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Show Times Newspaper Thursday, March 4, 2004 Page A3 2242004 A green 1992 Honda Civic was stolen sometime Sunday night from a the area of 100 E. 500 N. The car was locked and there were no keys inside the car. A crossing guard at Geneva Elementary left his car to help children cross the street at 665 W. 400 N. at about 11:00 AM yesterday. yester-day. The crossing guard was standing some 40 feet away from his 2001 blue GMC Jimmy when a white male about 18 years old wearing a black jacket, blue jeans, and a dark ball cap walked over to the crossing guard's car, jumped in, and drove off. 2252004 A 19-year-old Pleasant Grove man was doing his best yesterday morning to impersonate a stunt car driver by doing 50 in a 25 mph zone along 1325 W. driving a 2001 Toyota Spider. I could try to jazz this up, but probably couldn't could-n't come up with a better version than Officer Greg Olney's own description of what happened. I'd have paid real money to see this on video, but unfortunately, Officer Olney's car is not equipped with a camera. "I just finished taking a call at a business on Commerce Drive. I made a left-hand turn and was traveling northbound on 1325 W. when I saw a blue sports car coming directly toward me at a high rate of speed. My first reaction was that the driver was going to hit me head on, so I braked and braced myself for the collision. Suddenly the driver braked and the car fished tailed around toward me. As the car passed me (going backwards) back-wards) I could see the driver driv-er had a look of panic on his face that must certainly have mirrored my own. I looked at my rear view mirror mir-ror after the car passed and saw it continuing to fish tail as the driver tried to bring it under control. In all it traveled about a block and a half out of control and finally stopped after running into a curb, damaging dam-aging the front tire of the Toyota." "By the time I got turned around and got out to speak to the driver, he was holding his license out the window for me. I took it and asked, "What was that all about?" He didn't reply. I then asked him why he was driving so fast, to which he responded, "I always like to go that fast on that road." I told him that I thought he was going to hit me. He said, "I know. I thought so too. That scared me really bad."" BIGFTXowtixio Mar.8&9(Mon&,Iies) Utah Co. Animal Control 582 W. 3000 N. Spanish Fork, UT Bi8 fix folfcto Animals must be between 8 wkst 6 yrsofanp. Cash & Checks accepted. Arrive early! Limited Space. Intake begins 8 am. Cats must be in labeled carrier. Dwharu! bme determined at intake. Late pickup will result in fee. Do not feed pet jiter Mpm the night beture 6unery if pet is older than 4 mos. Do not feed pet after 6 am the morning of surgery if pet is younger 4 than mo& Water okay. We are unaHe h) perform surgery onuri animals. 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The accident took place at about 12:30 AM this morning. morn-ing. Significant contributing contribut-ing factors for the accident was his travel speed and the fact that he was under the influence of alcohol. He was not seriously injured in the accident, but the Jimmy was. He was treated treat-ed by paramedics before being booked into the Orem holding facility for DUI. 2262004 ROBBERY UPDATE.... Nothing new to report. Still working on leads and different angles.. ..the well hasn't dried up yet. I know what you're thinking you're wondering what leads and different angles we're pursuing. pur-suing. The answer is, I can't tell you right now because they could turn out to be something or nothing. At this point, any new information is of more value to keep to ourselves than to release to the public. pub-lic. Releasing it won't help the public help us identify the bad guys, but may be used to test the veracity of anyone coming forward with information. ASSAULT VICTIM I have been told the little girl will likely survive, though there are still serious seri-ous questions about her quality of life, which, at this point, do not appear to be prospects of a normal one. She was taken off like support but still had trouble trou-ble breathing so they put her back on the machine to help her. The aggravated assault charge still stands. Officers arrested A 22-year-old Orem man, yesterday yester-day morning at about 8:20 AM for several counts of auto burglary. He was spotted spot-ted by a witness in a neighborhood neigh-borhood in the area of 100 N. Paradise Drive. The man was in a neighbor's truck there and was confronted con-fronted by the witness. He gave some hair brain excuse and tried to walk away but was followed by the witness who also notified noti-fied police. Officers discov Get Your Pet Fixed At A Super Discount! Man 10&11 (WW&Thure) Provo IFA 55W.500S. Provo, UT ered that he had gotten into several cars in the neighborhood and stole miscellaneous items like change, a cell phone, etc. He was arrested and booked into the Utah County jail. A 38-year-old Highland man was taken to the hospital yesterday afternoon after he got hit by a car while trying to escape from Walmart security secu-rity people. The incident took place at about 4:30 PM. The suspect had gone into the store with an empty Walmart bag and an old receipt. He was observed filling the bag with items listed on the receipt and then took the bag of items to the return desk for a refund. The suspect sus-pect was stopped by employees and taken to the security office. Once there, he pushed past the employees employ-ees and bolted for the door. He made it out the front doors with several employees employ-ees in hot pursuit. Unfortunately the suspect failed to look both ways before darting into the parking lot and got clipped by a passing car. The suspect sus-pect did a lovely one and a half gainer and landed on his head. He was taken to the hospital to be stitched up and received a misdemeanor misde-meanor citation for Theft by Deception from the officer offi-cer there. A 22-year-old Provo man, got himself into a pack of trouble yesterday because he didn't like the way a 14-year-old boy looked at him, of all the silly things. The incident started at 10:00 PM last night at Target. A father and son from Cedar Hills went to Target on an errand. Dad went inside and left the boy in the car. The Provo man pulled into the parking stall next to the car the boy was sitting in and noticed the boy looking look-ing at him as he got out of his black Acura. The man challenged the boy by asking, ask-ing, "What the $ are you looking at?" The boy was scared and didn't respond. The suspect and his passenger then went into the store. In the meantime, dad came back and Jr. told him what happened. hap-pened. As luck would have it, thee suspect and his friend were also returning to their car. Dad approaches approach-es the man and asks him if there was a problem between he and his son. The suspect tells dad to wait a minute and then reaches into his car and pulls out a .45 auto that turns out to be a bb gun and points it at dad and asks, "Do you have a $$ problem with this?" Dad says no more and the man gets in the car and drives away as dad calls the police. He gets stopped by officers just down the street who then use real .45's to order him out of the car. Things got dicey when he initially refused to follow the officers' offi-cers' instructions and started start-ed waving his toy gun around, yelling it wasn't real certainly not the wisest thing to do when real guns are being pointed at you. Once in handcuffs, he played street lawyer ANIMAL BULL Male on SIS Fenwlecat J 25 Male dug (up t HO Ins) $30 Femaledog (up lu HO lbs) MO Family plan SUScats, (MmAlnr,ltrmMhelaih$ifimm.) SI 25 do(S Pregnane f iygi irvtr ) Ite SlOextra 1 top unwanted litters!!! and tried to tell the officers they couldn't charge him with anything because the gun he had wasn't real. The officers told him that there were any number of options available to them under the circumstances, like, brandishing a firearm, disorderly conduct, charging charg-ing him with possession of drug paraphernalia on account of the marijuana bong in his glove compartment, compart-ment, and just for good measure, impounding his car because his Wisconsin license plates were expired six months. They booked the man into the Orem holding facility to contemplate contem-plate all those things that could be done. As a side note, the passenger in his car says that this guy is easily upset, especially when someone looks at him. Officer Chris Watson stopped a car early this morning (2:30 AM) for speeding in the area of 1500 N. 800 W. It was suspected sus-pected that drugs had been used by the driver and officers offi-cers got permission to search the car. Located in the car was a Zion's bank bag full of checks that were all made out to the Daily Herald. The bank bag had been stolen from a car yesterday yes-terday at the Springville Walmart. The driver, a 23-year-old Mapleton man, works at Walmart and was in possession of the stolen bank bag. Officers also arrested the passenger in the car, A 23-year-old man from Provo, and booked him into the Orem holding facility. 2272004 Officer took a theft report from a jewelry store in the University Mall yesterday yes-terday morning. The owner said she'd brought a black bag that contained $4,500 worth of rings and necklaces neck-laces to work with her on Wednesday morning and placed the bag underneath the back counter. When she left at 4:00 PM on Wednesday, the bag was missing. No suspects. The manager at Watchman Storage reported report-ed yesterday afternoon atl2:56 PM that she had gone in to clean a vacant and unlocked storage shed (had been vacant the past two years) and found a 6-inch 6-inch pipe bomb laying in the unit. It was the only thing in the unit and appeared, from the lack of dust on it, to have been placed there recently. A bomb squad was called out from the Utah County Sheriffs Office and a robot was used to blow the device up. It was viable and could have caused injury to someone. Other vacant units were checked, but no other bombs were found. The device was not similar to the one from a week ago at the court building and we are not associating the two as coming from the same source. The Idiot Award for 1 & 2 Bedroom with Full Kitchen & Balcony Washer & Dryer in each unit Educational and Cultural Activities Chaupfeured Transportation Storage Space Onsite Beauty & Barbershop , Computer Lab & Library Maid Service the day goes to a 21-year-old West Jordan man who was upset with the terms of his contract at Gold's Gym and told a gym representative representa-tive by phone yesterday afternoon that he was going to blow up their building. When the employee told the man he sounded serious, the man said he was serious and also asked the representative representa-tive how many people would he have to rape in order to get what he wanted. want-ed. Not a real smart things to say to say, especially when the employee knows exactly who you are. He reportedly laced his demands with an ample number of expletives as further evidence that we were dealing with someone of questionable breeding and intellect. Officers contacted the man at his home, who admitted that he'd said all that was reported, but became adamant that he was not serious about any of his threats. He can explain it to the judge when he appears on a telephone harassment charge, unless, of course, it's decided to send the case to the County Attorney's office to be screened as a second degree felony charge of Terroristic Threat. Officer Mark Sorensen was patrolling in the area of Greenbriar Apartments at 500 S. 1200 West. He saw a 2000 GMC Jimmy parked with it's lights on and went to investigate. He quickly discovered several sev-eral things. One, the Jimmy was the one stolen on Monday from Geneva Elementary School on 400 N. The occupant, a 25-year-old man, was arrested for possession of a stolen vehicle, vehi-cle, possession of Heroin, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Also locat 1t ? ' V? t - r ' L , V, 1' i' V ' ik SSua 9 I t a . . B , I A bomb squad was called out from the Utah County Sheriff's Office and a robot was used to blow the device up. Advertise Here! Statewide!!! -Through Your 2X2 STATEWIDE ADVERTISING NETWORK 2.n. Ask your local paper how you can reach over 250,000 households in 40 Utah newspapers in one easy step through Utah Press Association statewide state-wide 2x2 (2 col. x 2 in.) display network. (National placement also available through the Utah Press.) SummafieLd .in.iia.iwiu ,B.pp . .. imfmmm r y Si 1 r Liiiatati'flirii 0ilt Now Open Call 434-7581 to 6clyetlule a vui 'd to our lln 'Retirement Community ed in the Jimmy was a stolen air compressor for which we haven't yet been able to locate the owner. The school crossing guard was very pleased to get his Jimmy back. The man has been staying with a relative rela-tive about two blocks from where the truck was stolen. 312004 The Maximart business busi-ness at 800 W. University Parkway was broken into early Sunday morning. A cinder block was used to break out the glass window and the thief then dragged an Automated Teller Machine out behind the store and tore it apart. However, since the store had been closed down for a time, there was no money inside the machine. Had a mother call us from where she was visiting visit-ing out of town to report that her daughter had been raped. She said she'd just hung up from speaking with her 23-year-old daughter, who was in tears over the ordeal. Officers were immediately to investigate inves-tigate the crime. They found the victim(?) with her sister, who had come to support her. As the investigating investi-gating officer started to ask questions about the rape, the victim asked to speak to officer alone. Once secluded, she admitted to the officer that she hadn't really been raped, she just wanted a little attention from her family, and this was the way she decided to get it. Since the girl hadn't made the fictitious report of the rape herself, no crime was committed. However, the officer did suggest that she get whatever what-ever help she needs and in the future, do not use false reports of crimes to gather sympathy and attention. H . ; ,. .1 -2 col Local Paper.- c CD o 'Tletireineni Community t-iriimniirailfti tffP-"" i |