Truck Observation

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I was dispatched to a call of an erratically driven black Dodge pickup truck at the North Beach area doing donuts in the parking lot. As I was en-route my partner and I remembered a contact from the previous night, involving Joseph Grass. He too was driving a black Dodge truck exhibiting erratic behavior. As I turned on to Kuhn St., I observed a black Dodge truck sitting in the middle of the road, with its headlights on. As I pulled up next to the truck I observed that it was Joseph Grass, and he was again slumped over the wheel of the truck. I called for an Aid Unit to respond and I turned my patrol car around in the street and turned on my emergency lights. As I was stopping my patrol car Joseph’s head shot up and he started to drive off (this is the same thing Joseph did when I found him last night). I followed Joseph for a block and he stopped again at the stop sign and I contacted him there. …show more content…

But that he was wet from his arm pits to his toes. Joseph told me he had been in the water several hours ago in his clothes. I asked him why he was stopped in the middle of the road and he denied he was stopped in the road slumped over the wheel, not noticing me in my police car, with the lights on. That is reminiscent of the previous nights stop; when he was slumped over the wheel of his car in the middle of the road, when he did not react to my patrol car lights, my flash light in his face or verbal challenges. That night he took off with me standing next to his window, as if I were not there. Again he denied being in a catatonic like state in the middle of the

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