Romantic Rendezvous, Incensed at Cell Stop, Just Two Beers?: Woodbury Police Blotter

The following information was obtained from recent police reports.

Tailpipes and scrapers (valued at nearly $1,500 together) were reported stolen from two dump trucks at a construction site at Bailey Road and Mile Drive.

Workers at St. Croix Cleaners called police after someone dropped off a coat with blood and dirt on it. Police made contact with the coat’s owner, who said she and her husband were jumped by a group of men while at Club Cancun on April 14. She had visible injuries and a report was on file with the St. Paul Police Department.

Two people were arrested near Interstate 94 and Radio Drive after reports of suspicious situations at Home Depot and JCPenney led police to pull over their car. Police found suspected stolen property and methamphetamine and associated paraphernalia.

A Wal-Mart worker showed up to work extremely intoxicated and refused to leave. The man’s son and ex-wife eventually came to take him home.

Police were called about a man looking into vehicles parked at Edgewater Park; he also appeared to be watching a group of young girls at the park. The caller was unable to get the license plate number of the car in which he left. Officers checked the area and other parks but didn’t find a vehicle matching the description.

A resident called police about two people who meet along Courtly Road in their cars each morning and on several occasions it appeared that they were having sex. Police made contact with them; they were not engaged in any lewd activity at the time. They said they are dating and work at the same company but on opposite shifts, so they meet at the spot. They agreed to meet elsewhere.

Police were called about a report of a man who climbed onto the elevated porch at a home on Sandcastle Drive and opened the sliding glass door and went inside. Shortly thereafter, dispatch received an alarm report at the home. After contacting the homeowner, officers learned that she and a man had broken up the day before and he was not welcome there. She arrived and let officers in, and police found him upstairs, wrapped in a blanket and asleep. He registered a .214 on a preliminary breath test and was trespassed from the home and transported to detox. Police provided the woman with information on obtaining an order for protection.

Police were called about two people fighting and rolling around in the driveway of a home. He told police she was mad at him for not helping out around the home, and as he tried to leave she confronted him, threw a cell phone at him, and the scuffle ensued. Police determined they were mutual combatants, and she did not want to press charges.

No injuries were reported and police took two airsoft guns from a resident at a group home who was reportedly shooting at another.

One man was punching the driver-side window of a car and yelling at the driver during a road rage incident near Wooddale Drive and Valley Creek Road. Police talked with the man, who said he got upset because the other driver was sitting at a green light while talking on his phone. An officer told the man his actions were unacceptable and he could face criminal charges if the other driver reports the incident.

An employee at the City Centre Caribou Coffee called police about a man in the parking lot looking into cars and asking people for money. Officers arrived and did not see any damage to vehicles and were unable to locate the man.

A man at the 700 block of Esther Lane thanked police for looking into suspicious footprints in his fenced-in backyard. They turned out to be animal tracks and not from a person.

Police were called about a man sleeping in his running vehicle in the middle of the intersection of Bielenberg Drive and Tamarack Hills. The car was blocking traffic and pointed the wrong way. The man told police he had two large beers and admitted he was drunk. He refused field-sobriety tests and a breath test and was transported to the Washington County Jail pending formal charges. He has a previous DWI conviction on his record.

A worker at Keys Café told police someone in a car was throwing beer bottles into the parking lot. Officers made contact with the registered owner of the vehicle; he said his grandson had been driving it for past two years. Police talked to the grandson, who said he was in St. Paul not Woodbury and couldn’t explain the incident.

A resident at the 2900 block of McKinley Drive called police because a friend who had borrowed magazines had yet to return them. Police advised her that it was a civil issue.

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