'Just Take Me to Jail,' She Said: Fridley Police Blotter

On May 6, Fridley Police dispatched an officer to the 5700 block of University Avenue NE, where a female was holding her stomach. She was intoxicated and very uncooperative. "Just take me to jail," she said. It turned out that indeed she had a felony warrant for assault in Hennepin County, so she got taken to jail.

Here are other items selected from information provided by the Fridley Police Department:

May 5:

• Someone caused $300 of damage by smashing the driver's side front window of a vehicle in the 7300 block of Lyric Lane NE, but nothing was missing.
• Someone took stereo equipment from a vehicle in the 7300 block of Melody Drive NE and also damaged the ignition by using a sharpened key to try to start it.
• A complainant said a friend damaged her parents car by jumping on it in a playful manner and now refuses to pay for the damage.
• An officer brought an abandoned BMX-type bicycle from the edge of the road in the 800 block of Mississippi Street NE to police department storage. 
• A male reported that his wife's boyfriend assaulted him.
• Loss prevention staff at Target, 755 53rd Ave. NE, arrested a female for shoplifting a Hoover vacuum theater. After she was handcuffed and searched, a Fridley Police officer found she was free of warrants, gave her a citation and released her. 
• Police could not find a small Shih Tzu-type dog that was reported running loose in the 6300 block of Central Avenue NE.
• After a complaint, police asked dumpster-divers outside the Subway restaurant at 1029 E. Moore Lake Dr. NE, to leave and they complied.
• A random license-plate check in the 1000 block of E. Moore Lake Drive showed a warrant for the vehicle's owner, who wasn't in the vehicle but a passenger had a felony warrant and a misdemeanor warrant so police arrested him and took him to jail.

May 6:

• Police took a Shih Tzu dog found in the 6600 block of Central Avenue NE to New Brighton Vet Clinic.
• Police received a report of theft of outgoing mail from a residential mail box in the 600 block of Fairmont Street NE.
• A park user reported a camp site at Locke Park, 450 71st Ave. NE. An officer found it unoccupied and passed the information along to night-shift officers to check.
• A caller reported tools stolen from his garage in the 1600 block of 68th Avenue NE.
• A baseball umpire reported losing his wallet either before or after officiating a baseball game.

In all incidents where an arrest occurred, a charge is merely an accusation, and not evidence of guilt. The arrested person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Incidents generally appear in the order in which they were reported, not necessarily the order in which they occurred.