Police & Fire for Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016

This report contains information provided to the Empire from law enforcement agencies. This report includes arrest and citation information, not conviction information. Anyone listed in this report is presumed innocent.

Child abuse

• At 11:39 a.m. Thursday, JPD received a confidential report of child abuse in the Juneau area. Investigation continues.

Criminal mischief

• At 11:58 p.m. Wednesday, JPD responded to a domestic dispute and a 27-year-old man was arrested for domestic violence-related criminal mischief against a 22-year-old woman. He was taken to Lemon Creek Correctional Center. Alcohol was involved.

Criminal trespass

• At 2:33 p.m. Wednesday, JPD responded to a report of trespassing in the 9100 block of Mendenhall Mall Road. Documentation only.

• At 6:38 p.m. Wednesday, George Andrew Shorty, 36, was cited and released for criminal trespass on Egan Drive. Alcohol was involved.

Failure to register as a sex offender

• At 2:02 p.m. Thursday, Alaska State Troopers cited Andrew Harper, 42, of Juneau, for failing to register as a sex offender in the second degree. Troopers began investigating Harper the day prior when his name appeared on the non-compliant list with the sex offender registry. Harper hadn’t completed his annual registration, and he also did not update his current address with the registry.

Fire and medical

• On Wednesday, Capital City Fire/Rescue responded to seven EMS calls, three transport calls to taken patients and flight crews to and from the hospital and airport, and a motor vehicle crash on Egan Drive at about 11 a.m. No injuries were reported in the car crash.

Motor vehicle crash

• At 2:39 p.m. Thursday, JPD responded to a single vehicle crash in the 400 block of Riverside Drive. Damage only. Unknown if alcohol was involved.

• At 9:58 a.m. Thursday, JPD responded to a two-vehicle crash in the 2600 block of Mendenhall Loop Road. No injuries were reported.

Shoplifting

• At 2:46 p.m. Wednesday, Erinn Hancock, 29, was cited and released for shoplifting in the 8100 block of Glacier Highway.

Theft

• At 7:22 p.m. Wednesday, a 27-year-old woman reported approximately $600 worth of heating fuel was stolen in the 1900 block of Lemon Creek Road.

• At 9:05 a.m. Thursday, a 30-year-old man reported his car battery, valued at $60, was stolen sometime during the night in the 2100 block of Glacier Highway.

Truancy

• At 12:49 p.m. Wednesday, JPD assisted another agency with a truancy case in the 1600 block of Renninger Street. Confidential investigation.

Vandalism

• At 2:57 p.m. Wednesday, part of the chain link fence at the CBJ impound lot in the 2000 block of Lemon Creek Road was vandalized.

Vehicle rifling

• At 9:42 a.m. Thursday, a 50-year-old woman reported that someone entered her unlocked vehicle in the 4600 block of Glacier Highway and stole a $50 knife, clothing which was later recovered and a $10 school backpack that contained school books.

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