A sad tale. It would have been worst had it been a real beer

By Doug Page | Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 10:32 AM

It was 10 a.m. on a Friday morning when Englewood police responded to the Meijer gas station on a report of a man raising a fuss inside the station.

When the officer arrived, she saw the gentleman in parking lot, and as she approached he threw an unopened 24-ounce can of beer toward the curb. When asked why he threw away the beer (it was a Bud Light, which might explain why he tossed it), the gentleman denied having the beer.

The officer escorted the gentleman into the back seat of her cruiser and went inside the station to find out what happened. According to the employees, the gentleman entered the gas station and demanded the employees call either his wife or his mother-in-law. When told that wasn’t possible, the gentleman started cussing them out and pounding on the counter.

He was asked to leave. On his way out, he grabbed a can of Bud Light. One of the employees told him he would have to pay for the beer. He returned to the counter, cussed them out a second time and left.

The officer returned to her cruiser, and the 47-year-old gentleman asked that she call his daughter.

He was arrested for disorderly conduct, theft and littering. The officer reported the gentleman continued cussing all the way to the county lockup, claiming the officer made up the charges and because she was a “lady” was siding with his wife.

When the daughter was contacted she said her father is often drunk and does not remember what he said and did. When told her father was making threats against her and his wife, the daughter said that, too, was par for the course.

The daughter said her father was not married to the woman, that they had been dating for several years and that both her father and his girlfriend have been arrest for domestic violence against each other.

Once at the county lockup, the gentleman refused to get out of the cruiser. The officer and a colleague removed him from the cruiser and into the lockup.

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