Crime & Safety

Police Reports: DUI, a Burglary and Fraud

Officers arrested a man for drunken driving, a burglary was reported on Woodlawn Road and a scheme was used to defraud a woman out of $2,000.

The following information was supplied by the Monroe Police Department. No arrested person is guilty until so judged in a court of law.

 

DUI at D&D

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Police officers approached a 2002 Dodge Intrepid at 1:38 Thursday morning when they noticed the driver slumped toward the wheel of the vehicle, which had the engine running and its lights on in the Dunkin Donuts' parking lot at 135 Main Street, according to the report.

Police said officers knocked on the driver's side window, then turned on their sirens, but still could not awaken the driver, Jason Snyder, 40, of Main Street. When he did stir, police said they smelled the strong odor of an alcoholic beverage inside the vehicle.

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Snyder's eyes were bloodshot and glassy and he was slurring his words, police said. After it was determined that it was not caused by a medical condition, he was asked to perform field sobriety tests, which determined he was under the influence, according to police.

At headquarters, police said Snyder took two breath tests which showed his blood alcohol level was over the legal limit.

Snyder was held on $500 bond and arraigned in court on Thursday morning.

Burglary on Woodlawn Road

The back door of a house on Woodlawn Road was kicked in and an undisclosed amount of jewelry was reported stolen in a burglary reported at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday.

Police said the homeowner had left for work in the morning and returned at 1 p.m. to find that three bedrooms had been ransacked. A police investigation found a muddy footprint left on the back door that had been kicked in to gain entry, according to the report.

Though it is known that jewelry was taken, police said the victim is doing an inventory of his family's items to determine exactly what is missing.

It wasn't the FDA

A 66-year-old Monroe woman received a call on her cell phone Wednesday from a man identifying himself as an agent doing a Food & Drug Administration investigation into online purchases of pharmaceuticals.

According to the police report, he told her FDA agents were standing in the area waiting to pick her up. While federal authorities were not going to prosecute, he told the woman that she was expected to pay a $2,000 fine to the Dominican Republic via Western Union.

If she did not cooperate, police said she was told the agents would arrest her at her home.

The woman went to the Western Union at Stop & Shop and wired the money.


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