The following are excerpts from reports generated by the Texas County Sheriff’s Department:
• A deputy responded March 5 to a woman’s request to check the wellbeing of her daughter at her Highway 32 residence at Licking. The officer determined that there were no addresses on Highway 32 with numbers similar to what the woman had provided.
The officer contacted the woman and came to the conclusion that the daughter actually lived near Salem.
• A deputy responded Feb. 28 after a woman reported hearing a noise coming from the garage of her Decker Road residence at Licking. The officer found a hole in the garage door and determined the sound appeared to have been made by an animal.
• A representative of Texas County Memorial Hospital called March 4 to report a 21-year-old man was there with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
An investigating officer made contact with the man and he said he had been putting up his .22-caliber revolver and accidentally shot himself in the leg. The bullet went through his leg and he was treated for minor injuries.
• A deputy was dispatched at about 10:20 a.m. March 5 regarding a report of theft at a Highway M residence at Cabool.
The officer made contact with a 67-year-old man there who said the structure was his hunting cabin, and the showed the deputy where copper and aluminum wire with a total value of $375 had been taken, along with a 100-gallon propane tank valued at $120. There are no suspects.
• An officer was dispatched at about 11:40 p.m. March 3 regarding a report of a domestic disturbance involving a firearm at a Prairie Creek Road residence at Plato.
After an investigation, the officer determined that a 55-year-old woman was there with family members helping her move, and a 68-year-old man had become angry, yelled at them to get off the property, and then brought a shotgun out of the house and threatened to shoot them with it. The man told the officer the woman and the others were “taking all his stuff,” and he was trying to protect it by brandishing the rifle.
A .20-gauge Remington 870 with two live rounds in it was removed from the scene as evidence.
A probable cause statement was sent to the county prosecutor seeking charges against the man.
• A 26-year-old Houston man reported at about 3:30 a.m. March 3 that two or three men who were not American had been talking outside his window of his Cleveland Road residence since about 11 p.m.
The man told an investigating deputy he had become tired of it and finally called the cops so he could go to bed. The officer observed that the man appeared to be under the influence of something other than alcohol. The foreign talking men were not located.