Police Blotter, June 12

More interesting tales from local law enforcement reports.

Steak Out

On a recent afternoon, two Crestview gentlemen, one 45 years old and one 42 years old, casually departed a supermarket toward the south end of town.

Apparently it was an unsuccessful shopping trip as they departed empty handed. Well, apart from the three packs of fresh rib eye steaks tucked under the 45-year-old’s red T-shirt.

The 42-year-old had been arrested before at the same store for the theft of steaks.

Asked by the Crestview Police officer to remove the steaks from his shirt, the 45-year-old complied.

“I’m not sure how these got there,” he told the officer, according to his arrest report.

Both men were arrested for retail theft. Maybe, if they’re lucky, the county jail has a steak night.

DWB (Driving While Blind)

Police stopped Crestview motorist after they observed him “swerving back and forth” in the wrong lane of traffic and nearly running over several people during a local festival.

Officers noticed his “eyes were very watery and bloodshot,” and they could “detect an odor of an alcoholic beverage.”

Asked for his license and registration, “he asked if it was really necessary to go through this.”

When officers asked him to take the running vehicle out of gear, the driver “had trouble figuring out if the vehicle was in park.”

The driver agreed to perform field sobriety exercises. Asked if he suffered from any medical condition that might prevent him from performing the exercises, he “stated yes.”

“I asked (the defendant) which condition did he suffer from,” the officer wrote in her report.

The man “stated he was HIV positive and it has caused him to go blind.”

I reckon that explains why he was driving in the wrong lane. Nevertheless, he was off to the county hoosegow on DUI charges.