Culled from the Police Reports page of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle come the best of the Bozeman police reports from the last week along with some items from the Sheriff’s Office. Note that a new book featuring the very best of these police reports is now available from the Chronicle for only $10 – just click on the banner below to find out how to order.

Things appear to be livening up a little bit around here after weeks of mostly dull police reports, the first item below being a summary of this story in today’s paper that, for some reason, editors felt deserved to be a featured report. This was just one of multiple similar reports last week, a category that hasn’t really been noticed in the year or so since these police reports have became regular Saturday fare here. And remember, driving with your lights off at 2 AM is one of the surest ways to get pulled over for drunk driving.

• A Big Sky woman was accused of slipping out of handcuffs while riding in the back of a patrol car, pulling down her pants and urinating. The woman was arrested in Big Sky for aggravated drunken driving around 4 a.m. Friday and, before being taken  to Gallatin County jail (about 40 miles away), was allowed to use the restroom at the Big Sky Fire Station. But while traveling on U.S. Highway 191 near Deer Creek, she was able to remove her handcuffs, unbuckle her seat belt, pull her pants down, and then urinated in the back of the squad car.
• Police warned two men on East Main Street around 2:30 a.m. for being disorderly “as they were having a heated discussion about the end of the world.”
• A yellow Nissan truck that says “pooper man” on the side has been parked near East Curtiss Street and South Wallace Avenue for three months.
• A teenage boy was seen urinating under an apple tree in a North Eighth Avenue woman’s yard at 12:46 p.m.
• A slender man with black goggles was walking toward the library when he gave a woman a weird feeling.

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Culled from the Police Reports page of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle come the best of the Bozeman police reports from the last week along with some items from the Sheriff’s Office. Note that a new book featuring the very best of these police reports is now available from the Chronicle for only $10 – just click on the banner below to find out how to order.

Maybe there’s something more to this latest batch of police reports than meets the eye (I confess to not knowing what a “construction candlestick” is and Google Images provided no help), but considering that this covers the period through January 2nd and all the related mischief that would be expected at that time, it just seems kind of dull. Sure, there were a few DUIs that may have been more unruly than was let on, but, overall, save for another possible leopard sighting, it was a bit disappointing.

• A drunken man who claimed his address was “Vietnam” was given a ride to a motel.
• An officer stopped a group of young adults dragging a “construction candlestick” near South 12th Avenue and West Koch Street at 11 p.m. The officer made them put the “candlestick” back where they found it and pour out their beers.
• An orange jumpsuit was found in the jail Dumpster just past midnight. Officers believe it was a costume.
• A Damarell Road resident called dispatch with questions regarding a possible leopard in a neighbor’s house.
• A man brought in a skull he found in front of his South Seventh Avenue home. It turned out to be an animal skull.

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Culled from the Police Reports page of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle come the best of the Bozeman police reports from the last week along with some items from the Sheriff’s Office. Note that a new book featuring the very best of these police reports is now available from the Chronicle for only $10 – just click on the banner below to find out how to order.

There was a noticeable increase last week in the kind of activity that has come to characterize the police reports section of the local newspaper, allaying concerns expressed here previously that the town had somehow become more domesticated in recent weeks. No drunks were apprehended after stumbling into peoples homes in the wee hours and passing out on the couch, but there were plenty of other alcohol related incidents along with a good collection of reports on animals including a mountain lion and a leopard.

• A mutt followed someone home from the bar at 1:16 a.m.
• Two drunken 19-year-old girls were pulled over for driving with the car’s headlights off at 2:05 a.m. The driver was arrested for driving under the influence and the passenger was cited for minor in possession.
• Someone was pounding on a woman’s apartment door at 4:07 a.m. She told dispatch someone was howling outside her window the night before.
• When a Golden Rod Lane man told his neighbor to stop shoveling his sidewalk, the neighbor began swearing at him.

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