Police Report: Truancy and Hitchhiker Making the Sign of a Cross

The following calls were made to the

• A teenage girl was cited for truancy after she refused to get up for school at 7:06 a.m. Tuesday in the 300 block of Born Place.
• A person, who a caller said had not shoveled the sidewalk after the last snowfall, was advised at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday in the 1600 block of Legend Hill Lane that the city has a snow removal ordinance. The man told police he was injured and was unable to clear the sidewalk.
• A person was hitchhiking and making the sign of the cross at 9:07 a.m. Tuesday in the Summit Avenue and North University Drive.
• A person was arrested for retail theft at 1:52 a.m. Tuesday in the 2300 block of Bluemound Road.
• A juvenile was arrested and taken to shelter care at 4:43 p.m. Tuesday after it was reported he was breaking things in the residence in the 100 block of Cambridge Avenue.
• A woman called police to report at 4:56 p.m.  Tuesday that a man had threatened to shoot her children after they looked in his garbage on their walk home from school. No police report was filed because the woman had to leave before speaking to an officer. It is unclear in the report if the threat was legitimate because the call was canceled before police could respond.
• A person was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after it was reported the person had blown through a red light at 5:38 p.m. Tuesday in the 100 block of North West Barstow Street.
• A woman called police to report she may have found drugs in a light fixture at 8:06 p.m. Tuesday in the 1400 block of Rockridge Road. The woman had just  moved into the apartment and found baggies hidden in the light. Police responded and determined there were warning stickers in the light fixture and that there were no drugs.
• A man was arrested on a warrant at the seasonal homeless shelter at 3:15 a.m. Wednesday in the 1700 block of Northview Road.