Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities

Police blotter — May 25

Samplings of recent calls received by Clovis-area law enforcement officers, according to reports:

About 7 p.m. May 4 an officer responded to a restaurant in the 200 block of Seventh Street for a report of theft.

A clerk told the officers a group of five young children ordered $46 in food.

She said when she delivered the food to the children, they grabbed it and ran without paying.

A cook from the restaurant said he chased the kids but just as he was gaining on them, a resident from a nearby building shoved a BB gun at him and he stopped and returned to the restaurant.

Officers spoke to the man with the BB gun. He said he didn’t know the children but intervened because he thought they were going to be harmed.

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Around 9 a.m. May 5 an officer was at Marshall Middle School when he received a report of found narcotics.

An administrator gave the officer a marijuana joint and a homemade pipe she said were found in the common area of the school where the students play.

The officer noted the items would be logged into evidence for destruction.

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Around 10 a.m. May 5 officers responded to a city building in the 400 block of Seventh Street for a report of a stabbing.

A man said he ran to the city building after he got into a fight with his girlfriend over the way he made a ham sandwich. He said she came after him with a frying pan, then stabbed him several times with a pocket knife.

Officers noted the man had wounds to his arm, shoulder, chest and upper back.

Officers located the man’s girlfriend and arrested her.

She said she and her boyfriend got in an argument and he kicked her causing her to fall to the floor. She said she didn’t remember anything after that.

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About 11 a.m. May 5 an officer responded to a residence in the 1800 block of Courtland Drive for a fraud report.

A woman said she had been contacted by her credit card company to several abnormal charges on her card totaling more than $700.

The officer documented the charges.