Store's records help Ingles nab shoplifters

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Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Wednesday, July 23. 2008
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If you’re going to shoplift, don’t do it at a store where you’ve left your name and address.

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DUI suspect: I was going faster than that!

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Thursday, July 17. 2008
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It is not unusual for someone stopped for speeding to suggest that police are mistaken about the speed, but rarely does someone say they were going faster than charged.

But that was what happened last week when an officer of the Commerce Police Department allegedly clocked Craig A. Mulligan, 20, of 90 Wilbanks Way, Commerce, doing 108 miles per hour on the Commerce bypass.

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Man entering via window wanted 'something to eat'

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Wednesday, July 9. 2008
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A man who removed a window air conditioning unit to enter a house told the occupant he was getting something to eat.
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Suspicious behavior leads to arrests

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Wednesday, July 9. 2008
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“Suspicious” behavior by a pair of motorists led to a pair of charges during a week in which most of the Commerce Police Department’s arrests were made by the graveyard shift.
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Thief grabs deposit bag from bank customer

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Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Wednesday, July 9. 2008
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The deposit from a local restaurant never made it to the bank one morning last week.

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Motorcyclist injured in Tuesday evening wreck

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Wednesday, July 2. 2008
A 20-year-old Commerce man was injured Tuesday evening when his motorcycle crashed on State Street just west of its intersection with U.S. 441 shortly after 5 p.m.

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Pool incident results in arrest, banishment

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Wednesday, July 2. 2008
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A 30-year-old Commerce woman was banned from the city pool for five years after a dispute that resulted in her arrest for disorderly conduct.

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Woman claims harassment from rapist

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety
Wednesday, July 2. 2008
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A report of harassing calls to a Shankle Heights woman has turned into a rape investigation.
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Woman escapes injury in Friday carjacking downtown

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety, Top Stories
Wednesday, July 2. 2008
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A Commerce woman escaped without injury after two men carjacked her vehicle Friday afternoon in the middle of downtown Commerce.
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Jefferson woman's body found in freezer

Posted by
Angela Gary
in Public Safety
Thursday, June 26. 2008
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The body of a 42-year-old woman was found inside a freezer Sunday afternoon by the Jefferson Police Department.

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