Crime & Safety

911 hangup calls blamed on stuck phone: Fridley Police Blotter for Feb. 11

It wasn't a crime in progress but a phone stuck in emergency-call mode that resulted in repeated 911 hangup calls.

This is a selection of police activity for Feb. 11 from information provided by the Fridley Police Department.

  • Repeated 911 hangup calls from an apartment in the 5400 block of Seventh Street NE turned out to be from a phone that was locked on emergency-call mode, according to residents.
  • A complainant told police her ex-boyfriend damaged her vehicle in the 5600 block of East River Road.
  • An officer took an abandoned cat from the laundry room of the River Pointe Apartments to the Brighton Veterinary Hospital. 
  • A complainant in the 6300 block of Baker Avenue NE told police that someone tried to buy a laptop computer using his account with the Dell computer company. 
  • Police had an abandoned vehicle that was blocking traffic on the E. University Avenue Service Drive just south of 61st Avenue NE towed away.
  • Police were unable to reach a victim of domestic violence, either at her home or on her cell phone, to notify her that the suspect was out of jail.
  • A caller requested police tell a family member to stop harassing the caller by calling her cell phone, but police determined that the harassment was going both ways.
  • A hit-and-run accident that caused personal injury took place at Seventh Street and 57th Avenue NE.
  • A domestic dispute at an apartment in the 5700 block of E. River Road turned out to be a verbal argument over pest control.
  • A juvenile male detained for theft at Wal-Mart on University Avenue who also had tobacco products, alcohol and an illegal controlled substance refused to provide identifying information and was taken to Lino Lakes juvenile secure facility.
  • A complainant in the 7300 block of Melody Drive NE said her employer had mailed her 2010 W-2 form on Jan. 31 but it had not arrived and she suspected either misdelivery or theft.
  • Police responded to a report of gunshots in the 6500 block of Channel Road NE but found nothing suspicious.
  • A 911 hangup call came from a business in the 7200 block of University Avenue NE that upon inspection was locked and unoccupied, and a call back to the number got only a voicemail message saying the business was closed. 
  • An officer took a report of an assault in the 6000 block of W. Moore Lake Drive.
  • A complainant said a female friend kicked the trunk of his vehicle in the parking lot of the Target Store on 53rd Avenue NE and left the area on foot.


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