Dispatch Desk — Eureka Springs Police Department: May 23-28, 2023

MAY 23

■ 8:17 a.m.— An officer received a call from someone saying a homeless person was sleeping on their property and wouldn’t leave. The officer made contact and the individual left.

■ 10:38 p.m. — An officer responded to a false alarm at a business.

MAY 24

■ 2:22 p.m. — Officers responded to a two-vehicle accident.

■ 7:19 p.m. — An officer responded to a report of a purse being stolen out of someone’s vehicle.

■ 8:21 p.m. — Officers responded to a call of a possible assault at a lodge. Both parties admitted to arguing and pushing each other but there was no evidence of any battery or assault.

MAY 25

■ 6:28 a.m. — An officer responded to the hospital for a patient who was being violent.

■ 10:24 p.m. — An officer responded to a call of an opossum, possibly sick, in someone’s backyard. The officer was able to relocate the opossum.

MAY 26

■ 4:30 a.m.— An officer responded to a call of construction workers in the parking lot of a local business being loud. The officer found no one in the parking lot and didn’t hear any noise. Maybe it was Eureka’s famous ghosts!

■ 4:28 p.m. —An officer responded to a call of a property owner wanting someone criminally trespassed from their property.

■ 6:01 p.m. — An officer responded to a call of a dead deer under someone’s property.

■ 7:39 p.m. — Officers assisted EMS on a medical call.

■ 9:19 p.m. — Officers responded to a report of a possible domestic situation, but all checked out OK.

■ 9:32 p.m. — Officers responded to a call of someone saying their roommate had locked them out of their residence. Officers made contact and all settled down and the individual was let back into the residence.

MAY 27

■ 1:30 a.m. — An officer responded to a report of two people fighting in a hotel, but everything checked out OK.

■ 10:52 a.m.— An officer responded to a one-vehicle accident.

■ 12:51 p.m. — Officers responded to a report of a teenage boy on the roof of a business on Main Street wearing a mask and waving a machete at pedestrians below. The officers had a talk with the boy and his mother about not doing that. We can just imagine that conversation: “Now, Tyler, you come down off that roof, take off that ridiculous luchador mask and stop waving that machete around or no more TV for you for 30 whole minutes!”

■ 10:21 p.m. — An officer responded to a report of people arguing loudly.

MAY 28

■ 1:58 a.m. — An officer responded to a lodge regarding a fight that ended up leading to an arrest.