From the Cruiser
BY WENDY ELLIOTT
welliott@kentvilleadvertiser.ca
NovaNewsNow.com
There were 307 reports made to RCMP in Kings County between June 16 and June 23.
A bottle of liquor was lifted from a Canning business and the loss reported June 16.
Three drunken youth were reported at 10:58 a.m. in New Minas. Police located them and found a male out of control.
Four youth, between the ages of 16 and 18, were reported throwing garbage off the overpass at Morden Rd. at 11:37 a.m. Police located them.
A 21-year-old woman was arrested for shoplifting in New Minas at 4:18 p.m. She will appear in court in August.
A Deep Hollow Rd. resident of the White Rock area reported an elderly woman’s house was being egged again. There was a rear-end collision in Waterville.
Someone broke into a room at University Hall on the Acadia University campus, but an alarm scared the thief off.
A resident of Elizabeth Dr. in north Kentville reported a rock thrown through the window of a van at 11:40 p.m.
There was a suspicious fire that burned the corner of a shed on Sanford Rd. in north Kentville.
At 5:40 a.m. last Tuesday the theft of copper wire was reported by Nova Scotia Power Corp. in White Rock.
A construction site on Elizabeth Dr. in north Kentville suffered a break-in overnight.
The vehicle belonging to a business west of Berwick was vandalized.
A Park Rd., Kingston resident reported the theft of all her lawn ornaments overnight.
Three tires were slashed and a garage egged in West Brooklyn. Someone stole tools out of a truck belonging to a business in Kingston.
Police were advised that an emergency landing at the Waterville airport was successful.
The sign at the New Minas United Church was vandalized overnight last Wednesday.
A vehicle parked at the old Foodland lot in Kingston was vandalized. A wood splitter was stolen from North Alton.
A fawn was observed on Highland Ave. in Wolfville at 9:39 a.m. This is the second deer sighted in a week in the community.
A 911 caller reported a 46-year-old drunk in Canning. Police responded at 12:21 p.m. and he was lodged in a cell.
A 15-year-old girl was caught shoplifting in Zellers in New Minas. An ATV was in the middle of the road in Windermere at 2:36 p.m.
A truck hit a guardrail on Highway 101 near Hants Border at 2:48 p.m. A female in her twenties who was shoplifting in Greenwood tried to flee.
A 24-year-old driver was burning rubber on Andringa Dr. in Cambridge. Police caught him shortly after 6 p.m. and gave him a warning.
A 14-year-old girl was walking along the road in North Alton about 8:30 p.m. Four older men in a vehicle propositioned her rudely.
Two youth were observed smashing a TV left by the roadside on Main St. in Kingston at 11:26 p.m.
Egging of vehicles near the golf course in Kingston was reported at 11:40 p.m. Police found an empty carton of eggs.
A dead deer was laying on Highway 101 near Berwick early last Thursday morning.
Welding equipment was stolen from two trucks parked on Ira Bill Rd. in Centreville.
A shed located on a vacant lot on Pine St. in Greenwood was trashed overnight.
A Hillside Ave. apartment in Wolfville was broken into. A ride-on mower was stolen from a shed at Murphy Lake.
Two dirt bikes were causing problems for Aalders Ave., New Minas residents June 19.
There was an attempt to steal a motor off a boat on the Bluff Rd. in Hants Border.
Speeders were causing fear for the safety of children on Marie Cres. in north Kentville.
A vehicle went into the ditch in Forest Home and had to be towed at 10:40 p.m. An hour later there was another collision in Cambridge, which resulted in a number of charges.
Youth were causing a disturbance in the park on Victoria Rd. in Aylesford at 12:53 a.m. June 20.
Someone stole half a tank of gas out of a vehicle on Howe Ave in Greenwood.
Propane dispensing equipment was vandalized overnight at a business on Markland Rd. in Kingston.
A strange man walked into a house on Central Ave. in Greenwood at 11:30 a.m. and left when challenged.
Jewelry was stolen from a house on Aurora Cres. in Greenwood. Motorbikes were speeding on Summer St. in Canning about 3 p.m. Some forged cheques were picked up in New Minas.
Three teenagers who got lost in the Kentville Agriculture Centre ravine used GPS on a cell phone to find their way out of the woods close to 9:30 p.m.
A 49-year-old motorcycle driver and his 37-year-old passenger were injured at 10 p.m. after hitting a dead tree in Auburn.
Someone broke into a Centreville house and stole six cans of beer out of the fridge.
There was a loud, outdoor party going on at Bay St. in Wolfville at 11:47 p.m.
Six young males were reported at 1:55 a.m. June 21 on a car lot in Coldbrook.
A dirt bike was stolen between midnight and 3 a.m. from a padlocked shed in Cambridge.
A BBQ was stolen from a doorway in Cambridge. A 33-year-old man was found to be impaired after a collision in Pereau. A boat motor was stolen near Canning.
A driver in Kingston was charged with failing to yield after a collision.
Someone broke into the Retro Runway Fashion store in Wolfville and there was an attempted break-in at a nearby plumbing business.
A drunken man at the Valley Regional Hospital emergency room was arrested after he became agitated about 4 p.m.
A vandal tore out the fire alarm system at a Summer St. apartment building in Wolfville.
Two women did not pay for a cab ride to north Kentville. Police determined one of the women was passed out at 8:46 p.m.
A drunken youth was reported laying on the ground at 11:10 p.m. at Lockhart/Ryan Park.
There was a loud party on Park Rd. in Kingston at 12:50 a.m. June 22.
A disturbance reported from Andringa Dr. in Cambridge at 1 a.m. turned out to be an outdoor hockey game.
A drunken man was found bleeding by a fuel pump at a gas bar in Coldbrook at 1:59 a.m. The man, who was from Metro, said he had been jumped at a nearby lounge.
An impaired driver was reported in Greenwich at 2:16 a.m. He was charged after failing the breathalyzer.
A host/chaperone at a prom party called police at 4 a.m. to report a young driver who was impaired and would not surrender his keys.
Then, at 6 a.m., a driver reported a staggering youth walking home on Highway 101 near Berwick. Police located him just as his mother picked him up.
A cyclist stole a Dodge van from Collins Rd. in Port Williams overnight and left his bike behind. The keys had been left in the vehicle, which was full of tools.
There was a horse on Central Ave. in Greenwood at 7:37 a.m. Someone siphoned gas out of a plane at the Waterville airport.
A ticket was issued to one of the three drivers involved in a rear-end collision in Kingston.
A golden retriever named Bailey was possibly stolen in Woodville.
A vehicle with the keys left in it was stolen from the Medford Rd. in Canning, but it was located nearby.
At 5:30 p.m. a driver went off the road on Highway 101 near exit 12. A Coldbrook gas bar reported two gas-and-go incidents in 24 hours.
A thief took copper wire out of a hog barn in Sheffield Mils. There was a report of partying on the Morden Wharf Rd. at 9:31 p.m.
At 1:30 a.m. June 23, a drunken male in Coldbrook was reported for causing a disturbance at a home. He had cut his mouth on a beer cap, but was arrested and lodged in a cell.
Two trucks collided on Bridge St. in Kingston at 8:53 a.m. Traffic was blocked by a fall of Pepsi cans.
Eight mental health calls were received, including one request for advice and an assault with a cup of coffee. Twelve domestic incidents occurred and one case of suspected child abuse was reported.
There were four false business alarms, two false residential alarms and nine false 911 calls.