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Show Times Newspaper Thursday, October 2, 2003 Page A3 J2 is JfUl sfew jT f 7 221 l& OREMtDEPiSRTENTpf PUBLIC SAFETY 92203 Officers went to a trailer in the area of 600 N. State Street on Saturday night to arrest a 17-year-old boy who had a pick up order issued by Juvenile Court. When the officers were let into the trailer, the young man tried to run out the back of the trailer, but was met by an officer in the back yard. The boy then ran back into the trailer and toward an officer in the hallway. The officer saw the young man had a firearm and forced him to drop a sawed-off .22 caliber rifle. The rifle was unloaded. He was taken to the Youth Detention Center. A red 1990 Plymouth Laser was stolen Saturday night from the area of 1400 S. 100 East. The owner had left keys inside the vehicle. A citizen reported hearing a noise early Monday morning (5:15 AM) outside his residence and looked out to see a male suspect swing something some-thing and break his neighbor's neigh-bor's car window. The suspect, sus-pect, described as a white male, got into a dark colored col-ored convertible and drive off. Officers found five vehicles in the neighborhood neighbor-hood (Heather Road) that had windows broken out of them. Vandalism appears to be the motive as there was nothing reported missing from any of the cars. A similar incident was called in shortly after this from the Timpanogos parking lot where a teacher's car had been vandalized in similar fashion. fash-ion. 92303 A man reported that someone stole the propeller pro-peller from his boat sometime some-time Friday night in the area of 900 S. 800 East. The propeller was valued at $650. A man in the same general area parked his new boat on the street in front of his home and had his $1200 dual propeller stolen, probably at the same time the other boat prop was stolen. A woman reported that she was shopping at Macey's Grocery Store (880 N. State) last night at about 7:45 PM and was loading her groceries int the back of her. She had left her purse in the cart while she loading the SPORTING GOODS WESTERN WEAR 396 South Stale Orem Mon-Sat Sam -8pm Bgmingtoiv COUNTRY Fire Arms Ammunition Accessories 22B-7080 , www.gunnies.com 4 Lt. Doug Edwards Public Information Officer groceries. A car pulled up to her and a male suspect grabbed her purse out of the cart. The woman grabbed her purse as the suspect was trying to pull it into the car through the open window. There was a tug-o-war over the purse and during the struggle the woman's wallet fell out of the purse and into the suspect's lap. The woman was able to win the tug-o-war as far as the purse was concerned, but the car sped off with the suspect in possession of her wallet. The suspect was described as being in his late teens or early 20's, with long blonde, wavy hair and was wearing a red ball cap. The suspect was the passenger pas-senger in a light colored passenger car. No further description available. 92403 Nothing to pass on to you today. We did get a lot of calls overnight from people whose homes were filling with smoke from the fire in Wasatch County. There were over twenty calls from citizens to one of the Orem fire stations. What's interesting is the fact that the callers were incredulous incredu-lous when, in answer to their question, they were told that Orem firefighters had not intention of leaving leav-ing Orem to fight a fire 20 miles away, no matter how much the smoke drifted into Orem. Having to respond firefighters back to town from 20 miles away to answer fire or medicals that happen many times a day just isn't good business, and doesn't IF IT'S WE CAN ItiraiiMllft&Iii:) (MM OIL ft,, ""I . tfBosnrcH I" ffiT s MlSm mm mom furnish the level of protection protec-tion the department prides itself in maintaining. maintain-ing. 92503 There was a robbery yesterday morning at 10:00 AM at the Deseret First Credit Union located at 337 N. State Street. A man described as being a white male between 55 and 60 years of age, slender, slen-der, with dark, graying hair and wearing a flannel shirt, levis, sunglasses, and a dark colored ball cap, went into the bank and handed a note to the teller demanding money. No weapon was mentioned or seen during the robbery. The suspect left the bank after getting an undisclosed undis-closed amount of cash and was last seen walking southbound on from the credit union. The suspect was reported to have been walking with a limp. We believe the suspect was also the same person who robbed a bank two days ago in Layton using the same method and wearing exactly the same clothing. I am working on a photo from the bank, but that isn't available yet. I'll send it out if or when I get one that looks good enough to give you. Officers arrested a 23-year-old man early this morning (4:00 AM) at his home, after he reportedly fired a single shot from a 10mm handgun in close proximity to his 22-year-old roommate during an argument between the two. After the gun was fired, the 22-year-old roommate (male) ran from the house and called police. Officers arrived and took him into custody without incident. He was booked into the Orem holding facility on aggravated aggra-vated assault charges. Alcohol was involved in the situation. PROVO OREM Chamber of Commerce Please nominate a business i Outstanding Citizen of the Year i Entrepreneur of the Year i Home-Based Business of the Year i Chamber Chairman's Award i Outstanding Business-Education Partnership i Small Business of the Year Nominee: Address: Phone Number: Describe why you feel this candidate should be considered for an award. You may include experiences such as: education, affiliations, community service, profession, church, politics, volunteer organizations, athletics, military service, etc. Candidates may also be considered for other awards based on this information. Nomination Submitted Name: Fax or Mail the completed nomination form by Friday, September 26, 2003 to: Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce 5 1 S. University Avenue, Suite 2 1 5, Provo, UT 8460 1 Fax: 801-379-2557. If,you have any questions, please call Mark at 379-2564. Honesty is its own reward I'm not interested inter-ested in providing comments com-ments on this, but it is fun to read and scratch your head about. On July 3rd a woman went to local jewelry store to pick up a 15 karat diamond dia-mond ring she had taken in to be worked on. By mistake, she was given a 34 karat diamond wedding wed-ding set instead of. her promise ring. She decided that was a better deal and took it. In the meantime, the true owner of the wedding wed-ding set had to be given another ring by the jeweler jewel-er to replace the one that had been mistakenly given to the this woman. No one at the jewelry store was able to figure out who the woman was with the missing ring. Two months later, the opportunistic woman took the 34 karat ring into another jeweler to have it appraised so she can trade it in. To her surprise and utter disgust, she's told the 34 karat diamond is really a Cubic Z. Reality sets in and she realizes wedding set is worth less than her promise ring with its genuine 15 diamond dia-mond stone. In a huff, she went back to the jewelry store where she had taken her promise ring in the first place and demanded the return of that ring. She has the gall to then tell the jewelry store employees that because of the store's mistake in giving giv-ing her the wrong ring in the first place, plus the mental distress this has caused her, she is going to keep the fake wedding ring set and wants the jewelry store to pay her an additional $500 for their mistake. Doesn't it just amaze you at how some people's minds work, and can there be a doubt in anyone's mind that had the wedding ring been a real diamond we'd have never heard back from this woman? No arrest andor citizen of Orem City Employer: (Attach another by: has been made yet, but the charge will undoubtably be theft of lost, mislaid, or mistakenly delivered property (76-6-407 U.C.A.) 92902 A CD player was stolen sometime Saturday night from a locked car parked in the are of 600 S. 1200 W. In a second report in the same apartment complex, a man reported that someone stole 30 CD's from his locked car. In both of these cases, car windows had been broken out by the suspect. Officers arrested a 20-year-old man, of Provo, for assaulting a 17-year-old Provo girl Sunday afternoon after-noon at Carl's Jr after an argument. He was also had two warrants fro his arrest. Firefighters responded respond-ed to a grass fire started on the Provo side of the river bottoms last night at about Orem's 500 N. Palisade Drive. The fire call came into our department depart-ment at 8:33 PM on Sunday. Fire units from Provo responded to fight the blaze in their city while Orem firefighters, two Provo fire apparatuses, apparatus-es, and a PI. Grove engine company set up defensive lines along the back of homes along Palisade Drive to protect exposures and fight the fires that jumped the canal at the bottom of the Orem-Provo hill and threatened the homes above. The fire was successfully knocked down and controlled before any damage was done to any homes. Provo fire officials were conducting the investigation inves-tigation into the cause of the flame since the fire started in their city. There were no reported injuries of any citizens or firefighters firefight-ers from Orem. I understand under-stand there may have been one Provo firefighter who reported a knee Senator Arthur V. Watkins 2003 Nomination Form Now in its 25th Year! for the Senator Arthur V. Watkins Awards. i Businesswoman of the Year i Businessman of the Year i Business Beautification Award i Environmental Quality Award i Business of the Year i Community Service Award i Hiah School Athlete Job Title: Email sheet if necessary) Phone: injury. Last week there were a good many residents in Orem who complained andor wondered why the Orem Fire Division was not involved in fighting the out-of-control fire in Wasatch County to help alleviate smokey condition in the valley. This fire is a perfect example exam-ple of why the department must keep its firefighting resources close, to. home. Had this fire started at a time when no fire equipment equip-ment was readily available, avail-able, significant losses of homes andor property may have occurred. 93003 A man heard a noise last night outside his home in the area of 1400 N. Main and opened the front door to investigate. He saw a juvenile male running toward a white Yukon and attempting to hook the end of a rope onto the back of the vehicle. The other end of the rope was tied to the man's front door nob. The suspect male knew he'd been seen and dropped the rope and fled in the vehicle. The man and his family just moved into the home and don't really know anyone in the neighborhood. The man suspects this may have been directed at the previous home owner rather than at him or his family. Officer Craig Martinez made a traffic stop early this morning at 3:15 AM for a traffic violation viola-tion at 400 N. Orem Blvd. Two of the three people inside the car had warrants war-rants for their arrest and were taken to the Utah County Jail. Arrested were 27-year-old women, of American Fork, for a non-bailable warrant out of Provo and 23-year-old man, of Lehi, who had a $2500 theft warrant out of SaltLake. At l |