Hammer Time, Pool Parenting, Duck Rescue: Woodbury Police Blotter

The following information was obtained from recent police reports.

June 4

A Woodbury man with warrants out for his arrest in Ramsey County for drug-related crimes was apprehended at a home at the 1000 block of Pelto Path.

Police received a tip about two people smoking marijuana in a car at the 6000 block of Lake Road, but they were gone by the time officers arrive.

A man who had been released from a hospital following ongoing mental-health issues broke down the front door of his mother’s home and stole her laptop, along with his brother’s computer. Police were advised that he had pawned his mother’s laptop at a shop in Minneapolis. The mother did not want to pursue burglary charges and wanted police to check on his welfare.

June 5

A resident at the 700 block of Markgrafs Lake Draw told police someone entered his attached garage and stole a 65-year-old set of golf clubs.

A man called police about a woman following him in the parking lot of 3M (officers later learned it was the Maplewood campus). He told police she had threatened him with a hammer. An officer called the man but it went straight to voicemail; police encouraged him to contact Maplewood authorities about the incident.

June 6

Police removed about 10 baby ducks from a sewer at the 300 block of Rivertown Drive. “The ducks were returned to their mother who was on scene,” reads part of the report. It was the second time of late that police have rescued baby ducks. See: Woodbury Police Rescue Ducklings

Police were following up on a report about a family member taking money from a woman with dementia.

Police were called about kids out causing malicious mischief in the area of the 7800 block of Barrymore Lane.

June 7

Following a gun-pointing incident, Woodbury police assisted Washington County deputies with a high-risk stop at Hudson Road and Neal Avenue North. Officers assisted with detaining the occupants; one person in the car was transported to his home in Woodbury.

After being called about a suspicious box chained to a pole on the Manning Avenue bridge over Interstate 94, police learned it was a traffic counter.

Police were called about an incident at the Dancing Waters pool. A caller told police a nanny had left two children unattended at the pool. The caller had the children get out of the pool, and spoke with their father as the nanny returned. Police made contact with the nanny, who said she left to go to the home, about a block away, to turn off the oven. There were other people at the pool but the nanny did not ask them to watch the children. The kids did have life jackets on. The father said he was OK with the nanny’s actions. He also said he was going to find the caller and “threaten the (expletive) out of her” and “read her the riot act.” Police advised the man that this was not a good idea and he would go to jail. The nanny was clearly aware she had made a mistake and was upset. The father said he was upset because the complainant had made his kids cry.

Police were called to the 1100 block of Weir Drive about a shoving match between a man and a woman; they have a child in common. There had been verbal arguments throughout the day, and during a property exchange they got into the shoving match over a cell phone. Both apparently called 911 from the same phone. Neither wanted police to pursue the matter, and officers warned them about their actions, especially since it happened in front of their child.

Police were called about a man in the women’s bathroom at Carver Beach. (There was no further information in the report.)

June 8

Police were called to Cowboy Jack’s about a disturbance in the parking lot. An off-duty officer told police a man and a woman were engaged in a verbal altercation in the lot, and the man was repeatedly slamming a door on her car as he was yelling at her. The off-duty cop saw the man punch out a window of a random vehicle in the lot and bar staff detained the man and called police. She told police the argument started over “boy issues,” the report says, but it did not turn physical. The man had a deep cut on his right forearm but declined medical attention. He was drunk. He was cited and released, and police left a business card on the car whose window was broken.

Police were called about a man who urinated in the parking lot of Home Depot, then got in his car and left. Police checked the area with negative results.

June 9

Six ducks in a storm drain at the 8600 block of Pheasant Run Road were able to escape on their own.

Police were called about an intoxicated woman at Ray Jay’s. She had attempted to get into her vehicle, and the caller told her if she got in her car and left police would be contacted. The woman then left and said she was staying at the nearby hotel. Police contacted hotel staff, but the woman had not come in. The woman was later found behind Ray Jay’s and was highly intoxicated. She registered a .321 on a preliminary breath test and was transported to Regions Hospital because of the high level of alcohol in her system.

June 10

A man came to the Woodbury Public Safety Department to report that someone in the week prior someone stole a set of golf clubs from his garage.