December 24, 2017
- Officers of the Perry Police Department issued warnings regarding the city snow ordinance.
- A caller said “another vehicle had hit her” vehicle. The caller said “she asked the other person for their insurance, and they had not given it to her yet.” The caller gave a license plate number for the other vehicle that “did not come back to anything.” An officer responded.
- A caller said a man “was acting suspicious in the store.” An officer responded and determined the man “was not shoplifting” and was “not intoxicated,” but the man “was asked to leave the store and complied.”
- A caller said a man “just knocked on his door, asking where Perry was.” The caller said “he pointed to the south and told him to just follow the road.” The caller said the man “didn’t seem intoxicated but didn’t seem like he knew what was going on.” Officers responded and made contact with the man, who said “a friend had taken him to Crossroads Church, and he quickly decided that wasn’t for him so he started walking hom.” The officers sent the man on his way.
- A caller said “his estranged girlfriend” was “not letting him get his belongings.” An officer responded and “calmed the situation down.”
- Numan Vargas-Orellana, 29, 1423 Second St., #1, Perry, was arrested on charges of aggravated assault and simple assault.
- Douglas Vigil, 36, 2811 Warford St., #2, Perry, was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault.
- A caller said she “just heard a gunshot and then saw a bright flash outside of her window.” An officer responded but did not find “what made the noise.”
December 25, 2017
- A caller said someone “has just walked through the front yard.” An officer responded.
- A caller said a customer “was intoxicated” and “was being very belligerent” before driving away in a vehicle. Officers responded, located the vehicle “parked at the residence,” made contact with the registered owner of the vehicle and told him “to stay inside and not leave his residence again in that condition.”
- A caller reported “a dead deer in the middle of Iowa Highway 141.” An officer responded and “removed the deer from the road.”
- A caller said “he was worried about one of his tenants” and requested a welfare check. Officers responded and determined the tenant was out of town.
- A man entered the offices of the Perry Police Department at 908 Willis Ave. with his son in order to report “harassing text messages” involving seventh graders with “boyfriend issues.” An officer responded.
- A man entered the offices of the Perry Police Department at 908 Willis Ave. with someone who he said “had shown up at his house” in rural Perry. An officer responded, attempted to overcome a language barrier and transported the man “to a friend’s house.”
- A man entered the offices of the Perry Police Department at 908 Willis Ave. and said he lost his billfold.
December 26, 2017
- Officers assisted the Dallas County Sheriff’s office in a domestic dispute between a man and woman at a resident in rural Perry, in which the man allegedly “had gotten drunk and grabbed her by the hair and threw her around.”
*A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
