Oxford woman assaults neighbor, vandalizes cop car

A 20-year-old Oxford woman was taken to Butler County Jail after reportedly assaulting a neighbor and vandalizing a police cruiser on Dec. 18.

Officers were dispatched to a disturbance at 5265 College Corner Pike, where a female resident told officers she had been pushed into a glass vase by Pamela Miller, 5201 College Corner Pike #71. Miller allegedly left the scene of the crime and got into another fight across the street, where police found her engaged in a yelling match with another subject.

Once she was under police custody, Miller reportedly stated she needed medical attention and asked to be transported to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital. Miller received treatment and was placed in the back of a police cruiser, then proceeded to kick the inside of the car's passenger side door in protest, according to police.

Miller was charged with assault and vandalism and was transported to the Butler County Jail.

Caller attempts to extort local McDonald's

Oxford police are on the hunt for an unidentified caller who threatened to shoot up a local McDonald's.

Officers were dispatched to the Oxford location on

Dec. 21, meeting with the manager of the restaurant. An unidentified male caller reportedly advised the manager that he had a gun, then threatened to enter the fast food restaurant and begin shooting unless he was given money.

Police said the caller instructed the manager to remove all of the money from the store's safe and place it outside of the restaurant, but cautioned that if he observed any officers in the parking lot he would begin firing.

No money was placed in the lot and the would-be gunman never showed, but police are looking into several potential leads on the caller's identity.

Man asks police

An 18-year-old Oxford man who asked police to help him get into his locked car seemed to have experienced slight memory loss.

Matthew Day, 5325 College Corner Pike, asked officers to help him get into his vehicle as he locked his keys inside. Officers were able to unlock the vehicle, but said they smelled the heavy odor of marijuana immediately after opening the door for Day.

Day was asked about the suspicious odor, reportedly telling officers he had smoked a joint in the vehicle just before he locked his keys inside. Day was placed under arrest and officers conducted a search of the car, locating numerous pieces of drug paraphernalia in the process.

In addition to a grinder containing marijuana, officers found a blue metal smoking pipe, a white plastic tube with powdered residue, a rolling machine and a wooden tinder box with a picture of Bob Marley that contained a metal pipe painted to look like a cigarette.

Day was issued citations for drug paraphernalia and drug abuse and released.

Subject ingests

Following a lengthy standoff with an Oxford man who alledgedly consumed more than 40 Tylenol pills, police were able to convince the man to seek medical treatment.

Police were notified of a possible suicide attempt by the subject's uncle, who asked officers to perform a welfare check at 5262 Brown Road. The uncle reportedly told police that sometime during the evening of Dec. 21 his nephew admitted to ingesting more than 40 Tylenol pills.

Officers entered the apartment through an unlocked door, but could not locate any residents. After hearing a television and a male's voice emanating from a back bedroom, officers knocked on the bedroom door and attempted to make contact with the subject.

The male was reportedly on the phone at the time and officers said they could hear him making threatening comments to both the person on the phone and to themselves. After a lengthy conversation with the subject through the door, officers could hear noises that indicated he was in pain. He opened the door a short time later and was taken to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital for medical attention.

Police seek man who damaged cruiser on camera

A white male subject who fell from the roof of a police cruiser may not make Butler County's Most Wanted list, but Oxford police are aggressively pursuing him.

Police said the unknown male walked up the hood and onto the roof of a squad car on Dec. 20, eventually slipping and falling from his perch. The male reportedly fell down the side of the vehicle, taking out a passenger side mirror in the process.

A video of the incident was captured by two cameras, with police describing the male as approximately 6 feet 2 inches tall and between 165 and 195 pounds. The subject was wear a white baseball cap with an emblem, jeans, a dark sweatshirt and a white T-shirt underneath.

Video shows the subject, another male and two females leaving the scene and traveling west toward the stadium, where they reportedly loitered for several minutes before traveling north on Poplar Street.

Anyone with information regarding the incident is encouraged to call the Oxford police at (513) 524-5240 or Crime Stoppers at (513) 352-3040.