November 15, 2016
- A caller said a dog was running at large. The caller said “it is not a nice dog.” An officer responded and transported the animal to the Perry Animal Holding Facility. The Humane Society of Perry was notified.
- A patrolling officer of the Perry Police Department “removed lumber from the road.”
- Joshua Allen Springer, 30, 2110 W. Fourth St., Perry, was arrested on an Indianola Police Department warrant on a charge of violation of a no-contact order.
- A man entered the offices of the Perry Police Department at 908 Willis Ave. and said “yesterday his eldest daughter didn’t go to school, yet the mom was posting statuses about having a good time at the park.” He said “he believes his child didn’t go to school again today,” and he asked whether a Perry Police Department officer would “check to make sure they are okay.” An officer responded and made contact with the mother and children. The officer informed the man the “children are okay,” and “they are in the process of transferring schools.”
- A caller reported a vehicle “that’s driven by her residence about four times in the last hour.” The caller said “she’s concerned it may be her estranged husband.” An officer responded but did not find the vehicle.
- A man entered the offices of the Perry Police Department at 908 Willis Ave. “with a large blue and white duffel bag he found laying in the street.” An officer responded, and the item was “logged into evidence.”
- A caller reported “three kids left unattended in a vehicle.” An officer responded.
- A caller said “his neighbor’s dog keeps going to the bathroom in his yard.” The called asked whether an officer of the Perry Police Department would “speak to his neighbor.” An officer responded and spoke with the name, who said “she would make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
- A caller said “she caught a boy looking in her windows” and “then go next door and look in a neighbor’s window” and then “return and look in hers again.” The caller said “the third time the child did this, she stopped him,” and “the boy said he was in the fifth grade and was carrying a jar of change.” The caller said that in spite of a language barrier, “she thinks that the boy was asking for money for an alarm clock so that he could wake up for school in the mornings.” An officer responded but did not find the boy with the change.
- A caller said “someone accused his dogs of attacking her,” but “his dogs are older and would not be physically able to jump a fence to do that.” A second caller said the first “caller’s dog had just attacked” her. The second caller said she was walking her small dog when a large dog “jumped over its fence and attempted to get at her small dog.” The second caller “claimed that she defended the small dog by kicking at the large dog.” The small dog owner then confronted the large dog owner, “and an argument occurred.” Officers responded. “Investigation revealed that it is undetermined if the dog actually got over the fence or if it had put its front paws on the fence and barked, which could have caused the impression that the dog got over the fence.” After conferring with officers of the Perry Police Department, the small dog owner and large dog owner were “content with the outcome of the incident.”
- Gustavo Adofo Ruiz-Vargas, 29, 1610 W. Third St., Perry, was arrested on a Dallas County warrant for failure to appear on an original charge of domestic abuse assault.
*A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
