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Don’t axe: On Tuesday, May 30, around 3 p.m., police received multiple reports of a man jumping around the Town Square and into traffic while holding an axe. Officers contacted the man and found that he had taped a sign to his axe. Sgt. Phil Smith didn’t recall what was written on the sign b…

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Highly intoxicated: On Friday at 2:57 p.m., police received a report of an intoxicated man “trashing” the Deloney public restrooms. The report stated that the man was in the bathroom drinking and “peeing all over the bathroom.” Police were unable to find the 51-year-old transient man until t…

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Red flags: On Thursday at 8:48 p.m., police received a report of a man outside The Wort Hotel who was throwing flags in the street, cussing and yelling at people passing by. After police contacted him, the man left that location. However, one hour later, police were contacted by a gas statio…

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Roll over: Sunday evening at 7:41, Teton County sheriff’s deputies responded to a car accident on Teton Pass after receiving an automatic crash notification from the vehicle. Upon their arrival, they found a 31-year-old Idaho woman inside the car, which was resting on its roof near Glory Bow…

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Bad dogs: Three people were bitten by dogs within two days last week. The first bite occurred Thursday during a routine police canine training. The other dog bites happened in two separate incidents Friday. At 1:20 p.m., a 3-year-old dog entered the front yard of a neighboring house, where i…

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Mushrooms and mimosas: On Sunday at 9 p.m., a 35-year-old Jackson woman was stopped along South Park Loop Road for swerving out of her lane twice. The officer noticed signs of intoxication, including bloodshot, watery eyes and poor dexterity. After inquiry the woman confessed to drinking two…

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Hat trick: On Saturday at 9:43 p.m., a hotel on Cache Street called the police to report a disturbance. Three adult men, a 62-year-old Utah man, a 58-year-old Utah man and a 34-year-old Utah man with a Nevada license, were loudly watching a boxing match inside their room. When asked to keep …

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Traveling light: On April 12 at 6:35 p.m., an officer at the airport was notified of a cellphone in the trash can behind the security screening area. On a security camera a man was seen placing the phone into the garbage around 4 p.m. The officer traced the phone number to two subjects who h…

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Good Samaritan: On April 5 at 8:23 p.m., a homeowner in town called to report a scam. The woman noticed a 27-year-old Ohio man with luggage standing outside her house. It was cold outside, so she invited him inside to wait. The man stated he relocated to Jackson to work at an engineering fir…

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Driving indecision: On Friday at 10:09 p.m., the Teton County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a 32-year-old Wilson woman who reported having an argument with her friend. The woman told officers that she did not want the man, who was intoxicated, to drive her car. Instead, she was adama…

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A midnight parting: Just after midnight Sunday, a 27-year-old North Dakota man was kicked out of the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. He remained on the sidewalk and attempted to go back into the bar to reengage with a man with whom he had just gotten into an altercation. The second man, who was s…

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Blown out: On Saturday around 1 a.m., Teton County sheriff’s deputies began receiving calls about a vehicle towing a trailer with blown-out tires near the airport. A deputy observed a large pile of snow and vehicle debris in the road that indicated someone had driven through the center of th…

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Laying hands: On Saturday at 8:47 p.m., police responded to an event center after a 29-year-old man said he had been assaulted. Although he wasn’t injured, the man said he’d been ejected from a sporting event without explanation and a security guard grabbed him by the jacket. The 56-year-old…

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Radio rage: On Feb. 28 at 2:25 p.m., an art studio called the Jackson Police Department after staff discovered property damage. Management contacted a radio DJ who was in the studio at the time a “beer can-sized hole” appeared in the wall. Management believed the DJ had friends in the studio…

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Perilous plates: On Monday just after midnight, an officer on Broadway found a large piece of plate glass on the ground that apparently had been broken by an object. Thirty minutes later police were called to the front desk of a hotel for a man who was bleeding profusely from a cut on his ar…

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Stray dog: On Sunday at 10:30 a.m., a 36-year-old Jackson woman called to report she found a stray hot dog in her backyard. She noticed it when she saw her dog playing with something. Worried her dog was eating something it shouldn’t, she went out, she saw it was a hot dog and took it away f…

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A criminal cameo: On Friday at 5:44 p.m. two sheriff’s deputies responded to the Mangy Moose for an intoxicated man who wouldn’t leave. Bar managers said the 52-year-old Boise, Idaho, man was threatening folks, but the final straw came when he jumped onstage with the band, to the annoyance o…

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Jacked up: On Thursday at 10:57 a.m., a Jackson woman called the Teton County Sheriff’s Office, stating she was upset that someone from a car dealership had knocked on her door asking about delivering a vehicle. She thought it was suspicious and might have been intentional, considering she h…

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Frogger fights back: On Saturday at 8:20 p.m., police officers were dispatched to a bar that reported a 46-year-old Jackson man was refusing to leave, scattering menus across the floor, pushing people and throwing alcoholic beverages. As police were en route they received a call that the man…

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Drifting in with the cold: On Friday at 4:30 a.m., a 41-year-old Boise, Idaho, man wandered into a hotel lobby. He stated to the front desk that he needed to warm up. Hotel staff called Jackson police when the man “passed out” sleeping in the lobby. Police arrived and were unable to gather f…

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Brief intermission: On Friday at 1:27 a.m., police received a call from the Center for the Arts about a man who was asleep in a seat in the theater. Officers observed the 25-year-old Massachusetts man asleep with a vape pen in his hands. Once awakened, he was intoxicated to the degree that h…

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Illicit illusions: On Friday at 12:24 p.m., police were sent to a local hotel after employees there found what they believed to be a room full of drug paraphernalia while they were cleaning a man’s room. Police arrived in the 31-year-old Jackson man’s room and found syringes, white powder an…

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Bad mama jama: On Dec. 27 at 6:50 p.m., police responded to a report of an irate woman at a bar. An altercation began between a bouncer and a 51-year-old Alabama woman when the bouncer refused to give her 20-year-old son’s fake ID back. Dispatch could hear the woman yelling in the background…

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Holiday theatrics: On Christmas at 8:25 p.m., police were summoned to a local movie theater for a report of two Jackson men arguing over seats. The caller, 52, stated that a 61-year-old gentleman told him to get out of his seat and then punched him. Both men left to speak with front box offi…

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No, no, bad: On Friday at 9:38 a.m., police responded to a report of property destruction. A 30-year-old Jackson resident reported that 10 gallons of water had been put into her gas tank. She told officers that as she was parking near a complex of townhomes, a male came out and told her that…

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Last call: On Monday at 10:51 p.m., police officers were dispatched to a local bar for a man who was reportedly fighting with staff. Police were told that the suspect, a 35-year-old Wilson man, was crawling on the floor. When police arrived, the man was lying on his back in the hallway outsi…

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No such thing as a free lunch: On Nov. 29 at 5:27 p.m., a 37-year-old Jackson woman reported fraudulent charges on her credit card. Police located a 48-year-old Idaho man who confessed to finding the card lying on the ground and using it at two different stores to make purchases under $100. …

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Crumbs left behind: On Sunday at 2:20 p.m., a 31-year-old Jackson man reported that his car had been taken for a joyride while he was gone for a week during the Thanksgiving holiday. On Nov. 20 the man left his vehicle in a church parking lot, unlocked with his keys in the center console and…

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Airport parking pickle: On Nov. 16 at 9 a.m., a 35-year-old Canadian man removed a chain fence at the parking lot of the Jackson Hole Airport and drove away without paying the parking fee. His car was initially parked among rental cars at the airport and was towed to guest parking. After lea…

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Spinning their wheels: On Nov. 9 at 2:24 a.m., an East Jackson resident called to report that a black car was stuck on her lawn, and the occupants of the vehicle, a 37-year-old man and 34-year-old woman, were arguing with each other. The black car also had been honking for the past 10 minute…

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Man-Handled: On Nov. 2 at 1 p.m., police received a call that an $8,000 bottle of Scotch had been stolen from a local liquor store the day before. Upon reviewing the security footage, a man in his late 30s to early 40s was seen concealing the bottle in his coat. A police officer recognized t…

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Spooky DUIs: Two near-identical DUI arrests were made at the same location two nights apart after officers saw signs of “reasonable suspicion.” The first occurred at 10:06 p.m. Friday, after an officer saw two men who appeared to be intoxicated get in a vehicle and begin driving. The men wer…

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Mail melee: On Oct. 17 at 10:26 a.m., officers responded to a disturbance at a local post office. A private contractor who was hired to bring mail to his client’s house had gotten into a confrontation with one of the post office employees when he entered a restricted area and refused to leav…

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DU-Idle: On Saturday at 9:32 a.m., an off-duty police officer was walking in his neighborhood when he noticed a black SUV idling. The car was parked in an “obstructive position,” with its rear tires poking out into the northbound lane of travel. He observed a 51-year-old Jackson woman sleepi…

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Carbon copy call: On Oct. 4 at 11:30 p.m., police responded to a report of a disturbance at a local hotel. They arrived to find the same two Fort Washakie brothers they had contacted exactly one week before, when the 23-year-old had been locked out of the hotel room he shared with his 28-yea…

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Ikon of the day: On Sept. 27, a Jackson resident reported a theft. The man said an unauthorized Ikon Pass purchase was made on his credit card the day before, for $1,179. No suspect has been located yet, but officers are tracking down where the victim used his credit card before to the unaut…

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Canine culprit: On Sept. 21 at 12:27 p.m., an officer responded to a report of a dog at Smith’s who had apparently shoplifted a toy from the shelf and was walking around with it. A grocery store employee reported, “He’s happy and he’s shoplifting.” The yellow lab was running around with no c…

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Hide the remote: On Sunday evening, police received a call about a noise disturbance from someone in a neighboring apartment of a 40-year-old Jackson resident who was yelling, had his TV up really loud and was arguing loudly with his wife on the phone. Police arrived at 1:04 a.m. and advised…

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Disappointing toupée, Dozier: The mother of a 16-year-old Jackson resident contacted Officer Heidi Schmidl after a scammer contacted her daughter via text yet again. The day after her daughter had received threatening messages involving decapitated heads and extortion, the scammer falsely re…

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Indecent Astro Van: On Saturday at 12:14 a.m., police responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked in a hotel parking lot. The reporting party, who wished to remain anonymous, said the van smelled like marijuana. Police located the 1998 Chevy Astro Van and found two Jackson residents…

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New York state of mind: On Thursday at 1:11 a.m., a 31-year-old New Yorker was arrested after officers observed him urinating on the sidewalk in front of a West Broadway business. According to officers, he was too intoxicated to recall where he was staying.

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You again: Police contacted a 37-year-old Jackson resident three times over two days. The first call occurred at 9:17 a.m. Aug. 9 for an intoxicated man walking through a construction site downtown, refusing to leave. He was given a trespass warning. The next morning at 9:50 a.m. a woman sai…

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Hate to pee and run: On Aug. 3 at 1:48 p.m., grocery store employees told officers that some customers had been aggressive to the employees. The trouble started when the customers were attempting to dump urine in the store’s trash cans. The dumpers were asked to leave and ultimately did so i…

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Deep breaths: On Friday at 4:48 p.m., officers responded to a call at the Jackson Hole and Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center for a male screaming outside. Police arrived and observed a 34-year-old California man inhaling deeply from an aerosol can. He was charged with unlawful use of toxic …

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Saving face: On Saturday at 2:39 a.m., a few Jackson men woke up and found someone they did not know sleeping on their couch. They exited their apartment and called law enforcement, sharing that their door wasn’t locked and there was no sign of forced entry. When law enforcement arrived, the…

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Indecent... again: On Saturday at 2:16 a.m., officers on patrol witnessed a 26-year-old Jackson woman and a 33-year-old Arkansas man engaging in (use your imagination) in public. They observed the shirtless woman on a public bus stop bench near the Antler Inn getting down to business. Both w…

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Taco theft: On Friday at 4:15 p.m. a business reported a highly intoxicated male had left without paying. Officers contacted the 36-year-old Michigander and told him he did not pay for the food and drinks he consumed. He said he had, reportedly opening his wallet and showing officers the mon…

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Move it and lose it: On Thursday at 2:12 p.m., police received a report of a theft. A 42-year-old Jackson resident reported $8,000 worth of guns were missing after he had moved his belongings out of his current home to his new home. The items missing were two shotguns and an AR pistol, accor…