the back burner, at least for a while. If the gods are indeed good, it might even fade away. 15096203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Random musings 2009-10-05T10:34:03-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/09/29/oh_yes_he_is.html A gentleman, perhaps believing his home was his castle, dared officers to write him a citation for playing his music too loud. For his efforts, the gentleman not only got a citation but a free ride to the county lockup.... A gentleman, perhaps believing his home was his castle, dared officers to write him a citation for playing his music too loud. For his efforts, the gentleman not only got a citation but a free ride to the county lockup. It started at 2:45 on a Tuesday morning when neighbors called Englewood police with a loud music complaint. Officers responded to the gentleman’s apartment. They spent 20 minutes pounding on the apartment’s door and windows to get the gentleman’s attention. All the while, the music blared, according to the police report. Eventually, one officer discovered an unlocked window. The window was opened and officers attempted to rouse the gentleman who was sprawled on a nearby couch. They were unsuccessful. An officer then tried the apartment door and found it unlocked. Officers opened the door and announced their presence. The gentleman on the couch some 6 feet away did not respond. When officers entered his apartment, however, the gentleman arose and ordered the officers to leave “or he would call 9-1-1,” according to the report. Officers tried to calm the gentleman and asked if he had not heard their knocking and yelling. “You mean when (police) opened my window? Yes,” the man replied, according to police reports. A sergeant then told the gentleman that one of the officers would be citing him for loud music. “No, he’s not,” replied the gentleman as he tried to push past the sergeant. When assured that it would indeed happen, the gentleman again tried to push past the sergeant, who advised him he was now under arrest and handcuffed him, according to the report. The man continued to yell at officers and resist as they took him to a patrol car for his trip to the county lockup. He was, in fact, cited for loud music. 15000503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Cop reports we love 2009-09-29T11:00:04-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/09/24/companies_and_jobs_move_to_eng.html Englewood has been able to fill some buildings at its industrial park and elsewhere as three businesses have moved their operations and jobs to the city. • Eaton Compressor constructed a 60,000-square-foot building for a new product line. The $3... Englewood has been able to fill some buildings at its industrial park and elsewhere as three businesses have moved their operations and jobs to the city. • Eaton Compressor constructed a 60,000-square-foot building for a new product line. The $3 million to $4 million investment will create about 40 jobs. • Display Dynamics has moved its operations and 30 employees from Clay Twp. to a former Harco building in the industrial park. • Garber Electric has consolidated its operations in New Paris and Dayton — and another 30 jobs — into the former Triad Technologies building on Rockbridge 14929803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Englewood 2009-09-24T12:11:13-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/09/22/a_countysponsored_vacation_may.html The gentleman, well-known to the big-box retailer and Englewood police, attempted to push a shopping cart loaded with $267 of merchandise out of the store without paying a penny, according to police reports. Dispatchers informed the officers the gentleman would... The gentleman, well-known to the big-box retailer and Englewood police, attempted to push a shopping cart loaded with $267 of merchandise out of the store without paying a penny, according to police reports. Dispatchers informed the officers the gentleman would likely complain of chest pains when arrested, if history was any indication. After he was handcuffed, searched and arrested for misdemeanor theft, the gentleman — no surprise here — complained of chest pains. A medic unit was dispatched, and the gentleman requested he be taken to a nearby hospital. Meanwhile, a check of the retailer’s records found the gentleman had been arrested eight times in the retailer’s Dayton-area stores since 2008. According to the retailer’s records, the gentleman had been barred In April from all the retailer’s stores nationwide. The medic crew then reported when they arrived at the hospital, the gentleman said he was fine, signed a release and left. Efforts to contact the gentleman were unsuccessful because he gave police the phone number of another person. Police asked that the gentleman be informed the additional charge, criminal trespassing, when he shows up in court on the theft charge. Because he is on probation for a previous trespassing charge, one could assume he is about to go on a county-sponsored vacation in the grey-bar motel. 14894103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Cop reports we love 2009-09-22T12:34:04-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/09/16/sir_you_are_sadly_mistaken.html Englewood police were called to an apartment building on Labor Day on a report of a strange man in a woman’s apartment. When the officers arrived they found the gentleman sitting at the dining room table. When asked what he... Englewood police were called to an apartment building on Labor Day on a report of a strange man in a woman’s apartment. When the officers arrived they found the gentleman sitting at the dining room table. When asked what he was doing there, he said, “I’m in my apartment,” according to the police report. The apartment’s resident thought otherwise, telling police she was in the shower when the man walked in. She yelled at him to get out and slammed the bathroom door. After putting on a robe, the woman came out of the bathroom and ordered the gentleman to leave. Instead he wandered around the apartment opening the refrigerator and cabinet doors. She called police. It was the second time that day, the gentleman had wandered into the wrong apartment, according to police. Earlier he had walked into another woman’s apartment and demanded, “I want a Budweiser.” She said she did not have any Bud and to get out. Again, the gentleman refused. The woman, who is legally blind and uses a walker, told police she was terrified. She managed to call her sister, who called police, who escorted the man from the apartment. On the second call, police escorted the gentleman to the county lockup, citing him for disorderly conduct while intoxicated and criminal trespass. 14804103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Random musings 2009-09-16T16:25:03-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/09/14/hal_mccoy_living_in_the_field.html The tops of the trees are brushed with color. The coolness before sunrise has a bite. Footballs fill the air. Fall is here, and winter treads on its heels. Baseball is winding down. The Reds will disappear off the sports... The tops of the trees are brushed with color. The coolness before sunrise has a bite. Footballs fill the air. Fall is here, and winter treads on its heels. Baseball is winding down. The Reds will disappear off the sports pages and another season forgotten. Who says there is no mercy? And Dayton Daily News baseball writer Hal McCoy will return to hearth and home in Englewood, just as he has for the past 37 years, 162 games played, watched and chronicled. 14762903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Random musings 2009-09-14T14:37:07-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/09/08/more_fun_with_alcohol.html The Monday night party in the parking lot behind a house was getting loud. Loud enough a resident called Englewood police. When an officer showed up, the host said he lived next door and had invited a few friends over... The Monday night party in the parking lot behind a house was getting loud. Loud enough a resident called Englewood police. When an officer showed up, the host said he lived next door and had invited a few friends over for a bonfire and drinks. A “few friends” numbered 15 to 20, all talking and drinking, according to the police report. The officer told the host to keep it down, otherwise somebody was going to be cited. The officer then stopped by the house in front of the parking lot. The homeowner said the house next door was vacant. The officers returned to the parking lot and told the host to shut it down. Returning to his cruiser, the officer spotted a young party-goer urinating in the parking lot. The gentleman was arrested and searched. The officer found a dope pipe on the gentleman, who admitted he was drunk. It wasn’t his fault, though. His friends got him drunk — seriously drunk. Once at the county lockup, the 21-year-old threw up in the back of the cruiser. He was turned over to jail personnel, who provided a wheelchair to transport the young gentleman into the lockup. He was cited disorderly conduct while intoxicated and possession of drug paraphernalia. Too bad, he wasn’t made to clean up the puke in the back of the squad car. 14667003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Cop reports we love 2009-09-08T10:50:05-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/09/01/yo_dude_you_forgot_something.html Note to a Clayton man: That knock on the door is likely the Englewood police. You see when you fled from that traffic stop over the weekend, you forgot something. The officer who stopped you for speeding and suspected you... Note to a Clayton man: That knock on the door is likely the Englewood police. You see when you fled from that traffic stop over the weekend, you forgot something. The officer who stopped you for speeding and suspected you were drunk still had your drivers license in his hand when you roared away. You were probably feeling pretty good when you looked in your rear-view mirror and saw no pursuit. It’s not as if the officer didn’t want to chase you down. Nope, he probably really did. But there was a peewee football game just up the road from the traffic stop, and you were heading toward downtown Union and more traffic. The officer decided it was less of risk to let you go than to chase you. Besides, he had your license, knows where you live and has called your probation officer. You remember him? That guy who has been supervising your probation these past five years for that burglary conviction? Ya, that’s the guy. He’s going to look kindly towards your speeding and fleeing. Smooth move, dude. By the way, they issued an arrest warrant for you. Expect some visitors soon. 14575603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Cop reports we love 2009-09-01T15:09:41-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/08/25/underage_drunk_and_dumb.html You just know a 3 o’clock in the morning call on a drunk in a grocery store should be filled with giggles. Particularly when the drunk in question is urinating in the back of the store, according to witnesses. When... You just know a 3 o’clock in the morning call on a drunk in a grocery store should be filled with giggles. Particularly when the drunk in question is urinating in the back of the store, according to witnesses. When Englewood police arrived, they reported the young man in question was upright but unresponsive to questions at first. The 19-year-old, stinking of alcohol and urine, was escorted outside and leaned against the patrol car to keep him from falling over while he was searched. Asked where he was from, he responded, “Zurich”. Asked his age, he said, “308”. Asked his phone number, he responded, “308-309”. ID in his wallet suggested otherwise. The young man was cited for underage consumption and public intoxication, and given a ride to the county lockup where he spent the night. My guess? His hangover was intense. 14470003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Cop reports we love 2009-08-25T13:13:33-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/08/24/humping_the_ruck_on_a_differen.html In Vietnam, the grunts called it “humping the ruck,” endless slogs through the triple-canopy jungle their bodies draped in bandoliers of ammo, their rucksacks cutting into shoulders and their feet never dry. Pure misery. Two Iraq War vets — a... In Vietnam, the grunts called it “humping the ruck,” endless slogs through the triple-canopy jungle their bodies draped in bandoliers of ammo, their rucksacks cutting into shoulders and their feet never dry. Pure misery. Two Iraq War vets — a former Marine Corps combat engineer and an ex-Army infantryman — sat in an Englewood coffee shop the other day to explain why they were humping the ruck across this country. Misery of the road would be part of it. But rather than search and destroy, their mission is expiation and redemption. 14454003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Random musings 2009-08-24T16:07:36-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/entries/2009/08/18/it_was_shortly_after_1.html It was shortly after 1 a.m. when Englewood police were called to a local watering hole on a report of a fight. When cops arrived, three men had fled out the back door. The bartender said the three had pummeled... It was shortly after 1 a.m. when Englewood police were called to a local watering hole on a report of a fight. When cops arrived, three men had fled out the back door. The bartender said the three had pummeled and kicked one of the bar’s regular customers. The bartender told cops the three men were drunk. A short time later, an officer saw two men in a nearby parked car, which took off as he approached. Other officers stopped the car. It appeared that both the driver and the passenger were drunk. Both were blood-stained. The driver offered several times to fight one of the officers and dropped f-bombs when asked if he would take a blood test. The driver was arrested for driving under the influence and disorderly conduct. He was taken to a local hospital complaining of pains in his arm and hand. Checking the ID of the passenger, police found he was wanted on a Miami County warrant. He was detained on the warrant and additionally charged with disorderly conduct. Meanwhile, back at the bar, the bartender told police the regular was having a conversation with another patron when a man — later identified as the car’s driver — crossed the room and belted the regular in the face. The driver’s two buddies then joined in, kicking and punching the regular. The bartender said the regular had done nothing to provoke the three. The regular told police he wanted to press charges. An officer returned to the hospital to serve an assault citation to the driver. The driver said he didn’t hit anybody but, according to the officer’s report, he “seemed to have trouble recalling what happened.” Police are still looking for the third suspect. 14361603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/northvalleynotebook/ Cop reports we love 2009-08-18T12:13:18-05:00 dpage@coxohio.com