Police Blotter: National Security and Soup

An employee at Custom Culinary called the around 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20 after noticing footprints in the snow near a secure area of the facility. When the food manufacturer reviewed security footage, they noticed an Illuminating Company employee had hopped the fence without permission to work on a transformer on Saturday, Dec. 17 when the building was closed, which the employee claimed is a violation of national security because Custom Culinary is a food service facility. The employee said she needed a log entry with the police for the report to Homeland Security.

Step on it!

On Wednesday, Dec. 21, a woman called police at 5:36 p.m. to say her blue Saturn had been stolen. By 6:02 p.m., police had stopped the car and returned it to its rightful owner.

Unwelcome guest

Police received a call around 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, after a man barged into a house in the 1900 block Sandalwood Dr. and was trying to get into a room where the two residents, who knew the man, had barricaded themselves. Police checked the man’s name, and it turns out he had a warrant out for his arrest in Westlake for aggravated robbery with a gun and resisting arrest. Police arrived on the scene, apprehended the male in his 50s, and handed him over to the Westlake Police Department.