Hell hath no fury like a woman (allegedly) scorned, if the playwright William Congreve is to be believed.

Wednesday, 7:58 p.m.

A 56-year-old woman is allegedly seen with a golf club whacking away at a truck in the Montana Mike’s parking lot at 1015 Iowa St., according to Lawrence police spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley and jail booking logs.

After she’s done a number on the truck, she allegedly enters the business with the golf club in hot pursuit of the truck’s owner, who McKinley said has a “domestic relationship” with the woman.

Luckily for the truck owner, employees intervene, stopping the woman from making contact with him.

The police are called, and dispatchers are overheard on the scanner saying that the woman allegedly said she thought her husband was cheating on her.

Responding officers contact the woman in the Montana Mike’s parking lot and arrest her “without incident,” McKinley said. She was booked into the Douglas County Jail soon after on suspicion of criminal damage to property.

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Wednesday, 10:20 p.m

A man calls police to report that his wife had not come home, McKinley said.

The man said that the woman indicated that she was being held against her will, and initially, police treat the situation as a possible kidnapping.

As they investigate the call, it’s overheard on the scanner that they were able to trace the woman’s vehicle through OnStar to – oddly enough – the Journal-World’s parking lot.

However, when I last talked to McKinley, he didn’t mention the Journal-World parking lot and said there weren’t any details in a supplemental report on the incident “to indicate the how or where the officer contacted the female.”

An officer did end up locating the woman, and it ended up not really being an abduction. McKinley said it was “more of a mental health situation,” and the woman was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for a mental health screening.
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Wednesday, 11:30 p.m.

Someone calls police to report that a man was “yelling and banging on the doors” of several mobile homes in the 100 block of North Michigan Street, McKinley said.

When officers arrived, the man – who was allegedly “very intoxicated” – told officers that another man had been walking with him when the two began arguing.

“He couldn’t remember what the argument was about, but he stated the suspect started chasing him and punching him for ‘no reason,'” McKinley said.

The man told police that he couldn’t describe what the other man looked like, other than his race. Officers didn’t find the other man.
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Troublemakers, beware! I’ll be cruising along with McKinley late this evening for a police ride-a-long.
If anything crazy breaks out, I’ll be there firsthand. So, make sure you check here again after the weekend.
Stay tuned, and wish me luck.
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Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical will be asking folks to fill their boots with money at Lawrence grocery stores this weekend.

Sounds weird, but it’s a good deed. The “Fill the Boot” drive raises money to be donated to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, according to Hy-Vee’s calendar of events.

From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, Saturday and Sunday, Firefighters will be at the Lawrence Hy-Vee locations at 3504 Clinton Parkway and 4000 W. Sixth St., Checkers Foods at 2300 Louisiana St., the Wal-Mart at 3300 Iowa St., and the Dillons at 1740 Massachusetts St. collecting donations.
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And now for our regular roundup of police calls. As always, I’ll remind you that this is a list of noteworthy calls I pulled from the Lawrence Police Department call log. Not all calls yielded police reports, and many may have gone unsubstantiated. The list is meant to give you an idea of what kinds of calls police are responding to within a given time period.

This list is a collection of calls that police responded to between Thursday and Friday mornings:

Violence

• Disturbance (verbal or physical arguments): 4

• Disturbance with weapons: 1

• Domestic disturbance: 3

• Domestic battery: 3

• Fight in progress: 1

• Battery: 1

Traffic

• Noninjury accident: 17

Person crimes

• Sex crime report: 1

• Harassment: 1

Medical

• Medical: 9

• Alcohol poisoning: 1

• Suicide attempt: 2

• Suicide threat: 1

Miscellaneous

• Suspicious activity: 3

• Vicious animal: 2

• Noise or Nuisance: 5

• Sound of gunshots: 1

• Fireworks: 2

Welfare

• Child welfare check: 2

• Adult welfare check: 2

• Animal welfare check: 3

• Runaway: 1

Drugs

Drug activity: 2

Property crimes

• Burglary: 2

• Theft: 8

• Shoplifting: 2

• Forgery: 2

• Trespassing: 5

• Stolen vehicle: 2

• Auto burglary: 1