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Dispatcher: 911...

Caller: Hi this is... Caporale's on Sixth Avenue. Do you have a car that's in the neighborhood that could swing through? We've got a couple people out in the lot that don't want to leave. We put them out earlier, just for fighting.

D: Are they fighting now?

C: No, but they're yelling and screaming and not leaving the lot...

D: What part of the lot are they in?

C: Right in front of the front door here... Sometimes just a drive-by from the cops will clear out the lot...

D: Males, females or what?

C: Three males, two females.

D: Hispanic or white, or?

C: Yeah, Hispanic.

D: How many females?

C: Two. But the females are calm; it's the males...

D: They are yelling at customers, or what are they doing, sir?

C: Um, they're yelling at the owner, and causing kind of an [to third party:] Easy, easy, easy...

D: Who are you talking to?

C: One of my guys behind me; one of my security guys...

D: We're sending officers over there.

C: Thanks, hon.

D: If it escalates, give us a call back.

C: Oh I will. Thank You.

Officer's Report: Dispatched [to a] dispute at [Los] Caporale's Night Club... Upon arrival, Caporales security pointed out a male and female. I approached the subjects, and the female, later identified as Lorena Alvarado, had hold of a male, later identified as Oscar Flores. She was pulling him by the arm and he was resisting her, trying to go back towards the front door and Caporale's security personnel. [Caporale's] security supervisor... said the male had assaulted one of his security officers. I instructed Alvarado to stop trying to pull Flores away so I could talk to him. She did not stop... She was screaming loudly and was out of control. Both suspects were clearly highly intoxicated and aggravated. Alvarado let go of Flores and I began to place handcuffs on him, when Alvarado began to push me and attempt to get in between me and Flores. I moved away from her and walked him to my patrol car. Alvarado followed and again started pushing me and striking me with her body, in an attempt to free Flores from my control. I was forced to control both suspects with one arm on each until security officers stepped in, and Sgt. Charleston took Alvarado into custody. At that point, I was able to secure handcuffs on Flores. I instructed Flores to get into the rear seat of my vehicle and he refused. I had to physically push him into the vehicle. [A Caporale's] security officer... said Flores punched him in the back and chest while [he] was trying to evict Flores from the bar. Alvarado and Flores were arrested... and transported to the jail.

Docket diving

Sandra Leckington's troubles began when she bought her 18-year-old son a half-gallon of vodka - a gift to help him celebrate his impending probation - and culminated in the near-death of a 13-year-old boy in her care. Last week, the Iowa Supreme Court refused to overturn the Scott County woman's resulting convictions of child neglect and endangerment.

On December 23, a friend of the family, Dominic Major, called Sandra to tell her that her 12-year-old son, Shawn, and his 13-year-old friend, Travis, had been drinking at Major's apartment. The alcohol they'd found was the leftover vodka Sandra had purchased for her 18-year-old to celebrate his probation. Major demanded that Sandra come pick up the boys from his apartment, as Travis was "pretty trashed," he told her.

According to court records, Sandra picked up her husband, Mark Leckington, on the way to the apartment. When the couple arrived, Travis, a seventh-grader, was so intoxicated he could not walk. Major carried the boy to the car; once inside, Travis slumped in the backseat. Sandra lied to her husband, even though she "knew of Travis' condition when she picked him up," and told him the boys hadn't been drinking. Shawn told Mark that Travis had 'hit his head' while "wrestling around in the apartment."

Sandra then dropped off the kids at the Leckington home, and left with Mark to run errands. Once inside the house, Travis fell unconscious. Shawn enlisted the help of other neighborhood boys, who carried Travis to the bathtub and doused him with cold water, which failed to revive him, and he began to foam at the mouth.

When Sandra returned an hour later, the boys told her they thought Travis was dead. According to one boy, Sandra "freaked out" and said, "You know how much trouble I'm going to get into, this little fucker had to drink alcohol, I'm not going to jail for this motherfucking bastard." Sandra tried to convince the boys to help her drag Travis out of the house - ostensibly so she wouldn't be prosecuted if something happened - but they refused. After what court documents describe as an "inexplicable delay," Sandra told her husband about Travis' condition, and he instructed her to phone Travis' mother, who told Sandra to call 911.

When paramedics arrived, Travis had a weak pulse, his mouth was clenched shut and his skin was blue. The boy was rushed to the hospital via helicopter, where he lay in a coma for 14 days. Doctors determined his blood alcohol content to be .3.

Both Sandra and Mark were convicted of child endangerment and neglect, and sentenced to 20 years in prison; Sandra was additionally charged with providing alcohol to a minor. Both parties appealed their convictions, and Mark's was overturned; the court found that his role in the matter was "peripheral."

The court upheld Sandra's conviction, however, arguing that there was "abundant evidence to prove Sandra knew Travis was severely intoxicated."

Wrote Justice Michael Streit: "A mother made some horrible decisions concerning her son's drunken friend, almost costing him his life."

11,700 Number of reports Des Moines animal control officers responded to in 2005.

Sucks to be you

Name: Kathy Lynn Fike

Location: Des Moines

Posed for this picture because: Beef wasn't what's for dinner for Kathy Lynn Fike, who is accused of robbing a grocery store at 4343 Merle Hay Rd. on April 6. She reportedly tried to make off with four ribeye steaks (valued at $45.98), when employees caught her and held her, kicking and screaming, until police officers arrived to transport her to jail. Fike was charged with second degree robbery.

Life is the pits...

...literally, if you're Douglas C. Kolarik, who sued Tee Pee Olives for the broken tooth he received from biting into "an olive containing a pit." According to court documents, Kolarik claimed he was expecting only the "minced pimento stuffed" olives advertised on the jar. Tee Pee responded that the fated pit was "naturally occurring in the olive and was not a foreign substance," and therefore, the company wasn't liable for Kolarik's dental damage. A district court in Johnson County tossed out the case, but Kolarik is appealing the decision.

On the clock

Des Moines Police - May 6

1:35 a.m.

Attempted robbery in the 1200 block of East 14th Street. The female victim was making a call at a pay phone when a green Cherokee pulled up next to her vehicle. The driver entered through victim's passenger door and demanded her purse. The victim refused and attempted to climb out, at which point the suspect hit the gearshift, causing the car to roll and hurting the victim's leg. The suspect left the victim's vehicle and drove away when she threatened to call police.

3:10 a.m.

Burglary and assault in the 1300 block of Fifth Street. The victim reported that a group of approximately 20 males in their teens and early twenties was standing in the street in front of her residence. The woman told the males "they were being too loud and needed to leave." The males then approached her house, and punched her boyfriend in the face when he came to the door. They threw a rock through the front window and entered the house. One of the males punched the female victim in the arm. The suspects escaped in a black Hummer, a dark-colored Escalade and another unknown SUV. An area check for the suspect vehicles was negative.

6:30 a.m.

Assault in the 1800 block of 23rd Street. A 911 caller alerted police of a possible fight, and said a victim had supposedly been stabbed. The victim left the scene, but police located him a few blocks away. He claimed he had not been stabbed, and told police the puncture wounds on his upper abdomen were sustained when he ran into a fence. He refused to give police any information, but he was sent to the Polk County Jail on an outstanding warrant.

(Alleged) drug dealers

Name: Larry Perry

Arrested: April 29

Possession with intent to deliver crack-cocaine

Name: Steven Joseph Osborn

Arrested: April 28

Conspiracy to deliver methamphetamine

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