Jefferson County Sheriff

Beer blaster: A county resident said her ex showed up at a friend’s house in Richmond throwing beer bottles, Friday. She said he was trying to get her to “come with him,” and when she refused said he was going to her house and would harm her mother.

Knock first: A Tiltonsville man said he and his wife were upstairs watching TV and “heard a loud thud,” Friday. He said he looked out the window and didn’t see anyone outside his home but when he went downstairs to investigate, he “saw his front door busted down.”

Fish story: A woman slumped over the steering wheel of a truck was spotted parked in Yorkville, Monday. Deputies said after several attempts a Martins Ferry police officer, who discovered her, was able to awaken her, and she told them she’d been at the dam fishing with her father but got cold and returned to the truck to warm up.

Steubenville Police

Trick or treat: A man passersby reported was “laying on the sidewalk” in the 1900 block of Oregon Avenue in the midst of the trick-or-treaters was cited, Saturday. Police said Kenneth Bailey, 63, 1504 Maryland Ave., Steubenville, was cited for intoxication/disorderly conduct after they allegedly found him “to be obviously intoxicated (and) barely able to stand on his own without falling over.” Police claim he also reeked of alcohol, but he told them “his current state was brought about as a result of taking medication prescribed (to him) by his doctor” though they said he couldn’t tell them what that medicine was. In addition to causing some degree of consternation among the “large crowd of people” in the area trick-or-treating, police said they also believed him to be “so overly intoxicated that he could not properly care” for the young child who was with him.

Attention getter: A driver who allegedly refused to identify himself to police trying to find figure out why he was driving through town dragging “a large piece of plastic” from his car ended up being taken into custody, Saturday. Police said the vehicle had heavy front-end damage to the front driver-side wheel well and it appeared it “(possibly) had just struck something or was involved in some kind of accident,” but when they tried to speak with him they reported the driver was “pacing back and forth, not saying anything” but his passenger, who identified as a sovereign citizen, complained that police were “bothering them” and that “there was nothing to investigate.” Police maintain they watched the driver “shove what was dragging (on) the ground back up into the wheel well” and then tried to follow the passenger into a building until they intervened. Tomara A. Pulliam, 28, 402 Spring Ave., Steubenville, was charged with obstruction of justice.

Who’s counting: A Greenfield Avenue resident said a man “had taken property from her house,” Monday. She said he’d lived with her previously during a multi-year relationship, but she “wants the Christmas presents that (he) allegedly took from the house.” Police were unable to locate him.

Shoe shopping: A woman left Rural King wearing “a new pair of Carhartt shoes” she didn’t have on when she entered the store, Sunday. Employees told police the woman left the store in a silver GMC sport utility vehicle. The shoes were valued at $170.

Stuck: A woman who said she’d been arguing with her roommate told police she doesn’t want to go home, Sunday. Police told her the women’s shelter closed permanently and is no longer an option and offered to drive her to a friend’s house in the city but she said she had nowhere else to go.

Didn’t pay: Employees at Wal-Mart said a shoplifter concealed a few items in her purse and fled, leaving behind a full shopping cart behind, Sunday. They told police they think she had some clothing items and a few boxes of ornaments concealed in her purse when she fled.

Smashed it: Police checked a property in the 1200 block of Arlington Avenue after someone reported seeing an open door, Sunday. Upon inspection, police said it had been forced open. They were told the former occupant only returns to collect mail. About an hour later a neighbor told police she heard “a loud, smashing sound” outside her house and when she checked her security camera, saw a man “smash (her) windshield.”