tSunset Blvd., 400 block: A man was arrested after a short foot chase at 11 pm Monday. A police car was behind another car when the other car pulled an illegal turn without a signal and acted as if the driver was eluding police. The officer flashed his light, and the driver pulled into a gas station, jumped out and ran. After back–up was called and the man was caught, he explained he was merely a decoy to keep his buddy who had been a passenger from getting arrested. The man said his buddy told him he was holding drugs and to run so the buddy could get away. During the foot chase a window in a nearby shop had been broken, but the man said he wasn’t trying to break into the store. He said he had just probably had too much to drink and stumbled and fell.

tJarvis Klapman Blvd., 1700 block: A pregnant woman was arrested at 10 pm Monday after police spotted her stumbling down the middle of the highway. When officers approached her, she was having trouble standing and her words were slurred. Because she was pregnant, they asked the 38-year-old woman what she had taken but she kept saying nothing. When they asked why she was walking down the freeway, she said she needed a ride to her motel. Then she said she really had no place to go but someone had given her a key to a motel room so she was going there. They charged her with drunkenness and were in the process of arresting her when they noticed her hands were in a fist. They asked her to open them and she refused. They literally pried her hand open and found a white rock of cocaine. She was then charged with possession and resisting arrest.

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tHillside Road, 5000 block: A woman called police at 6 pm Wednesday after she said she had been threatened outside her home. The 36–year–old woman told officers that earlier that day she saw a child in diapers in a nearby park sitting all alone at a picnic table. She said she stopped and was going to go to the child, but a teenager came along and picked the baby up. The teen glared at the woman and a short time later the boy and an older woman came to the woman’s house and demanded that she give them the pictures she took of the child and wanted to know why she was “getting in their business.” The woman tried to explain that she was just concerned for the child and never took any photos, but the duo was still aggressive with her. She told them to leave her property and called police. The accused people said the woman had no right to bother them as they were watching the child from their front yard. They were put on trespass notice and warned to leave the woman alone, a report said.

tHoliday Circle, 10th block: Police were called to a home at 3 pm Tuesday after a woman said her “baby daddy,” the man she had a child with, was threatening her. The 18–year–old woman told officers the 22–year–old man called her and told her he was going to get his cousins to beat her up, and then he was going to shoot her. She said she feared for her safety.

tDalloz Road, 1000 block: A man called police to press charges for a visual and verbal assault at 5 pm Tuesday. The 67–year–old man told officers that a man he knew drove past his home and made an obscene motion with his hand and shouted an obscenity at the man. The man said he wanted to prosecute.

tForest Drive, 3200 block: Police were called to a video store at noon Tuesday after employees realized that someone had stolen 50 different Playstation 3 video games. When they watched the surveillance tape, they saw a man and woman enter the store with two small children. The woman let the kids snatch candy from the shelves and eat it inside the store while she kept the clerks busy with questions and asking for help trying to find movies. The man went behind the counter and grabbed the videos and then walked out without paying. The surveillance tape showed clear pictures of the couple and their kids and the employees recognized them as regular customers.

tCovenant Road, 3400 block: A man was taken to the hospital at 6 pm Monday after someone called in a report of someone playing in traffic. When officers arrived the 64–year–old man was in the road and bleeding from his head. He told them a car had hit him but several witnesses said he fell by himself, and no car had been involved. The man insisted he felt like a car hit him, but when the paramedics arrived they concluded the man was simply drunk. No charges were filed.

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tBroad River Road, 3000 block: Police are looking for a man who pawned a stolen watch at 10 am Tuesday. The 18–year–old took the watch to a pawn shop and filled out paper work that claimed it was his watch, but it also included his name, address, and phone number. Police think the thief knows the man who owned the watch.

tVarn Street, 2600 block: A man was arrested at 11 am Wednesday after it was discovered he was stealing electricity. The power was turned off in the 62–year–old man’s home, but when an electricity company employee went back to check on the meter, he found that it had been tampered with in order to turn the power back on. The man said his stepson had turned the power back on, but the stepson lived out of state, and there was no way to reach him. The officers asked the man why he allowed the stepson to turn the power back on. The man said it was because it was turned off.