Meat heist. The manager at Albertson’s, 500 E. 120th Ave., Northglenn saw a customer with a cart full of meat heading for the door without paying June 12. When the manager asked for a receipt, the suspect laughed and said he didn’t have one, and then got into a waiting car and left.
Hot dogs. Someone reported a car with two dogs locked inside in the 9300 block of Grant Street, Thornton on June 9. The temperature inside the car climbed to 115 degrees before the owner finally came outside. She was ticketed and the dogs were taken to a shady area.
Police escort. A man and woman asked a Thornton police officer to go with them while they collected their belongings from the man’s mother’s house in the 1200 block of West Thornton Parkway on June 12. The man’s mother immediately started screaming and threatening the couple and the officer, and so she was arrested for disorderly conduct.
Angry drivers. Someone called police about a road rage incident that happened in the area of East 112th Drive and Irma Drive in Northglenn on June 12. The suspect vehicle was already gone, but the reporting party told officers that they cut him off and threw a soda can at his windshield.
Cart tap. A woman doing her laundry at Super Suds, 600 Malley Drive, Northglenn called police June 11 because she said another customer was purposely bumped her with a cart.
Uncooperative squater. A security guard at North Suburban Hospital, 9191 Grant St., Thornton called police to the hospital parking lot June 12 because a woman living in her car refused to leave. The woman refused to speak to anyone and officers eventually had to threaten to break her window if she didn’t get out of the car. She was arrested for obstruction.