Incidents reported by Longmont Police

An inability to count apparently helped lead to the arrest of a 30-year-old Longmont woman on suspicion of criminal impersonation and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to Longmont Police reports. Police said the suspect was a passenger in a car that was stopped near 8 th Avenue and Lashley Street at 4:20 p.m. May 29, a stop which saw the arrest of the male driver for driving on a suspended license and an alleged drug pipe found in the center console of the car. The initial officer said he attempted to establish the identity of the woman to decide whether she would be allowed to drive the car, which also had a child passenger, home from the scene. The suspect replied that she had no identification, nor had she ever been issued any state identification, police said. The officer said the suspect gave her correct last name, but a different first name and a birth date in 1991. "I asked her age, and she responded 13, but I'm almost 14," the officer stated in his report. "I advised the (30-year-old) female that the date off birth she had provided me and the age did not match up," the officer said. "The female replied that they did." A detective who responded to the scene recognized the suspect, who was found to also have a warrant for her arrest on a charge of criminal impersonation from Boulder County, which carried a $2,000 bond. The suspect was booked and held at Boulder County Jail.

Failure to listen to his friends apparently helped lead to the arrest of a 22-year-old Longmont man on suspicion of DUI, careless driving, failure to report an accident to police and no proof of insurance at 3:48 a.m. May 29, according to police reports. Police said officers were dispatched to the 300 block of Chinook Avenue on a reports of a hit-and-run accident in process. When officers arrived they found a Dodge Neon that had apparently been damaged in a recent accident in the driveway of a residence on the block, a lamppost in two pieces on the lawn of the home and the suspect in the back yard. Police said the suspect initially said he was too drunk to take a roadside sobriety test, and also told officers his friends had asked him not to drive and had even pulled him from the driver's seat of his vehicle. While being booked, police said, the suspect said he did not remember driving the car. He was booked and released.

Found hiding under a blanket in the bedroom closet of his mother's home an 18-year-old Longmont man was arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault with intent to cause serious bodily damage on the 1300 block of Cofffman Street at 8:53 p.m. May 28. Police said they obtained a warrant for the man following an alleged assault that occurred in Centennial Park, near Lashley Street and Ninth Avenue at 8:55 p.m. May 27. A gang unit officer watching the park that night said he observed an altercation that drew a number of participants, in which the suspect allegedly wielded a chain he had been wearing around his neck. Witnesses to to incident said the chain was a type more often used to lock gates than as adornment and links of approximately 1.5 inches matched wound allegedly suffered by another young Longmont man during the incident. The suspect was booked and held at Boulder County Jail.

Claiming he had been the victim of a road rage incident, a 22-year-old Longmont man was stopped near 11 th Avenue and Aspen Street after allegedly skidding sideways through an intersection a 22-year-old Longmont man was instead arrested on suspicion of DUI, reckless driving, criminal mischief and driving with expired tags at 12:15 a.m. May 27. The suspect told police he was evading two other motorists following an incident that began in the left-hand turn lanes of Clover Basin Drive into northbound Hover Road. However, police said they were able to contact the other two motorists involved and establish that the suspect had perpetrated the conflict, which included the suspect bumping his truck into the back of one of the other motorist's car. The suspect was booked and held at Boulder County Jail.

Flagging down a Maroon Cadillac then spending less than 20 seconds inside the car near the intersection of of 10 th Avenue and Main Street, a 36-year-old Longmont man was subsequently arrested at a home on the 1300 block of Sumner Street at 6:11 p.m. May 25 on suspicion of possession of more than a gram of cocaine. An officer said he witnessed the incident, which he believe to have been a drug deal, then followed the suspect into a nearby Taco John's restaurant, from which the suspect left with a woman driving an SUV. The officer said the stopped the SUV after clocking it at 45 mph in a 35-mph zone of Mountain View Avenue, and the suspect subsequently admitted to possessing the drugs. He was booked and held at Boulder County Jail.