Some crime suspects try to be sneaky: wearing elaborate disguises, wiping the gun clean of fingerprints or securing an alibi before committing the crime.
This one didn’t try that hard.
Sioux City police arrested a man earlier this month who allegedly tromped right through the freshly fallen snow to cars and garages, stealing from at least four of them, and then walked home.
Through the snow.
Leaving footprints.
To his front door.
Sometimes you know it’s going to be a bad day as soon as you wake up in the morning.
It appears that may have been the case for a Sioux City woman, who called police about 8:15 a.m. Monday to report a disturbing discovery.
It involved her car and her ex-boyfriend, which is never a good combination.
It’s a strange thing to be sad about, but I’m kind of bummed that Sioux City isn’t going to achieve the snowiest December on record.
A few weeks ago it looked like we were a sure thing to break the record. More than 10 inches of snow had fallen in a single storm. Snow was piled higher than my car in the median of some downtown city streets – it felt like driving through a snow tunnel.
We were at 21 inches of snow – only 5.6 inches short of the record 26.4 inches set in 1897.
(NOTE: I write a lot of the Journal’s weather stories, so I notice these things)
One man received an unexpected Christmas gift a few hours early this year thanks to a good Samaritan — with towing capacity.
Sioux City police Sgt. Bill Enochson said the man was headed to lunch around noon Wednesday when he mistook the snow-covered railroad tracks on the 200 block of Pierce Street for a snow-covered sidestreet.
By now you probably know: at 10:26 p.m. Dec. 3, a motorist called police to say she, Melissa Powell, had been shot by her estranged husband, Dan Powell, who was still armed and chasing her car with his.
Minutes later, she crashed her car near the Tyson Events Center and Dan Powell had taken his own life.
During that time, a police dispatcher was guiding Powell closer to the police station, trying to get her near the officers that could help her if she crashed.
Cheating on a spouse might get a person served with divorce papers, but is it a crime punishable by an arrest?
At least one Sioux City woman thinks it is.
According to the Sioux City Police Department press log, a woman called police at 10:17 a.m. Sunday to report a series of crimes — her husband’s extramarital activities.
“Complainant was trying to report her husband’s infidelity as a fraud ring, prostitution brothel and multiple other crimes,” the log reads.
The Sioux City Police Department is looking for a new kind of Cinderella.
Only she is a he, and he is a thief.
But he is still missing a shoe, even if it isn’t a glass slipper.
Someone’s getting coal for Christmas.
Every year, grinches and holiday haters slash apart and steal inflatable decorations.
Usually Christmas decorations, but sometimes they get going a little early and go after Halloween stuff.
Although there were a few slashings during the Halloween decorating season, today’s Sioux City Police blotter revealed the first major Christmas decoration theft.
If you took alcohol out of the picture, I’m convinced crime reporters would have a lot less to write about.
That sure seems to be true in the case involving a Carroll, Iowa, woman attending the Gopher-Hawkeye football game a few weeks ago at the Metrodome in Minnesota.
Even when you take severe intoxication into consideration, this case is strange: Think two strangers in the men’s bathroom and a crowd of cheering onlookers.
The more you learn about this, the worse it gets.
A 20-year-old Sioux City man was recently arrested for enough charges and warrants to fill an entire page of the Woodbury County Sheriff’s Office jail booking log.
Sioux City police officers arrested Gabriel Joseph Verbeski on Nov. 29 for 12 felony warrants for failure to appear and two misdemeanor probation violations.
Strangely, no one has taken a shot at his latest bond — $32,000 — as of Monday night.
You can’t blame anyone for keeping that money in their pocket, considering what allegedly happened when Verbeski was released on bond on May 22.
According to court documents, he’s pretty much failed to show up in court ever since.