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The Scanner: Tear Down This Wall
THAT’S COLD It’s unclear what a man was doing when he attempted to build a wall around a Family Dollar in east Charlotte, but it’s clear he was not doing it to stay warm. The man was seen at around 11:30 p.m. on a Tuesday night removing bags of ice…
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The Scanner: Dollar Bill, Y’all
The Scanner is filled with entries pulled from CMPD incident reports that we find silly or outright insane. MAKE IT RAIN A University City man’s planned trip to the strip club was apparently ruined on a recent Sunday night after his car was broken into and all his bills stolen.…
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The Scanner: Final Ride
DEAD A 23-year-old woman who works at Rosadale Funeral Parlor on Central Avenue was brutally attacked by a coworker after a workplace controversy finally came to a head, according to a report. The victim told police her coworker had been using one of the company’s vehicles “outside the scope of…
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The Scanner: Burning Boxes
WHAT STINKS? CMPD and the Charlotte Fire Department responded to Tuckaseegee Park in west Charlotte one recent morning after it was found that someone had set a porta-potty on fire overnight and let it burn, which I’m including in this column only in case you need an expression for something…
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The Scanner: NoDa Bonfire
BURNING UP A recent Sunday Funday in NoDa turned into a fiery mess when a car burst into flames in front of Neighborhood Theatre. According to the report, the 28-year-old owner of the car stated that a woman intentionally set the car on fire while she was still inside, though…
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The Scanner: Do The Dew
NO FEAR It’s usually Panthers fans who make an embarrassment of themselves by starting fights and taking part in other hooliganism at Bank of America Stadium, but on Dec. 7, it was a Clemson fan who said, “Hold my beer.” Despite Clemson winning the game 62-17, the fan was either…
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Scanner: Is This My Home?
YOU’RE GROUNDED A 31-year-old woman was startled when she realized someone was trying to break into her north Charlotte apartment at around 1:30 a.m. on a recent morning, so she did what most people would do and called the police. Luckily, she didn’t do what many others would do and…
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Best of The Scanner 2019
It’s a strange world out there, and nothing proves that more than sitting in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department rifling through incident reports night after night. When going back through each one of our Scanner columns since we launched in December 2018, we noticed a few themes: the weaponization of anything…
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The Scanner: Point of Privilege
HEAR NO EVIL Police responded to the Crest on Providence Apartments in south Charlotte after an ongoing argument between neighbors over a parking spot came to a head. According to the report, apartment staff called police after an able-bodied resident removed the handicap sign from a parking spot and placed…
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The Scanner: Get This Work
WALLED OFF A 29-year-old G4S security officer working at the CATS Transit Center (CTC) in Uptown is probably wishing they’d have their own jail cell built in to the center after one suspect was able to rough up the officer in the worst way even after being taken into custody.…
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The Scanner: Burn It Down
WHAT A BURN A 44-year-old west Charlotte woman was thanking her lucky stars that her enemies are not very smart after almost falling victim to a failed attempt at arson recently. The woman told police that just before 9 p.m. on a recent night, some unknown suspect stuck a paper…
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The Scanner: Jacket Season
AIM BIG The weather gods have begun to tease us with crisper days, reminding us all that it’s time to go jacket shopping. One ambitious shoplifter in south Charlotte decided one jacket won’t be enough for this winter, however. According to a police report, the man was caught trying to…
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The Scanner: Blue Bloods
BLEED PANTHER BLUE A 56-year-old woman filed a police report after she was grossly assaulted by another woman at a recent Panthers game against the Buffalo Bills. The woman told officers that the suspect assaulted her “by poking her in the back and shoulder and rubbing her blood on the…
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The Scanner: Driver’s Ed
COOL PARENTS Last week we reported on a man who let a friend borrow his car in 2018 and reported the car as stolen a year later when the friend hadn’t returned it yet. This week, a woman filed a report after her husband was even more inconsiderate with her…
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The Scanner: What’s in the Box?!
IT’S ALL PERCEPTION A 28-year-old man showed up at CMPD’s North Division field office one recent afternoon to file a reasonable complaint: “a box he received from eBay was too small and empty.” CRIME DOESN’T PAY A 71-year-old woman fell victim to a cents-less crime at her home in the…
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The Scanner: Like Pulling Teeth
TOOTHLESS Police responded to the Ashley Park neighborhood of west Charlotte after a man’s home was broken into overnight. The 44-year-old victim told police that the unknown suspect broke into his home and made off with a black backpack that held some of his belongings, including a bank card, a…
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