Traffic, non-parking – 42

Traffic, City Ordinance – 2

City Ordinance – 3

Other, State Law – 1

Miscellaneous – 5

On 11/3/18, Nederland police attempted to contact the owner of a vehicle that was parked near mile marker 26 on Hwy 119 with expired plates. Once the officer spoke to the owner, she claimed her expiration sticker was stolen, possibly when the car was in a potential buyer’s possession. The case was closed due to lack of evidence.

On 11/7/18, Nederland Police were contacted to respond to a welfare check on a female party who had been making comments regarding suicide and was not responding to the reporting party. Two officers responded to the residence of the female party in question and found the party deceased with a Do Not Resuscitate order as well as other legal documents taped to the front door. Based on other evidence at the scene as well as a coroner report from autopsy, the death was ruled a suicide.

On 11/9/18, Nederland Police were dispatched on a report of harassment at a business in the Caribou Shopping Center. Once the officer contacted the reporting party, he took a report of an incident involving the reporting party and two other parties known to be involved in a long-term relationship.

The reporting party stated that the female had started coming to see him at his place of business and confiding relationship problems to him. He reported they later became more involved while together at a local music club, which consisted of dancing and kissing multiple times. The male party had found out that the reporting party and his female partner had become involved and began acting aggressively toward the reporting party during multiple incidents he chose not to report to the police.

On the day in question, the male party had thrown something at the reporting party, prompting him to report it to the police. Stating he didn’t want to press criminal charges for the attack on his person, the reporting party was advised to seek a restraining order, which he claimed he would be doing that day. The officer attempted to contact the male party to advise him to leave the reporting party alone, but the male party was not in attendance at his place of business. He is known to live in an RV that is moved between his business and the female party’s parent’s property.

On 11/23/18, the Nederland Police Department was contacted by staff at a local business to report a broken door to the hot tub in the establishment. Staff reported that the door had been secured from the inside and they found the door open, with pieces of the door frame on the ground, and snow had blown in as a result. They believe the break-in occurred between 10 p.m. on Nov. 22 and 6 a.m. on Nov. 23.

There were no footprints in the snow that had accumulated due to the door being open. The weather reports for the night before confirmed what the officer was told from residents, which was that the winds had been very high, around the 46mph range. When the officer examined the broken pieces of door frame found lying outside the door, he felt that there was no evidence of damage due to break-in and that the wind had worked the door open.

Staff also reported that a man had come in on the evening of Nov. 22 asking to stay the night in the lobby while he waited for his girlfriend to return his dogs, as he had just gotten out of jail. The male party was eventually asked to leave with the threat of a call to the police if he did not. The male party left angry and later called after shift change to belligerently complain to staff that he was kicked out despite having been permitted to sleep in the lobby multiple times in the past. The officer showed staff a picture of a male party that had recently been arrested and jailed multiple times in the area, and staff was unable to confirm identity. Due to lack of additional information or evidence, the case was closed.

On 11/24/18, Nederland Police were dispatched due to a harassment issue between neighbors. The accused, a male party, has a previous harassment case against him with the reporting party. The officer was told that the male party had approached the female reporting party when she had arrived home and was removing groceries from her car, stating that he was going to hit her car and that her insurance would not cover it and she should not mess with him because he would win.

She stated that because her car had slipped, she had stopped it further from her garage door than normal and had multiple loads of groceries to carry in. She stated that during the entire time she was making trips back and forth carrying her groceries in, he remained there speaking to her, once leaning his shoulder into hers, speaking approximately 7 inches from her face, grabbing his penis and shaking it at her over his pants and taking pictures of her as she carried loads of groceries. She felt it was an attempt to intimidate her. She told the officer that she had a camera set up but had to pay to re-subscribe in order to get the full video of the incident.

Later that day, the male party came in to the police department to report an incident with the female reporting party stating he attempted to discuss the parking issue with her and she was not civil with him and used profanity repeatedly with him. He also stated she turned her car back on and played very loud, obscene music that his son could hear and be exposed to.

The officer contacted the reporting party at her home where he witnessed the distance the car was parked from her garage. He was also shown a video of the incident where he witnessed the reported behavior from the male party, which also showed him walking on her property. The reporting party later emailed further videos of the incident. All videos were viewed multiple times and put in the case file for future reference in the event another complaint was filed. The reporting party was advised to obtain a protection order to prevent the male party from coming onto her property, and if one was already in place that the video could be used as proof of violation.