May 3, 2017
- A caller said her EBT card was stolen. An officer responded.
- A caller said the “neighbor directly behind him has a dog that they leave out all day, and it barks constantly.” An officer responded and advised the dog owners that “if the dog continues to bark, a citation could be issued.”
- A caller said he “lost a license plate off his vehicle.”
- A caller reported a hit-and-run accident. The caller said “she parked her vehicle last night around 6 p.m. and just now found the damage.” An officer responded.
- A man entered the offices of the Perry Police Department at 908 Willis Ave. with “a Biolife VISA debit card” that “he found while walking.” An officer responded, and the item was “logged into evidence.”
- A woman entered the offices of the Perry Police Department at 908 Willis Ave. and said she “wanted to report her son as a runaway.” An officer responded.
- A caller said he “just repossessed a vehicle.”
May 4, 2017
- A caller said “there is an odor of marijuana coming up to his apartment from the apartment below him.” The caller said the odor “has been going on for a while and is just getting worse.” An officer responded.
- A caller said she “needed help with her garage door.” An officer responded and helped the caller “open her garage door since the spring broke.”
- A juvenile male from Perry was arrested on charges of criminal mischief and two counts of simple assault.
- A caller said “she was attempting to pull into” a parking lot while a semi-tractor trailer “was attempting to back into the frontage road,” and “the driver yelled at her, so she got out of her car and yelled back.” The caller said that “at one point the truck driver made a comment to her adult son, ‘You want to get shot, little man.'” An officer responded and made contact with the caller and the truck driver. The truck driver said the caller and her son “were the ones who threatened him with a gun.” As the parties stood their ground, the officer advised them “to find better ways to handle situations like this.”
- A caller said she lost her keys.
- A caller reported “a small child digging a deep hole between a utility pole and a phone box.” An officer responded and found “the hole had already been filled in, and the parents had talked to the child.”
- A woman entered the offices of the Perry Police Department at 908 Willis Ave. in order to report a phone scam. An officer responded.
- A man entered the offices of the Perry Police Department at 908 Willis Ave. and said he lost his iPad.
- A caller said her 6-year-old son “has been missing for about an hour.” As an officer responded, the caller called again and said her son was found.
- A caller from the Perry airport “said someone’s been attempting to get a hangar open, and a plane has been messed with.” An officer responded.
May 5, 2017
- Officers of the Perry Police Department “conducted traffic enforcement on Iowa Highway 141.” Three citations were issued for excessive speed, one for driving without a license and one for “dark tint.”
- An officer of the Perry Police Department provided a funeral escort.
*A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
