By Rupert Howell

Two Batesville Police Department incident reports dated Sunday, September 20 revealed thefts, one when BPD Lieutenant Officer Kerry Pittman was summoned to Calvary Street where a resident reported his two pickups had been broken into.

The resident stated in Pittman’s report that both vehicles were “fine” when last the previous Thursday.  The pickup’s owner said a tackle box  in the bed and the glove box was open and, “gone through.”

The resident also noted that his hunting coat in the other pickup had been moved from the back of the truck that was previously folded and in the driver’s seat.

Police were not called  previously because nothing was missing, but decided to call as his house has been broken into in the past and he just wanted to report it according to Pittman’s report.

Sergeant Gary Morris’ report of the same day explained that he received a call about a stolen cell phone with a woman reporting the phone had been stolen in a bar in Oxford.

The phone had been traced to “Beauty Company” in the “Kroger Shopping Center,” according to the report which further stated, “An employee there said he had bought the phone for $50 and he would return it if she paid him back his money.”

“She said (the phone’s owner according to the incident report) . . . she would not buy back the phone and she would charge him with theft. The subject then told her she could get the phone back for no money. . . “

Sergeant Morris went to the business and the subject said he had purchased the phone from someone who came into the store and then said he wanted to do the right thing and get the phone back to the owner.

“I told him he made a mistake by buying the phone and then asking for money,” Morris’ report stated. An attempt to return the phone followed, the report stated.