SPEEDING - POTSDAM - Village police ticketed John P. Whiddon, 20, of Erin for speed in zone (50/30) at 12:18 a.m. Wednesday following a traffic stop on Market Street.

The Police Blotter

Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013

0018 Traffic stop on Market Street. Ticket issued.

0119 Patrols assisted a subject on Racquette Road.

0712 Dispatched Potsdam Rescue to a call.

1025 Assisted another agency with background investigations.

1115 Assisted another law enforcement agency with background investigations.

1145 Patrol responded to a hit and run accident in the IGA lot.

1200 Background checks completed for the Housing Authority.

1240 Assisted another agency with a background investigation.

1405 Received a report of a subject receiving harassing communications.

1445 Caller states an erratic driver is coming into Potsdam from Route 11. A patrol located the vehicle but did not observe the vehicle operating erratically while in the village limits. A stop was initiated to check on the welfare of the driver, and she was found to be OK.

1530 Subject fingerprinted for employment purposes.

1630 A subject turned in an illegal knife to an officer.The item was placed with property to be destroyed by the PD.

1632 Squad dispatched to Canton for a call.

1910 Person entered the station and reports her vehicle had been stolen from a parking lot on Pierrepont Avenue. A patrol was dispatched to look for the vehicle and found the vehicle minutes later in the next lot over from where the woman believed it was parked.

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