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- A woman on High Street reported to police last week that she had "felt someone was watching her," then "looked out of her front door to see a man looking directly at her." She told police the man was holding a clear clipboard and "had a strange 'bug-eyed' expression on his face."The woman held her hands up in the air and the man "eerily responded by performing the same gesture." She approached him and he told her he was alerting residents of road construction in the area, although his attire didn't indicate that he worked in construction. The man soon left, and nothing further was reported.
- The neighborhood at Circadian Way was victimized Friday night by numerous acts of hostile vandalism. No fewer than six cars were broken into and, worse, the neighborhood's unlocked common house was entered and someone discharged the contents of a fire extinguisher throughout. According to police reports, they "also left what appeared to be fecal matter on the table." Upon investigation, a police officer confirmed that it did indeed "appear to be some type of fecal matter."Several of the cars broken into were unlocked and thus undamaged, with small items taken. Many of the items were found on top of other cars in the neighborhood or in the nearby woods. But one car had a shattered window and a cracked windshield, and another suffered major interior damage due to the perpetrator(s) pouring a can of paint throughout the car.
- A vehicle on N.C. 54 was broken into Friday night. According to a police report, someone pushed a window down to gain entry and stole the car's stereo. A headlight was stolen off another vehicle, this one on Merritt Mill Road.
- Police responded Saturday to a report of an injured squirrel. According to a police report, the squirrel "appeared to have been struck by a motor vehicle as it crossed the street and was severely injured." Orange County Animal Control came and picked up the animal, but there was no word on whether or not the little rodent made it through.
- Sean C. Owens, 31, of 1516 Cherokee Road in Louisville, Ky., was arrested Sunday on Center Street and charged with driving while impaired. According to a police report, Owens had been "involved in an affray" but refused a blood-alcohol level test. He was held in Orange County Jail in lieu of $500.
- Brian Gregory Minton, 18, of 714 Smith Level Road, was arrested Monday morning on Smith Level Road and charged with driving while impaired. According to a police report, Minton's blood-alcohol level was 0.02. The state standard is 0.08 for drivers ages 21 or older, but drivers under 21 are not permitted to have any alcohol in their system.
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- Angeline Ray Baxter, 53, of 201 N.C. 54 Apt. 709, was arrested Friday morning on Sykes Street and charged with driving while impaired, assault with a deadly weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia and carrying an open beverage. According to a police report, Baxter refused a blood-alcohol test. She was held in Orange County Jail in lieu of $300 bail.
- A dinner party left Carolina Brewery without paying Friday evening, sticking the West Franklin Street restaurant with a $50 tab.
- Graham Merritt Jones III, 26, of 505 Cotton St., was arrested Friday night on Roberson Street and charged with driving while impaired, possession of marijuana and driving with an expired registration. According to a police report, Jones refused a blood-alcohol test but was driving in an "erratic manner," had an odor of alcohol and performed poorly on field sobriety tests, in addition to being found with 2.2 grams of marijuana. He was released on a written promise to appear in court.
- There was an unusually high number of citations for possession of marijuana handed out in the first half of the weekend. In addition to Jones (above) and a 27-year-old man who was cited Saturday evening, there were five separate arrests made within a two-hour period Friday night, covering three different locations downtown and all citing boys between 17 and 21 years old.
- Vernessa Lashawn Foster, 38, of 1718 Fox Hollow Drive in Raleigh, was arrested Saturday morning on U.S. 15-501 at Eastowne Drive and charged with driving while impaired and speeding. According to a police report, Foster's blood-alcohol level was 0.10. She was released on a written promise to appear in court.
- Lysander Rodriguez Holman, 28, of 501 Holman Road, was arrested Saturday morning on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and charged with driving while impaired, second-degree trespassing and driving with a suspended license. According to a police report, Holman had a blood-alcohol level of 0.15 and was released on a written promise to appear in court.
- Blake Orville Varhaug, 18, of E. Co. 1/505 PIR in Fort Bragg, a soldier in the U.S. Army, was arrested Saturday night on West Franklin Street and charged with assault and battery and being drunk and disruptive. According to a police report, the drunk teenager tried to pick a fight with a UNC student, took several articles of clothing off and at one point began jumping up and down on top of a car. Varhaug was released on a written promise to appear in court and his supervisor at Fort Bragg was contacted.
- Isaias Romero, 34, of 515 S. Chatham Ave. in Siler City, was arrested Sunday morning on Tinkerbell Road and charged with driving while impaired, hit and run and driving with a suspended license. According to a police report, Romero -- who had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 -- drove into a parked car on Ephesus Church Road, sending his own car flying another 55 feet into a second parked car. Damage to Romero's vehicle and the first car he struck is estimated at $10,000 each. He was held in Orange County Jail in lieu of $1,000 bail.
- Corey Wheeler Liles, 24, of 1500 Duke University Road C2C in Durham, was arrested Sunday morning on East Franklin Street and charged with driving while impaired and speeding. According to a police report, Liles' blood-alcohol level was 0.11. He was released on a written promise to appear in court.
- Grayson Edward Lindquist, 21, of 201 Howell St. 100A, was arrested Sunday morning at his home and charged with driving while impaired. According to a police report, Lindquist's blood-alcohol level was 0.21. He was held in Orange County Jail in lieu of $400 bail.
- Nancy Silva Desousa, 30, of 426 N. Creek Drive in Durham, was arrested Sunday morning on East Franklin Street and charged with driving while impaired, speeding and driving with an expired registration. According to a police report, Desousa's blood-alcohol level was 0.14. She was released on a written promise to appear in court.
- Willie Glenn Stephens, 59 of 1617 Lystra Church Road in Pittsboro, and Kecia Roberson, 35, of 601 Bynum Court A2, were arrested Sunday afternoon on Whitaker Street after a vicious fight between the pair escalated to dangerous levels. According to police reports, Stephens was charged with assault by strangulation after allegedly strangling Roberson during the fight. Meanwhile, Roberson is facing a charged of assault inflicting bodily injury after she apparently stabbed Stephens. She also says Stephens tried to hit her with his vehicle. Stephens and Roberson were each held in Orange County Jail in lieu of $5,000.
- Home break-ins: An unsecured residence on UNC's Fraternity Court was broken into and someone stole two laptops and a video game system. A Shady Lawn Extension home had its front door kicked in and a thief took a cell phone and a single photograph, which police valued at $1. A laptop was taken from a South Columbia residence, and someone attempted to enter a North Graham Street home through a window but nothing was taken.
- Vehicle break-ins: Someone broke the windshield on a car on West Franklin Street in order to steal $720 worth of CDs and a portable CD player. An unlocked car on East Franklin Street had $10 of cash and a change holder taken, and an unsecured vehicle on Chase Avenue had a CD player pried out of it. Someone ripped out the drain pipes from an air conditioning unit at a sorority house on East Rosemary Street. And someone threw a rock through the rear window of a car parked at the owner's Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard apartment.
