The Bartlett Police Department (BPD) handled the following events during Feb. 1-7.
This listing includes the most notable incidents for the reporting period and does not necessarily reflect all police activity.
Editor’s note: All suspects are presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and values are estimated for stolen/damaged items. These are brief summaries of detailed BPD reports.
Feb. 1
Abelia Hill Cove (theft of vehicle parts/ accessories)
Someone stole the license plate from a woman’s car while it was parked in her Abelia Hill Cove driveway.
An officer took the report on Feb. 1. She said it happened the previous day between about 1 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Feb. 2
Stage Park Place (auto burglary)
A man found his vehicle ransacked and burglarized when he went out to get medication from it, he reported on Feb. 2.
He said he parked his unlocked vehicle in his driveway around 9:30 p.m. Feb. 1. He discovered the burglary around 10:40 a.m. Feb. 2.
Items taken included his diabetes medication from the center console and a silver Apple iPad ($640) in a black Otterbox case ($130) from the front passenger seat.
Unspecified location (public intoxication)
Officers responded to a “fallen party” call just before 4 p.m. Feb. 2 and spoke at the scene with Bartlett Fire Department personnel, who said the man was very intoxicated.
Paramedics said he had fallen several times before they arrived and injured his lip. They said he was medically cleared other than his lip injury, but he was too intoxicated to be left alone on the street.
The man wasn’t able to give a valid address and refused to be taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Bartlett for medical observation.
Officers believed he was a danger to himself and took him into custody for public intoxication.
Feb. 3
Elmore Road (driving while license suspended/revoked and unspecified drug charges)
An officer pulled over a suspect driving west on Elmore Road from U.S. 70 without a lighted license plate just before 11:30 p.m. Feb. 3.
The suspect had a Tennessee “ID only” card rather than a driver’s license. His license had been revoked for DUI more than 13 years ago.
The incident was his seventh charge of driving with a suspended or revoked license. Prior incidents were on Sept. 13, 2002; July 23, 2007 (two charges), July 23, 2008; July 23, 2009; and Oct. 31, 2013.
During the arrest, the officer searched the suspect and found one pipe and two small bags of methamphetamine in one of the suspect’s boots and a small bag of meth in a front pants pocket. A search of the vehicle yielded a scale and a large bag containing two small unused bags. The meth had a gross total weight (GTW) of 11.8 grams.
Feb. 6
St. Elmo Road (animal bite)
A pet owner reported a dog bite on Feb. 6 when trying to rescue her five-pound Yorkshire terrier from an American bulldog weighing around 110 lbs.
She said her 14-year-old Yorkshire terrier ran out of the garage toward the bulldog, who was being walked on the sidewalk.
She heard what seemed to be a dog fight and saw that the bulldog had her dog in its mouth. She was bitten on one finger while trying to separate the animals.
The bulldog’s owner said she was walking her dog on a leash when the unleashed Yorkshire terrier ran up. She tried to pull her dog away with no success, and when she looked down, her dog had the smaller dog in his jaws.
A Bartlett Animal Control officer arrived on scene and documented the incident. The Yorkshire terrier did not survive.
