A slew of false alarms and two cases of food burning on stoves were the highlights of a relatively quiet week for Davidson firefighters. Units also were called in the overnight hours Friday morning to remove a fallen limb blocking South Main Street. The department also responded to 11 medical calls, including two traffic accidents. Details about those and other incidents below.
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Units respond to false alarms, burning food
Posted on 12 August 2010.
Posted in Beaty-Watson-Armour area, Cornelius, Davidson College, Downtown & old Davidson, East Davidson, Fire calls, Mooresville, River Run, South Main StreetComments Off
Haul in burglaries now put at near $100,000
Posted on 05 August 2010.
More information has emerged this week about the series of related burglaries in east Davidson and south Iredell County, including the size of the thieves’ haul. Police reports made public this week show the the total value of jewelry and other valuables taken from several homes in Davidson and Iredell on July 27 was nearly $100,000.
Meanwhile, police also received reports of other burglaries, in River Run, on Catawba Avenue and at Davidson-Cornelius Day Care, on Gamble Street. And they issued an alert for a suspicious person after an incident Wednesday downtown. Read on for details about these and other incidents, as well as the week’s traffic enforcement.
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Posted in Beaty-Watson-Armour area, Downtown & old Davidson, East Davidson, Exit 30 area, Mooresville, Police BlotterComments Off
Woman hurt in Griffith Street rear-ender
Posted on 23 July 2010.
A 17-year-old Davidson driver was taken to the hospital with possible neck and back injuries after a rear-end collision on Griffith Street Monday. Also, police issued a flurry of speeding tickets on Griffith Street over the past week. And they have put out a warning about a suspicious man entering businesses in the Exit 30/Harris Teeter shopping center area.
Posted in Beaty-Watson-Armour area, Downtown & old Davidson, Exit 30 area, Police Blotter, Summer's WalkComments Off
SUV rollover, elevator entrapment, leaking gas lamp
Posted on 22 July 2010.
Davidson firefighters were among the emergency units who responded to that overturned SUV on I-77 last Sunday night. They also fielded a variety of medical and fire calls over the past week, including freeing someone trapped in an elevator at Davidson United Methodist Church and checking on leaking gas lamp at Wooden Stone Gallery. Details below:
Posted in Beaty-Watson-Armour area, Downtown & old Davidson, Exit 30 area, Fire calls, Lake NormanComments Off
14 cited for under-age drinking at River Run party
Posted on 17 July 2010.
Police issued 14 citations for under-age drinking after being called to a party in the River Run neighborhood on Tuesday, July 6. Also, someone stole $3,700 worth of wood and other building supplies from a home under construction off June Washam Road in east Davidson. Details about those and other incidents below. Read the full story
Posted in Beaty-Watson-Armour area, Cornelius, Downtown & old Davidson, East Davidson, Exit 30 area, Police Blotter, River Run, TransportationComments Off
Storm came up fast, then tree crashed through the roof
Posted on 10 July 2010.
Chad and Sarah Phillips talk to Mike Kessler (right) of Davidson College about their options for temporary housing while their Ney Circle home is repaired. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)
By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net
Sarah Phillips was just putting her 2-year-old daughter to bed in an upstairs bedroom of her Ney Circle home Friday night around 8:15 when she heard a big storm outside.
“That storm came up fast, with lots of lightning and thunder,” Ms. Phillips said Saturday morning. The house shook “four or five times, pretty violently, and it was obvious that a tree had fallen on the house.”
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Posted in Beaty-Watson-Armour area, Davidson College, Downtown & old Davidson, Environment, McConnell, Photos, Public safety, South Main Street, Traffic alertsComments Off
Man pulls gun on woman at Exxon station
Posted on 08 July 2010.
A man pulled a handgun and threatened a woman during an argument in the parking lot at the Exxon gas station off Exit 30 Tuesday night. Also last week, someone broke into the former Davidson Clinic building on South Main Street and emptied fire extinguishers inside.
Posted in Beaty-Watson-Armour area, Exit 30 area, Police Blotter, South Main StreetComments Off
2 men now charged in River Run pellet-gun shooting
Posted on 01 July 2010.
Davidson police were busy with several arrests over the past week. They arrested the second of two men wanted on charges related to a May 31 drive-by pellet-gun shooting of a 10-year-old girl in the River Run neighborhood. They also arrested two burglary suspects in unrelated incidents on Armour Street, one in a traffic stop on the street shortly after an attempted break-in.
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Posted in Beaty-Watson-Armour area, Downtown & old Davidson, Exit 30 area, Police Blotter, River Run, South Main Street, St. Alban's neighborhoodComments Off
