Domestic
On 6-20-24 police was dispatched to 525 Harrison Ave. in reference to an active domestic type incident. Upon arrival a Sgt was inside the residence with Jan Clay. Brandy Clay was speaking with a Lt.. It was learned that Brandy had moved out of the residence in February of 2024. Jan was able to collect a trash bag of clothing for Brandy while GPD units were on scene. Brandy complained that Jan still has her birth certificate and SSN card. Jan stated this was given to her when she left the residence. Brandy left with a friend and was advised to call GPD for a keep the peace if she would need to come back. BCI only. No school age children were present.
Animal Problem
On June 21st, 2024, at approximately 9:08 hours policeI was dispatched to the 300 block of Armstrong Street in reference to a loose dog complaint. The complainant wanted to remain anonymous but advised that a little black dog was loose through the neighborhood and the dog belonged to 301 Armstrong Street. PO arrived and located a small black dog with no leash and no supervision in front of 301 Armstrong Street. PO contacted the resident, Ashley Finfrock. She advised she was on her way home but her son should be home and she would call him to get the dog. Shortly later Ayden McMullen exited from the house to get the dog. The dog then took off running east in the 300 block of Armstrong Street. After about 10 minutes Ayden was able to get the dog back inside the residence. Ashley did admit the dog was hers while PO was talking with her. On April 21st, another Officer issued a warning for dog at large to Ashley reference her dog getting loose. On June 20th, 2024, another Officer gave Ashley a warning for dog at large. PO was unable to locate Ashley for several days and on June 27th, 2024, she was served her citation reference failure to control dog.
Theft (not in progress)
On June 22, 2024, around 12:59 AM police was dispatched to the Greenville Police Department, 122 W Main Street in reference to a gun stolen from 1199 East Russ Road, apartment El0. PO spoke with the victim, Zachary Mirles. Zachary advised on the night of June 21, 2024, he arrived home to his apartment and noticed his black G2C 9mm Taurus handgun was missing. Zachary believed his wife, Sierra Mirles, had a friend over that might who may have stolen the firearm. Zachary was also concerned since Sierra had to be transported to Wayne Hospital at 9:59 PM in reference to suicidal/homicidal threats with a firearm. Zachary advised he kept his handgun in a dresser drawer but it was no longer there. Zachary did not want officers to go to his residence to help him search for handgun and Zachary could not provide a serial number for the handgun. Zachary appeared intoxicated and admitted he was. Zachary said he would get the serial number for the Taurus on June 24, 2024. PO spoke to Sierra about the firearm shortly after. Sierra advised the handgun was still at the residence and no one had been there but her and her children. On June 25, 2024, PO had still not heard back from Zachary, so PO contacted him. Zachary advised he found the Taurus in another room and it was not stolen. No further action has been taken.
Welfare Check
On June 24, 2024 around 1:28 AM police was dispatched to Southtowne Car Wash, 1017 Sweitzer Street on a subject passed out in his vehicle. PO located one vehicle on the property; a silver 2014 Jeep Compass. The Jeep was not running, parked in a car wash bay as PO approached the driver side. PO soon located the registered owner, Bobby Wright sitting in the driver seat. Bobby was the only occupant of the vehicle. PO observed a full 100 ml bottle of Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey sitting in Bobby’s lap. Bobby appeared to be trying to open it when PO arrived but stopped when he saw PO approach. PO also observed a mostly empty bottle of Fireball Whiskey sitting on the floor board of the driver seat, in front of Bobby. Bobby identified himself and in doing so PO noticed a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his person. Bobby had slurred speech as well as glassy, bloodshot eyes. Bobby advised he hadn’t been driving the vehicle and only had been texting on his phone. A Sergeant arrived soon after. While he spoke with Bobby PO looked inside the vehicle and observed an opened 23. 5 oz can of Four Loco Red (13. 9% alcohol per volume) sitting in the cup holder in the center console. Bobby admitted to drinking the beverage but stated he did earlier in the day. The can was mostly empty. Upon picking the can up, it was room temperature. There were also several more unopened bottles of Fireball Whiskey sitting on the front passenger seat as well. The mostly empty bottle of Fireball Whiskey had an odor of an alcoholic beverage along with the liquid inside being consistent with the color of the unopened bottles. The Four Loco had an odor of an alcoholic beverage as well. Bobby was issued a citation for open container. Bobby was released to his aunt, Sandy Johnson. The containers were thrown away at the Greenville Police Department.
Theft (not in progress)
On June 24, 2024 at 6:18 AM police was dispatched to 1220 East Main Street in reference to a theft/criminal damaging complaint. PO contacted the complainant/victim, Brigido Rivera. Brigido advised that his truck was parked in the driveway on the night of 6/23/24. Brigido stated that his friend noticed at approximately 1AM on 6/24/24 that his license plate was taken off the truck and that there were scratches on the entire passenger side. Brigido showed PO the vehicle and PO verified that the license plate was missing and the entire passenger side was scratched. Brigido advised he was the manager of El Carreton restaurant in Greenville. He stated that on 6/23/24 he had to lay off two employees, Juan Lopez Santiz and Marcos Collazo Lopez. Brigido advised he believed these two individuals stole the license plate and damaged his truck due to being laid off, but had no proof. Brigido advised both subjects lived at this same address and were home. After speaking with both Juan and Marcos, both denied any involvement and had no information. Both allowed PO to search their room and a license plate was not located. There were no known witnesses to this incident and PO did not observe any cameras in the area. The license plate was entered into LEADS/NCIC as stolen. Photographs of the vehicle were taken and are included with this report. This case is closed unless further leads develop.
Theft (not in progress)
On June 17, 2024, the Greenville Police Department investigated a theft complaint that occurred at Barberines Custom Works LLC, 1210 Sweitzer St. within the city. As part of a current investigation being conducted by the Greenville Police Department regarding Barberine’ s Custom Works LLC and it’s owner, Mark Barberine, PO reached out to the victim, Lexi Vaughn, regarding her experience with Barberine. According to Vaughn she was contacted by Barberine on May 4, 2022 via Facebook messenger after he seen Vaughn was looking for someone to do some bodywork on her vehicle. Vaughn began conversing with Barberine regarding the work she wanted done to her 2008 Mazda Speed 3 show car. Barberine informed Vaughn he would pick her vehicle up, collect a $750 deposit, and get her a estimate for the total cost of the work. On May 6, 2022, Barberine was authorized to run Vaughn’s credit card on two separate transactions. One for $350 dollars and the second for $400 dollars. Barberine did not pick Vaughn vehicle up till May 9, 2024, and advised he would be giving a repair plan to Vaughn within a few days. Between May 11, 2022 and June 4, 2022, Vaughn would text Barberine multiple times with no reply asking for updates and a finish time. On June 6, 2022, Barberine reached out to Vaughn informing her that the work he’d like to do to her vehicle was going to be $1,300 to do the work they previously spoke about, but that he wrote out $3,800 in additional work to just do the rest of the car instead of just what Vaughn originally requested. Barberine added that total for everything would be just over $5,000, but he applied ”every discount” he could to bring it down to $3,600 less the $750 she already paid towards the repairs. Vaughn agreed to the additional work. Barberine then requested another payment, but stated that his credit card machine was not working, so he would just pick it up at her residence. July 6, 2022 On June 6, 2022, Barberine picked up $1,000 in cash from Vaughn at approximately 7:01pm. On June 22, 2022, Vaughn began questioning the lack of responses from Barberine and the lack of progress being made on her vehicle, so she confronted Barberine about it through text and told him that she was going to remove her vehicle and have it done somewhere else. Barberine responded telling Vaughn he was going to charge her storage fees if she didn’t have her vehicle removed the following day. Vaughn stated that Barberine knew she was going on vacation the following day and wouldn’t be able to pick the vehicle up. Vaughn told Barberine she wouldn’t have the car removed due to not wanting to pay storage fees and finally pinned him down on a completion date. The completion date agreed on was the last week of July. From June 23, 2022, to August 31, 2022, Vaughn regularly checks in with Barberine asking for updates, with little to no replies from Barberine even though the completion date had passed. On September 1, 2022, Barberine informs Vaughn that the cost of the paint had tripled since his original quote and suggested she come to the shop to pay on her balance. Vaughn declined. On September 7, 2022, Vaughn and her sisters father, Kirby Wilson, came to Barberines shop and picked up her vehicle. Vaughn retreived her vehicle in worse shape then it was in when she had it picked up and was out a total of $1,750. This case was submitted to the Darke County Prosecutors Office for one count of Theft by Deception under Ohio Revised Code Section 2913.02(A)( 3) a Felony of the 5th degree.
Theft (not in progress)
On June 17th, 2024 at approximately 3:19 PM, Walmart reported numerous thefts by a James Miller. On June 18th, 2024 PO was given this case to review for possible theft charges. While reviewing the case PO reviewed videos of the thefts that took place. The male subject in the videos was identified to be James A Miller. Videos of James scanning the items and placing them in bags as well as videos showing him stacking the item(s) stolen and placing it in the bags, and videos of him exiting the store with said stolen item(s) was placed into evidence. Copies of the products stolen and the receipts showing his payment with a breakdown of what was actually paid for was scanned into this report as well. Also scanned into the report is the victim rights request/waiver form filled out by loss prevention employee, Jodi Edger. James has been contacted to come to the Police Department to pick up his citations for theft 2913.02A3 an Ml.
Theft (not in progress)
On June 25, 2024 at approximately 12:57 PM, police responded to 106 Belair Street in reference to a stolen bicycle. PO made contact with the 14 year old victim, who will be referred to as CV (Child Victim) throughout this report. The CV advised PO that at approximately 9AM, he rode his black and red 26″ Hypershocker bicycle to the Greenville High School. The CV stated that he forgot his bike lock at home so hid the bicycle behind two bushes next to the athletic doors. Upon his arrival back to where he left the bicycle at approximately 11:30AM, the bicycle was gone. The CV stated after briefly searching the area, he made contact with GHS athletic director, Aaron Shaffer. Mr. Shaffer was able to review security camera footage that caught this incident. The video Mr. Shaffer was able to provide showed three boys in their early teens walk from the tennis courts and by the athletic doors. These boys will be referred to as CSl, CS2, CS3 (Child Suspects). A5 they walked past, CS2 can be seen approaching the bicycle hidden behind the bushes. CS2 walks back to the group and Cl then approaches. Cl gets behind the bushes and walks the bicycle out into the parking lot before riding it away towards Kelsey Drive. Pictures of CSl and CS2 were sent to the S.R.O who was able to identify the boys. PO attempted to make contact with CSl and his parents at their address. PO left a message on their Ring doorbell camera to contact the police department. Shortly after, the mother of CSl, Jennifer Thacker, made contact with PO by telephone. Jennifer was advised of this incident, and she stated the CSl spent the night with CS2 and CS3 last night and they were supposed to be at the city pool at the time of the theft. Jennifer was able to contact the CSl and advised me all the boys, as well as the bicycle, were at CS2’s address. At approximately 3:01 PM, a Sgt and PO made contact with the boys at this address. While speaking with CSl, he stated when they saw the bicycle he just wanted to take it. The boys brought the bicycle to the front yard where it was inspected for damage, with none found. The CV’ smother was contacted and met police at this location to pick up the bicycle. The CV stated he did not know the boys. Per the CV’s mother, she did not want charges at this time since the bicycle was quickly found and undamaged. All parents of CSl-3 were contacted and advised of this incident. These parents were also advised of the juvenile probation process and advised they could press their own unruly charges against their boys if they felt it necessary.