Police Log: Man Tells Neighbor 'Get Off My Lawn!' Plus Hostilities at Arlington Gulf Station

Police Log, Saturday, April 18

• Identity Theft, 11:35 a.m.

A reporting party arrived at the station, and told police when he attempted to file his taxes, the IRS told him he could not do so.

Mysteriously, the taxes in his name had already been filed this year.

The reporting party said he had taken the appropriate steps - informed the IRS, the FTC, and credit card companies, placed fraud alerts on his bank accounts, an filed an ID theft affidavit. Police told him that a police report would be filed as well.

• Neighbor Complaint, Yerxa St. at 5:24 p.m.

Police responded to a citizen complaining that his neighbor, with whom he is not friendly, had driven over his lawn in order to park on her own lawn next door. Police observed tire marks crossing the border between the two lawns, confirming his story.

Upon confronting the neighbor, police discovered that it was in fact the neighbor’s visiting friend who had committed the offending parking job, but she had done so unintentionally and without realizing.

The neighbor and her friend both apologized to the reporting party, promising this wouldn’t happen again.

The reporting party wanted to make sure there was an official record somewhere of his neighbor making said promise, hence the police report.

• Disturbance, 85 River St., 7:44 p.m.

As a man was filling his car’s gas tank at Gulf station, a second car with a flat tire pulled in front of his vehicle. Once his car was sufficiently gassed up, the man insisted that the second car get out of his way. The driver told him that her flat tire prevented her from doing so. A hostile exchange of words ensued, and the police were called.

A gas station attendant checked the second driver’s tire, and agreed that her vehicle had been rendered immovable.

The first driver gave in and left the station by putting his vehicle in reverse and backing out.

The report does not specifically say whether the first driver - who declined to give police his name - could’ve saved everyone a lot of time by backing out in the first place.