Drunk Urinates on Himself, Burglary, Vehicle Break-ins: Oakdale Police Blotter

The following information was obtained from recent police reports.

Police were called on a report of a residential burglary. Several items were missing from the home. The occupants had been away.

A resident called police after receiving a letter from the state Department of Revenue though she had not yet filed her taxes.

Police at about 10 a.m. were dispatched to Interstate 694 at Highway 5 on a report of an crash and came upon two vehicles that had separately spun out into ditches.

A man called police to ask about wild turkeys in Oakdale. He said there are about 50 that come onto his property and eat feed for his horses, and he was afraid they would destroy his gardens come summer. An officer advised him that the city does not manage wild turkeys and referred him to the Department of Natural Resources.

A Fleet Farm worker told police a suspected shoplifter fled when confronted. See:

Police arrested two people, a man and a woman, suspected of stealing tools from Fleet Farm.

Officers were called about a woman screaming and crying while sitting in the snow at 29 Pines but did not locate the individual.

A man stopped for speeding was later placed on an immigration hold at the Washington County Jail.

Officers were called about a teenager waiting for the bus without a jacket, but she as gone by the time police arrived.

Police were called about a possible theft of a washer and dryer at the 6400 block of Lower 57th Street. One party told police the appliances were given in lieu of rent. Officers were investigating.

A 2-year-old child pulled the fire alarm at a building at the 400 block of Geneva Avenue.

Officers opened a locked vehicle with two children inside at the parking lot of Rainbow Foods.

Police were called about a man who asked a resident for drugs at the 300 block of Century Avenue. Officers made contact with the man, who denied asking for drugs. He was, however, cited for driving without a license.

Police responded to a 911 hang up a 40th Street apartment complex and found a woman who had had a domestic dispute with her brother over his “poor life choices.”

Officers were contacted about a damaged American flag on a pole at a building at the 400 block of Hayward Avenue North.

Police were called about a man walking in traffic along 10th Street. Officers made contact with the man, who said his physical disability makes it difficult for him to walk in the snow and he did not intend to create a traffic hazard.

Police were called about vehicle break-ins at LA Fitness.

Police were called about a hit-and-run involving a Ford Explorer at Skyzone. The other driver did not get its license plate number.

Officers were called about a drunken man trying to gain access to an apartment building at the 6000 block of 40th Street North. Police arrived and learned that the man lives there with his brother. He didn’t have his shoes on and had urinated on himself. Police released him to his sibling.

Oakdale police contacted their counterparts in Minneapolis after recovering a stolen vehicle found at the 6000 block of 23rd Street.

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