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Published March 17, 2009, 08:49 AM

Man shouts from window: Help, she won’t go home

Opening a second-floor window downtown late at night, a male tenant hollered for assistance. His “sort of” girlfriend wouldn’t leave the premises. Officers went up to the apartment in the 100 block of East Maple Street. There, they found a 24-year-old local woman pretending to sleep on a floor mattress.

By: Phil Pfuehler, River Falls Journal

Opening a second-floor window downtown late at night, a male tenant hollered for assistance. His “sort of” girlfriend wouldn’t leave the premises. Officers went up to the apartment in the 100 block of East Maple Street. There, they found a 24-year-old local woman pretending to sleep on a floor mattress.

At first she wouldn’t respond at all. Finally, she did, but she didn’t listen to police and had to be forcibly handcuffed and led away.

The woman was described as loud and hostile. The male tenant said the two had argued earlier and she had taken a butter knife and stabbed a wall in the apartment before going into fake-sleep mode.

At the police station, the woman was given a $172 fine for disorderly conduct.

Also this past week, River Falls police:

  • Ticketed a UW-River Falls female student for underage drinking in the middle of the night. Officers were called to Third and Walnut streets. They found a car parked in the middle of the intersection.

    It was the woman’s boyfriend’s car. He had stopped and was trying to find her. She had fallen in a nearby snowbank.

    The man was first asked to move his car so traffic could pass. Then they dealt with the woman who was found crying and nearly incoherent.

    She said she’d been drinking at a house party, then went to the downtown bars. Officers allegedly found someone else’s I.D. in her purse.

    The woman was given a fine and released to the care of her boyfriend.

  • Arrested a 17-year-old local girl for shoplifting five bottles of booze valued at $90 from the liquor department of EconoFoods. The girl allegedly stashed them in a cloth bag and tried walking out the front of the store before a security clerk stopped her.

  • Cited a 16-year-old boy for underage drinking on West Pine Street by the River Falls Academy Friday night. Officers responded to a call about a girl being dragged on the sidewalk. She was found passed out next to a parked car with the boy nearby. Both smelled of alcohol and allegedly had been drinking. The boy was described as uncooperative and swore at the officer who questioned him. He was given a fine and released to his mother. The girl was covered with a blanket to keep her warm until the ambulance arrived to take her to the hospital. She was to be treated for a possible head injury from falling and intoxication.

  • Arrested a 22-year-old New Richmond man for a probation violation downtown. The man, on a court-ordered no-drink provision, was allegedly drinking in The Library Bar and the Corner Saloon. Witnesses said he threw a punch at much bigger man in The Library Bar. That man caught the punch, brushed it aside and told the 22-year-old to knock it off. He didn’t and was soon thrown out, but not before causing a disturbance. An officer later forcibly escorted the suspect out of the Corner Saloon. While in custody, the man allegedly wouldn’t follow orders. He tried lighting a cigarette in a squad car. This was viewed as an attempt to light the backseat on fire. He finally was taken to county jail in Hudson.

    For more, please read Police Beat in the March 18 print edition of the River Falls Journal.

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