Law roundup: Knock three times if you want the music turned down

Someone unsuccessfully tried banging on the floor to get the apartment dweller below them to turn down his music, which they claimed had been blaring for two weeks despite complaints made to the landlord. Music man interpreted the banging as encouragement to turn the volume up. An officer heard the blaring music as they approached the apartment and told him the concert was over.  

A man allegedly flung his girlfriend’s leather purse out the car window during an argument. She later called the police, wanting to leave her contact information if it was found.  

Officers stopped to tell a woman about the dangers of leaving unattended children in a running vehicle. Her reported response was that she was “just gone for a second.” The officer further explained how easy it would be for a stranger to reach through an open window, unlock the door and walk off with the children strapped in car seats. She claimed she understood and would “do better as a parent.”  

The police received a call from a mother who was upset to find out from her child’s stepmother that the child’s father had been drinking and driving with them in the vehicle and had left the scene of a crash. He allegedly showed up to a custody exchange, intoxicated, despite being on probation. Officers took him to the hospital for a blood draw.  

Someone wanted to speak to animal control about dog owners in the middle of a divorce who were in disagreement about whether to bring in the canine to be euthanized. 

A manager allegedly saw a man with a face mask leave a motorcycle against a fence while reviewing security camera footage. Officers recovered the Kawasaki, which was reported as stolen.  

Police pulled up to a man inside a recycling bin, who explained he was grabbing boxes as he was preparing to move.  

An off-duty officer reported a fight after allegedly seeing a woman screaming and flailing in the bed of a maroon GMC pickup.  

A man driving a white pickup allegedly confronted someone who took his daughter’s car and was waving a pistol around and yelling. When he got the car back, he reportedly called someone to drive the truck, who told police they never saw a pistol.  

A Chevy Tahoe with a damaged front-end and a canoe sticking out the back was reportedly driving all over the road, the shoulder and the center line on U.S. 2.