Extracts
from the Star-Tribune Police & Fire Dispatches
Unlike other pages and links on the ISMS website this one relates to a serious publication: The Star-Tribune, the newspaper of Greater Carroll County, Arkansas covering: Berryville, Eureka Springs and Green Forest and surrounding areas.
As you'll see, if you follow the link, the Star-Tribune is a genuine newspaper for the local community. However, the recorded police dispatches for the three main cities mentioned above often make great reading. We can't guarantee amusement every time, but we like the way incidents are recorded and think it's well worth a visit.
We've recently updated this page to select what we consider to be the best reports from 2003. We do not intend updating this page in the future, so follow the link to the newspaper site and keep yourself up to date.
The following extracts are copied word for word from the newspaper.
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Date |
Time |
Incident |
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Jan 8 |
8:33 am |
Officer investigated a report of subject stuck in a motel vending machine. Vendor unlocked the machine and freed a raccoon |
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Feb 1 |
7:18 pm |
A discount store employee reported that a shoplifter stomped on purloined merchandise when confronted |
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Feb 13 |
1:45 pm |
An officer decided no report was warranted after being informed that an unmetered dwelling was receiving electricity through an extension cord connected to a local thrift shop |
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Feb 13 |
10:28 pm |
Upon receiving a 911 call saying someone had overdosed on meth, the call was forwarded to the sheriff's office The message was then sent back to the Eureka Springs 911 system Attempts to relay the message to the sheriff's office were unsuccessful as deputies were already on-line copying the message directly Disposition of the incident was unclear |
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March 3 |
11:45 am |
An officer took a "guitar with weird writing" abandoned in Basin Park to headquarters |
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March 22 |
5:47 pm |
An anonymous caller reported a cannon firing in Greenwood Hollow Officers were unable to locate it |
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March 30 |
2:45 pm |
An officer filed a vandalism report after he found a No Parking sign in the back of a vehicle parked in a reserved spot on Center St |
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April 1 |
5:11 pm |
A caller asked an officer to watch for paint ballers downtown None was spotted |
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April 7 |
6:01 pm |
An officer inspected a Steele St mailbox and decided the contents were not, as reported, a snake |
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April 10 |
11:35 pm |
An officer had a word with the spokesman for a barking dog at the end of Wall St |
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April 10 |
9:51 am |
The police chief recorded a report from a woman who alleged her husband committed bigamy while visiting local attractions |
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April 12 |
12:13 am |
A father and son outing ended in a trip to the hospital and jail after fluid leaking from their damaged vehicle betrayed their whereabouts |
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April 14 |
10:22 pm |
An intoxicated subject was arrested after refusing to get out of the back seat of a stranger's car parked at a local liquor store |
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April 26 |
6:18 am |
An officer found vehicles in Leatherwood Park after hours They were found to belong to the dam repairmen who live there |
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April 30 |
4:24 pm |
An officer was unable to find an "aggressive-looking raccoon," reportedly running loose near Grand and Dairy Hollow |
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May 10 |
4:20 pm |
The animal control officer reported that dogs chasing cars on Wall St , "hadn't caught any yet " |
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May 19 |
6:32 pm |
An officer found nothing worth reporting about a subject resting in the cemetery |
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May 20 |
6:59 am |
Officers reported a laundromat vending machine cleaned out |
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May 22 |
2:17 pm |
An officer was unable to run down a subject reportedly lying in Mountain St |
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May 30 |
7:40 pm |
An officer could not locate any drunk women matching the description of one reported on S Main St |
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June 7 |
10:59 am |
An officer relayed an alderman's request that police cars in the "lights and sirens parade" not use their sirens on Spring St |
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June 8 |
9:30 pm |
Loud music reported at Shaver and Freeman Unable to locate |
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June 10 |
9:35 pm |
A man singing loudly on Owen St was mistaken for music |
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June 21 |
4:26 pm |
The animal control officer spoke with a pet owner whose Boxers were loose |
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June 27 |
8:00 pm |
Police were dispatched to the golf driving range to investigate a report of a reckless driver |
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June 28 |
11:31 pm |
Police
transported a subject to jail on a public intoxication charge |
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July 2 |
8:15 pm |
Police were dispatched to an Easy Street home to investigate a garbled 911 call Police reported that everything was okay The residents were intoxicated |
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July 4 |
6:38 pm |
Caller reported a water leak behind court house Officer reported it was not a leak, it was the sprinkler system |
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July 9 |
2:25 pm |
Child in car at Dollar Tree was out on officer's arrival |
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July 10 |
2:50 am |
Suspicious circumstances cleared up at laundromat |
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July 11 |
11:07 pm |
Police checked two people who were at the city park |
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July 11 |
4:53 pm |
Told kids to quit shooting fireworks at Locust Heights |
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July 13 |
2:42 am |
Officer responded to a report of an altercation in parking lot between bride and groom with members of the wedding party trying to calm them down Dispute was settled |
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July 13 |
2:49 pm |
Caller reported a German Shepherd running loose |
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July 15 |
8:30 pm |
Police were dispatched to the police department to take a report |
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July 19 |
9:10 am |
Pack of dogs running loose at Community First Bank Unable to locate |
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July 21 |
9:27 pm |
Caller reported magic props and two doves left in Basin Park |
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July 24 |
11:56 am |
An officer told a Spring St restaurant employee where to stuff his trash |
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July 24 |
12:46 pm |
Caller reported dogs running loose and bothering her animal (?) |
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July 26 |
11:05 pm |
Police checked on a Mexican dance |
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July 27 |
11:05 pm |
Police were at the Mexican dance |
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July 27 |
9:50 pm |
Police
transported a subject to jail |
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July 27 |
5:10 pm |
Caller
reported a speeding yellow moped on North Main |
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July 27 |
10:24 am |
A shop owner asked police to turn down the volume on the "Soothing Sunday Morning Music in the Park" concert |
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Aug 8 |
9:49 am |
A door-to-door statue vendor identified by the large alarm clock he was carrying was advised against peddling |
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Aug 9 |
5:38 pm |
An officer replaced a sidewalk grating after kids created a real tourist trap on upper Spring St |
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Aug 13 |
2:13 am |
An officer determined that a couple reportedly, "fighting for the last seven hours" were only having a conversation on their back porch |
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Aug 13 |
4:01 am |
Prank calls at the emergency room Officer answered the next one and calls ceased |
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Aug 25 |
11:20 pm |
Caller reported seeing a missing person at tavern Subject was not the missing person, but was arrested anyhow for public intoxication after being found passed out on the stairs |
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Aug 30 |
11:40 pm |
Police transported a subject from the town square to jail for having an open container (the slightest thing in the mid-west - Ed ) |
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Aug 30 |
9:38 pm |
A loud crash at the front door prompted a high school employee to call the police Officers found no damage to the front door but an adjacent beer bottle was totaled |
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Aug 31 |
9:25 am |
Following a call from a B&B operator, an officer was unable to intercept a woman on her way home to Oklahoma who was one suitcase short of a full load |
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Aug 31 |
4:38 pm |
An officer advised a Wall St resort operator about the proper procedure for extracting money from reluctant guests |
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Sept 1 |
10:12 am |
Accident report taken on deer versus vehicle incident |
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Sept 2 |
2:35 am |
Praying mantis found in child's room Officer removed insect |
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Sept 3 |
10:29 pm |
Officers asked a Dairy Hollow motorcycle tinkerer to let the neighbors get some sleep |
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Sept 5 |
10:20 pm |
A vehicle red-tagged Thursday on Washington St had been moved and now blocked even more of a driveway |
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Sept 26 |
10:30 pm |
Subjects who stole ice from a US62E gas station melted into the night before officers arrived |
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Oct 4 |
10:12 pm |
An officer spoke with subjects testing the law of gravity from atop a US62E observation tower |
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Oct 17 |
2:50 pm |
The sheriff's department asked officers to be on the lookout for stolen Wal-Mart shopping carts which may be headed for Eureka Springs |
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Oct 19 |
7:31 pm |
The East Mountain owner of an already cremated pet discovered it had been shot by a shotgun |
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Oct 22 |
4:34 am |
An officer was unable to locate a suspicious vehicle said to be killing time in the cemetery |
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Oct 31 |
7:10 pm |
An officer spoke with a boy brandishing a toy pistol and demanding candy from trick or treaters on Prospect St |
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Nov 16 |
2 pm |
Acting on faulty information from Missouri, three officers detained a subject driving a reportedly stolen vehicle After discovering that the vehicle had not been stolen, the driver was charged with lack of insurance |
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Nov 20 |
9:50 pm |
Officer requested to close courthouse door Mayor closed it (shame! -Ed) |
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Nov 20 |
10:08 pm |
Officer closed auditorium door (success! -Ed) |
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Nov 23 |
3:07 pm |
Officers found only wet footprints when they responded to a complaint that motel guests were swimming after hours |
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Nov 23 |
1:20 pm |
An officer found a church door agape on the historic loop |
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Nov 25 |
2:13 pm |
An officer advised a subject he needs a business license to sell satellite service out of a tent |
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Nov 27 |
6:16 pm |
An officer advised holiday celebrants to "stay away from each other," following his investigation of a "turkey dinner dispute" on Pivot Rock Rd |
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Nov 29 |
2:41 pm |
Officers were summoned to a parking dispute on First St but took no official action since the matter was "settled with violence " |
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Dec 7 |
10:56 am |
An officer reported a dead deer in a US62E motel room apparently entered through a broken window |
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