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FAKING IT

Sometime between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., an unknown suspect visited Earthgrains Baking Co., at the 2900 block of Merle Hay Road, Nat Food Mart, at the 1400 block of Second Avenue, and Dollar General, 2500 block of Hubbell, attempting to pay for their items in fake $10 bills. Although two of the businesses accepted the counterfeit money, they were able to note the description of the car and license plate number, which police are using to further investigate the fraudulent activity.

FLOWER POWER

Police were called just after 5 p.m. to the 100 block of Southeast Phillip Street after a dispute between mother and daughter became heated. The daughter was picking her children up from her mother’s house. The two were discussing a leak in the home’s foundation, and the daughter suggested digging a hole in the yard and tearing up the flower beds to fix it. This enraged her mother, who grabbed her daughter’s hair and drug her out the front door. The mother admitted to assaulting her daughter, but said it was because she would not leave and kept “touching things.” She was arrested and charged with assault causing injury.

HOT PEPPERS

A man called police to report a burglary has been reoccurring at the 6900 block of Southeast 14th Street. The victim, who claims to grow the “hottest peppers in the world,” said someone has been picking these veggies off of his prized plants, and on Aug. 20, the thieves had cut the screen on his door and took three peppers, which are valued at $120 per pound. The grower believes a total of 10 peppers to have been stolen over the past two weeks. CV