As students hunker down to face the brunt of the academic semester, the Ohio University Police Department saw a much quieter weekend on campus following an abnormally high volume of citations over Labor Day weekend.
Officers wrote only about a quarter as many marijuana-related citations as they did last weekend, with eight total citations this weekend related to marijuana possession or paraphernalia.
Additionally, the department issued two citations for underage drinking, one for disorderly conduct by intoxication and one for open container.
Sticky Situation
On Tuesday, deputies with the Athens County Sheriff’s Office were called to Hockingport, in Troy Township, after receiving a report of property damage. They spoke with a complainant, who said someone had been filling the locks on her trailer with glue, according to the police report.
Deputies later found there was a property dispute and it was “likely that someone disputing the property” filled the locks with glue after the complainant replaced the locks on the doors.
Gas Station Campout
Last Wednesday, ACSO deputies were dispatched to a Marathon gas station in Albany, having received a report of a suspicious man with “several large suitcases,” who was “staring at the patrons” at the store.
Deputies made contact with the man, who said he was looking for a place to set up a tent for the night. Staff members at the Marathon station allowed him to set up camp for the night at the station but told him he would have to remove it in the morning.
Carnival Cacophony
ACSO deputies were requested to patrol the Albany Fairgrounds last Tuesday night after receiving complaints of loud music. A caller informed deputies that carnival workers were “assembling rides and listening to music turned up to an inappropriate level” for the late time of night, according to the report.
Once deputies arrived on scene, however, they found the fairgrounds to be quiet. Employees present at the scene said that although the carnival workers had played music earlier, they turned it off “a short while” before law enforcement arrived.
The Chainsmoker
On Monday, ACSO deputies received a complaint regarding suspicious activity in Athens Township. After investigating the scene, deputies determined that an individual who was “intermittently sleeping and then getting up to have a cigarette” was creating the suspicious light the caller observed.
The individual in question was asked to “move on” from the area.
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